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Douglas E. Schoen is a political consultant who helped turn around Bill Clinton’s presidency after the Slick One was thoroughly repudiated in the 1994 elections. He seems to enjoy the challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of doomed Democrats, as he worked on Michael Bloomberg’s ludicrous 2020 presidential campaign, and took to The Hill Sunday to give Old Joe Biden’s handlers a few suggestions about how they could prevent the Delaware Dim Bulb from being remembered as one of the worst, if not the absolute worst, president in American history. Democrat leaders, however, are unlikely to take Schoen’s advice, because it would involve repudiating who they are: big-government socialist internationalists.
With admirable understatement, Schoen begins by noting that “the Democratic Party with Joe Biden at the helm has lost sight of how to connect with Americans, and as a result, is finding itself in an increasingly unelectable position.” Yeah, and the Titanic lost sight of how to stay afloat. Schoen points out the worst of the bad news: Even with all their pandering, “Independents and Latinos — two key swing-voting groups — have turned against the administration, as majorities of both deem the first year of the Biden presidency a failure.” In other words, both have open eyes.
Schoen insists, improbably, that “many of Americans’ frustrations — including the pervasive pandemic and skyrocketing inflation — are not fully and completely within the president’s control. Yet, voters blame him for these crises, as is the case with most presidents.” There is a reason for that, although Schoen doesn’t mention it: Old Joe came into office after promising repeatedly that he had a plan to get the pandemic under control. All he has offered is authoritarianism and confusion. And as for inflation, he touched it off when he sent gas prices soaring by closing the Keystone Pipeline. He broke both these things, and they’re his to fix, which means that they will stay broken.
But Schoen thinks that Biden’s handlers can turn things around. The problem, he says, is that “Americans simply don’t feel that Biden’s and Democrats’ priorities align with their own.” Well, yes, because most Americans don’t want to see war with Russia, or economic ruin, or a fictional Southern border. Schoen thinks the Democrats can turn all this around by focusing on “advancing centrist legislation that improves Americans’ quality of life and addresses their top concerns.” The obvious objection to this is that if the Democrats had any interest in improving Americans’ quality of life, they wouldn’t have done so much to ruin it in the first place. The magic bullet, as far as Schoen is concerned, is for Democrats to start acting like Republicans.
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Infidel says
Schoen is trying to suggest that Biden does what Bill Clinton started doing in 1995 after losing all of Congress to Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, as advised by Dick Morris. Except that Bill Clinton was the one completely in control of the party, which is anything but true about Biden
Also, Bill Clinton inherited a flailing economy, which turned around thanks to the dotcom bubble. Biden inherited a pretty solid economy, which he successfully sabotaged by shutting down Keystone, ANWR and fracking. Nowadays, quietly, he’s issuing drilling permits as fast as he can in order to try and fix that, but there is no public confidence that he actually supports it, b’cos he doesn’t
James Lincoln says
Infidel says,
“Biden inherited a pretty solid economy, which he successfully sabotaged by shutting down Keystone, ANWR and fracking.”
Yes, which resulted in skyrocketing energy prices – in a new dependence on Middle Eastern oil.
Of course, to “compensate”, he is throwing billions at the government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-offers-money-heat-oil-gas
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Infidel. And now we have inflation as bad as that during the Carter administration…
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
And to your point, inflation is actually much higher than what the current CPI suggests:
“Since the 1940’s, the way they calculate CPI has been changed 8+ times. The BLS even admits that they changed the way CPI is calculated in order to make it lower. One of the biggest changes came in 1980:
This change allowed the BLS to substitute goods at will. Rather than choosing one constant basket of goods and measuring the price over time, they could choose to substitute one good for another if the first one rose in price.”
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/youre-being-lied-to-inflation-is-much-higher-than-7-5-11a8b6328652
Don McKellar says
And here I thought he was going to suggest that His Fraudlency should start messing around with an intern so he could look more virile. In Biden’s case, that would be underage interns and a lot of hair sniffing.
Well, it would have been as brilliant as his real suggestion.
Adaptively Emergent says
LOL!!!!!!!
John Allan says
‘… helped turn around Bill Clinton’s presidency after the Slick One was thoroughly repudiated in the 1994 elections …’
The Slick One was WHAT!? You repudiate ideas, proposals, strategies … NOT people!
Try rejected! Beaten! Thrashed!
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is an affront to the Office of the Presidency and a disaster for America and the American people. Biden is also a calamity to the State of Israel and as well as a catastrophe for all the Western nations.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad and sorry reality of the truth is that the different countries of the world no longer respect America because the awful , terrible old man Joe Biden in now sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine President wrecking everything he touches.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad and sorry reality of the truth is that the different countries of the world no longer respect America because the awful , terrible old man Joe Biden in now sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine President wrecking everything he touches.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s the tragic truth that United States is now disrespect by the nations of the world because of Presidency of Joe Biden.
On the night Television program Sean Hannity 8/17/21 on Fox News, the former United States President Donald Trump was interviewed by Hannity and Mr. Trump had spoken about this Biden withdraw from Afghanistan and Trump, truthfully declared that “Nobody had ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden.”
He further stated that “This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of this country” and Trump then mentioned how the other countries are watching all this and that “China is laughing at us.” because “China does not respect us anymore.”
It’s all very obvious that this awful lack of respect of all the fault of that terrible man, Joe Biden.
Donald Trump had also well said “What is now happening in Afghanistan is unbelievable”
OLD GUY says
Joe Biden has been a political train wreck for years. He wondered into the Whitehouse by mistake of the mail in voting and the voting dead.