Biden failing – as crises mount, Americans turn gloomy. Here’s why

Team Biden also politicized the entire vaccination effort, blaming Republicans for the disappointing uptake on the shots. The reality is that many Americans, and especially many in the Black community, are wary of the medication, in part because the FDA has yet to approve the shot.

Why is the FDA dragging its feet? Maybe because Biden has (incredibly) failed to put someone in charge of that critical agency. Maybe because he hasn’t hauled the acting head of the notoriously ponderous group into the Oval Office to demand action. Maybe because the president is drifting…

Is the delta variant Biden’s fault? Of course not, but neither was the arrival of COVID-19 the fault of President Trump.

Biden promised he would get Americans vaccinated and conquer the virus. He told us that when we had taken the shots, we would no longer have to wear masks. He said it was Trump’s incompetence that caused so many deaths, even though the U.S. performed in line with other developed nations.

It turns out, politicizing COVID-19 was a stupid thing to do. It will haunt Biden.

Next, prices on just about everything we buy are going up and, again, the White House has not helped. After repeating endlessly that price hikes would be “transitory,” the administration pivoted to different language but the same message: inflation was the result of temporary blockages and would quickly disappear. Americans don’t buy it.

A recent report from the New York Federal Reserve showed consumers expect prices to continue rising over the next three years. That’s bad news because consumer expectations can actually drive inflation.

Team Biden was quick to celebrate the July Consumer Price Index report, which showed the pace of increases moderating fractionally. However, the next day we learned that producer prices accelerated in July, increasing 7.8% over the preceding 12 months, the most since 2010. That gauge also suggests inflation is not abating any time soon, since companies will pass along rising wholesale costs to consumers.

It isn’t just consumers who have turned gloomy. Business confidence is also fading, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses. That is bad news for job creation.

Despite inflation now topping Americans’ concerns, Democrats continue to push more government spending, on top of the trillions already tossed into a surging economy. They want to pass a $3.5 trillion “social infrastructure” bill that no sane person could support.

The building out of new entitlements programs guaranteeing child care and elder care and the continuation of child tax credits are a sop to Democrat-supporting unions; they are also two more disincentives for Americans to work. We need workers, not more debt.

Meanwhile, our nation is suffering humiliation in Afghanistan, and that country faces unimaginable tragedy. Biden called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from that sad nation, and the consequences already are so horrific that he is now sending in thousands of troops to secure the safety of our own people.

When CNN’s Jake Tapper opens his interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking, “How did President Biden get this so wrong?” you know the White House is in trouble.

The U.S. military is considered the best war machine in the world. It is one of the few institutions that Americans trust. But the incompetence and poor planning displayed in the hasty exit from Afghanistan will dog our military leaders and their commander in chief.