Joe Biden remains in Japan, wasting valuable time at the G7 to make commitments he can’t keep. Early Sunday morning, the president pledged $250 million to the World Bank’s “pandemic fund.” You know, because we haven’t already wasted enough money on bottomless, global slush funds.
Meanwhile, back in the United States, the fiscal cliff approaches, and it was wholly created by the president’s unwillingness to have basic negotiations with Republicans. What does Biden think of that? Well, he’s certain that he’s totally blameless in the situation.
For reference, this is what outright delusion looks like.
I actually have little doubt that Biden is telling the truth there in so far as what he believes. I’m sure his far-left handlers are telling him just that in an effort to get him to push things into the realm of illegality by invoking the 14th Amendment or printing a trillion-dollar coin. I’m also sure that, just as Biden says, the press will claim he did a wonderful job no matter what.
But it’s important to provide the facts, and as RedState covered Saturday, the facts say that a huge majority of Americans want a debt ceiling deal that includes concessions on the deficit. According to the latest AP-NORC poll, only 19 percent want to raise the debt ceiling with no conditions while 63 percent want a deal along Republican lines. That’s wipe-out territory for the White House’s messaging strategy, and no amount of fluffing by the press in Japan is going to change that with the deadline fast approaching.