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“President Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday that the pandemic has left Americans exhausted and demoralized but insisted at a news conference marking his first year in office that he has ‘outperformed’ expectations in dealing with it.” AP News
“The president is ending his first year in office with a similarly dismal report card from voters as his predecessor. Like Trump, more voters gave Biden a failing mark at the quarter mark of his term than those who awarded an ‘A’ or ‘B’ combined, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. About 37 percent of those surveyed rated Biden’s performance as an ‘F,’ compared to the 31 percent who gave either an ‘A’ or ‘B’ grade for the past year.” Politico
The right criticizes Biden’s performance so far.
“President Biden took questions from the press for nearly two hours Wednesday, his 364th day in office, which would have been an opportune moment to announce a change in strategy or agenda. In one poll this week, 37% of voters graded his first year as an F, and another 12% gave it a D. Instead Mr. Biden offered more of the same. No, he said, he didn’t overpromise the public about what he could accomplish. He believes he has ‘outperformed’ and delivered ‘enormous progress.’ Americans simply don’t know the details of his successes. He had ‘no apologies’ for the debacle in Afghanistan…
“Most dispiriting is that Mr. Biden remains hostage to his fantasy narrative on voter suppression. He even refused to say November’s elections will be legitimate, which is not unlike his predecessor, and he continues to say Republicans don’t want minorities to vote. If Americans were offended by his rhetoric last week in Georgia, comparing his opponents to Jefferson Davis and Bull Connor, well, Mr. Biden said, the fault is with those who misunderstood what he meant.”
Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
“This is the lived reality millions of Americans are facing after a year of Biden’s presidency: Inflation has reached a 40-year high, and we have a massive labor shortage, with more than 10 million unfilled jobs. Biden signed a partisan $1.9 trillion ‘covid relief’ bill in March, yet when omicron arrived there weren’t enough coronavirus tests or therapeutics. Schools are closing again and emergency room visits for suspected suicide attempts by adolescent girls have jumped 51 percent from 2019 to 2021…
“At least 12 major cities broke annual homicide records in 2021, we are experiencing the worst border crisis in U.S. history, and a surge of deadly fentanyl crossing the southern border has helped fuel an increase of 30 percent in overdose deaths in the past year. The disastrous retreat from Afghanistan projected weakness on the world stage and emboldened Russia to amass troops along its border with Ukraine — putting us on the knife’s edge of a land war in Europe… Little wonder that Biden’s approval rating has plummeted.”
Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
“Amid all of this disappointment, one curious question stands out. Why hasn’t any significant member of his administration been fired?… Let’s start with national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Once thought of as the boy wonder of foreign policy, he presided over the event that began the freefall of Biden’s approval rating… On the homefront, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has overseen record numbers of illegal migrants pouring through our southern border, creating chaos for states like Texas and Arizona and sparking a genuine humanitarian crisis…
“And let us not forget the central promise of the Biden campaign, that he would shut down the coronavirus. Every member of his COVID Task Force… should have been pushed out months ago. We don’t have enough tests, there’s no Operation Warp Speed for therapeutics, teachers unions are holding our kids’ education hostage, and confusion reigns everywhere. Can we give some new folks a try?”
David Marcus, Fox News
The left urges Biden to focus on bread-and-butter issues and achievable legislative priorities.
The left urges Biden to focus on bread-and-butter issues and achievable legislative priorities.
"Let’s look at the economy under Biden: Jobless claims are at their lowest levels since the 1960s. The 2021 job increases were the largest on record. Unemployment dipped below 4%, a historic drop from the 6.2% rate Biden inherited just a year ago. The S&P 500, the metric the last guy used to measure success, hit new record highs 70 times, finishing up 29%. The Dow Jones and Nasdaq were up 19% and 21% respectively. Economists are predicting that the growth will continue at the fastest pace since 1984. Of course, inflation is concerning, but the way the media is framing things, you would think that our economy is mired in a Great Depression, when we’ve come through the biggest job creation in a year in the country’s history.”
Kurt Bardella, Los Angeles Times
"[Biden] needs to focus incessantly on the virus and inflation — twin challenges that are top of mind for most Americans. Biden clearly knows this, which is why he spoke at length on Wednesday about how his administration has made testing widely available through an easy-to-use website and is boosting access to high-quality N95 masks. Going forward, he needs to settle on a strategy that reaches toward as much normality as is consistent with the virus threat, and he needs to put an end to confusing messaging from various parts of the government…
“On inflation, he needs highly visible efforts to unsnarl the supply chain. One idea: Create a task force on these issues… Have them report publicly every week on concrete steps the administration is taking to fix the problems."
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post
“Biden allowed progressive expectations to outrun the reality of what Democrats could accomplish with their slim congressional majorities… In his second year, Mr. Biden must tack toward the practical. Mr. Manchin had offered to support a $1.8 trillion Build Back Better proposal last month, which would have included hefty climate change provisions, before his talks with the White House collapsed. The president should have taken up Mr. Manchin then. Mr. Biden should say yes to Mr. Manchin now…
“Meanwhile, the gravest threat to U.S. democracy is not vote denial but that administrators or elected officials will attempt to tamper with legitimate vote counts based on lies about fraud… A bipartisan group of senators is discussing a bill that would harden vote-counting procedures against partisan subversion. Mr. Biden should foster these discussions.”
Editorial Board, Washington Post
“The President and many White House aides are pinning their hopes on voter patience: they expect the Omicron spike and the panic over the Covid-19 testing shortage to fade in the next few weeks, and that by the summer, America will be back on track to endemic times. There's a renewed, if mostly whispered, confidence in the West Wing that parts of a scaled back Build Back Better bill can still pass. Roll that together with potential better economic news and an emboldened Trump creating renewed toxicity around Republicans, they say, and the national mood could be in a very different place by the time most swing voters make up their minds later this year."
Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
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