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   After Joe Biden was elected president, I had a conversation with a Wall   
   Street banker friend who is deeply involved in Democratic politics. He   
   could see I was worried. He knew my views about Trump: didn’t like his   
   tone, his Twitter noise and the antics of Jan. 6.   
      
   I thought his trade policies were often self-defeating, but generally I   
   liked what he did with the economy. The policies actually worked: With tax   
   cuts and deregulation, wages rose for the working class for the first time   
   in years. Pre-pandemic, there was non-inflationary growth. Hell, for all   
   of Trump’s foibles when it came to COVID he was on the way to distributing   
   effective COVID vaccines produced under his watch.   
      
   Yes, Biden had a record as a moderate and for working with Republicans.   
   But he was, let’s say, not the guy he was even when he was Obama’s veep.   
   He was weak and the left was ascendant in Democrats’ policymaking. Won’t   
   crazies like AOC and Bernie Sanders have a big say in how to run things, I   
   asked.   
      
   His answer was assuring, at least for a few weeks. He said the smart guys   
   would be in charge — people who knew how to get things done, particularly   
   on the economy. Think Robert Rubin, the old Goldman Sachs chief and   
   legendary economic moderate who understood that even progressive   
   governments needed business to flourish to succeed.   
      
   Rubin helped Bill Clinton steer the raging 1990s economy. Biden would   
   surround himself with similar people who were — at bottom — pragmatists,   
   my banker friend said at the time. People like himself, who would   
   prioritize solving some big problems, including ending the pandemic.   
      
   Broken promises   
   Painfully, this is not what happened. The Biden White House in policy and   
   appointments is one that AOC would love more than Bill Clinton. Barack   
   Obama would appear to be too moderate for the apparatchiks who are being   
   put in place, day after day, to maneuver a $25 trillion economy around   
   inflation, COVID and who-knows-what’s coming our way.   
      
   I say this as the Biden administration is bungling yet another response   
   that is certainly stifling the economy: getting testing materials and   
   therapeutics to battle another COVID wave. For months it should have been   
   an all-consuming task given the stakes involved.   
      
   COVID waves cause sickness and economic misery as we are seeing in real-   
   time. The economy is being weighed down with labor shortages, long waits   
   at the airport and hospital staffs thinning out because of COVID   
   quarantines and a lack of tests. Monoclonal antibodies work with most   
   variants, but for some reason they’re nowhere to be found.   
      
   Oddly, with all this playing out 24-7, the president has been bragging a   
   lot about the economy — like someone slipped something funny into his ice   
   cream.   
      
   He omits basic economic facts: that despite wage and GDP growth, inflation   
   is eating into both. Businesses still can’t find workers.   
      
   His CDC shortens the COVID quarantine to five days but says you must test   
   negative when there are no tests available.   
      
   On Friday, the Labor Department said hiring actually slowed in December,   
   and that was before the full impact of Omicron hit the workforce. Not   
   good. Even worse, it underscores the incompetency we’re stuck with at   
   least for another three years.   
      
   Far from populating his economic team with a new generation of Bob Rubins,   
   Biden is channeling his inner socialist that he somehow discovered after   
   79 years on this planet.   
      
   To commemorate the Jan. 6 riots, he gave a bizarrely partisan speech as if   
   that’s what the country needs in a time of peril.   
      
   He sidelined the wasteful Build Back Better spending monstrosity, but   
   he’ll undoubtedly roll it out a bit later. For now, he’s pushing for   
   voting rights that have been imaginarily denied while hospitals have in   
   reality seen a surge in COVID-related cases.   
      
   Socialist slippery slope   
   Also last week, Biden also stealthily returned to populating his economic   
   team with lefties, people who would like nothing better than to impose   
   regulations and taxes that re-engineer the market economy toward   
   socialism.   
      
   The latest: plans to renominate someone named Gigi Sohn to the Federal   
   Communications Commission.   
      
   Sohn is very smart and very passionate about media and telecom issues.   
   She’s also someone who is progressive to the point of socialism. She will   
   have a seat on one of the most economically important pillars of   
   government regulation.   
      
   For a little context: The FCC provides oversight of the biggest US   
   industries: technology, telecommunications and media.   
      
   Sohn is a longtime telecom lawyer, progressive advocate and co-founded the   
   telecom advocacy group called Public Knowledge, which has received some   
   funding from billionaire closeted socialist George Soros.   
      
   An earlier nomination to the FCC was pulled before Christmas — not because   
   her bona fides didn’t sit well with Senate Republicans, but because even   
   moderate Democrats were queasy.   
      
   You would think that would be enough for the president to move on,   
   nominate someone less toxic. It wasn’t. Where’s Robert Rubin when you need   
   him?   
      
      
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   "LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering.  95% of COVID infections   
   recover with no after effects.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
   Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.   
      
   Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"   
   ballots.  Report voter fraud: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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