The cost of the Biden Administration keeping its promises

Joe Mannix writes about the campaign promises Joe Biden has kept.

…Campaign promise: Get tough on Russia Big check on this one. Biden is so tough on Russia that Russia did something they didn’t do under the last guy: invaded Ukraine. There’s now a regional war into which we’re pouring billions of dollars in cash and equipment, and have responded with economic sanctions resulting in serious global consequences for various commodities, namely wheat, energy and cooking oils all while Russia’s currency continues to hold up. If this isn’t keeping a promise, I don’t know what is.

Campaign Promise: Open up immigration and sanctuary Mission accomplished. We have “migrant caravans” again. We have vastly increasing numbers of Border Patrol “contacts” with illegal aliens. Catch-and-release is being restored. The prior administration’s border and immigration policies have been shelved. The “Muslim Ban” on people from terrorist rogue states is gone. Biden’s promise: Kept

Campaign promise: Attack the oil industry …Incomplete, but well underway. Have you seen the price of gas and diesel recently? You don’t get that without visionary energy policy in the name of Mother Earth. Directly through policy and indirectly through alliances with capital market players, the Biden Administration is delivering on his promise to destroy the oil industry. Production is down, pipelines are suspended, refinery capacity is shrinking and despite all of this we’re still shipping our oil to our allies in Europe who need it as a result of Biden’s “tough on Russia” promise. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it can’t be torn down in a day, either. I’m confident that by the end of his administration, even more progress will be made on this ‘keystone’ promise.

Campaign Promise: Deal with climate change …Great progress is being made. We’re back in the Paris Accords. The economy is sliding downhill – and what’s better for the environment than reduced economic activity? Oil – already discussed – is long since on the outs. Hooray for the climate! We continue to concentrate our pollution offshore in places where poor people live, and we’re doing our bit for the climate by pursuing penury at home and abroad via treaty! This isn’t a full win, but boy are we on our way.

…So how are we looking? Two solid wins and two great leaps of progress on four major campaign issues. Not a bad scorecard. Biden’s administration is doing what Biden promised to do on the campaign trail, and they are wildly successful on multiple fronts. They’re delivering the goods, and the consequences of these actions are the cost of the Biden Administration keeping its promises. And if the GOP has any gumption in the slightest, they’ll readily point out all of the campaign promises that this administration is keeping.

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