Republicans Can Deliver A Knockout To Wobbly Biden – Will They?

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Joe Biden is teetering in the corner. His popularity is careening downward due to the concurrent major crises he created: the border disaster and the inflation spike. Recognizing the data on this trend, amidst all the backroom machinations of the so-called infrastructure package, if the Republicans on Capitol Hill can steel themselves and see the opportunity, they can deliver a devastating knockout to Joe Biden. 

Just how bad is Bidenโ€™s approval trend? Consider that his overall approval, per CNBC survey, has cratered a stunning 14 percent over the last six months, from 62 percent positive in February to only 48 percent. Given his rather stunning polling weakness on key issues, expect that overall approval to continue to slide, and likely test 40 percent to the downside this year. 

On the most important issue of all, the economy, Bidenโ€™s gargantuan borrow and spend agenda sends consumer prices soaring to three decade highs, as reflected by the latest core Personal Consumption Expenditure numbers, the Federal Reserveโ€™s preferred measure of inflation. This surge puts consumers in a very foul mood. CNBC also reports that only 22 percent of Americans are presently positive on the economy and optimistic on the future. Only 22 percent, thatโ€™s pathetic!

Conversely, 51 percent are negative on the present and future economy, the highest pessimism read in that poll since 2015โ€ฆ not coincidentally, the last time Biden worked in the White House.  

Outside of the economy, Bidenโ€™s numbers similarly slide on hot-button issues. For example, the recent ABC/Ipsos poll found his approval on the issue of crime plunged to just 35 percent. On immigration, he registers just 37 percent affirmation.

This torrent of weak numbers reveals a hobbled politician, and one without the kind of hyper-loyal base his predecessor enjoyed. There are literally almost no hardcore Joe Biden partisans. Given this reality, why on Earth would the Senate GOP let this wobbly fighter escape from this corner? If the GOP can find a backbone and strike with swiftness and precision, it would effectively end Biden era and put the Republican Party on a solid trajectory toward America First electoral tidal waves in both 2022 for the Congress and then 2024 for the White House. 

The 45th President see the situation clearly.

Over the weekend, Donald J. Trump sent out a scathing rebuke of the boondoggle infrastructure package and the enabling GOP ineptness. He wrote โ€œJoe Bidenโ€™s infrastructure bill is a disgrace. If Mitch McConnell was smart, which weโ€™ve seen no evidence of, he would use the debt ceiling card to negotiate a good infrastructure package.โ€

A thousand times yes to this very strategy which I outlined right before the prior debt ceiling expired on August 1. As I proposed, a resolute GOP could โ€œapply a fiscal tourniquetโ€ to stop the borrow-and-spend profligacy thatโ€™s fueling inflation unseen since the 1970โ€™s. But, โ€œthe clock is ticking. The window is closing. Will the GOP show the wisdom and the huevos to use the debt ceiling as a lever to stop the madness?โ€

So far, the signs from squish Republican senators are hardly encouraging.

For example, the always-disappointing Lindsey Graham hailed Saturdayโ€™s session as a โ€œbig day for bipartisan infrastructure.โ€ Even if this bill focused on hard infrastructure spending โ€“ which it surely does not โ€“ then Graham and 16 other GOP Senators would still be fools to support it, knowing full well that it remains conjoined as the evil twin to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation monster that will be passed and signed as a two-for-one. Pelosi has made that coupling crystal clear, so a vote for one in the Senate is de facto a vote for both.

These legacy Republican establishment figures need to feel the wrath of their America First constituents.

Inflation is out of control and threatens to obliterate the spending power of middle- and lower-income Americans. The border teems with trespassers who will only further depress wages and make American streets even more dangerous, thanks to the radicalism of Biden and Harris. Senate Republicans should stipulate that they will only vote for an infrastructure bill that includes a full border wall and an immediate enforcement actions against the crossings of illegal migrants. 

Americans awaken to the dismal Democrat rule realities, as reflected by crashing polling for Joe Biden. Consequently, time to check the nonsense โ€œbipartisanโ€ kid gloves in the Senate Republican cloakroom and instead don some boxing gloves, perhaps with brass knuckles underneath? It is time to deliver a political knockout right cross to the doddering Joe Biden. 

By STEVE CORTES

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