By Charles Creitz | Fox News
Between President Biden's decisions to order employers to fire unvaccinated workers, to continuing to pay Americans not to work, his failing to substantively address supply chain issues causing backlogs at U.S. ports, and a domestic energy policy that has spiked gas prices close to $4 on the East Coast and near $5 per gallon on the West Coast, the Democrats are setting America up for a "long winter" of their making, Laura Ingraham said Monday in her "Ingraham Angle" commentary.
From day one when Biden unilaterally cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, through the reportedly vaccine-mandate-related turmoil at U.S. airports over the past weekend and into today, Biden and his cabinet have proved to the American people they are not competent enough to govern, the host said.
"We already know that Biden's team is incompetent on
many fronts, their embarrassing performance in Afghanistan. In foreign policy,
their humiliation across the table from their counterparts and that the border
importing a trifecta of disasters from COVID to crime to poverty, but as
nightmarish as all of that has been, Biden’s on track to eclipse all of it with
his pathetic handling of the economy," she said.
Ingraham noted President Trump left Biden with a strong economic,
border security and vaccine-supply situation, but that the Delaware Democrat
began squandering it almost immediately.
"All Biden had to do was number one, make the
vaccine widely available, number two, lift all restrictions on economic
activity and number three, let the Trump-era policies and the hard work of the
American people take us back to the booming economy we enjoyed before
COVID," she said.
"Of course, they did the exact opposite. They
canceled Trump’s policies, overreach with vaccine mandates and scare the public
into staying at home. And over the last few days, we have seen the toll that
Biden’s radical agenda is taking on the economy. It all started with Friday’s
abysmal jobs report."
She noted the price of gas is up an average 43% from last
Winter and riffed that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm – formerly Michigan's
Democratic governor – is "working hard to turn it around."
In a clip, Granholm declared America doesn't have its own
oil and gas supply and is reliant on the market – while adding that it is
important to concentrate on moving to a "clean energy environment."
Ingraham said Granholm is either "stupid, herself,
or thinks we are" – pointing to the fact America does indeed have
energy-producing capabilities, a national strategic petroleum stockpile, and
billions of dollars of oil and gas to be captured in places like Alaska,
Pennsylvania, New York, North Dakota, and Texas.
Ingraham also went after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
over inflation, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for cargo ship
bottlenecks at American ports and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh for saying he
"didn't have an answer" for the current labor shortage.
USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed he is considering 'new apprenticeships' to aid supply chain crisis.
"When you see it all together," Ingraham said,
"The totality of the incompetence is quite staggering."
"So it looks like we’re in for a long and difficult
winter – a winter of shortages and disappointments especially for Americans
living in cities strangled by restrictions, mandates, and you throw the cold
weather into that, my goodness," she said.
"There’s no defending Biden’s policies or his
performance … I’m sure you’re all thinking this is depressing, we are in for a
rough ride and yes, we are for a while," she continued.
"But let us never give in to despair. I said this
the day after the election, keep a stiff upper lip, we know how to turn things
around and in time, we will. We survived Jimmy Carter, we can survive this. The
Carter years led to Ronald Reagan and if the American people are smart and I
think they are, the Biden years will lead to the new and better economic
policies after 2024."
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