Joe Biden seems to grow more befuddled by the day. While Kamala Harris is running back and forth across the fruited plain trying to distance herself from the mess she has just spent three and a half years helping to create, Joe Biden is still mumbling and stumbling along, giving her "credit" for all she's done to send the American economy into a tailspin. Indeed, one wonders how many times the Harris campaign has called up the Biden people, begging, "Please, for the sake of the election, stop helping us!"
In the latest such event, Joe Biden spoke to a climate event following his appearance in front of the United Nations General Assembly, and in this speech, touted the Harris/Biden administration's climate legacy, proclaiming to all and sundry, "We did it!"
Hint: They didn't do it.
Biden, speaking at a climate event hours after addressing the United Nations General Assembly, presented a glowing appraisal of his environmental record to a room full of mostly supportive business leaders, saying he created a “new formula” that strengthens the economy while expanding clean energy.
“Kamala and I have pursued an ambitious climate policy focused on growth,” Biden said to about 200 people at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in the Plaza Hotel. “We were told it couldn’t get done. But we did it.”
Note that Joe Biden has now, once again, implicated Kamala Harris in the train wreck that has been the Biden presidency. No matter how hard she tries, no matter how many word salads she drops, no matter how many times Tim Walz goes off-script and accidentally tells the truth in proclaiming that "...we can't afford four more years of this," Joe just keeps dragging his understudy back into the fold.
But note that comment, the "new formula," that proclaims an ambitious climate policy focused on growth. Where is this growth? Oh, the bills Americans are paying for gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas, and home heating oil have been growing. Americans' grocery bills have been growing — I would remind you that all of these groceries are produced, packaged, shipped, and distributed by equipment and vehicles that consume energy in one form or another. The only thing that hasn't been growing is American savings accounts, as it seems that month to month, everything takes a bigger bite out of our budgets. That's the only growth the Harris/Biden administration can really claim.
Kamala Harris, we might note, has been strangely mute on this topic; she has not, for instance, mentioned the billions in subsidies that the Harris/Biden administration has tossed at such things as solar panels and electric vehicles, all in the name of appeasing the green wing of the Democratic Party. Indeed, Kamala's proclamations on energy are striking a distinctly Trump-like tone:
He (Biden) spoke as climate activists rallied on Manhattan streets for bolder action against fossil fuel pollution — and as his potential successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, has largely avoided talking about the administration’s hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy subsidies on the campaign trail.
Instead, Harris’ energy messaging has sought support among independent voters by talking about the United States’ world-leading oil and natural gas production as well as pocketbook issues such as rising insurance costs related to climate change. She has also renounced her 2019 pledge to ban fracking amid attacks by former President Donald Trump.
There is no reason to believe Kamala Harris when she says any of this. Harris has been all-in for reducing, if not destroying, our modern technological lifestyle in the name of climate change; she thinks, somehow, that we can have this cake and eat it, too. America's energy industry leaders aren't fooled by her prevarication or her promises.
See Related: Harris Worries Oil and Gas Industry Leaders: America Can't Afford Her Agenda
Worst of all, Joe Biden is still singing the praises of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Biden’s speech Tuesday was punctuated by the kinds of specifics on energy policy that the Harris campaign has largely omitted. He also jabbed Trump, who has called global warming a myth.
“He says he’d repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. He’d let our factories shut down. He’d move the world backwards,” Biden said. “His denial of climate change condemns our future generations to a more dangerous world.”
Frankly, the Inflation Reduction Act should be repealed, as should any such legislation that inarguably has made things worse for the American people. And it's important to note that, under the previous Trump presidency, manufacturing jobs grew — so there's little reason to think that a second Trump administration would reverse course.
This is a remarkable flip-flop from Biden's admission earlier in September that the Inflation Reduction Act just plain didn't work. As my colleague Bonchie wrote:
See Related: A Barely-There Joe Biden Admits the Inflation Reduction Act Was a Total Scam
Remember Joe Biden? It's hard to believe, but despite his escalating dementia, he's still the President of the United States because nothing matters anymore. He's also still speaking publicly on occasion, and on Thursday, he managed to admit the Inflation Reduction Act was a scam.
Why did he do that? The simple answer is that he's senile and doesn't even realize what he's saying half the time at this point.
Joe Biden just STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED that the Inflation Reduction Act was a TOTAL SCAM that had NOTHING to do with reducing inflation!
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 5, 2024
Does Kamala Harris agree with this?
"We should've named it what it was!" pic.twitter.com/2WL7N1exN2
The Inflation Reduction Act didn't reduce inflation, and it's not making the Earth any cooler. Climate change, yes, is real; the Earth's climate has always changed through its 4.5 billion-year history, and through most of that vast time, it's been warmer than it is now. Humans, yes, have some effect on the climate — as does everything, including the sun, ocean currents, volcanoes, and potentially, meteor strikes. The planet's climate is vast and chaotic, and it's near-impossible to completely understand it. Joe Biden doesn't understand it. Kamala Harris doesn't understand it. But both of them are willing to spend Americans into penury and reduce our standard of living to deal with it.
Joe Biden proclaiming his success at energy policy is about as believable as Woody Allen proclaiming his success as an Olympic body-builder.
