BUCK: Biden is no longer hidin’, but he is still declinin’ in the polls. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. Pretty much now we got a news cycle dominated by Joe Biden having just completed the worst year in living memory of any president in terms of bad decision-making, bad policy outcomes. And it’s fascinating to see that the people that are supposed to be — and usually would be — his support network, his enablers, especially in the media, are scrambling, and they can’t even come up with explanations for all this stuff to make any sense. Here’s over at CNN — which just created a misinformation unit, Clay, to track down misinformation. I can tell you our names will be popping up over there.
CLAY: No doubt.
BUCK: You’re banned. Maybe you’re like Voldemort; they can’t even say your name in the CNN building although I’m pretty close.
CLAY: (laughing)
BUCK: Here’s CNN’s Abby Phillip with the geniuses of the Biden administration. Play 19.
PHILLIP: He is between a rock and a hard place. You have so many Democrats in the face saying, “Why didn’t you work on some of these issues that we really cared about? Why did you focus on infrastructure and all of this other stuff, uh, as the first priorities?” And the Biden thinking was if we get covid under control, if we get the money in people’s pockets, then we have a better chance of going into the midterm election cycle. They didn’t foresee the impacts of covid and on that extra money in their — in people’s pockets on inflation, and so they’re in a really tough spot because they made some choices a year ago that — that are coming back to them in a way that they did not anticipate.
BUCK: That says a lot, Clay: They didn’t anticipate that almost $2 trillion of additional spending on top of trillions of dollars of emergency spending and sending people money at home was gonna have on inflation. Wow.
CLAY: And they also thought that he was gonna be the covid hero. He was gonna rush in, the vaccine was out there, he was gonna stamp out covid, he was gonna be giving people money, and people were gonna be ecstatic about the Biden regime in the first year. Both of those things, by the way, big gambles, total failure, which is why I believe what’s going to happen in the wake of this failure in the Senate overvoting rights and the filibuster modification is we are going to see a demand for somebody to be responsible, for there to be a proverbial head on the spike.
“This is the guy who’s responsible for it. This is why everything went wrong. Here is the responsible party. We’re firing him and we’re now embarking on a new destination.” The problem is for Joe Biden, I don’t know that he’s mentally capable enough, Buck, to go out and find new advisers who are going to lead him in a better direction. I think he’s basically stuck with what he’s got.