President Joe Biden promised his speech on Jan. 15 would be his final address to the nation from the Oval Office. Let us hope his mouth is permanently sealed, although it has hung open for a few years.
His address was bitter, partisan, hopelessly unaware, and utterly unworthy of an American president. Biden has sealed his fate as one of the worst and most forgettable presidents ever.
He began his speech with the fundamental falsehood of his entire presidency, that, in his words, he “inherited” an “economic crisis” in which millions of people were losing their jobs. This is flatly untrue. Government shutdowns during the COVID pandemic led to the loss of over 20 million jobs, but these losses peaked in April 2020, and the economy began restoring them and recovering overall long before Biden came to office. In terms of jobs and gross domestic product, the economy recovered…
