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Biden Thinks He's FDR. America Thinks He's a Failure | Opinion

Apr 18, 2021
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When historians gathered at the White House shortly after President Biden's inauguration, they discussed what makes a presidency consequential. Biden reportedly told one historian in attendance, "I'm no FDR, but..."

On this, Biden is right: He is no Franklin Delano Roosevelt, nor is he any of the other presidents to whom he has delusional hopes of being compared to, such as Lyndon Johnson or Abraham Lincoln. After just one year of complete Democrat rule, there is no denying that the average American is far worse off under the Biden administration.

Biden's desire for a consequential presidency has meant disastrous consequences for American families. The economic harm from his policies has been particularly devastating. For too many American families, rising costs for gas and groceries have shrunk household budgets. Consumer prices reached a 40-year high in January, while workers' wages failed to keep up. A University of Pennsylvania Wharton School analysis found Americans paid $3,500 more in 2021 as a result of runaway inflation, and currently, Americans are shelling out an estimated additional $276 per month for basic goods and services. Skyrocketing inflation hurts the middle and working classes the most, as they are least able to withstand rising prices.

Consequently, Biden's economic ratings are now worse than President Jimmy Carter's. How's that for a historical comparison?

While Biden's destructive policies drive inflation and higher prices, his corrosive political agenda is costing many Americans their jobs. The Democrats' vaccine mandates have forced small businesses to fire employees while making many first responders and frontline workers choose between their medical freedom and providing for their families. Biden's attempted federal vaccine mandate put nearly 45 million jobs at risk and many small businesses in a position of losing employees at a time when so many are struggling to find workers.


Fortunately, the Republican National Committee, Republican Attorneys General, and small businesses across the country won a challenge to the Biden administration's job-killing mandate at the Supreme Court.

But defeats in court won't stop the Democrats' relentless quest for control. While children as young as 2-years-old are forced to wear masks in school, Democrats and leftist elites have hypocritically ditched their masks. Democrats cannot point to any science to continue forced masking of children in school, but in Democrat-run states across the country—with the backing of Biden—children are still forced to wear them.

The endless mandates, continued lockdowns, and failure to shut down the virus will be a key and sorry part of Biden's dismal legacy.

Biden is also making history by setting records for the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border. During his first year in office,
nearly 2 million illegal immigrants were apprehended trying to enter the United States with hundreds of thousands more known to have escaped.

it's not seasonal. Those entering our country illegally openly admit that Biden's policies gave them the green light to make the dangerous journey to the United States.

The consequences of Democrat control in Washington have been costly. American families have experienced record-shattering inflation, a labor crunch and supply chain crisis, a historic implosion at the border, rising crime, emboldened enemies abroad, and continued mismanagement of COVID, including the forced masking of children. A new CNN poll found that six out of 10 voters disapprove of the job Biden is doing, and when asked "What has Biden done that you approve of?" a whopping 56 percent of those who disapproved said "nothing."


 
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Consequently, Biden's economic ratings are now worse than President Jimmy Carter's. How's that for a historical comparison?

While Biden's destructive policies drive inflation and higher prices, his corrosive political agenda is costing many Americans their jobs. The Democrats' vaccine mandates have forced small businesses to fire employees while making many first responders and frontline workers choose between their medical freedom and providing for their families. Biden's attempted federal vaccine mandate put nearly 45 million jobs at risk and many small businesses in a position of losing employees at a time when so many are struggling to find workers.
 
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Monica Crowley (born September 19, 1968) was the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.[2][1] She has been a political commentator and lobbyist.[3] She was a Fox News contributor, where she worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In December 2016, the Donald Trump administration announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? and her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation.[4] On July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as spokesperson for the Treasury Department. On July 24, 2019, she was sworn into office.[5]

Barack Obama conspiracy theories​

Crowley has on multiple occasions spread conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.[24] In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center Park51 in Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center, Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, "How could he....support the enemy?" In 2013, she said that the Muslim Brotherhood had "found an ally" in Obama.[24]

In 2009, she noted that Obama used his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during his swearing in as president (which presidents typically do), had early in his presidency ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, and granted an interview to the media outlet Al Arabiya, saying this "tells you where his head is and, possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin'."[24]

In 2011, Crowley said that birther conspiracy theories about Obama raised legitimate concerns.[24]

In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an "Islamic community organizer" who was "conforming US policy to Islam and Sharia."[24]


Journalistic plagiarism​

In 1999, Crowley was accused of plagiarism related to a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for The Wall Street Journal[16] which contained "striking similarities" (according to the Journal) to a piece written 11 years earlier by Paul Johnson.[9][25] When contacted by The New York Times for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."[25] On January 7, 2017, CNN published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The book includes about 50 examples of copying freely from published sources with no attribution given, including from Wikipedia.[26] In a statement, the Trump transition team called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her.[27]

Two days later on January 9, 2017, Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.[9][28] In December 2019, an internal Columbia University investigation concluded that Crowley had engaged in “localized instances of plagiarism” but that the plagiarism did not meet the level of "research misconduct."[29]

Shortly after reports emerged that she plagiarized the book What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, the publisher of the book, HarperCollins, announced:[30]


The book, which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material.

On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. "I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities," she said in a statement.[31] The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.[32]

Crowley subsequently told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."[33] Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"[33] stating: "No one has yet to point out a single inaccuracy in our reporting or asked for a correction on it. Monica Crowley v. reality."[34]

 
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Monica Crowley (born September 19, 1968) was the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.[2][1] She has been a political commentator and lobbyist.[3] She was a Fox News contributor, where she worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017. She is a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In December 2016, the Donald Trump administration announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? and her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation.[4] On July 16, 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as spokesperson for the Treasury Department. On July 24, 2019, she was sworn into office.[5]

Barack Obama conspiracy theories​

Crowley has on multiple occasions spread conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.[24] In 2010, after Obama defended the right to build the Islamic community center Park51 in Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center, Crowley suggested he had dual loyalties to Islam and the United States, and asked, "How could he....support the enemy?" In 2013, she said that the Muslim Brotherhood had "found an ally" in Obama.[24]

In 2009, she noted that Obama used his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during his swearing in as president (which presidents typically do), had early in his presidency ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, and granted an interview to the media outlet Al Arabiya, saying this "tells you where his head is and, possibly, his sympathies. Just sayin'."[24]

In 2011, Crowley said that birther conspiracy theories about Obama raised legitimate concerns.[24]

In 2015, she shared an article which described Obama as an "Islamic community organizer" who was "conforming US policy to Islam and Sharia."[24]


Journalistic plagiarism​

In 1999, Crowley was accused of plagiarism related to a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for The Wall Street Journal[16] which contained "striking similarities" (according to the Journal) to a piece written 11 years earlier by Paul Johnson.[9][25] When contacted by The New York Times for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."[25] On January 7, 2017, CNN published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The book includes about 50 examples of copying freely from published sources with no attribution given, including from Wikipedia.[26] In a statement, the Trump transition team called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her.[27]

Two days later on January 9, 2017, Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.[9][28] In December 2019, an internal Columbia University investigation concluded that Crowley had engaged in “localized instances of plagiarism” but that the plagiarism did not meet the level of "research misconduct."[29]

Shortly after reports emerged that she plagiarized the book What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, the publisher of the book, HarperCollins, announced:[30]




On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. "I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities," she said in a statement.[31] The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.[32]

Crowley subsequently told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."[33] Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"[33] stating: "No one has yet to point out a single inaccuracy in our reporting or asked for a correction on it. Monica Crowley v. reality."[34]

Ciggy byline - must deflect from Bidens failures at all costs.
 
People are returning to work, they aren't showing up at newly created jobs,... Biden job creation is a farce.
 
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We know you are a failure.
Maybe address the article rather than the OP. I'm not a fan of him either, but there are some truths within what was posted. The question is who is to blame? There's no denying inflation is at an all time high. I likely won't feel a cent of the 5% raise I received yesterday. Kiddos wearing masks at this point is beyond dumb.
 
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