AP Reporter: America, Bidenomics Was the Bee’s Knees, You Just Don’t Know It Yet!

January 16th, 2025 4:31 PM

The Associated Press’s in-house public relations flunky for President Joe Biden, Josh Boak, is following the dragged out trend of leftist media figures treating Americans like they’re just too impatient to understand the true genius of Bidenomics.

Boak’s January 15 propaganda piece disguised as news, “How Biden’s domestic policy record stacks up against public perception,” was laced with a hodgepodge of excuses and celebratory ramblings about Biden’s economic policies, which he mourned were hampered by a disgruntled voter base.

“President Joe Biden ends his term with a gulf between his policy record and his public reputation,” he wrote.

He implied the disconnect was that Biden was more fixated on long term priorities than on more immediate concerns like the inflation peaking to 40-year highs in 2022, which in turn drove voters up a wall. In essence, implied Boak, the tragedy of Biden is that the effects of his illusory achievements won’t be realized by the agitated voter base until long after he’s left office. 

Yet this was the same Boak who tried teeing up outgoing White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre last year to explain how the surge of illegal immigration across the border was contributing to a roaring American economy. No, you didn’t misread that.

“Biden’s term ends just as many of his major domestic policy achievements are being implemented, meaning that the story of his presidency will continue to be written long after he turns over the White House to Republican Donald Trump,” wrote Boak. [Emphasis added.]

But when recapping Biden’s unrealized record, Boak’s first go-to was a disastrous Biden policy that was already “implemented” to the economy’s inflationary detriment: “Within months of becoming president, Biden along with congressional Democrats delivered $1.9 trillion toward powering the United States out of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Yeah, it powered the U.S. alright, straight off the economic rails.

That’s the same $1.9 trillion stimulus that former Obama National Economic Council Director Larry Summers warned adamantly would “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.”

Now, consumers are trapped in a situation where prices are about 21 percent higher on average than they were when Biden took office, coupled with the fact that real wage growth hadn’t been enough to keep up with the months where prices were “disproportionately rising faster than Americans’ paychecks,” as Bankrate noted in a September 2024 study. The irony is that Boak buried this in the 13th paragraph. 

But when it came to inflation, Boak gaslit readers into believing Biden really didn’t have much to do with it, and instead blamed a spider web of variables:

There was never one single cause for the inflation that hounded Biden’s presidency, nor was there a satisfying solution for the public. Republicans were quick to blame the spending from the pandemic relief, relying on forecasts such as those by the economist Larry Summers to suggest that Biden had flooded America with too much money. That political argument obscured a far more complicated reality that involved multiple factors, not just pandemic aid, [emphasis added].

But the resort to fixating on supply chain disruptions to cloud Biden’s culpability is grossly misleading, as The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board noted in a November 24 editorial.

Further, the MIT Sloan School of Management admitted in July that “some policymakers — up to and including President Joe Biden — blamed shortages in the supply chain. But a new study shows that federal spending was the cause — significantly so.” Senior MIT Senior Lecturer of Finance Mark Kritzman, one of the authors of the research, added: “Our research shows mathematically that the overwhelming driver of that burst of inflation in 2022 was federal spending, not the supply chain.”

How about them apples, Boak?

Boak wasn’t done, also highlighting Biden’s asinine infrastructure spending plans. “Infrastructure week? More like infrastructure decade,” celebrated Boak in a sub-header, who later bemoaned how delays in some of Biden’s supposedly brilliant pet projects on this matter would hurt him with voters. But here’s the problem, as Reason pointed out about Biden’s infrastructure ambitions: “The outgoing president's signature legislative achievements spent tens of billions of dollars with little to show.” 

Reason even criticized previous Associated Press spin which Boak later co-opted that the Biden “record includes legislation that will rebuild the country in ways that will likely be seen over the next dozen years, even if voters did not immediately appreciate it.”

When it came to the national debt, Boat actually attempted to blame Republicans for balking at Biden’s push for tax hikes and "illegal" student debt forgiveness for contributing to the debt, rather than out-of-control government spending on his watch. “With Republicans blocking tax hikes, the national debt grew,” blared his insane sub-header on the topic.