Why trouble making an attempt to unravel issues, when you recognize the MSM has your again? – Funding Watch

by way of Ed Driscoll 

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: AP: GOP’s new midterm assault: Blaming Biden for components scarcity.

Republicans aiming to retake management of Congress have already sharpened a message centering round blaming Democrats for top inflation, costly gasoline, migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and violent crime in some cities.

However GOP leaders landed on a problem this week that it hopes might show much more potent: tying President Joe Biden to a scarcity in child components.

Mother and father are instantly working into naked grocery store and pharmacy cabinets partly due to ongoing provide disruptions and a latest security recall. However in an election 12 months that was already shaping as much as be rocky for Democrats, Republicans sense that the scarcity might show to be an particularly tangible option to argue that Biden is incapable of shortly fixing issues confronting the U.S.

“This isn’t a Third World nation,” mentioned GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of the Home Republican convention. “This could by no means occur in america of America.”

The administration has generally been gradual in responding to sudden political threats, maybe most notably when indicators of inflation started to floor final 12 months. The White Home seems decided to not repeat that mistake, asserting on Friday that components maker Abbott Laboratories dedicated to offer rebates by August for a meals stamp-like program that helps girls, infants and youngsters referred to as WIC.

Biden insisted there’s “nothing extra pressing we’re engaged on” than addressing the scarcity.

Requested if his administration had responded as shortly because it ought to have, Biden mentioned, ”If we’d been higher thoughts readers, I assume we might’ve. However we moved as shortly as the issue grew to become obvious.”

However the protection by the White Home illustrates how finger-pointing on the Biden administration has already unfold far and large amongst Republicans in Washington, on tv and on social media. It’s a brand new situation for the GOP to hammer at and a option to tackle households at a time when Democrats consider outrage over the U.S. Supreme Courtroom probably ending the correct to an abortion might provoke girls and different key voters, and thwart or a minimum of reduce a Republican wave in November.

As Scorching Air’s Allahpundit notes (however curiously, the opposite AP doesn’t): “America doesn’t want a mind-reader as president. It wants a Wall Avenue Journal reader. Per Jim Geraghty, the Journal had a narrative concerning the components scarcity again on … January 12.”

Did anybody within the White Home learn it on the time?

What number of instances is that this administration going to search out itself stunned by supply-chain points? They dropped almost $2 trillion final 12 months on COVID reduction amid a provide crunch, then have been surprised that the entire nation being flush with money whereas items are scarce would possibly trigger costs to rise. Now they’re determining that when a serious baby-formula manufacturing plant acquired shut down three months in the past at a second when components was already arduous to search out, a critical scarcity would possibly outcome.

Is seeing one transfer forward on the chessboard an excessive amount of to ask?

Ed identified on Twitter that the Washington Put up and the Journal have been working tales about shops rationing child components absolutely a month in the past. What has the crack Biden financial staff been doing about it since then?

Why trouble making an attempt to unravel issues, when you recognize the DNC-MSM has your again, as AP proved yesterday?

(Classical reference in headline.)