Can We Measure How Vacuous and Partisan Jeffries Really Is?

I don’t know how much more vacuous House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY), can be. I also don’t know much more of a substanceless mouthpiece he can be for the Democrats.

Republicans – along with 14 Democrats – reversed Biden’s credit score tax that is associated with federal housing subsidies. This ipso facto tax was a disgusting redistribution of wealth; charging those with good credit scores more for their mortgages to subsidize those with worse credit scores (read: higher risk).

It’s as if they learned nothing from the 2008 mortgage crisis and meltdown that gobbled up Lehman Brothers for doing just that, packaging high-risk mortgages and playing them off of those who are more responsible with their money.

But, in all his partisan glory – and intellectual hollowness, this is what Jeffries had to say about the bill’s passage:

“President Biden and House and Senate Democrats are actually standing up for the middle class and those who aspire to be part of it and trying to make sure that the things traditionally associated with a middle-class lifestyle like affordable homeownership, are sustained in the United States of America...

“Extreme MAGA Republicans are doing everything they can to undermine the economic progress that President Biden has made in this country because if President Biden is for it, they're against it…”

So, what did we get out of that? Nothing. All we know is that Jeffries knows how to use the buzzword bullet points put out by the Democrat congressional leadership. He got “extreme” in there as well as “MAGA.” Mission accomplished.

Nowhere in his statement did he point to any statistics or facts that prove his assertion that Biden’s policies are affecting “economic progress”. Nowhere in his statement did he point to any specific legislation or measures taken by congressional Democrats that benefit anyone in the middle class.

In fact, the Biden administration’s and congressional Democrats' performance where the economy and inflation are concerned is catastrophically dismal.

While the White House falsely trumpets how much the economy has recovered under the Biden administration, a simple look at inflation rates shows that the catastrophe is exclusively his doing:

The comments are worth looking over as some realists (read: those who are actually dispensing with spin and looking at the facts) are hitting the nail directly on the head:

The point to take away from all of this is that the federally elected political class thinks there is nothing wrong with stating untruths if it supports their political parties, and this is true for both national political parties.

Going forward, if, in fact, we want to leave a country worth living in to our children, we have to start penalizing politicians who blatantly lie just for the sake of power. Sadly, that would excommunicate just about everyone in Congress and cull the field currently out there for the presidency. But I say so be it.

The question is this: Are we willing to be honest enough to hold the people we support accountable? If we aren’t then we are failing the next generation and leaving a country so dysfunctional one has to question if it is still the “shining city on the hill”.

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