Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to members of the media as he arrives to a candidate forum with House Republicans to hear from members running for U.S. Speaker of House in the Longworth House Office Building on October 10, 2023 in Washington, DC.
over the weekend can be at least slightly blamed on President Joe Biden’s policies. In this telling, a substantial measure of that fault has to do with the administration’s attempts to address’s comments to reporters on Monday in the bloody aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel. The remarks contained many of the national security jabs one might expect—the President being, in McCarthy’s description, soft on Iran, weak on border security, and generally terrible at projecting U.S.
“President Biden has said previously that he believes the number one threat America is facing is climate change. That is not true,” McCarthy said, going on to list terrorism, border security, energy production and Iranian, Russian, and Chinese power as greater threats. “Rather focus on his Green New Deal, he should focus on protecting the American people,” he said.
You can imagine U.S. environmental progressives saying to themselves,"would that it were!" Biden’s stance on new drilling has been, in essence, ain Alaska, and the political reality that high prices at the gas pump tend to be a one-way ticket to a one-term presidency. McCarthy omitted the fact that U.S. oil production is on track to setthis year and next, despite an urgent mandate from the world’s scientists to cut fossil fuel emissions.
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