{"id":391696,"date":"2022-01-09T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/so-called-moderate-biden-cozies-up-to-leftist-dem-flank\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T02:53:00","slug":"so-called-moderate-biden-cozies-up-to-leftist-dem-flank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-called-moderate-biden-cozies-up-to-leftist-dem-flank\/","title":{"rendered":"#So-called moderate Biden cozies up to leftist Dem flank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a249637ee8f1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a249637ee8f1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-called-moderate-biden-cozies-up-to-leftist-dem-flank\/#Broken_promises\" >Broken promises<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-called-moderate-biden-cozies-up-to-leftist-dem-flank\/#Socialist_slippery_slope\" >Socialist slippery slope<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#So-called moderate Biden cozies up to leftist Dem flank<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Charles Gasparino\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/Gasparino_Charles_headshot.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After Joe Biden was elected president, I had a conversation with a Wall Street banker friend who is deeply involved in Democratic politics. He could see I was worried. He knew my views about Trump: didn\u2019t like his tone, his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> noise and the antics of Jan. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I thought his trade policies were often self-defeating, but <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly I liked what he did with the economy. The policies actually worked: With tax cuts and deregulation, wages rose for the working class for the first time in years. Pre-pandemic, there was non-inflationary growth. Hell, for all of Trump\u2019s foibles when it came to COVID he was on the way to distributing effective COVID vaccines produced under his watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Biden had a record as a moderate and for working with Republicans. But he was, let\u2019s say, not the guy he was even when he was Obama\u2019s veep. He was weak and the left was ascendant in Democrats\u2019 policymaking. Won\u2019t crazies like AOC and Bernie Sanders have a big say in how to run things, I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His answer was assuring, at least for a few weeks. He said the smart guys would be in charge \u2014 people who knew how to get things done, particularly on the economy. Think Robert Rubin, the old Goldman Sachs chief and legendary economic moderate who understood that even progressive governments needed business to flourish to succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rubin helped Bill Clinton steer the raging 1990s economy. Biden would surround himself with similar people who were \u2014 at bottom \u2014 pragmatists, my banker friend said at the time. People like himself, who would prioritize solving some big problems, including ending the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Broken_promises\"><\/span>Broken promises<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Painfully, this is not what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened. The Biden White House in policy and appointments is one that AOC would love more than Bill Clinton. Barack Obama would appear to be too moderate for the apparatchiks who are being put in place, day after day, to maneuver a $25 trillion economy around inflation, COVID and who-knows-what\u2019s coming our way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AOC-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\" class=\"wp-image-20767390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AOC-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AOC-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AOC-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden has allowed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to become the voice of the Democrats, who\u2019s more radical than former President Donald Trump could ever be.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Yves Herman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I say this as the Biden administration is bungling yet another response that is certainly stifling the economy: getting testing materials and therapeutics to battle another COVID wave. For months it should have been an all-consuming task given the stakes involved.<\/p>\n<p>COVID waves cause sickness and economic misery as we are seeing in real-time. The economy is being weighed down with labor shortages, long waits at the airport and hospital staffs thinning out because of COVID quarantines and a lack of tests. Monoclonal antibodies work with most variants, but for some reason they\u2019re nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, with all this playing out 24-7, the president has been bragging a lot about the economy \u2014 like someone slipped something funny into his ice cream.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He omits basic economic facts: that despite wage and GDP growth, inflation is eating into both. Businesses still can\u2019t find workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/COVIDtesting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New Yorkers brave the cold in long lines waiting to get a covid test at the corner of 86th and 3rd Ave., NYC.  \" class=\"wp-image-20767463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/COVIDtesting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/COVIDtesting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/COVIDtesting.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Americans across the country are spending hours to simply get tested for COVID-19.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His CDC shortens the COVID quarantine to five days but says you must test negative when there are no tests available.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Labor Department said hiring actually slowed in December, and that was before the full impact of Omicron hit the workforce. Not good. Even worse, it underscores the incompetency we\u2019re stuck with at least for another three years.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Far from populating his economic team with a new generation of Bob Rubins, Biden is channeling his inner socialist that he somehow discovered after 79 years on this planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the Jan. 6 riots, he gave a bizarrely partisan speech as if that\u2019s what the country needs in a time of peril.<\/p>\n<p>He sidelined the wasteful Build Back Better spending monstrosity, but he\u2019ll undoubtedly roll it out a bit later. For now, he\u2019s pushing for voting rights that have been imaginarily denied while hospitals have in reality seen a surge in COVID-related cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Socialist_slippery_slope\"><\/span>Socialist slippery slope<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Also last week, Biden also stealthily returned to populating his economic team with lefties, people who would like nothing better than to impose regulations and taxes that re-engineer the market economy toward socialism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest: plans to renominate someone named Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sohn is very smart and very passionate about media and telecom issues. She\u2019s also someone who is progressive to the point of socialism. She will have a seat on one of the most economically important pillars of government regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GigiSohn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President and CEO of Public Knowledge Gigi Sohn testifies during a hearing before the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee June 21, 2012 on Capitol Hill\" class=\"wp-image-20767473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GigiSohn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GigiSohn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GigiSohn.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Progressive firebrand Gigi Sohn could wreck the tech and media industries as head of the Federal Communications Commission. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For a little context: The FCC provides oversight of the biggest US industries: <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, telecommunications and media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sohn is a longtime telecom lawyer, progressive advocate and co-founded the telecom advocacy group called Public Knowledge, which has received some funding from billionaire closeted socialist George Soros.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An earlier nomination to the FCC was pulled before Christmas \u2014 not because her bona fides didn\u2019t sit well with Senate Republicans, but because even moderate Democrats were queasy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You would think that would be enough for the president to move on, nominate someone less toxic. 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