Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s Coming Out Party

“Obama made the comments during a campaign event for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman in Philadelphia on Saturday night.(Fox Business) "Think about what Joe Biden has already got accomplished. Despite historic pandemic, he not only repaired the economy and kept unemployment low, which, by the way, you should not take for granted, because a lot of folks thought with a historic pandemic like that and the shutdown, that we would potentially go into a Great Depression, and we did not," Obama said.

“Obama also said that Biden has "lowered health care and prescription drug costs" and passed an infrastructure bill "that will put more folks here in Pennsylvania and around the country to work and make our economy stronger.” (Fox Business) "If you help Democrats keep the House and get a few more seats in the Senate, you can guarantee he'll make more progress on the issues you care about," Obama said. “Employers in October added 261,000 nonfarm jobs, which were more than expected, while the unemployment rate increased slightly to 3.7%, up from 3.5% in September. “In January 2021, when Biden took office, the consumer price index, a measure of everyday items such as gasoline, groceries and rents, was climbing at a 1.4% annualized basis. "In September, prices climbed by 8.2% on an annual basis. “When compared to the same time last year, core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose by 6.6%, the fastest rate since 1982.”

"So it's going to become a wind generation," Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California. "And all they're doing is it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on." “Biden proclaimed, "We're going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power." On Saturday, Manchin fired back at Biden on his plan to shut down coal plants – which would severely impact his home state of West Virginia. “President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs," Manchin began his statement. "Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all-in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure," the Senator from West Virginia continued. "Being cavalier about the loss of coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting," he said.”

"Of course, cap and trade is long dead. But coal-fired power plants are powering down nationwide, and they are blaming the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. The president’s critics say proposed greenhouse gas regulations for future power plants are designed to cripple the coal industry. "And just like with another 2008 quote — Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s famed call to “figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” — “Republicans say the Chronicle clip shows what’s really in the president’s heart, that high electricity prices and the death of coal have always been Obama’s goal.” “When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” he added. “Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants … would have to retrofit their operations. That’ll cost money; they will pass that money on to consumers.”