Perhaps the most calculating and dishonest passage in President Joe Biden’s Feb. 7 State of the Union speech came when he touched on ways to deal with America’s rocketing federal debt.
You may remember it as the point when the House GOP’s most insufferable members, Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), broke into Biden’s lugubrious address by leaping to their feet and denouncing him loudly as a “liar.”
He had just uttered one of his many distortions and falsehoods by tarring Republicans as intending to scrap Social Security and Medicare. He did so despite Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) having explicitly ruled those two programs out of debt negotiations.
