{"id":25927,"date":"2021-11-15T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25927"},"modified":"2021-11-15T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:25:17","slug":"voters-message-biden-build-back-better-blowout-wont-boost-him-or-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25927\/voters-message-biden-build-back-better-blowout-wont-boost-him-or-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters&#8217; Message:  Biden &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; Blowout Is a Loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of this month&#8217;s catastrophic election results for Joe Biden and his party, many leftists stubbornly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-chief-staff-ron-klain-virginia-election-deep-blue\">rationalized<\/a> that voters were upset that Biden hadn&#8217;t seen <em>more<\/em> of his agenda passed, and that the answer to Biden&#8217;s and Democrats&#8217; ills was to step on the gas and pass more of that agenda.\u00a0 Well, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/economic-discontent-criticisms-of-biden-lift-gop-to-record-early-advantage-poll\/ar-AAQFU9w?ocid=uxbndlbing\">ABC News\/Washington Post poll<\/a> offers and instant rebuttal.\u00a0 The survey is nothing short of catastrophic for Biden and Democrats as 2022 approaches, with Republicans scoring record preferences (see image below).\u00a0 But note something else:\u00a0 This poll was conducted November 7 &#8211; 10, AFTER Biden&#8217;s &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; spending bill was passed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AAQGbfs.img?w=608&amp;h=608&amp;m=6\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"579\" \/> &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221; Is a Loser<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We at CFIF have detailed the <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/5722-congressional-drug-price-negotiation-proposal-would-cost-lives-defy-voters\">catastrophic potential effects<\/a> of passing Biden&#8217;s even larger spending bill currently before Congress, including its potentially devastating consequences for American healthcare and pharmaceutical innovation:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"normalText\">Specifically, they\u2019re attempting to cement <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/dems-drug-pricing-518554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement<\/a><\/strong> on provisions that would empower the federal government to begin \u201cnegotiating\u201d drug prices with manufacturers and imposing draconian penalties upon providers that don\u2019t play ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normalText\">That constitutes a scheme to bring price controls to American healthcare, with catastrophic effects, according to analyses from both the non-partisan <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2021-08\/57010-New-Drug-Development.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Budget Office (CBO)<\/a><\/strong> as well as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com\/voices.uchicago.edu\/dist\/d\/3128\/files\/2021\/08\/Issue-Brief-Price-Controls-and-Drug-Innovation-Philipson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Chicago<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This new ABC News\/Washington Post poll should offer a cautionary tale for Senators Joe Manchin (D &#8211; West Virginia), Kirsten Sinema (D &#8211; Arizona) or anyone else even contemplating voting for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of this month&#8217;s catastrophic election results for Joe Biden and his party, many leftists stubbornly rationalized that voters were upset that Biden hadn&#8217;t seen more of his agenda passed, and that the answer to Biden&#8217;s and Democrats&#8217; ills was to step on the gas and pass more of that agenda.\u00a0 Well, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,5156,84,1251,19,861,1684,4805,61],"class_list":["post-25927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-build-back-better","tag-congress","tag-drugs","tag-economy","tag-healthcare","tag-innovation","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25930,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25927\/revisions\/25930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}