Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said in an article on FoxNews.com Saturday (Jan. 23) that Biden says one thing and does another. He talked about bipartisanship and unity at his inauguration, but on the day of his inauguration he signed 17 executive orders focused on overturning everything President Trump (Trump) has done. This is dividing, not uniting the country.
Gingrich’s full text is translated below.
After watching the tidal wave of elite left-wing media coverage of President Biden’s inauguration, I waited to see someone analyze the interesting differences between his inaugural address and his actions as a new official.
I thought his speech was very good. The new president promised unity, rapprochement and the search for common ground. It was a classic American speech of bipartisanship and expressions of goodwill. Biden said he would reach out to all, work with all, and be a president for Americans, not just Democrats.
His speech reminded me of President Obama’s first inaugural address. In fact, I felt the same way about Biden’s speech as I did about Obama’s: If this president keeps his word and does what he says, he will divide the Republican Party and his entire presidency will represent the will of the majority of Americans.
Of course, President Obama didn’t do that. He quickly fell to the left, losing his majorities in the House and Senate. Judging from President Biden’s first few days in office, he is playing out the same script as Obama.
Just hours after Biden’s remarkable inaugural address, he signed 17 executive orders in the White House, more than a dozen of which completely contradicted his promised position of bipartisanship, unity and the search for common ground.
Instead, he set out to discard everything President Trump has done and erase everything Trump has accomplished, no matter how much it has benefited Americans or how much support it has received from Americans.
We can start with immigration, an issue that has divided this country deeply for so long. President Biden immediately rescinded President Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the wall and additional security at the southern border.
Biden did so at a Time when a caravan of 6,000 to 8,000 people from Honduras was heading to the United States with the intention of entering.
Democrats and the elite left-wing media now hate the border wall. But 77 percent of Republicans support the wall, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll in 2019 for the American Road and Transportation Builders Association and the American Public Transportation Association.
Where’s the bipartisanship in that?
President Biden rescinded his predecessor’s executive order that prohibited the number of illegal immigrants counted by state census bureaus from being included in determining the number of Congressional and Electoral College votes.
While no poll results have been seen on this particular issue, a Hill-HarrisX poll in July 2019 found that 55 percent of Americans support adding a question asking about citizenship to the census. The question is still being heard in the courts.
President Biden also rescinded another of President Trump’s executive orders that made it easier for law enforcement agencies to deport illegal aliens, including those who broke the law unrelated to their immigration status.
According to a November 2019 Pew Research poll, “On the importance of increasing deportations of illegal immigrants, the American public is split pretty closely on both sides, with 54 percent saying it is very important and 45 percent saying it is not too important or not at all important.”
Again, where is the common ground? It wasn’t even discussed.
In another example, Biden said the U.S. would rejoin the World health Organization without conditions. The WHO is still controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and continues to lie for the CCP about the origin of the New Coronavirus (CCP virus).
According to a November Pew Research Center survey, 86 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Americans believe in the WHO, while only 27 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning people believe the WHO is reliable. Nonetheless, the Biden Administration has not engaged us in dialogue, thoughtfulness or compromise. The United States will turn to the left.
President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement was certainly inevitable. According to a YouGov poll in November, 57 percent of Republicans opposed it on party lines.
Ironically, the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement go far beyond what the United States has achieved. Because we have shifted to natural gas instead of coal, our carbon emissions are now significantly lower than they were even before President Obama joined the agreement. No other country in the world has reduced its environmental impact as dramatically as the United States has. But that only matters if you focus on the reality and not the symbolism.
President Biden also canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, a plan to bring oil from Canada to the United States. This is a completely divisive decision. The pipeline is also a key part of President Trump’s plan to keep the U.S. energy autonomous. But the left didn’t like the pipeline, so it was canceled.
Also, President Biden ended President Trump’s travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries because they lacked proper security. (There was never a “Muslim ban” as the left claims. Those seven countries do not represent the entire Muslim world.) Furthermore, why lift the travel ban on unstable countries during a plague pandemic?
As the last of many examples, President Biden abolished the 1776 Commission, which is at the heart of the debate over our national identity.
The left argues, almost theologically, that America cannot be great, and that men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson can never be considered to have made significant contributions to our history.
The left believes that every American should reflect on themselves with the New York Times’ “1619 Project. It has rewritten American history around slavery and erased the work of almost everyone who participated in drafting the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence or winning the American Revolution.
Now, all of this should not be a reason to wish for the failure of President Biden. Unless you have lost your sanity, every American should want the president of the United States to succeed. If the president fails to succeed, America will be in trouble.
This should be seen as a challenge to Biden to make sure he does what he says he will do.
So far, I see that the new president is talking about unity and calling on all of us to work together, but I wonder who exactly he thinks “we” are?
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