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A former top aide to President Jimmy Carter says the Biden administration is "reminiscent of reliving" the tumultuous years in the former president’s administration. Les Francis, who served as the White House deputy chief of staff during the Carter administration, said President Biden seems unable to "catch a break" amid the chaotic, crisis-ridden first year of his term. Francis added that the current socio-political storm swirling around Biden reminds him of living through the craziness of the Carter administration.

What Joe Biden should have learned from Jimmy Carter © Getty Images The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has concluded, accompanied by a refrain that the 20-year American troop deployment represented the nation’s “longest war” — a conflict seen by President Biden as far too long and costly for results that, had the commitment continued, might have secured a stalemate at best. But as the post mortem over the president’s decision continues, it’s worth remembering that this is not the first time a newly-elected president has bucked the consensus of the national security establishment in an effort to end an extended...

The victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan, along with the sometimes-chaotic withdrawal of American forces from that country, has produced a gusher of conservative commentary comparing President Joe Biden to his 1970s Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. "This is Joe Biden's Jimmy Carter Moment" the New York Post declared. "He is like Jimmy Carter on acid," Meghan McCain, the former TV host, announced on Twitter. The conservative Washington Examiner had two different columnists connect the legacies of Biden and Carter in recent weeks, but that was restrained compared to the Wall Street Journal, where opinion pieces identifying Biden-Carter similarities have become...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. Nodding to Carter’s decades of work as a globe-trotting humanitarian but with a glaring reminder of his landslide defeat in 1980, the backhanded compliment rankles Carter allies and, they say, the former president himself. Yet now, 40 years removed from the White House, the most famous resident of Plains, Georgia, is riding a new wave of attention as biographers, filmmakers, climate activists and Carter’s fellow Democrats push to recast his presidential legacy, even as Republicans sometimes try to remind voters of the volatile economy...

Former "View" co-host Meghan McCain doesn’t have a daytime talk show to spotlight her political views at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped her from slamming the Biden administration for the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan. "No press briefings from the Biden White House from the President or his staff. They’re all on vacation. He is like Jimmy Carter on acid and he and his team will be remembered in history worse than him," McCain tweeted Thursday. "Also anyone in the press want to to jump in on criticism of him in hiding?"

The utterly nauseating and unnecessary abandonment of Afghanistan to its fate recalls a similar humiliation at the hands of Islamist radicals in the Jimmy Carter administration. President Biden’s profligate spending policies are unleashing inflation that is sparking voter distrust so noticeable that even NPR is sounding the alarm. He is begging OPEC to come up with more oil while interfering with US production. He announced barely a month ago, with great confidence, “The Taliban is not the South — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. “There’s going to be no circumstance...

Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter are devoted fans of the PBS "NewsHour," the former president said in an interview that aired Monday evening. They watch the show every night, Carter told "NewsHour" host Judy Woodruff as he described the couple's news consumption. "We watch MSNBC and CNN pretty regularly," he added. They "don't watch Fox presentations very much," Carter said, nor do they "really become involved" in social media. "So we have a fairly good balance of the news coverage."

The young midshipman needed a date one evening while he was home from the U.S. Naval Academy, so his younger sister paired him with a family friend who already had a crush. Nearly eight decades later, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are still together in the same tiny town where they were born, grew up and had that first outing. In between, they’ve traveled the world as Naval officer and military spouse, American president and first lady, and finally as human rights and public health ambassadors. “It’s a full partnership,” the 39th president told The Associated Press during a joint interview...

The self-brainwashing of compulsory universal schooling (mis-education) makes the inmates of the insane asylum "from sea to shining sea" SELF-REGULATING, resolutely punishing independent-thinking people who want to live their own lives. When Jimmy Carter was exposed (Jimmy Carter Revealed, he's a Rockefeller Republican, Atlantic Monthly July 15, 1977, the night he won Georgia gubernator, he called up David Rockefeller's secretary to be groomed for higher office, the idea was that the intellectual grandchildren of Adolf von Harnack, who "disproved" biblical accounts of miracles, assume their secular-agnostic-atheist "Sunday School Teacher" play-role like the Walton's "Ma" (Michael Learned), so the "influential classes"...

Grover Norquist blasted President Biden for pushing for trillions in new spending while the U.S. faces surging gas prices and rising inflation, likening him to former President Jimmy Carter. Biden initially proposed his $4 trillion spending plan as an "investment in America," but Republicans have pushed back at the price tag. Norquist compared Biden's agenda to that of Jimmy Carter, who was president in the late 1970s when the U.S. was facing double-digit inflation and declining economic output, a scenario that spawned the term "stagflation."

Nixon was worried about trade deficits and a deteriorating balance of payments. He rejected the advice of Volcker, then treasury undersecretary, and the Fed chairman at the time, Arthur Burns. Instead, Nixon closed the gold window, meaning foreign governments could no longer exchange dollars for gold. The value of the greenback fell like a stone. So as the value of our currency declined, prices denominated in dollars sky-rocketed. We printed bad money and too much of it, and that’s the definition of inflation. Excess money in relation to demand will do it every time. Lack of value will do it...

Writing in the New York Post, Charles Gasparino warns, “The Biden administration keeps insisting inflation is ‘transient,’ but there are now real signs that inflation is here and possibly for the long haul.” “Thursday’s consumer price index increase of 5 percent year-on-year — its highest level in 13 years — is the latest and most visible piece of evidence that this scourge is making a comeback,” he adds.

Rep. Carter intended to vote against the $1.9 billion bill, but his proxy vote, which could have sunk the bill, wasn't counted. California Republican Rep. Ken Calvert "forgot" to cast a proxy vote on behalf of Texas Republican Rep. John Carter that would have sunk the $1.9 billion post-Jan. 6 supplemental security spending bill, Just the News has learned. Carter's letter granting authority to cast his vote by proxy to Calvert was submitted to the House clerk and accepted. Carter successfully voted by proxy Thursday on "the motion to recommit" that preceded the final vote on the supplemental security bill....

If there’s one guarantee in this life, aside from death and taxes, it’s that history really does have a fondness for repeating itself. Empires rise and fall, leaders come and go, and every now and then a president wins election only to find himself in over his head with the burden of the Oval Office. It’s happened twice now in my lifetime, first with Jimmy Carter and now with Joseph R. Biden. There has been a lot of discussion recently comparing the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter with the failing presidency of Joe Biden, but I will clue you in...

In a statement Wednesday, Donald Trump offered a tongue-in-cheek rejection of comparisons between President Biden and Jimmy Carter — saying Biden is in fact even worse. "I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter," Trump said. "Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has created crisis after crisis." In recent weeks, Republicans have compared Biden to Carter, who is viewed, particularly among Republicans, as an ineffective president whose travails ultimately caused him to lose reelection to Ronald Reagan.

Welcome back, Carter. Anyone want to party like it's 1979? Okay, at least in 1979 we weren't locked down, masked up, and socially distanced. But other than that, there wasn't much to celebrate. The economy was in the tank, inflation was rampant, gas lines were long, daubers were down, and no one in the White House knew what to do about any of it. A new term had to be coined for something thought impossible/oxymoronic..."stagflation." Yes, even as the economy was slowing down, inflation was rampant, an unprecedented pairing of economic indicators. And today? The economy is in the tank,...

Joe Biden hopes that acting like he’s competent will fool us into not seeing that his destructive incompetence has already saddled America with Jimmy Carter 2.0. All I know is this… Before His Fraudulency Joe Biden entered the Oval Office, peace was breaking out all over the Middle East, Russian adventurism in Ukraine was kept in check, the economy was prepared to boom, gas prices were reasonable, there were no inflation concerns, and we were vaccinating a million people a day and well on our way to herd immunity.

Greg Suskin @GSuskinWSOC9 This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same. 8:33 PM · May 10, 2021 6.6K 1.4K Share this Tweet The clip above is from South Carolina. The clip below is from the Florida-Georgia line. WCTV Eyewitness News @WCTV · May 10, 2021 ‘Disruption to fuel deliveries’ causing long lines at pump across Big Bend, South Georgia ‘Disruption to fuel deliveries’ causing long lines at pump across Big Bend, South Georgia Filling up your tank across...

America is in a funk, Gallup tells us. I can’t think why, let’s see if we can puzzle it out together:Hyperinflation headed our way, check.Joey and Janet managing the money supply might explain why cryptocurrencies are so hot right now.High unemployment, check.Because paying people not to work never fails to deliver.Gas lines forming to the right, check.And we didn’t even need any hostages this time to do it! Except us of course.Higher taxes headed our way, check. But not on you! Only on rich people. And corporations. How is this so hard for people to grasp?Looking like a ninny to...

Conservatives fired back on Friday after Twitter highlighted a tweet in which Donald Trump Jr. compared President Biden to former President Jimmy Carter, who served one term from 1977 to 1981, claiming it caused confusion. On Friday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "Biden isn’t the next FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] he’s the next Jimmy Carter."