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The White House’s newest economic catchphrase to blunt the force of a potential recession in 2023 is to tell the American people that it is not “inevitable.” On Sunday, members of President Joe Biden’s team told the establishment media four separate times that inflation is not inevitable, despite polling and data that suggest a probability of recession.

This "Time of Great Uncertainty". "These Uncertain Times". Notice how this terminology is ubiquitous now? It's everywhere. Last night there were earthquakes and the local news opened with that story. The anchor says, in this time of Great Uncertainty there have been a series of earthquakes. Then the commercials. Hyundai does a commercial for their car, says "in these uncertain times". Next it's Sprint, again, "in these uncertain times".

The Oral Minority A reader called our attention to a pair of strangely similar quotes from Democratic senators. On March 5, North Dakota's Byron Dorgan said of President Bush's Social Security ideas, ''This is a big wet kiss to Wall Street." Then, last Thursday, Nevada's Harry Reid, the minority leader, said of Majority Leader Bill Frist's filibuster compromise, "It's a big wet kiss to the far right." We found several other examples of liberals referring to their opponents' actions as "wet kisses": h Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias,' by an C. Andersonthe conservative think tank the Manhattan...