DALLAS (Legal Newsline) - Republicans should be putting pressure on President Biden to wean European countries off of Russian energy and onto American liquid natural gas exports.
“This man is terrible at his job,” Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) said of Biden at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “He is so weak that if House and Senate Republicans don't seize this moment to put pressure on him and make him make decisions, then we have not done our job.”
Donalds made the remarks at the Dallas CPAC conference on Aug. 5 while participating in a panel discussion called Biden Has Cue Cards, We Have a Solution.
“We need to go back in time in time a bit and reinvigorate the energy that we actually taught the world how to create and that's nuclear power,” Donalds told a packed auditorium of conference-goers at the Anatole Hotel. “We need to actually expand our nuclear capabilities in the United States."
When moderator Mercedes Schlapp, a CPAC senior fellow, asked whether Biden is mentally fit to serve as president, Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX) quipped, “No and I don't think any of his cabinet is.”
Using cue cards as a cheat sheet during news briefings and traveling to Saudi Arabia to ask for oil are two Biden practices that Republicans have criticized in recent weeks.
“Nuclear power is actually greater than solar panels,” Donalds added. “It's greener than solar energy. It's greener and it's readily available. We can do that and it stops us from sending money to the Chinese. It stops us from having to buy uranium from the Russians.”
Williams further stated that operating electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations should be the job of the private sector, not the government.
“If the government owns the charging stations, they're going to get vandalized and they won't work,” he said. “EV vehicles are a rip-off.”
Although Republicans opposed it, the Senate approved some $750 billion in climate and energy funding that includes an improved electric car tax credit as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
“I'm in the car business for 51 years,” Williams added. “Nobody comes in and wants an EV. They don't ask for it and they have forced these manufacturers to go woke and they have gone for it. I'm talking about GM, Chrysler, Ford, and all the others. They have bid into this and they're not sellable. They are not going to be competitive.”