CLAY: The number-one talking point now of Democrats: I want to you to listen to this montage, Buck, of the White House’s latest catchphrase, which is recession is not inevitable. Biden said it today at Rehoboth Beach. We played this in the first hour. Everybody is trying to sell this idea that the recession, which I believe has already started, I think you do as, “Well, it’s not inevitable, guys.”

YELLEN: I don’t think a recession is at all — at all inevitable.

GRANHOLM: Inflation obviously is happening globally. A recession is not inevitable.

DEESE: Not only is a recession not inevitable but I think that a lot of people are underestimating of those strengths and the resilience of the American economy.

BUCK: These people are delusional.

CLAY: That’s the talking point. They’re gonna try to make speak into truth what is not true, and if you challenge it — like we had Joe Biden had earlier today; he snapped at the reporter that they were not sharing factual truth by suggesting that a recession seemed like it was gonna happen, basically.

BUCK: Not only do we live in a society now where one part of the ideological spectrum — Democrats, the left — get very aggressive about making everybody affirm what is untrue, right? — “Say this thing that is untrue or else” — we also live at a time where, as you can see, they never admit that they were wrong. I mean, clearly spending about $2 trillion a year ago or, you know, more than a year ago now, 15 months ago was a catastrophically bad idea for the economy.

They called it the American Rescue Plan, remember? Joe Biden the whole year was bragging about how great it was, how it saved so many people. Catastrophically bad for the economy, a lot of pain being felt, and all these other issues we talk about — I mean, covid is the one that comes the most to mind for me because they were so certain and they were so wrong. No one ever says, “I’m sorry; I got it wrong.”

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: You know? No one ever says, “I shouldn’t have forced upon you my beliefs via government because I was actually way ahead of where the facts may have been at that time,” and now we’re all suffering as a result. ‘Cause that’s where we are. We are suffering because of bad Democrat ideas as a country. This isn’t happenstance. This isn’t just something that is occurring right now. People made — in power positions — bad decisions, and that’s what has led to the current…you name it. Fill in the blank with anything that’s really troubling you at a national level right now.

CLAY: And we cannot get fast enough to the midterms. Buck, I don’t know about you. I look at the calendar, and I think to myself all the time, “Are we going to be in a spot where the Democrats are able to ram through another spending bill, another tax-related attempt to change the tax codes?” My concern is the answer is “yes,” but every single day that ticks away without them effectively being able to accomplish something, to me, is a win for the American economy, a win for the American people, a win for sanity. I’m hopeful that basically Republicans can run out the clock ’cause every single Republican needs to hold up their hand, given where we are with inflation, and say, “No more. We cannot allow this to continue to occur.”