I really am flummoxed by the ineptitude of Joe Biden and his Chief of Staff, Ron Klain. Biden has been a Washington politician for half a century, including eight years as Vice President and before that a senior senator. Ron Klain is a consummate Washington insider, having worked for Janet Reno, Al Gore, Joe Biden, and others.
How are they this inept?
Last summer, the border got swamped with illegal immigrants. They sent Kamala Harris south of the border and the situation never improved. Having seen what the summer monsoon of illegals season is, they are preparing for the expiration of Title 42. Overnight came word the White House is divided on this.
But, and this is a big but, the pandemic is receding. Title 42 can be deployed as a healthcare power so long as the pandemic is at the forefront. With a receding pandemic, Title 42 has to go away. It’s only a matter of time before some enterprising Trump judge scraps it to exacerbate the political problems for Biden.
Here’s the thing — how are we in April of 2022 in a midterm election and the White House clearly has no plan to deal with the surge of illegal immigrants and expiration of Title 42? Their own polling shows this issue is pushing Hispanic voters to the GOP and they’ve got nothing.
They were caught flatfooted on Ukraine too. They knew the Russians would invade and they were caught flatfooted in helping Ukraine.
How are they this inept?
Then there’s the mask issue. They could have let it expire a few weeks ago and taken the credit. Instead, a federal judge in Florida threw it out. Then Joe Biden himself said people should have the choice whether they want to wear a mask or not. Less than six hours later, his administration decided to appeal to get the mask mandate reinstated. But they are not going to ask for its immediate reinstatement. Instead, they’re going to ask for the authority to be able to reimpose it in the future.
So, in other words, he could have canceled it a few weeks ago, rendered the court case moot, preserved the power to reimpose it, and taken credit for its end. But Biden and Klain did not.
How are they this inept?
Between the border and the masks, they really have no plans for governing. They have just decided to perpetuate the status quo of their own doing hoping something shakes out. They are careening from crisis to crisis, two clowns in bumper cars colliding with crises of their own creation.
The best they have going now are the Biden leg humper like John Harwood of CNN lamenting that really Biden is a victim of circumstance unable to control anything. And that is not much of a defense.
How are they this inept?
Given Biden’s past ineptitude’s, this should come as a surprise to nobody. If the corrupt corporate media did its job in the summer and fall of 2020, we wouldn’t be here. Trump, for all his faults, should have and would have won in a landslide. Other than the hysterical news media that distorted everything Trump said snd did during the height of the pandemic, history will prove he actually handled the pandemic quite well while balancing the economic needs of the country. Biden and his entire administration is just horrible.
I had someone try to tell me inflation today is because of the 2008 financial crisis. It's not Biden's fault.
It is amazing that Democrats are victims of circumstances, outside forces they have no control over including the actions of the previous Republican President, be it 1 year ago or 8. If not for all these outside forces we would have the greatest economy ever with peace in our time.
Oh, but Republican Presidents are fully capable of controlling the world and causing damage, and Democrats, when Republicans control the White House or the Senate or the House, can do better... except when they win they are haples victims, nothing bad is their doing.
I remember Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank bowling out telling a contestant the difference between success and failure is how long you feel sorry for yourself after something goes wrong.
Liberalism is a mental illness. Projecting failures of your own design on to others. Talking about what happens to you and not talking about your own behavior.
Money quote...
"They are... clowns in bumper cars colliding with crises of their own creation."