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Biden In Brief
Biden in brief | Power Line
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By contrast with Peggy Noonan, to take a prominent example, Gerard Baker provides an unillusioned assessment of President Biden and Vice President Harris in his Wall Street Journal column “Biden Emerges as Progressive Government’s Mr. Bad Example.” There is no false hope, no sentimentality, no uplift, no gush or mush in his evaluation:
It’s not too harsh a judgment to say that this is a man who has risen to the top of American public life without a trace of accomplishment. When you’ve been in national politics for almost 50 years, you ought to have achieved something, if only by accident. But this journeyman politician, when he wasn’t getting almost all the big issues wrong, was largely a bystander. He is now a husk of a leader, a dangerously debilitated figure, who oscillates between displays of vacuous incoherence and weird, angry outbursts, like a confused old man at the wrong bus stop.
Meanwhile, a heartbeat and a spine-chilling cackle away from the presidency, is another living rebuke to the idea that government is virtuous and wise. Vice President Kamala Harris has demonstrated, evidently to the alarm of much of her own staff, that she is simply another of Mr. Biden’s many mistakes—perhaps the biggest one yet. It is a dismaying state of affairs that we must all pray nightly for the continued health of an inept president to avert the calamity of a worse one.
That is a bullseye.
Commentary:
Two paragraphs that capture exactly where we find ourselves as a nation. Failed, incompetent leadership. Elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
I have rarely read such poignant words. This is surgery and its starkness is its beauty. Biden? A "confused old man at the wrong bus stop". One could also add "and can't find the bathroom" but would it add anything to the picture? No. But the second wave of goosebumps is not even about the main subject but about one of his most important decisions. What ally of the West does not tremble and fully comprehend that "a heartbeat and a spine-chilling cackle away" is the venal and vanity of this already senile and impotent administration? How many said to themselves "how can it get worse?" only to be shown with that cruel cackle just how worse.
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