March 31, 2022 at 12:33 p.m.
America, we've got a problem
America, we've got a problem
Our nation is facing its greatest challenge to survival in a long time. People are scared. They are scared to go to the grocery store or to the gas station. Every day they are worried they might die or that life may never return to normal.
Every morning, Americans awake, worried that another wave might be upon us, and, just about every day, our worst fears are confirmed.
Yes, for sure, the pandemic known as the Biden presidency has taken us all into uncharted waters. The infirmities that allowed Biden to be captured by the progressive left are wreaking economic havoc coast-to-coast, from record inflation to lost investments and jobs. Wages are under water compared to cost of living; the middle class is dying.
The latest "wave" of the pandemic known as Biden is the unprecedented number of reckless gaffes the president has made right in the middle of the Ukraine-Russia-U.S. proxy war. How many has it been now in just a week?
We've lost count. The latest is a gaffe made trying to clean up a previous gaffe. Last week the president seemingly told American soldiers that they were headed for Ukraine.
Oops, that needed a clean-up because we've been told there will be no boots on the ground in Ukraine. So this week the president said that, when he told the soldiers "when you're there," he actually was "talking about helping train the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland. ... I was referring to being with, and talking with, the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland."
Problem is, the administration had previously said we were not helping train Ukrainian troops in Poland. So the White House had to clean that mess up by saying the troops Biden talked to were merely "interacting" with Ukrainians, not training them.
Does anybody ever wonder why the White House press corps never gets tired of being served baloney for lunch?
Anyway, the clear winner of the week was Biden's call for regime change in Russia while standing right near the Russian border. He's lucky he didn't get a Russian missile right up the old bazooka, but it was provocative nonetheless.
It's all needless and reckless and hostile. And yes, sad to say, hostility and anger have become the very persona of this president. This is certainly not the Joe Biden many in Washington say they once knew, but it is characteristic of those in serious cognitive decline.
The White House has cleaned up so many Biden accidents this week it needs a diaper changing rebate app. Yes, those exist, but we digress.
The bottom line is, we have a problem. All joking aside, Joe Biden's cognitive decline is front and center on the world stage, and anybody who still tries to dismiss it is delusional or sinister.
None of this is meant to embarrass or ridicule the president. As he is often wont to do, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul put it best this week that concern over the president's mental condition has become an urgent matter of national security.
"A lot of times when you're around somebody who's in cognitive decline, you find yourself trying to help them with a sentence, trying to help them complete it - but we shouldn't have to do that for the commander-in-chief," Paul said. "And, it is actually a national security risk because he's sending signals that no one in their right mind would want to send to Russia at this point. We aren't trying to replace Putin in Russia. We aren't trying to have regime change. We're not sending troops into Ukraine, and we're not going to respond in kind with chemical weapons."
Obviously, it is Joe Biden who has become a grave threat to U.S. security interests - not that he wants to be but he is - and he should no longer be in office, all things being equal.
All things being equal, instead of writing talking points for him, his handlers should be writing a letter of resignation and urging him to sign it. They won't, of course.
And again, all things being equal, the vice-president and the cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office if he won't resign, as some have suggested. But they won't. Or at least they won't until something catastrophic happens. Maybe they are hoping they can muddle through.
The problem is, all things are not equal. To be sure, Biden has more than half his term left, and with each passing day the problem becomes more visible and more dangerous. But Biden's departure would do nothing to make us sleep better at night, for it is truly unnerving to contemplate the fact that, behind Biden, the presidency goes to Kamala Harris and then to next-in-line Nancy Pelosi.
You can see what a gigantic mess we're in, and the country, with heart-felt buyers' remorse, knows it. That's why Donald Trump has opened up a six-point lead over Biden in the latest Harvard-Harris poll, perhaps his biggest lead ever in any poll. Because polls always understate Trump's support, it's likely double digits.
That's just a snapshot, we know, but it is indicative of the unease the country is feeling in foreign policy, and the pain it is feeling because of Biden's domestic policies.
At least in the midterms, we can elect a Republican Congress - and it should be a tsunami - and get the domestic disaster at least partly under control. Foreign policy is trickier, especially with neoconservatives in control at the State Department.
For now all we can hope for is that saner heads and more competent minds prevail. And hope we can survive until the vaccine known as the 2024 presidential election arrives.
Meanwhile, this past month, Biden's mouth rolled on. Last month, he said he and our American allies were talking "about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food shortages," and, as for the nation's opioid addiction crisis, the president wants us to know that "we're doing very little about it, especially our children and fentanyl being laced with them."
No, not going to be sleeping at night any time soon. But is anybody in the administration worried?
Maybe new HUD secretary Marcia Fudge was when Biden introduced her as Marcia Fudd, as Howie Carr has reported. Maybe the Squad was he called Rep. Pramila Jayapal "Pamela." Or Madeline Albright might have been worried, if she were alive, when Biden referred to her as "the woman who died."
So far, perhaps fearful of the answer, the White House press corps has refrained from asking Biden his own name. For once we don't condemn them. Nobody wants to hear him tackle that one.
Like we said, America, we have a problem. While the coronavirus political pandemic has done extraordinary damage to our nation, it's nothing compared to the pandemic that no American can escape: the Biden presidency.
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