What Democrats Have Done to Our Country
President Joe Biden appears to be an old and enfeebled man who has no chance of meeting the demands of the Presidency for another four years. If Democrats are honest. Our enemies savoring the prospect of Biden II, reports the WSJ’s editorial board.
Say What?
Asked about Volodymyr Zelensky’s request that President Biden let Ukraine use U.S. weapons to strike targets inside Russia, Joe Biden responded:
We have allowed Zelensky to use American weapons in the near-term, in the near-abroad into Russia. Whether or not he has—we should be—he should be attacked—for example, should Zelensky—he’s not, but if he had the capacity to strike Moscow, strike the Kremlin, would that make sense? It wouldn’t.
The question is: What’s the best use of the weaponry he has and the weaponry we’re getting to him? I’ve gotten him more HIMAR—I got him more long-range capacity as well as defensive capacity.
And so, our military is worki—I’m following the advice of my commander in chief—my—my—of the—the chief of staff of the military as well as the secretary of Defense and our intelligence people. And we’re making a day-to-day basis on what they should and shouldn’t g—how far they should go in. That’s a logical thing to do.
The question on why Mr. Biden has restrained Kyiv from getting the weapons and employing a strategy that would help Ukraine prevail is not answered in Biden’s incomprehensible word salad. Mr. Zelensky doesn’t want to attack Moscow with U.S. weapons, argues the WSH.
(Zelensky) wants to attack its supply lines and missile bases in Russia’s south.
Neither the President nor his policy are going to get better in a second term.
Democratic election analyst Doug Sosnik usually surfaces every four years to assure Democrats they’re going to win. But this week he showed up in the New York Times to say Mr. Biden has only a single, narrow path to victory in the Electoral College.
To win, Mr. Biden must sweep all of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where he now trails. Surveys from some swing state show Trump moving outside the margin of error, reports the WSJ:
… (The President) must beat off Mr. Trump’s challenge in states that Republicans haven’t won in years but are now in play—New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, Maine and Virginia.
The Times now wants Mr. Biden to withdraw from the race, so the timing of Mr. Sosnik’s analysis is no accident.
Et Tu, Barack: More Revolts/Scheming
- What are Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi up to?
- Is Chuck Schumer having second thoughts as his Senate majority looks in jeopardy?
- The progressive press is in open revolt, with even the most slavishly partisan columnists saying Joe must go.
Many pundits, including the WSJ, have been saying that for the good of the country, Joe Biden has to go. “Er, persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race.”
But Democrats, blinded by their hatred for Mr. Trump, refused to acknowledge the truth about Mr. Biden’s manifest decline. They thought Mr. Trump was unelectable, or that Democratic prosecutions would surely take him out.
Mr. Biden is justified in resenting this brutal turn, since these same Democrats were complicit in his decision to run for a second term. They thought he was a useful figurehead as long as they thought he could win again. Only Dean Phillips, the Minnesota Congressman, was brave enough to tell the truth about Mr. Biden’s infirmity and run against him. The rest all covered for Mr. Biden’s cognitive decline until the debate made that impossible.
The Backstage Coup Accelerates
A younger Republican would be winning in a rout. This means Mr. Biden can point to some polls showing a still close race, and it may be why he’ll refuse to leave even as the panic and pressure from his fellow Democrats increase.
The Democrats did this to themselves, but the tragedy is they also did it to the country.
Joe Biden Withdrawing?
From American Greatness (19 June):
Joe Biden plans to announce his withdrawal from the presidential race as early as Saturday, but most likely on Sunday, longtime journalist Mark Halperin is reporting.
Joe Biden, reportedly, is not resigning from the presidency and is not endorsing Kamala Harris.
Instead, the state of play is an open convention with Harris and about three other top Democrats vying for the nomination. Harris is said to be vetting at least four possible running mates, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
Update:
Is This a Coup?
David Sacks, a Trump supporter, called Halperin’s report “a strategic leak designed to build momentum against President Biden, who doesn’t want to go.”
