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| Blumenthal mock swear in by Biden |
Be Bold, be bold, but not too bold,
Lest that your heart's blood should run cold– From Mr. Fox, an
English Fairy Tale
Joe Biden spent most of his presidential campaign hunkered down in his basement -- not, one supposes, because he was inordinately shy or a political amateur.
His press unavailability both amused and alarmed the twitchy anti-Trump media. Was Biden, 79 years old, a professional politician for 48 years, dancing on the edge of senility, or was his absent-without-leave campaign shrewd politics?
Others supposed, for reasons never clearly articulated, that Biden, who seemed, even when reading from a teleprompter, disturbingly disoriented, feared to engage the bomb throwing Trump in a mano a mano confrontation or, worse, a twitter contest. At this point, Trump had not yet been banned from major public platforms.
Or perhaps Biden’s mysterious handlers – Who are they? – feared that the mainstream media might feel obliged to trap Biden in a blitz bog, as they had done with Trump. In any case, the Biden directorate did not then want to draw unwelcomed attention to a general incompetence that seemed obvious whenever Biden went dangerously off script.
Biden has been with us now for nine months as President, and the formerly sympathetic media is beginning to suspect that the President is a man who brings his basement with him wherever he goes. The prime directive of an alert media is: You can run and hide in a campaign, but you cannot ever rule and hide. Dark policy consequences cast long shadows.
The American media has always insisted that politicians should own the predictable consequences of their policies. The bolder the policies, the more consequential the consequences. And boldness alone is never enough to recommend a defective policy: The chief menaces of the 20th Century – Hitler, Stalin and Mao – were bold, too bold.
In his haste to devalue the Trump presidency, the Biden administration and its chief shakers and movers, prominent among them Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, have instituted an open borders policy that seriously backfired. Claiming he was bound by a prior Trump understanding with the Taliban in Afghanistan, a massive white lie, Biden abjectly surrendered to the Taliban both Afghanistan and an important watchtower, the heavily reinforced Bagram Air Force Base, thus ending a 20 year presence in a country that boarders Iran, Pakistan and China. The Biden administration has boldly boosted taxation and permanent, long-term spending beyond all reasonable bounds, threatened to pack the U.S. Supreme Court, and obsequiously deferred in its domestic policy-making to progressives with knives in their brains such as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad” of socialist malcontents, some of whom are virulent anti-Semites.
Lately, the anti-Israeli Squad has claimed responsibility for having removed from the obscenely distended U.S. budget money necessary to sustain Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, in essence disarming Israel -- as Biden had disarmed the Afghan Army of support and intelligence -- at a time when Iran supported anti-Israeli terrorist groups had for months been pummeling the country with rockets.
A few weeks ago, Biden received a bit of pushback from Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, who thought the Biden administration was insufficiently enthusiastic in rescuing both Americans and Afghans who had for 20 years supported an American effort to keep at bay the Taliban wolf. But, as everyone knows, appearances in politics may be deceiving, precisely in proportion as they are self-serving. And, of course, a continuing Afghan problem may torment the Biden administration well into the next presidential election. Republican challengers already are chomping at the bit.
Blumenthal and Connecticut’s Junior U.S. Senator Chris Murphy likely will drift to the right well before their reelection efforts in order to capture a floating minority – moderate Democrats – within their own party. Politicians tend to become less bold as elections approach.
Blumenthal’s spat with his chief on the matter of rescuing Americans and their Afghan helpers from an incompetent terrorist state is simply a hairline fissure, not a full break. Both Blumenthal and Murphy appear to support certain measures that the Democrat left has dangled enticingly before an increasingly immoderate – bold, shall we say? – postmodern Democrat Party, including unsustainable spending and the usual political propaganda that has for years increased the nation’s tax and spend arc, until the U.S. economy almost certainly will come to grief in a productivity crushing recession.
The same administration that claimed generals in the Pentagon had not warned the administration that a precipitous withdrawal of all American troops from Afghanistan would result in a complete and rapid deterioration of the American supported Afghan Army is now claiming that massive spending proposals improbably will not cost the Coronavirus ravaged Middle Class a single penny.
Competence polls show Biden dipping dangerously below water, and Blumenthal has never been a politician who enjoys getting wet his expensive – but not for him -- Christian Louboutin Greggo Men's Lace-Up Leather Dress Shoes.
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