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As the 2024 elections begin to unfold, it may be worthwhile to issue a brief bill of particulars that explains why Joe Biden is the worst president in living memory.
Biden became president on January 2021. Hidden in his
bunker, out of reach of probing reporters, nearly everyone supposed that he
would be a moderate Democrat president. Very quickly, he turned out to be a
progressive with his hair aflame determined to undo everything that former
President Donald Trump had done while in office.
Biden quickly – some say too quickly -- withdrew all
American troops from Afghanistan, leaving behind Afghanis who had supported the
US military during what the New York Times was pleased to call “the nation’s
longest war,” an undetermined number of U.S. citizens, an important airbase,
and millions of dollars in military hardware.
The Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group, rushed in where angels
formerly had feared to tread following the swift withdrawal of U.S.
intelligence support. They soon prevented Afghani women from attending school
or participating in the economic life of their communities, rewrapping them in burkas
without causing undue alarm among feminist freedom fighters in the Western free
world. If there had been only one Oriana
Fallaci among them, the Taliban would have been bathed in bathtubs of
vituperative printer’s ink.
Biden declared war on fossil fuels, particularly fracking, frustrated
successful developments in the production of natural gas, began to issue the
usual Democrat folderol about rich oil companies plundering pristine and defenseless
nature, while mega-energy producers were accumulating obscene profits. The
progressive President – and progressive Connecticut as well -- invested in
windmills and electric cars. The result of all this political pottering in the
energy market was an intolerable spurt in gas prices, a shortage of energy, and
the suppression of a robust post-COVID recovery.
Biden pumped up spending at a time when a wolfish inflation
was pawing the door, leading eventually to a doubling in the price of eggs, not
to mention the price of energy. Running low on fossil fuel, Biden plundered emergency
oil reserves, while the nation’s real natural gas reserves remained untouched
beneath our feet. Critics began muttering – Hey there, how about tapping our underground
reserves, rather than begging for dirty oil on our knees from Saudi Arabia or
South American communist states such as Nicolás
Maduro’s Venezuela.
Vladimir Putin, Czar of all the Russia, declared war on
Ukraine. It was what the generals might call an asymmetric war – all defensive
on Ukraine’s part, all offensive on Putin’s part.
Slowly, so as not to upset Putin, hinting from day one that
the United States might provoke a nuclear war should it aid Ukraine effectively,
Biden and the Pentagon generals began to supply Ukraine with some effective
defensive weapons, prudently holding off on fighter jets. When U.S. Senator
Dick Blumenthal demanded, nearly a year ago now, that the United States should
supply Ukraine with fighter jets, this writer marveled at his courage. “It
was,” he wrote, “Blumenthal’s finest hour.” Here at last was a senator who
fully understood that never in world history had a country prevailed under such
asymmetric circumstances. A little more than a year into the war, Ukraine is
still waiting for Blumenthal’s jets.
Biden punched holes into an already porous border, and the
illegal hordes, ferried across the Rio Grande by non-privileged, non-white
coyotes, came and came and came and came. They continue to cross an under-defended,
imaginary border at rates large enough to fund their enterprise. China, a
permanent enemy of the United States, is the primary country of origin for
illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United
States, according to reliable Security Review Commission reports.
Biden’s wild spending has caused a wild inflation that has
considerably reduced the value and purchasing power of the dollar. That is why
even though salaries have increased in Biden’s spendthrift administration,
personal assets have diminished. The rate of inflation continues to be greater
than salary increases.
Even CNN, no Trump cheerleader, has
chided Biden on his transparently false claims concerning debt and the traditional
political bad habit of using statistics to buttress questionable claims needed
to re-elevate Biden to the White House in January 2025 where, no doubt, he will
continue to demonstrate to the nation the truth of a quip attributed to
Benjamin Disraeli: “There are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies, and
statistics.”
Most recently,
Politico reported “Biden
may not run — and top Dems are quietly preparing: The president
no longer seems absolutely certain to go for a second term, leaving the party,
his top aides and potential candidates unsure about [2024] and very quietly
mulling plan B.”
As Biden stumbles forward, Plan B – whatever that may be –
begins to sound more and more like a plan.
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