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At the same time the Hartford Courant printed its story, “Should President Biden drop re-election bid? What CT leaders are hearing from residents,” the Wall Street Journal printed a 2,500 word story, “How Biden’s Inner Circle Worked to Keep Signs of Aging Under Wraps,” detailing how Democrat Party operatives covered up President Joe Biden’s infirmities during the last few years. The infirmities, it would appear, were hidden in plain sight and could not have been suppressed without the eager cooperation of the nation’s pro-Biden media.
With the advent of the first Biden-Trump presidential
debate, the corpse under the bed was publicly exposed, and it became nearly
impossible to defend Biden’s nationally displayed infirmities by the usual
tricks of the political trade.
A crowd of neo-progressive Democrat world saviors in the
U.S. Congress threw up their hands in despair, shrugged their collective
shoulders, or simply refused to acknowledge that a masterful attempt to snuff
reasonable dissent had been for more than two years, in Sherlockian terms,
afoot.
The Wall Street Journal story mentioned above will no doubt
be made available to Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators, Dick Blumenthal and Chris
Murphy, by trembling campaign staff members now that they have returned to
Washington D.C. following their Fourth of July holiday break.
Both senators are quoted at length in the Courant story.
The coming week Blumenthal said, would be critical “as top
leaders and rank-and-file senators consult each other with urgency in
‘continuing intense conversations’ about Biden’s future.” And, he added,
“President Biden seems to be unequivocally and unalterably committed to
continue, and I support him as the Democratic candidate. He has embarked on
events to reassure Democrats who may be doubting whether he should continue.
Very obviously, he hasn’t persuaded a number of them, but he has enough time to
quell the doubts if he does it effectively.”
For his part, “In an ABC News interview on Friday, Biden
scoffed at questions about whether he was up to the job and said he would step
aside only if the ‘Lord Almighty’ asked him to. He has also played down the
opposition in his party to him staying in the race. On Monday, he dismissed
what he described as pushback from ‘elites in the party.’”
The Lord Almighty, it should be pointed out, is not a member
in good standing of the U.S. Congress.
To put the matter briefly, Biden and close family members
have decided to tough it out in the hope that the Lord Almighty will not call
him to his bosom before the Democrat National Convention in Chicago selects him
as their Party’s presidential nominee. That would be to spoil a good show in which
some forlorn Democrats imagine they will be able to vote in November for a
candidate less frail and medically impacted than Biden.
Chris Murphy, Connecticut’s Junior U.S. Senator, operating
in Blumenthal’s long shadow is, as usual, on script. In answer to the question
– “Should or should not Biden step down from the presidency owing to
infirmities evident to everyone but the Democrat National Committee?” – both
senators are poignantly non-committal. Both prefer, like Biden, that the Lord
Almighty, and perhaps Biden’s wife and son, should decide the issue, which is what
it ever has been in politics throughout history – who rules?
The highly credentialed Blumenthal graduated from Harvard
University, where he was chair of The Harvard Crimson, studied for a year at
Trinity College, Cambridge, before attending Yale Law School, where he was
editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Blumenthal jumped, not at all hastily, into
politics, where he has remained untouchable ever since. He is, Wikipedia tells
us, “one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, with a net worth over $100
million. He was Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011.”
Blumenthal was also a summer intern for the Washington Post
in its London Bureau. His stints in journalism have served him well during his
40-year political career, as may be seen from his statement on the question of
the day: Do you think Biden should run or retire?
“He [Biden] can be advised and even cajoled,” Blumenthal
told the Courant, “but he knows his own mind, and he’ll have to make the
decision about who can best beat Donald Trump — and that is the goal that
unites him and everyone in the party.”
The left of center media in both the nation and Connecticut romance
Blumenthal not only because he is a brother in arms politically but also
because he talks like them in an obscure journalize instantly recognizable by
anyone on the left who devours New York Times editorials at the breakfast
table.
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