Today’s mixed bag leads to an interesting, and likely upsetting conclusion regarding Biden’s handling of his administration.
Yesterday morning, "Varney & Co." host Stuart Varney targeted Biden's performance during his "My Take" segment, arguing [the] presidency is on the "brink of failure" as the administration continues to stumble over important issues.
Varney said, “His failures are numerous. His successes, hard to find. His presidency, after only one year, is on the brink of failure.
“His speech on voting on Tuesday was widely bashed as divisive and insulting: he implied that anyone who disagrees with him is a racist! Even some Democrats thought it was over-the-top.”
Varney believes there are three key things to bear in mind at present.
“First, he's reeling from a 7% inflation rate, which wipes out wage gains. His administration has no clue what to do about it.
“Second, his approval rating has dropped to a shocking 33%. And this was from Quinnipiac - a reputable polling organization.
“Third: 8.4 million new Covid cases in the last month. A record 1.4 million Wednesday alone. His mandates and bullying have not "crushed" COVID as he said he would.
“It’s looking desperate. He has to persuade Senate Democrats to pass radical voting reform. He has to persuade them that it’s OK to ask for ID to get on a plane, but not to ask for ID to vote.”
All of which adds up to Varney’s conclusion: “His presidency is indeed on the brink of failure.”
Later in the day, during an interview with Joe Lonsdale on the American Optimist podcast about his new book, "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us," Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, said Twitter made a "mistake" in 2020 when it suppressed a New York Post bombshell that was highly critical of President Biden's son Hunter.
"I am not for having either the government, or you know, tech companies ultimately being the arbiter of truth," Khanna told Lonsdale. "I'm for making sure that we don't have speech that incites violence, but I'm very wary of censorship."
Likely to cover his tail, Khanna went farther "In the book, I write about how I thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of the stuff about Hunter Biden," he added. "I think that story was total hogwash. I think Joe Biden was unfairly attacked because of his son, but that doesn't mean that it didn't belong in the public sphere."
And then that evening, Laura Ingraham described on "The Ingraham Angle" how Biden had one of the worst weeks for a U.S. president since 1972.
“The Supreme Court struck down his vaccine mandate for American businesses, members of his own party in the Senate essentially blocked his and Sen. Chuck Schumer's wish to destroy the filibuster, he garnered 33 percent national approval in the latest Q-poll, and he appeared to believe "race-baiting" his opponents during a speech in Atlanta would cow Republicans into supporting federalization of election laws.”
Ingraham then quoted Senator Kyrsten Sinema who said this about the filibuster: "Demands to eliminate this threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon shouting that solution to their colleagues. I understand there’s some on both sides of the aisle."
"How embarrassing for Biden," Ingraham responded. "Think about this. This was made on the same day that he made a trip to Capitol Hill, and he has this urgency to move to kill the filibuster. And let's face it, when you’re at 33 percent in the polls like Joe Biden is, you’ve lost your influence."
"Without drastic changes, you’re basically a lame duck. And you could see where this is all headed. Congress is just going to start governing the country themselves."
Ingraham believes Biden indeed caused much of this chaos himself “by failing to stand up to the far left and instead endear himself to the media and activist leftist base.”
While increasing critical reportage on the president is to be expected from the other side, we now have a glimmer of unrest from an ally, Ro Khanna. Perhaps to test the water for feedback, perhaps the beginning of an adversarial wave.
Whatever may be going on among the Ro Khanna’s of the world notwithstanding, the Biden incompetence may be attracting something else. Just like the shark scenes in the movie Jaws, you can hear the tuba’s deep “bar-ump, bar-ump” playing softly in the background as you read Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made such an overt public reemergence during the past month that many top political observers are surmising she’s gunning for yet another crack at the presidency.”
Should another run occur for Bill Clinton’s wife, it will be another challenge here. During her last campaign, the major premise here was that without her husband, no one but Saul Alinsky would ever have become familiar with her name, so it was never used by myself. And then for more than a year, a negative item was found and posted here each day with no repetition, seven days a week.
That’s a mighty daunting test for a writer, but then, there’s a truly humongous amount to work with.
That’s it for today folks.
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