Right now, our Commander in Chief is not in command. The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader.
Sen. Katie Britt (GOP rebuttal)
According to President Biden’s media allies, he exhibited “vigor and stamina” Thursday night. As if voters think screaming scripted talking points and talking for 68 minutes turned the Biden administration into Camelot. Hip to the charade, Donald Trump effused that “he got through it, he is still breathing, and they didn’t have to carry him out in a straight jacket.”
Too bad Biden fumbled his two ad lib moments; opening with “if I were smart, I’d go home now” (hopefully, Delaware), and later claiming “Lincoln Riley” was “killed by an illegal.” Laken’s mother called Biden “pathetic – he doesn’t even know my daughter’s name” (he’d been handed a button with L-A-K-E-N spelled correctly).
Can Democrats just admit this president is a horrible orator. He stared into the cameras with his angry old man face, sped through key details, yelled out banal facts, and made key points with that creepy whisper. Twitter-X lit up with posters comparing the President to their senile grandparents. Did I tell you my grandson is (yell) FIFTEEN YEARS OLD?
Sadly, Democrats rose to cheer the President’s many socialist promises, despite those give-aways spiking the national debt’s rate of increase, which is to 2024 what inflation was to 1980. The national debt is now $34.5 trillion, and the federal deficit is $1.9 trillion – because Washington will collect $4.7 trillion and spend $6.6 trillion in 2024. This is the Misery Index that Democrats should be watching, because it impact’s America’s standard of living.
Start with today’s high interest rates, which are not helped by excessive government borrowing, and the fragility of a government that’s now paying $766 billion in interest on the national debt. The US government spent $5 trillion on COVID and $4 trillion (inflation adjusted) on World War II. If today’s proxy wars turn into world war against the China-Iran-Russia axis, what’s left at the end (assuming we win)?
Right now, Social Security is a $26.6 trillion unfunded liability that doles out $1.4 trillion annually, Medicare is a $40.8 trillion unfunded liability that doles out $1.7 trillion annually, and Joe Biden thinks the US economy is “the envy of the world” (now we know who misplaced the cocaine in the White House). Yes, inflation is still an issue, but who’ll care about the prices at Five Guys after their government is forced to make Social Security and Medicare cuts?
Biden’s SOTU speech was more politician than statesman, because he led with his re-election talking points – January 6 and abortion – trashed his “predecessor” 18 times, and hit Republican legislators with scripted taunts. He lost me by conflating his anti-Trump proclamations with FDR’s 1941 “wake up” call to Hitler’s “threat to democracy and freedom.” Look at your poll numbers, Joe!
ABC News reports 86% of Americans think Biden is “too old” to serve another term, meaning he’s running against old age. Reading from a teleprompter for 68 minutes – and coughing all night – won’t change that race. In the Real Clear Politics betting average, Biden is 13 points behind Trump, who said the incumbent suffers from “Trump derangement syndrome: angry, mentally disturbed, and misrepresenting a lot of facts” (source: Fox News).
Biden’s job disapproval polls at 57.4% on the economy and 62.5% on inflation, so he bragged that his 14.8 million “new jobs” were the “most ever” Thursday. FactCheck.org reports COVID cost 20.5 million jobs in April 2020. Of those, 11.1 million returned under Trump, and 9.1 million under Biden; meaning Biden has created 5.7 million NEW jobs, far less than 9.8 million created in Jimmy Carter’s one term – and how’d that turn out?
Political pundits have forever proclaimed a re-election is a referendum on the incumbent, and Biden has broken his three big 2020 promises. He promised bipartisanship, but blamed and taunted Republican legislators all night. He promised to restore dignity to the presidency, but – for the first time ever – dissed the seated Supreme Court justices. He promised to return normalcy to America, but created an immigration crisis for which two-thirds of voters dislike him.
Across town, the RNC’s new leadership explained how they were going to prevent a repeat of 2020; get out the vote and protect the ballot. To offset 23.4 million Black Christians the DNC courts in election years, the RNC plans to turn out 47.7 million White Evangelicals (numbers from USCB). That’s huge, and armies of Republican lawyers will be eyeing red flag voting and ballot-counting centers in battleground states.
Still, the DNC is trying to sell a shoddy product to repeat buyers, and Biden’s Four More Years performance left a lot to be desired. It’s this simple: take away the teleprompter and make Biden respond to journalists and Trump, let both parties lawyer up and turn out their base, and it comes down to policies and positions. Suddenly, Biden looks old and in the way.
