Posted on 12/17/2021 4:01:25 AM PST by Kaslin
As resident Joe Biden's poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word.
Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a "transitional president." He intends to run and win a second term.
Well, perhaps. Yet, skepticism abounds.
First, if Biden ran in 2024 and won, his second term would extend to January 2029, when he would be 86 years old. He is already, at 79, the oldest president in history. Does Biden look like a signal-calling quarterback with seven years of playing days ahead of him?
When one views his diminished mental capacities and the issues menu before him, it seems a certainty that we are not looking at a two-term president.
First, there is the pandemic.
With the death toll now exceeding 800,000, and the number of COVID-19 cases reaching 50 million, more Americans have died of the coronavirus under Biden than under former President Donald Trump. Over 1,000 Americans are being daily added to the death toll.
In a New York Post poll, approval of Biden's handling of the pandemic has already fallen from 69% on Inauguration Day to 53% today.
Another menu item is the economic crisis induced by the pandemic.
Inflation under Biden has soared to 6.8%, and at the Federal Reserve, there is talk of three interest rate hikes in 2022.
What does this mean? Not only are the prices of gasoline and groceries rising beyond the capacity of millions of families to pay, but for every $100,000 in cash savings of every Middle American family, nearly $7,000 will have been wiped out in Biden's first year.
And the Biden inflation is no longer spoken of as "transitory."
For his handling of inflation, Biden has an approval rating of 28%, with two-thirds of all Americans, 69%, disapproving of the job he is doing.
On the crime front, our major cities are now setting new records for shootings, stabbings, homicides and murders. Cable and TV news carry regular videos of "flash mobs" invading and looting downtown stores and fleeing before the police arrive.
In Biden's America, civilization itself seems to be breaking down.
How do the American people think Biden is handling crime?
As a Delaware senator in the 1990s, Biden was seen as a law-and-order Democrat who helped enact some of the toughest anti-crime and pro-cop legislation of the decade.
Yet, today, when even San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi is decrying the "smash-and-grab" mob attacks on her city's retail stores as reflecting an "attitude of lawlessness," 3 in 5 Americans, 61%, disapprove of how Biden is handling the crime issue.
On taking office, Biden discarded the Trump immigration policies that had held back the flood of illegal migrants into the country.
Now the southern border is bleeding as never before.
In Biden's first year, migrants have been crossing at a rate of close to 2 million a year. Scores of thousands of "got-aways" -- unknown homeland invaders who evade any contact with U.S. authorities -- have vanished into our population since Biden took office.
And they are coming now not only from Mexico and the Northern Triangle -- Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. They are coming from every continent and every country on earth. We are becoming what President Teddy Roosevelt warned America would become if it failed to manage its immigration well -- "a polyglot boarding house for the world."
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war," said Ernest Hemingway. "Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin."
Biden is going to have to negotiate a modus vivendi with Russia on Ukraine and China on Taiwan, after a Beijing-Moscow summit where Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that the two countries have established a relationship that "in its closeness and effectiveness ... even exceeds an alliance."
Eleven months from now, Biden faces congressional elections. Almost surely, they will cost him his majority in the House and leave him at year's end an 80-year-old lame-duck president whose legislative agenda will have to meet with the approval of the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
So where will we and Biden be at New Year's Eve 2023?
We will have an octogenarian president, in even more visible cognitive decline, faced with intractable issues of crime, a bleeding border, a pandemic and an inflation with which he has been unable to cope.
And, like William Howard Taft in 1912, Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992, Biden will, if he decides to run again, face a challenge in the Democratic primaries. Biden won't get a pass.
And should he survive those primaries, as some of those presidents did, Biden would be the favorite to lose in 2024. For none of those presidents won reelection.
It may be time to consider a retirement announcement.
Even at 83 Pat Buchanan is still the best columnist there is.
*Sniffy*Sniff*Sniff*
You did that, pedojoe…
No...an inflation for which he (and the Democrats) ARE THE CAUSE. Not the damned pandemic. The inflation is a direct result of Democrat policies and actions.
Inflation, meh.
We had a Christmas tradition of live lobster and a standing rib roast but this year, there are no live Maine lobsters available at Wholey's in the Burgh, even at $65/pound.
On line, frozen cold water tails are about $60+ and there are few still left in stock.
A Christmas ham cost 250% more {even on sale} than last year and eggs have more than doubled.
Rice and black beans are still affordable {barely, but don't eat too many}.
Biden is a disaster and in fact did not legally win the 2020 election.
If election integrity is not fixed, it won’t matter how bad things get. Also the young people in this nation need to be re-taught. Many think socialist statism is the answer to societal problems.
Most of all we need a Great Awakening like we had in the 18th century. Pray for revival.
San Francisco rep, Nancy Pelosi, is decrying the “smash-and-grab” mob attacks on her city’s retail stores as reflecting an “attitude of lawlessness”........but says she “doesn’t know” where it came from.
There are hundreds of thousands of Demonicrat politicians, election officials, DeepStaters, judges, and others who should be tried, convicted, and sentenced for putting Traitorjoe into office.
Mmmmmmmm......should be a Fun Show.
The Stupid Twins.....Sure Thing McAuliffe and Bidung The Elder......collaborating with winners like Spacey Abrams and 5% Harris..... will entertain us like back in the good ole days in Virginny.
Pat, conditions on the ground no longer matter. Election fraud is now the new reality. Biden stole the 2020 election in broad daylight. He didn’t receive 81 million votes, the most in history by over 12 million votes topping Obama’s 2008 total of 69 million and 15 million more than Hillary’s 66 million in 2016.
Anyone who states the obvious is branded an insurrectionist. The illegal J6 Congressional committee is part of the cover-up. The MSM and Big Tech perpetuate the lie. We are living in a dictatorship. It wouldn’t surprise me that the Dems will retain control over Congress after the 2022 elections. Why won’t they steal the midterms? They got away with the theft of the Presidency in 2020.
“ Even at 83 Pat Buchanan is still the best columnist there is.”
Um, no. Quantity isn’t quality.
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BS
Pat is not now and never was someone to listen to
Biden’s coondition is deteriorating. In three years he will be truly a bakground president- always in the background. He will be making no public appearences in any venue including press conferences and TV. He does not control his office or what he orders. It is all decided by an informal Politburo or perhaps by a less organized group. Yes he can be re-elected so long as he has a pulse and is not known to be dead. Any Democrat running will win so long as the states do not simplify and narrow their voting systems. That is one day to vote. Vote with paper ballots in person with picture ID. No mail-in or even absentee votes. The military can set up on-base precincts anywhere in the world.
Inflation I can see but I think the COVID stats are BS.
And either are you...
He is good. We need to hear more from Pat.
My FIL had Alzheimers had when he had deteriorated to the point where he could no longer drive drive, it was obvious to all. Biden is at that point. I would not feel safe in a car with him at the wheel even if it was a 60 ton M1 tank.
Major difference....
Biden holds the title and the other guy doesn’t hold the title.
Then I read the headline again.
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