Biden does have one accomplishment. He makes Jimmy Carter look good.
I have been thinking a bit about the Jimmy Carter days lately.
I saw a History Channel show on the Iran hostage crisis. There were a lot of little known tid-bits there—which when combined with what we learned after the fact shows a Carter administration totally out of touch with reality.
The last day of the Carter administration was high comedy.
They scurried around making all sorts of phone calls while waiting for the hostages to be released that day—so they could claim credit “for history”.
Of course they did not know that the Reagan folks had gone behind their backs and cut the actual deal (later called “arms for hostages”) that the Iranians had accepted.
The Iranians (as part of the deal) waited until Carter had left the WH and Reagan was officially inaugurated—and then released the hostages.
That was a great example of how having the title of President meant absolutely nothing when real deals are to be cut by serious players...