Joe Biden
March 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Just a guess, but I think the word has gone out from the Obama redoubt in Martha’s Vineyard and/or his shadow White House in Kalorama that the New York Times needs to lead the push this week to force Biden out of the race. The Times is doom-scrolling its latest poll showing Biden on his way to certain defeat to Trump. Yesterday’s installment gave the raw numbers—Biden is eroding across
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March 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
As is now more widely reported, President Biden relies on cue cards for just about everything, but it looks like even this extreme measure is failing. Here in reading from a prepared statement on a notecard about getting food to Gaza, at the 30-second mark Biden twice says we’ll be opening up more corridors to “Ukraine.” Italian PM Meloni looks around the room wondering if someone is going to help
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March 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The New York Times is out with its latest poll today, and they can’t sugar coat the bad news for Biden (and good news for Trump) that it contains. The headline says it all: The poll has Trump with a five-point lead. Some internals from the article are even more devastating than these headline numbers: The poll offers an array of warning signs for the president about weaknesses within the
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March 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden announced today that the United States will airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza in the coming days. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to those of us who have been following the line traced by the Biden administration, but this may strike some as a bridge too far. The mission will purportedly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, but all sentient observers understand that the it will
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March 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
James Biden has now admitted that he paid his brother Joe $40,000 out of funds he received from CEFC China Energy, which is generally regarded as a front for the Chinese government. “Where did you believe the source of the money that was going into [Hunter Biden’s company] Owasco, prior to being sent to you, was coming from?” an investigator asked James during the Feb. 21 interview. “CEFC,” James conceded
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February 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
AEI’s Danielle Pletka is not a fan of President Trump, so I take her pulling on the fire alarm about President Biden at face value: What we hear from members of congress is … terrible. Democrats too. Those who talk the president tell of a man who can’t go beyond the words on the page in front of him. He can’t converse on matters of substance. He can deliver talking
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February 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Michigan primary was held yesterday. President Biden defeated Uncommitted, Marianne Willison, and my cousin Dean Phillips on the Democrat side. Dean commented on Twitter for the benefit of his former friends in the party: “If you resent me for the audacity to challenge Joe Biden, at least you’ll appreciate how relatively strong I’m making him look among primary voters!” President Trump handily defeated Nikki Haley on the Republican side.
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February 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden spoke at the Governors Ball Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House on Saturday evening (video excerpt below). The White House has posted the transcript of his brief remarks here. After the introductory blather, Biden referred to the portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind him — you can see it here — as he attempted to follow his text. This is how the White House transcript
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February 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia. Thursday morning, she went for a run and didn’t return. Her body was found on the campus of the University of Georgia. Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela: Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, who was arrested Friday in connection to the murder of the 22-year-old Augusta University student, crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Venezuela in September 2022,
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February 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday in San Francisco President Biden held what the White House termed a press gaggle. In the event it seemed more of a gag than a gaggle. This is the White House transcript of his remarks: Hello, folks. This morning, I had the honor of meeting with Aleksey Navalny’s wife and daughter. As to state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage. And it’s amazing how his wife
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February 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Like John, it would be hilarious to observe the left’s sudden obsession with “Christian nationalism” if it weren’t based on an abysmal ignorance that is itself a grim threat to the continuation of our republic. I guess Thomas Jefferson was a Christian nationalist for the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, although in fairness to stupid leftists, they don’t believe in “self-evident truth” either, because
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February 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Before Bob Dylan really made his name in folk music he recorded “Mixed-Up Confusion” — a rock song that was his first single and that anticipated the direction he would go a few years later. Dylan recorded it in the sessions for Freewheelin‘, but Columbia held the original back from his albums until Dylan included it on Biograph in 1985. The song comes to mind in connection with the video
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February 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In her Devine Online newsletter this morning, Miranda Devine updates the story of the Biden dog Commander (links omitted): Honestly, any normal dog owner whose German Shepherd attacks and bites someone just once would be chagrined. You would either get remedial training for the dog, or remove it or somehow keep it away from temptation. The last thing you would do is continue on as usual, and let it happen
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February 21, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Steve marks the contrast between Biden’s confused UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who called out anti-Semitism “clearly and forcefully” at the United Nations. Consider also the contrast between Thomas-Greenfield and Ronald Reagan’s UN Ambassador, lifelong Democrat Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick “studied totalitarianism all her life and was aware of its tensile strengths and subtle ruses for maintaining power,” wrote Peter Collier in Political Woman: The Big
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February 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The folks running the daycare operation at the White House have done their best to accommodate the physical decline of President Biden. Tumbling on the steps of Air Force One as he boarded proved a death-defying experience for him. Now they have rolled out the short stairs that fold out from the plane’s belly. An August 2023 NPR story treats the issue sympathetically, of course, but even so it makes
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February 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Back in 2016 I downgraded stats nerd Nate Silver to Nate Bronze because he was confidently predicting even after the polls had closed that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and somehow by the middle of the evening he wasn’t appearing on air any more. He’s bucking for an upgrade back to Silver today with a long note about how Biden needs to step aside. As Silver is respected within
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February 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John Ellis posted one of his Political News Items yesterday in accessible form — “A reckless age.” Although it may not please you, it is worth a look. Ellis opens with a long quote from Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh reflecting on the passing of the first President Bush. He then writes: The president of the United States is running for re-election to perform duties he will no longer be
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