{"id":394800,"date":"2022-01-16T05:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-a-dud-man-walking\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T05:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:32:06","slug":"bidens-a-dud-man-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-a-dud-man-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden\u2019s a dud man walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden\u2019s a dud man walking<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>According to the election calendar, Joe Biden has three years remaining in his term. According to political reality, his presidency is over, kaput, finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It ended last week because of an accumulation of serious wounds, most of them self-inflicted. The final blow came from a boomerang after the president who campaigned as a decent man and uniter declared his opponents traitors and racists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Included in that category were Democrats as well as Republicans, leading even members of his own party to concede Biden had gone too far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scene was Atlanta where he gave a speech filled with distortions and extremely nasty attacks, as when the president challenged those who refuse to break the Senate filibuster to pass federal election legislation: \u201cDo you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He accused Georgia and other states of aiming to \u201csubvert\u201d elections and said they were acting like \u201ctotalitarian states.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seemed genuinely shocked, calling Biden\u2019s address \u201cprofoundly unpresidential,\u201d and \u201cdeliberately divisive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cTwelve months ago, this president said that \u2018disagreement must not lead to disunion.\u2019 But yesterday, he invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War to demonize Americans who disagree with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On its surface, the back-and-forth resembles Washington-as-usual. But this incident was anything but normal in that Biden angered both progressives and moderates in his own party while further alienating independents and Republicans. Good thing he has a dog, because it will be his only friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite burning so many bridges in spectacular fashion, Biden failed to advance his agenda an inch. In fact, his bizarre behavior rang the death knell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mcconnell.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this image from video, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks as the Senate reconvenes after protesters stormed into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-20850920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mcconnell.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mcconnell.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/mcconnell.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>McConnell called Biden\u2019s speech \u201cprofoundly unpresidential.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just two days after his repellant speech, he was forced to concede defeat at the Capitol when Dem Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia repeated that they would not break the filibuster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>As if to humiliate Biden, Sinema did so in a speech on the Senate floor just before the president entered the building to try to rally Dems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe missed this time,\u201d Biden told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While his failure was inevitable, the mystery is that he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently believed he had a snowball\u2019s chance in hell of succeeding in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden knew, or should have known, that Sinema and Manchin were not going to budge on the filibuster before he gave the speech, which is why it sounded like a suicide letter. Without a chance of victory, why did he waste more of his rapidly declining political capital on any speech, let alone one so inflammatory?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden speaks in Atlanta. \" class=\"wp-image-20850916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden sparked outrage on both sides of the aisle during his speech in Atlanta. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Patrick Semansky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The answer is pure lunacy, but it explains all you need to know about the total incompetence and incoherence of the Biden presidency. It turns out that he and his team, feeling pressure from left-wing activists to get the voting bills passed, believed Biden needed to prove he was still fighting for them despite the odds against passage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the speech wasn\u2019t designed to win new converts, only to buck up discouraged followers. The need to impress explains the broad-brush charges of racism and treason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The idiotic language he used aside, the effort highlights how Biden\u2019s decision to side with the party\u2019s most radical elements has left him cravenly dependent on their support at the expense of abandoning all moderate voters \u2014 the people he pledged to represent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even then, the president struck out. Many of the activists he was trying to please believe Biden had not prioritized the election-bill issue enough, and some stayed away. Among those was Stacey Abrams, the uber-activist who is running again to be Georgia\u2019s governor. She and the White House said her absence was due to a \u201cscheduling conflict.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Right \u2014 the president comes to your state to talk about your issue and you are too busy? Pure and simple, this was a snub and a sign of Biden\u2019s weakness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, the failure to break the filibuster and get the elections bill passed were only part of the president\u2019s extremely bad week. COVID cases continued to soar, the Supreme Court nixed his mandate forcing companies with 100 or more employees to require workers to be vaccinated, and inflation climbed to its highest levels in 40 years, with the consumer price index rising 7% last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hillary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton poses for a photo after being inaugarated as the first female chancellor of Queens University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.\" class=\"wp-image-20850918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hillary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hillary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hillary.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>An op-ed came out in support of Hillary Clinton running again in 2024.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Peter Morrison <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To top it off, evidence that the public is giving up on Biden came with a new Quinnipiac poll finding that just 33% of voters approve of his performance. Q polls had the approval number at 50% in February and 40% in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not a drip-drip-drip. This is a fast-paced hemorrhage of support, and there is no reason to believe Biden is capable of turning things around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One sign there is blood in the water is the emergence of two sharks, Bill and Hillary Clinton. The balloons floated suggesting that Hillary is the party\u2019s answer felt like the start of a concerted effort to test her strength \u2014 and outflank Vice President Kamala Harris as the post-Biden alternative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The White House, clearly stung by its falling fortunes and rumblings of party discontent, put out a memo calling the Quinnipiac poll an \u201coutlier,\u201d which CNN summarized this way: \u201cThe White House wants to get something straight: President Joe Biden is unpopular. But he\u2019s not that unpopular.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When a Democrat loses CNN, the fat lady is getting ready to sing.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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According to political reality, his presidency is over, kaput, finished.\u00a0 It ended last week because of an accumulation of serious wounds, most of them self-inflicted. The final blow came from a boomerang after the president who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-6.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[124060,1545,10701,72944,991,89017,112997],"class_list":["post-394800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-15-22","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden","tag-joe-manchin","tag-kyrsten-sinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}