Super State of Tuesday's Union: Forecast Uncommitted
To head off the big week the supreme court told CO to kick Rockys, NYT published a Biden fantasy, and just what does Biden know about cease fire negotiations?
“The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election.” - Justice Barrett, Court’s opinion
With super Tuesday and the state of the union this week, the Biden administration knows the minefield ahead it must navigate with precision to avoid the whole thing blowing up in their face. Biden is in no trouble of losing a primary, but if too many disenchanted non-committers turn out to spoil his cake, it could throw off his swagger for the big speech; nothing worse than a guy who can’t remember where he left the ax he wishes to grind. America will tune in, not because we are curious about what he has to say, we know we’re gunna get beat over the head with how good the economy is, how unemployment is at record lows, and unions are making up ground against cost of living, no, it’s because we’re all anticipating the moment that will spell his ruin. A ‘grab em by the pussy’ folly that will force him from the ticket, or maybe pull an ice cream cone from the lectern in a misguided attempt to right his previous political flounder. This is the narrow fate on which the future of our country rests. Will Joe Biden’s brain will cooperate with what the teleprompter feeds it enough to satisfy the drawn arrows of leftist and blood swarming republicans?
Maureen Dowd shared in an op-ed called ‘My Joe Biden Fantasy,’ a title that provokes images of her Lewinsky lineage, and her words drum up more energy on screen than Biden has in the past five years. Dowd writes the state of the union speech America wants to hear. Dismantling those border blocking republicans who wasted all their time going after Hunter. Why bring up the Hunter inquiry when anyone can ask the question, how did the son of the vice president end up on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma? This doesn’t mean Joe Biden was profiting from it, but there is honestly no other explanation for Hunter to be on such a board. I do agree with Dowd when she imagines Biden saying, “Lord knows. I'm in a time warp in terms of how I see Israel.”
Ryan Grim while on Counter Points this past week made the mental rigidity claim with his failing cognitive ability to blame. The sad irony is Biden has been touting how it’s not how old you are, it’s how old your ideas are. By his own standards Biden has made himself look old by refusing to budge with Bibi. Counter Points went on to cover the press conference with John Kirby where he assured the reports that the president was “up to speed on the negotiations,” but did so in such a way you’d be inclined to draw the opposite conclusion.
Dowd takes a not so obvious turn, at least not obvious coming from The New York Times when fantasy Biden admits, “Here’s the deal: I’ve always had gaffes. That’s my thing. Like back in 2006 when I said, “You cannot go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” (enjoy a younger grinning Biden Here) Dowd concludes with Biden withdrawing his campaign, which would make for a hell of a state of the union address moment, but would actually be a sweet acknowledgment of what his opponent failed to do, step aside with grace. To put action in a belief in this country by letting someone else wave the wand. Yes, the state of the union is fraught, but let me do what everybody wants, and let California be rid of Gavin Newsom.
Today the supreme court returned a unanimous decision to the state of Colorado, overturning it’s banning of Trump from the election, which should be to a surprise to no one. But the democrats can’t help giving Trump what he wants, his name in history, bolder than the rest, and y’all just keep adding ink.