Sunday, August 22, 2021

"Want" Is the Wrong Verb

Writing for RealClearPolitics, Charles Lipson asks "Who wants Biden to fail?" More properly, he says various pro-Biden trolls are posing that question. The snark answer is VP Kamala Harris, she'll never be president any other way.

People (including me) who criticize the President's performance don't want him to fail, their concern is that he has failed already, IS failing left and right, and if we take his pronouncements seriously, proposes to continue failing even more expansively.

Briefly, he has failed and we aren't even a little happy about it. Every time he fails, it hurts the country we all inhabit. His continuing failures hurt all of us, especially those who support him.

Somewhere the shade of management theorist Lawrence J. Peter chuckles "I told you so." Biden, a man of modest talents became an okay U.S. senator from a small state between north and south, then a Vice President where he was noted for disagreeing with killing a terrorist, and finally rose to his level of incompetence as President. 

In the White House he is clearly not up to the task. If I wasn't too busy feeling sorry for the U.S., I'd feel sorry for Biden; he probably feels beleaguered and betrayed.