Joe Biden has stumbled through so many dumb and dangerous things in his interminable 32-month reign of error that it's hard to choose the worst.
His lethally botched Afghan exit that caused more than 200 deaths, including 13 U.S. service members, because he ignored Pentagon advice on troop levels is right up there. Moving the exit date from spring to the peak combat month of August was pretty stupid too.
You must understand that almost everything Donald Trump did must be undone.
Forfeiting our hard-earned energy independence on Day One without any gain whatsoever has cost Americans countless billions out of pocket for fuel. As has Biden's $5 trillion spendathon that ignited the inflation wildfire still plaguing us.
Perhaps you noticed, gas prices are going back up again. And, by the way, Biden isn't promptly refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that he drained to help Democrats in the midterms. But that was only an "on Biden honor promise."
Now, however, the career pol has entered a new "achievement" into his What-Me-Worry Ledger of Incompetence.
Like Barack Obama, his political godfather, Biden has now done a new multi-billion dollar deal with Iran. What is it with those two regularly seeking deals with that ruthless religious regime? Maybe under the spell of their shared adviser Valerie Jarrett, who was born in Iran?
Obama gave Iran, the world's chief state sponsor of terrorism, access to more than $50 billion in frozen funds upfront as part of his empty nuclear deal. Now, Biden is giving the mullahs access to another $6 billion in exchange for the release of five illegally-held Americans.
Not long ago, Biden gave back to Russia one of its top spies in return for a WNBA player. An American Wall Street Journal reporter remains in a Russian prison on trumped-up espionage charges. But Biden thinks a black female athlete buys him more political credit for next year.
What's so hard about seeing the national danger in paying ransoms of any kind?
That's what set me off for this week's audio commentary.
My most recent column examined the question of age in American government and politics. At one time in the not-too-distant past age in politics connoted wisdom culled from long experience and a willingness to learn.
Not anymore.
That's particularly relevant this presidential election cycle since every day, Joe Biden sets a new record for the most ancient sitting (or falling) chief executive.
He turns 81 this year and says he wants to hang around the Oval Office until he's 86, which is scary for many of us given his ongoing series of verbal and physical pratfalls.
Researching the age question was fascinating. The Founding Fathers were a bunch of young pups with wigs. Esteemed flag-maker Betsy Ross was only 24, and future president James Monroe of Monroe Doctrine fame was barely 18.
Thomas Jefferson was too young to be president when he quilled the Declaration of Independence.
The most recent audio commentary was timely, given this season of picnics, outdoor games, and barbecues. It dealt with perhaps the longest-running condimentary debate of modern times. I settle it.
One of this year's most interesting and revealing stories has been the sodden saga of Bud Light. How the skewed Woke vision of a younger woman caused her to lead an "update" of that once iconic brand into immediate ruin.
Such that a member of the Anheuser-Busch dynasty has now offered to buy the brand back from its Belgian owners to revive it into its rightful place among American adult beverages. That's such a crazy idea it just might work.
Billy Busch explains his family's management style:
They knew who their drinkers were. They were with the bar owners and the restaurant owners and the liquor store owners and talking to these people day in and day out.
Even my dad at 89 years old, 90 years old, he was still going to the bars selling Budweiser back in those days.
