Politicians slapping their name on one of their policies can be a risky business to claim ownership and credit at the next election. Ask Barack Obamacare.
Joe Biden has spent the last several months telling Americans how much better off they are now that he's had a chance to impose Bidenomics on so many aspects of their lives. That started with intentionally ending our energy independence that goosed gas prices and, as a result of some $5 trillion in uncontrolled spending, moved quickly to grocery prices and so much more.
This Democrat has expressed frustration and puzzlement that those stupid people, the ones who fell for his 2020 campaign promise of a return to normalcy, do not realize how much he has done for them.
Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans do, in fact, realize what Joe Biden has done to them. They don't much like it. They don't much like him. And they sure as hell do not like the idea of 1,460 more days of life under Bidenomics in a second Joe Biden term. And then came the new jobs report for September. Disappointing, if this president could understand it.
Of course, he doesn't see it through those aviator sunglasses he thinks make him look cool. But at the moment things look so bad for Biden's political fortunes that many of us suspect he will not be his party's eventual nominee when Democrat delegates dodge all the Chicago gunfire and convene there next summer.
The founder of Obamacare warned us never to underestimate Joe Biden's ability to screw up anything. The ex-vice president has lived down to that appraisal. Think Afghanistan exit. Supply chains, Partisan political bitterness. Chinese spy balloon. Weakness projected abroad.
When serious national labor strikes cripple a major industry, you expect a chief executive to help both sides find common ground and get back to work. This president chose to fly on a 747 to Detroit to stand on a union picket line for 10 whole minutes while photographers got their photos and then got lost again attempting some spoken remarks.
The strike remains in place.
So, we're left to assume that's his idea of Bidenomics and normalcy.
That's what I discuss, with some numbers, in this week's Malcolm on the Right commentary.
The most recent audio commentary examined the devastating poll numbers I mentioned above. Some of them are the worst Gallup has encountered since it began asking those questions in the last century.
Polls are momentary snapshots. They can improve. What can't change is Biden's age. He turns 81 next month. The numerical age is less of a concern than the symptoms he displays of deterioration from that advanced age. You don't recuperate from that.
And if he has some serious physical problem, the VP backup is Kamala Harris, whose poll numbers are even worse. Biden didn't pick her for smarts. That's the problem with identity politics. And it then becomes our problem as a nation.
This week's column, "We're All a Little Dumber After TV's Survivor Debate Show," examines the deteriorating state of our so-called political debates. They aren't really debates anymore.
Just as TV has done to professional sports, these "debates" have been redesigned by producers into political survivor shows without the island campfire and bikinis. Most candidates try their best. But these talkathons aren't even entertaining.
So, I suggest a possible redesign here.
Perhaps you've heard that Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has been turned into a refugee center to house the thousands of illegals flooding into the country through Biden's open southern border. We looked at that topic too here the other day, Sanctuary Cities Now Seek Sanctuary from Joe Biden's Illegals.
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