Joe Biden's presidency was a nightmare for normal Americans. He had been known for decades as a prevaricator. He stole the words of others for his speeches. He had a foul mouth and, some said, gropey hands.
He enjoyed all the vice-presidential travels and perks, even took Hunter along on the government plane to Beijing to seal one of his business deals that Joe said he knew nothing about.
Media called him "Uncle Joe" and "Mr. Empathy," which he wasn't, but in those days, Americans' alternate media had yet to become what it is now.
So, Biden decided he wanted to be president, and he would ride Trump antipathy and use COVID as his cover for not really campaigning seriously in 2020. When he did, Biden handlers told him to talk about being a transitional president who would use a single term to return the country to normal.
Enough voters fell for that until it was too late.
His term of 1,461 days was a reign of error, spiced with moments of public terror when Biden's actions, inactions, and inabilty to speak coherent thoughts revealed his profound mental decay.
So many mistakes were made in his name. One of the worst, in my opinion, was discharging more than 8,000 service members, all volunteers, for declining to get the COVID vaccine.
In the end, last fall, voters corrected their 2020 mistake. They sent Donald Trump back to the White House so he could return the country to a more realistic normal and restore a common sense that had become uncommon.
Key to that restoration is making things right with Biden's discarded service members.
That's the subject of this week's audio commentary. As always, please join the discussion in the Comments below.
Before we drift too far away from so-called Presidents Day, here's the link to my rant on governments, led by Democrats usually, playing around with our unifying national holidays to make some kind of transitory political point. Presidents Day is a Fraud!
This week's Sunday column was a very preliminary report card (one month out of 48 in the term) on the stunning amount and speed of decisive activity by the 47th president. Plus, a look at the initial reactions of Americans in early polls.
What Trump has accomplished so far has been largely decisions and policy changes that are up to him independently. What's coming up in a very few weeks are far more complex and detailed negotiations and decisions made by an independent Congress narrowly controlled by tiny Republican majorities.
This will involve cooperation and compromise between House and Senate party members and the commander in chief. And opposition media will be watching with microscopes to detect even a millimeter of friction among them to highlight as a negative of the new presidency.
The most recent audio commentary took a quick look at the leaderless Democrat Party's desperate flailing to find someone and something to rally around during the cold winter season of being a helpless minority in Congress.
Biden and Kamala Harris are both gone. She's thinking of talking her way into or out of the governor's job in California. So the Democrats' National Committee elected a state politician from Minnesota, the same liberal enclave that produced Tim Walz as Harris' VP sidekick last fall.
In case you missed it, after his defeat on the Democrat ticket in November, Walz is now reported to be considering a run for the U.S. Senate in next year's midterm elections that could shape up as a GOP challenge.
