Quote:As a growing number of Democrat politicians openly distance themselves from Joe Biden, reports continue to surface of a behind-the-scenes plan to dump the most inept president in history well ahead of the 2024 election. Make no mistake: the Democrat Party is terrified by the prospect of Biden seeking reelection.

Bottom line: “It’s pretty clear that the left is organizing to dump Joe Biden.” So concludes political commentator and policy scholar, Powerline’s Steven Hayward. In an analysis titled Pincer Movement to Dump Biden Taking Place, Hayward went bottom-line from start to finish.

It’s pretty clear that the left is organizing to dump Joe Biden when it becomes evident that he’s a certain loser in 2024. Rather than waiting for a Ted Kennedy-like figure to challenge him in the 2024 primaries, which would likely doom Democrats to certain defeat, the left will need to push him out early, and clear the calendar for one or more Democrats to organize a serious presidential campaign.

Hang on. The Democrats (pundit checks notes) do not have a “Ted Kennedy-like figure” to challenge Biden. Worse, the Democrats don’t exactly have a deep bench, these days. And as noted by Hayward, “It goes without saying that the Democratic Party intelligentsia knows Kamala Harris is a hopeless candidate.”

Think about it through the eyes of a Democrat. I know: terrifying thought. Everywhere one looks, the evidence is overwhelming that Biden is cognitively lost on a daily basis, with nearly every new poll painting an ever-bleaker picture. Quite the pickle, isn’t it? Hey, play stupid games; win stupid prizes.

Hayward believes the Democrat “pincer movement” has three parts.

First, “We can expect a steady drumbeat of [left-leaning] media stories,” predicts Hayward, such as the latest from so-called mainstream political reporter Ronald Brownstein, whose latest op-ed, Is Biden a Man Out of Time?, makes clear that the media and the Democrat base remain just as clueless as Biden — wishing he would be even more radically leftist.

I’m no larger-than-life “very stable genius” Republican with a “very, very, big brain” and “good words,” (I couldn’t resist) but even I find it incredible that the Democrat state media and the socialist radicals within the Democrat Party fail to see that the majority of American adults overwhelmingly reject their so-called “progressive” push to destroy America and its valued institutions on as many fronts as possible.

In addition to the direct “reporting” about Biden’s problems, Hayward suggests there will be an increasing number of indirect attacks:

There will be indirect attacks about general failures of the administration. This week Politico ran a long piece about what a terrible press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is turning out to be. My theory is that she was picked to make Kamala Harris look good by comparison, but her failure at the job is so conspicuous that it can’t be papered over.

Speaking of Karine Jean-Pierre, as I previously suggested, she is so miserable at her job she makes Jen Psaki look like Dana Perino under George W. Bush. Perfect example: KJP recently laughed off a question from CNN host Don Lemon about Biden’s stamina and declining mental acuity.

The second part of the pincer movement, says Hayward, will be as I suggested in my opening paragraph: Democrat Party insiders will start publicly dumping on Biden. Last week it was David Axelrod, the architect of Barack Obama’s rise to power. In an appearance on CNN, Axelrod said “There is this sense that things are kind of out of control and he’s not in command.”

“Out of control”? Definitely. “Kind of”? Hardly. And we all know what “not in command” means.

Third, believes Hayward, as I have previously written, it won’t just be conservative writers who pull hamstrings rushing to “report” on Biden’s latest poll disaster.

Look for the pace of Bad-News-for-Biden polls to pick up in frequency and intensity. It becomes a self-reinforcing feedback loop for party insiders like Axelrod and the media alike: every new poll gives them the opportunity to provide “analysis” that all points in the same direction.

Incidentally, the practice of running or commissioning a poll and then reporting the results as “news” is hardly new. Hayward pointed to the late historian Daniel Boorstin, who called the practice a pseudo-event, the definition of which is “not spontaneous; planted primarily, but not always exclusively, for the purpose of being reported or reproduced.” Bingo.

The bottom line:

As to the Democrat Party’s Biden problem, it could be clearer that the Republicans will have a golden opportunity to reclaim the White House in 2024.

While I have an uneasy feeling that Republican voters will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I’m also encouraged by the reality that an increasing number of conservatives continue to wake the hell up.

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Dem Lawmakers Are Blowing the Whistle on Biden and the Mess at the WH: 'Rudderless, Aimless, Hopeless'

Quote:Democrats are in a desperate state, knowing they’re about to get wiped out in November and they’re looking to cast blame.

Many, including more than two dozen lawmakers and political operatives, are talking and blowing the whistle on how bad they think Joe Biden is.

They don’t feel that Biden is doing enough to reflect their anger and concerns about things; they want strength and action. But they’re not seeing it.

“Biden’s response … seemed flat to many Democrats. And there is fear the piecemeal [gun safety] bill didn’t just sap momentum to continue addressing gun violence but was already giving cover to Republicans. Following the shooting, they worried that it was another lost opportunity to define the stakes of the upcoming midterms. … [Some Democrats] fear that Biden remains trapped in a prior age of political decorum and unquestioning fealty to institutions and has been slow to recognize both the existential threat felt by some of his supporters.”

CAMILLE RIVERA, a Democratic strategist at New Deal Strategies: “He’s missing the boat here. This is our time to dig in and be absolutely furious because these one-half measures are not working. He’s got a real excitability problem.”

SARAH LONGWELL, an anti-Trump and moderate GOP strategist: “You can’t just hold one press conference or give one speech. It’s constant communication. [Democrats] feel a sense of urgency. … ‘Talk to us. Tell us what the plan is.’”

Rivera continued, “The fight is for independents and Democrats to get up and fight back and come out. And he is not meeting the moment. He has to meet the moment.”

Their take is funny because Biden is frequently angry and always blaming other people, including Republicans. They’re making the wrong diagnosis of the problems. One of the problems is that he never takes responsibility for anything. That’s one of the things that Americans are upset about. But it’s hard to overcome just failing across the board on every policy, especially with the economy. Democratic officials are just noticing now that Biden comes across as half-dead and unable to muster up any energy to do anything? But they already knew that when they put him forward. It’s their fault. They bought this sinking ship and now they’re upset that they’re being done in by him, that people are rejecting the bad product that they were sold and blaming them for it. There’s only so much you can spin total failure.

Meanwhile, the Democrats who are squawking are throwing the names of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and California Gov. Gavin Newsom around as people they think are showing a more combative attitude. So they’re undercutting Biden right in front of him when they do this but their backup choices are a guy who is so despised he faced a recall. Some bench there, guys. Notice how they’re not talking up the name of Kamala in this mix, in part because she’s bad too — and now she’s tainted with Biden’s failures as well.

ADAM JENTLESON, former top aide to HARRY REID: “There is a leadership vacuum right now, and [Biden’s] not filling it. … I sympathize with the argument that there’s very little they can do legislatively. But in moments of crisis, the president is called upon to be a leader. And when people are feeling scared and angry and outraged, they look to him for that, and they’re not getting much.”

— On the stakes: “In the view of many distraught Democrats, the country is facing a full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force. Democracy is under direct attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law. Shooting sprees are routine, abortion rights have ended and Democrats could suffer big losses in the next election.”

One member termed Biden’s White House as “‘rudderless, aimless and hopeless.'” Two dozen Democratic lawmakers and political operatives said they thought it came down to “questions of basic management.” Among the problems they don’t feel they’re getting anything back from the White House when they try to get answers on action plans.

“Multiple Democratic politicians who have reached out to work with Biden — whether it’s on specific bills, brainstorming or outreach — often don’t hear anything back at all. Potential appointees have languished for months waiting to hear if they’ll get jobs, or when they’ll be done with vetting. Invitations to events are scarce, thank you calls barely happen. Even some aides within the White House wonder why Biden didn’t fire anyone, from the West Wing or at the Food and Drug Administration, to demonstrate some accountability or at least anger over the baby formula debacle.”

Even on the question of the recent SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which everyone knew was coming, Democrats feel Biden’s response was ridiculous — the White House had told people there wasn’t going to be a decision on that day. So when it came through, it appeared no one was ready and Biden’s response wasn’t good.

Several Democratic leaders privately mocked how the president stood in the foyer of the White House, squinting through his remarks from a teleprompter as demonstrators poured into the streets, making only vague promises of action because he and aides hadn’t decided on more.”

You know that whole suspend the gas tax thing that Biden came out with at the end of last month that was immediately mocked? That was the result of months of deliberations by Biden. Seriously — it’s that bad.

“It had the appearance of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks,” one official said privately.

Sources also say that decisions in the White House are getting bottlenecked, as veteran advisers urge Biden to take the long view, rather than focus on fast responses. Few are trying, and even fewer succeeding, in pushing back against Biden’s infamous inability to settle on decisions, on everything from whether to lift tariffs on Chinese imports or cancel student loan debt.

So in addition to the gaffes, the confusion, the lack of energy, and the failure, Biden also is incapable of making even the simplest of decisions without months of discussion? And even then, he has to know that it’s a pointless exercise as Congress isn’t likely to pass a suspension of the gas tax. Now after having said it, the Biden team isn’t even pushing it. Because it was just about the political show that he was “doing something.”

No wonder Democrats are in a quandary. But it’s all on them and this has revealed how broken they are as a party. Americans have seen it and they’re going to have something to say, in a big way, in November.

I love the quotes - [paraphrasing] "we need to see a plan"

There is no f-ing plan. He jumps on a conference and tells gas stations to lower prices because he said so, he tells oil companies to make more oil and charge less for it while simultaneously cutting them off at the knees and virtually promising to bankrupt and end them, he is sending cartons of cash to Ukraine because Zelenski said "pretty please".... His fuking stooges in is cabinet laugh out loud when asked legitimate questions about the regular folk who are suffering due to this massive inflation. Kamala is as worthless as a used doormat.

But hey --- Trump has a temper and thinks the election was stolen from him, so lets get to the bottom of that instead.

Fuk you Tom and everyone else that voted for the Vegetable in Chief...

They knew Joe was worthless. He’s been worthless for his 40+ years in DC. They knew he was t savvy, a deal maker, or anything else. He’s been a step above a houseplant with a folksy fake demeanor, that’s it.

lulz, here comes hillary!

I just hope...really badly that when the Repubs take over the House and Senate that they don't push to Amendment 25 his "S". No, no, no, no, let the Demons own this farce. If the Repubs do that dirty work they will be the bad guys instead of the Demons. If the Repubs push the Amendment 25 scenario the Demons will use this as a "see how partisan this guys are" propaganda.

Let the media and the Demons push the Am. 25 on THE SOB and the Repubs should vote yes on it, otherwise even Biden will claim that the Repubs think that he's done a fine job, if they vote Nay. As bad as Cumala is we need to get this SOB out of office but not at the Repubs expense.

Biden is going to #### the Dems over just like he does everyone else.

Bwahahah!

81 million people voted for this guy.. Keep that in mind.

Bedingfield was Biden's trusted aide since his time as Obama's vice president and the brain of the 2020 campaign.

Biden was too stupid to be President 30 years ago. Then, he was just a plagiarizing political hack.

Now……..the same dumb*** with dementia.

(07-06-2022 02:35 PM)gdunn Wrote:  81 million people voted for this guy.. Keep that in mind.

Well, not quite. 81 million ballots, sure.

Desperate Dems in Disarray: 'Outright Worry' Over Biden's Leadership

Quote:Joe Biden and his team are constantly giving us gas when they are asked how are they going to deal with all the nation’s problems, most of which they have created or made worse.

But we’re not the only people that the Biden team is trying to hold off, with just saying all kinds of nonsense and no positive action.

They’re doing it to Democratic lawmakers too, and it’s driving the lawmakers–who are about to get decimated in the midterms–crazy because they’re worried they’re all going to get turned out on their heads. As we noted before, they already see Biden as “rudderless, aimless, hopeless.”

Now, there’s a new report from Politico talking about the “outright worry” that Democrats are feeling about their prospects.

The report points to virtual meetings that the Democratic governors have been holding with the White House.

Don’t just tell us what you’ve done, is how a person familiar with the meetings characterized the feeling among governors, because what you’ve done isn’t exactly working.

Through it all, there’s been a general and growing dissatisfaction with the White House’s response. That budding frustration, relayed by three party officials familiar with the meetings’ contents, has morphed into outright worry. And it’s surfaced elsewhere in recent weeks.

Underlying it all is a concern that Biden and his team are not just out of fresh ideas, but increasingly out of time to turn around their flagging poll numbers before the midterms.

The various lawmakers are looking for direction to help on a variety of issues from baby formula to inflation.

There, lawmakers were expecting to receive guidance on matters as concrete as how to counter Republicans who are handing out free gas cards and baby formula to court irate voters in their districts. Instead, they were met with now familiar talking points about the White House’s legislative successes and the resonance of the message Biden carried in 2020.

So, if we stitch that together and read between the lines, Biden and his team are telling the desperate Democrats the same bull that they’re telling us — his policies are just great, even though they’re not “exactly working.” Americans just don’t understand how wonderful the economy is and how great he is, we just need to be better about the messaging. If that’s what they’re hearing, is it any wonder they’re desperate? Because surely they know that’s not true. What’s worse for them, they know Americans know it’s not true–and that they’re going to say what they think with votes in November.

Democrats seem to think the response is to demonize the Republicans, with things like calling them “extremists,” “ultra MAGA,” or trying to tar them with the Jan. 6 hearings. But the numbers have gotten worse since they tried that tactic, with 63 percent saying they should be focusing on other things like inflation. The hearings are having the opposite effect. Meanwhile, Biden’s numbers have dropped to their lowest ever, in two separate polls as well as in the Real Clear Politics average. He’s now at 30 percent approval in the Civiqs poll.

Democrats have every reason to worry, and as Politico points out, they know that they are “running out of time.”

White House Goes Weapons Hot on the Democrat Base as Divisions Explode Into the Open

Quote:For my money, the Biden administration has been the most incoherent and disjointed of the modern era, and that qualifier is only included due to a lack of recorded detail prior. Press consternation over the “chaos” inside the former Trump administration seems laughably quaint now, as the current White House sets records for staff turnover.

No one seems to know what’s going on, and that includes the president himself. Every public appearance just accentuates the dysfunction. Biden and his handlers are constantly reacting. Leadership and forethought are concepts so foreign that they might as well be of alien origin.

Even the brightest minds would have a hard time keeping things together in such an environment, and the Biden administration is certainly not full of the brightest minds. That’s not just a complaint from the right, either. The Democrat base is growing restless, and the divisions are now exploding into the open, with the White House going weapons hot in response.

Huddling with top aides, including some who dialed in from the White House, Biden declared at the outset of the call that he wanted to endorse ending the Senate filibuster to codify Roe into law, a position he so far had refused to take, angering many Democrats in the process.

But Biden kept his decision private until three days later when, during a news conference in Madrid, he deployed the carefully crafted language he and his team had perfected just moments before, denouncing the “outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court” and calling for “an exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”

For many Democrats, however, it was too little and too late — just one more example over the two weeks in which Biden and his team struggled to come up with a muscular plan of action on abortion rights, even though the Supreme Court ruling had been presaged two months earlier with the leak of a draft opinion.

There are a few more pieces of the Post’s article that are worthy of discussion, but the general theme revolves around the Biden administration being 1) consistently tardy on issues and 2) unwilling to go “all the way” on policy.

Both complaints come from a Democrat base that is sick of losing and only sees more of it on the horizon. In that sense, the White House is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have courted and kowtowed to radicals for so long that they are now beholden to them. How do you tell people who see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an intellectual giant that you simply don’t have the power to give them what they want?

The White House’s message that Republicans are a “threat to democracy” hasn’t helped either. When you tell your voters that the other side isn’t just wrong but is dangerous, you build up an expectation that everything is on the table to defeat them. Boundaries are no longer respected, and Biden certainly isn’t going to get credit for their existence.

But while the Democrat base lashes out, the White House is now lashing out back.

White House officials defend the urgency of Biden’s response and the actions he has taken on abortion, which they argue are in step with mainstream opinion. “The president has been showing his deep outrage as an American and executing his bold plan — which is the product of months of hard work — ever since this decision was handed down,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said in a statement Saturday.

“Joe Biden’s goal in responding to Dobbs is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party. It’s to deliver help to women who are in danger and assemble a broad-based coalition to defend a woman’s right to choose now, just as he assembled such a coalition to win during the 2020 campaign,” she said.

Overpromising and underdelivering is a terrible political strategy, and eventually, it catches up with any politician who tries it. There’s a reason first mid-terms are so historically bad for new presidents. The excitement of entering office is quickly quelled by the realities of the US constitutional system. Ironically, Kate Bedingfield, who made the derogatory statement about Democrat activists, is leaving the White House, further underscoring the disarray.

Watching the Biden administration is like watching a car crash in slow motion. You know how it ends but you just can’t look away, and every moment has you cringing. How does this get fixed? The simple answer is that it doesn’t. The man at the top is senile, the base he relies on is angry, and those around him wouldn’t know a coherent message if it punched them in the face. Things only get worse from here.