https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/...lains.html

""...The president's rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office," McConnell said. "He used the phrase Jim Crow 2.0 to demagogue a law [in Georgia] that makes the franchise more accessible than in his home state of Delaware...."

Twelve months ago, this president said disagreement must not lead to disunity. But yesterday he invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War. The Civil War!"

Listen to this, he compared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. How profoundly, profoundly unpresidential."

"I've personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. The American voters did not give the president a mandate for very much. You've got a tied Senate, negative coattails in the House, the narrowest majorities in over a century.

The president did not get a mandate to transform America.

But he did arguably get a mandate to do just one central thing that he campaigned on. Here is what that was: Bridge a divided country, lower the temperature, dial down the perpetual air of crisis in our politics, one job citizens actually hired him to do. It is the one project that would have actually been consistent, consistent with the Congress, [with what] the voters elected.

Ah, but President Biden has chosen to fail his own test. ..."