The NYT is running with a major article that details all the reasons Zhou Baiden should not be occupying the White House. Basically, he's old, dithery, gets hung up on endless detail, has difficulty coming to decisions. That's the pleasant part. The less pleasant part is that he has a short fuse and a foul mouth. Well, if you decided to work for him, don't come to me for sympathy:
Beneath Joe Biden’s Folksy Demeanor, a Short Fuse and an Obsession With Details
As Mr. Biden settles into the office he has chased for more than three decades, aides say he demands hours of debate from scores of policy experts.
We've all seen the results, and the process problems are hugely aggravated by bad policy. The NYT isn't about to concede much on the policy front, but the warts of the process are all on display. They try to portray all this as management style, and no doubt that's a part of the problem. However, the portrait also very clearly suggests the effects of old age and serious character flaws--such as an inability to discern the forest for the trees, impatience at his inability that he projects on advisers, perhaps in an effort to appear in control, all of which causes him to "often snap":
Quick decision-making is not Mr. Biden’s style. ...
Those trips are often difficult for his advisers, who are peppered with sometimes obscure questions. Avoiding Mr. Biden’s ire ... frustration, often laced with profanity.
Let’s talk plain English here, he will often snap.
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What emerges is a portrait of a president with a short fuse, who is obsessed with getting the details right — ...
On policy issues, Mr. Baiden, 78, takes days or weeks to make up his mind as he examines and second-guesses himself and others. It is a method of governing that can feel at odds with the urgency of a country still reeling from a pandemic and an economy struggling to recover. The president is also faced with a slim majority in Congress that could evaporate next year, giving him only months to enact a lasting legacy.
Those closest to him say Mr. Baiden is unwilling, or unable, to skip the routine. As a longtime adviser put it: He needs time to process the material so that he feels comfortable selling it to the public.
For all the sugar coating, the panic is almost palpable.
Zhou is 78--the NYT authors want you to know that. He needs time to process stuff, can't make up his mind--and then gets frustrated and snaps, lapsing into profanity as a substitute for coherent communication.
And the Dems look to lose Congress next year.
Even worse for Dems is this:
[Zhou] has said he expects to run for a second term ...
Talk about a red flag!
But exactly what are the alternatives for Dems as the Zhou regime slides into chaos--barely over 100 days in? Coaxing Jill and her charge out of the White House, taking their dysfunctional son with them, will be no easy task. Even if they could pull that trick off, how would the country react to such a quick switcheroo? My guess is: Very badly, especially given that the alternative then becomes Kama Sutra. Harris has fallen on her face every time she has attempted to ride her bike in public without the benefit of training wheels. Even with the training wheels, she's very shaky. Her leftist predilections don't help, and the country has noticed:
That's a train wreck waiting to happen, and Dem strategists know it. Meanwhile, GOPers have no incentive to make things easier, as they wait for 2022 to happen.
UPDATE: Yep, Don Surber says it all. What's the danger in Zhou occupying the Oval Office?
It is not that he will make some wild hare-brained decision. If he does, his aides will stop it. No, the danger is his aides will make some wild hare-brained decision, and he will be too addled of brain to stop them.
Biden is overwhelmed.
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In February 1988, Biden suffered two brain aneurysms. 33 years later, even with medication, we may be witnessing the damage done.
A wise reader wrote me, "A note on Joe. A person close to me had two brain aneurysm surgeries. They are in reality not the same mental person as they were before. Understanding the complex is no longer possible leading to frustration and early abandonment of the task at hand. ... Joe is not really a fully functioning unit."
Everyone in the inner circle knows this. ...
The wise man said, "His permanently altered analytic state is what made him truly attractive to the money men and clinched the deal: Not understanding leads to reliance on others who then do what they please."
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He is short of temper because he is frustrated because his mind cannot wrap itself around the subject at hand.
This is why he abruptly hangs up the phone.
This is why he cannot make a decision.
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The story said, "Over time, the president’s staff has learned the routine. They have padded his schedule with 15-minute breaks because they know he will not finish on time. ..."
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Now why would the Times bring this up? Are Democrats beginning to ease Biden out of the White House via the 25th Amendment? Has the matter become so obvious that even White House reporters see it?
Likely the situation is far worse than the Times let on.
25th Amendment? Be careful what you wish for. But, hey, it's not my funeral.
They stole it now they own it.
ReplyDeletePass the popcorn.
Boarwild
You can imagine that that's the GOP attitude in Congress. They may thwart disastrous policies that they can, but cooperation? What's in it for them, with 2022 not so far off?
DeleteThe GOP has already cooperated where it mattered most.
DeleteThis must be satire. Trump was on to this ruse when he warned Biden of Pelosi's 25th amendment antics before the coup disguised as our election.
ReplyDeleteThe glaring obvious is that after the VP, the Speaker is next of kin. If ever there was a more fire need to surgically remove, STAT, the Stage IV malignancy wielding her gavel like a rattle, it is right now.
She's in bed with the Vatican mafia with Cupich and Tobin serving as her flying monkeys. It is no secret that Nancy Pelosi's father, mother, brothers were deeply embedded within the international mafia from Baltimore to Rome to Washington, D.C.
Her supine evil and arrogance is beyond despicable. Our God in Heaven makes clear His plans for Jezebel.
Pushed to her death and eaten by dogs, only her hands and feet remaining?
DeleteOh my.
For her, that is merciful.
DeleteIncidentally, here is the link to a recently published statement by Lt. Colonel James Zumwault calling for Pelosi to be removed by legislative fiat. Which implies a ruthlessly thorough investigation of her activity especially throughout the insurrection when she inadvertently left her office wide open with her laptop up for grabs on her desk. Her lies don't add up. If Biden is senile, she's several years ahead of him already. She's not about to step down of her own volition. No, not a woman this dis-graceful.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wnd.com/2021/05/pelosi-cant-find-elusive-butterfly-reason/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-brief&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=brief&ats_es=%5B-MD5-%5D
These NYT writers, as young as most of them are are amazed by Biden's take on things. Why don't they just write the he's "stuck in his ways" which in Biden's mind means this is what got me here and through 47 years of policy making.
ReplyDeleteNYT writers glorify his "deliberate, detailed" thinking as if it's some great character trait... "to a fault" they suggest.
This is the way Biden operates. This too "grates" the progressive left and the hard left liberals. So these writers mean to tell us what we already knew? Those 81M voters didn't know this upfront? Give me a break. This is why the recent chaos has snuck up him and his administration and then they act surprised. Who you crappin...