One reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for her response to Republican critics. This ghastly discovery was a reminder of illegal immigration's human toll, and of the inadequacy of Biden's migration policies. The victims were illegal immigrants who had paid human traffickers to bring them to the United States. The result: America slouches toward stagflation because the alternative-reducing (non-China) tariffs, suspending "Buy American" provisions, reversing his entire energy policy, dropping his tax plans, committing to spending cuts-is unacceptable to the president.Įarlier this week, authorities found at least 50 dead people in a tractor-trailer on the side of a road in El Paso, Texas. Will Congress give him what he wants? Okay, you can stop laughing. He wants more spending, more tax hikes, more regulation. He asks Middle East autocrats to pump more oil rather than easing the burden on domestic fossil fuel production. He says it's the Federal Reserve's job to reduce inflation. What is Biden's plan? He blames Vladimir Putin and the energy industry for high gas prices. By far, Americans say the economy, unemployment, and jobs are the most important problems facing the country. The June 29 Reuters/Ipsos poll has Biden's job approval rating at 38 percent. Whether because of Biden's age, or his weekend trips to Delaware, or years of remote work, or lower-level staff turnover, or a painstakingly slow decision-making process, or ideological stubbornness, or a lack of a strategic plan, this administration drifts from crisis to crisis, and from one bad headline to the next. Yet each of these elements-the president, his staff, his spokesperson, his vice president, his policy-comes across as disconnected, discombobulated, as if each inhabits a separate sphere of activity. Vice President Harris or the second gentleman pops up somewhere to talk about all the good she and he are doing. The White House sends out press releases describing its latest initiatives. From time to time, Biden addresses these issues.
Think of the economy, the border, and Ukraine. There is no power, either overt or covert, in or behind the throne. What I have been wondering, instead, is whether anyone is leading the government at all. Not that Barack Obama or Ron Klain or Dr.
Lately, though, I have been having second thoughts. No conspiracy is required to explain the ineptitude. If all the White House has to offer is excuses, if decisions are made either slowly or randomly, if the communications team and the president and vice president seem to live on different planets, if incompetence and mismanagement appear throughout the government, it is because the chief executive allows it. After all, institutions take on the character of their leaders. My answer has been that the president is in command. Every time I speak to a conservative audience, I am asked who is really in charge in the White House. He moves on a course set by hidden captains. He behaves as if he is guided by unseen forces. Throughout his 18 months as president, Biden has been confused, uncertain, sluggish. This combination of ignorance and indecision was not new. He began to exit stage right, before someone redirected him toward stage left. "Which way am I going?" asked President Biden when he ended Thursday's press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid.
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