Bidens final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure
“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S.Eliot famously wrote.
“Not with a bang but a whimper.”He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency.As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.How’s that for a legacy?His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America’s global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there’s nothing to worry about.But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn’t know.In other words, we don’t know and we don’t really care, but trust us anyway.Sorry, it’s too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.
Even the usually somnolent Gov.Hochul stirred to demand answers.Only a fool would deny that something unprecedented is happening, and it’s doubly worrisome when the blanket assurances come from Alejandro Mayorkas, head of Homeland Security.
Recall it was Mayorkas who insisted repeatedly, under oath, that “the border is secure” even as more than 10 million unvetted migrants poured across.So when he says “don’t worry,” we should worry.The incident also illustrates why there is so much excitement about Donald Trump’s return.Politics is ultimately about contras...