Something remarkable is happening right now in Washington — people are abandoning ship on President Joe Biden with alarming speed and right out in the open.
I’m not talking about Republicans criticizing Biden’s agenda or declaring him a useless president — although that is certainly happening. And it’s not just Biden’s plummeting poll numbers, although those don’t help his cause. I’m talking about the president’s allies within his own party looking for the exit door as his administration’s failures pile up.
What failures, you ask? How about the collapse of his multi-trillion dollar socialism act, the Build Back Better bill, because a fellow Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, stood firm against its irresponsible spending? Or the rejection of his voting rights bill, which was just a barely-concealed attempt to make elections easier to rig? And let’s not forget the ongoing inflation and supply-chain issues that threaten to cripple our economy. The Biden White House has dropped the ball on all these issues, so badly that even that most dependable of liberal allies, the media, is turning its back on the administration.
The New York Times, CNN, a whole range of places that are normally liberal are now really poking at Biden, poking at Kamala Harris, really driving home the idea that maybe Biden should announce he’s not gonna run for reelection. Which would frankly make him a lame duck for three years. But I can’t remember any time when your own allies…I mean, it’s one thing if Democrats say to Donald Trump or Republicans say to Joe Biden, “you know, you really ought to, you’re not up to it.”
But when you have your own allies, just less than a year into your administration telling you that you really need to get out of the way, when you start having lists of people who might be the right replacement, there’s something strange going on.
Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema get most of the headlines and hate from liberal voters for standing up to Biden’s reckless policies, but it’s not just them. More and more, we’re seeing democrats throwing their hands up and walking away from this disastrous presidency less than a year since it began.
