Each American President has committed serious policy mistakes. Many have overstepped constitutional limits on their power. More than one has engaged in activities that skirt the lines of corruption.
Never before, however, has an administration had such a near-total record of deadly serious policy failures at home and abroad, combined with stunning acts of sleaze and dishonesty, as that of the current White House.
At this moment, the planet is enduring wars in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The Biden response to each situation has made matters far worse. His decision to depart Afghanistan abandoning billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and not leaving behind a residual force at Bagram Air Force Base essentially rang the dinner bell for rapacious dictators in Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing. His defense spending proposals added to the impression that his Administration was not serious about security issues. Its pursuit of a worthless nuclear deal with Iran, his comments that he wouldn’t respond to a “minor incursion” in Ukraine defied common sense. The White House refusal to shoot down China’s spy balloon until it completed its mission over continental USA baffled and worried observers. The bizarre decision to end the existing program to root out Beijing’s intense espionage remains a frightening mystery.
As the threat of global terrorism grows exponentially, Biden clings to his open border policy. Millions enter the United States without background checks and minus any means of tracking their whereabouts. Border patrol agents have warned about finding Islamic prayer rugs along the border. Military age Chinese nationals are crossing into the United States,
In addition to the national safety implications, this has led to great financial distress of city and state governments. It can’t even be justified on naïve sympathy grounds for illegal immigrants, who find themselves subject to rape, trafficking, and exploitation. Their overwhelming numbers leave them in many cases on the streets, without any legal means of providing for themselves. They are deeply vulnerable to becoming pawns for criminal cartels, and the influence of foreign powers who seek to construct a fifth column within the nation.
Despite all that, Biden keeps doubling down on his border disaster. The New York Post reports that “’Asylum seekers’” arriving in New York City just set a new record: nearly 4,000 in a single week. And the routine inflow is double what it was a year ago. It’s getting worse, not better…Team Biden hasn’t done a thing to slow the tide at the border [it has] opened various new paths for illegal migrants to enter ‘legally’ — with each fresh ‘pathway’ adding to the ’come on in!’ signal.”
A bizarre energy policy that destroyed related America’s self-sufficiency and dramatically benefitted unsavory regimes in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela served both to enrich aggressor states and imperil the U.S. economy. Energy is the bedrock of a modern economy, and despite all the bluster, there is no “alternative energy” yet developed that is capable of meeting demand. The impact on the economy is clear. The House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-R) recently showed prices rising 17.7 percent since President Biden took the Oath of Office.
It would be almost comforting to believe that these were all acts of incompetence, but the evidence of corruption surrounding the President and his family is disturbing. The House Oversight Committee states that “There is mounting evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his family’s influence peddling schemes, including while he served as Vice President.” Considering the strange and politically suicidal nature of Biden’s decisions regarding China in particular, it is not inappropriate to ask what influence did the funds foreign sources have on Administration policies.