When he quit the presidential race, Joe Biden did the right thing for the Democratic Party but not for the nation. He didn’t resign the presidency. The stumbling, bumbling old man who only works between 10 am and 4 pm, is still president and will be until 20 January 2025.
How much more can he — and Kamala Harris — do to the country until then? The mind boggles.
Harris won’t end the military’s devotion to wokeness. She will instead worsen this enormously dangerous problem.
As this column has often said, Biden had no agenda other than to reverse everything former president Trump did while he was in office. In that, and in that alone, he succeeded except for one thing.
Trump’s 2018 cancellation of Obama’s 2015 nuclear weapons agreement with Iran has, so far, escaped Biden mostly because Iran wouldn’t cooperate with any agreement that said international inspectors — even the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency — could access its nuclear weapons development sites.
It was Iran’s judgment — a correct one that — that a new agreement wouldn’t benefit it sufficiently. They are confident that their nuclear weapons development will continue without American interference.
Never mind that Iran is funding some of the riots and protests in the United States right now. Look for another attempt to revive the Obama 2015 agreement before Biden leaves office.
We won’t rehash all of Biden’s failures here. Among the lowlights are the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, radical new spending that caused the worst inflation in forty years, millions of illegal aliens welcomed into this country and so much more, including Biden’s unceasing efforts to pressure the Israelis into a cease-fire agreement that would leave the Hamas terrorists in charge in the Gaza Strip.
Because Harris was part of all of this — Biden reportedly wanted her to be “the last person in the room” and thus have the last word on his decisions — she is more than complicit in some of the worst decisions ever made by any U.S. administration.
A Harris administration would carry on with Biden’s agenda and perform according to Biden’s low standards.
Many conservatives are forecasting that a Kamala Harris administration would be even worse than the Biden regime. In truth, the two would be indistinguishably awful.
Let’s start with the rating that then-Senator Harris received from GovTrack.us in 2019: she was found to be the most liberal senator despite the fact that both comically-communist Sen. Bernie Sanders and uberliberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren were in competition with her for the title. (GovTrack is now trying to retract the entry that so labeled her. Too late, boys and girls.)
To illustrate further we have only to point out that she has supported defunding the police and also her effort to help bail out the rioters arrested after the death of George Floyd in police custody.
Harris is among the most radical of liberals.
And let’s remember that in April Biden called Harris a diversity hire. She was chosen for her gender and her color, not because she was the best candidate for the job.
In 2021, Harris — despite media caterwauling to the contrary — was appointed Biden’s border chief. During her watch at least eleven million illegal aliens were welcomed into the U.S. Included among them are about two million “gotaways” — among them criminals, terrorists, and others with malicious intent — who eluded the border patrol. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: Our Border and the Gotaways)
Harris will keep the borders open. That is and will continue to be a great threat to national security if she’s elected.
Then there’s the fact that Harris is superbly unqualified for the presidency. Neither her education nor her experience qualifies her for the job. And Harris has never been the sharpest knife in the drawer. Despite that, Biden also gave her charge of artificial intelligence.
As I have written here and elsewhere, Harris is intellectually incapable of dealing with AI. She can’t even understand its threats and benefits and has done nothing to protect this nation from its dangers. Nor will she if she’s elected president.
Biden has forced “wokeness” on our military. If we began today, it would probably take twenty years — and the firing of a lot of generals and admirals — to rid the military of it. Harris won’t end the military’s devotion to wokeness: she will instead worsen this enormously dangerous problem.
Harris displayed her complete contempt for Israel by going to a sorority event rather than attend Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Wednesday speech to a joint session of Congress. On Thursday she and Biden met separately with Netanyahu. They again demanded that Israel agree to a cease-fire despite two overwhelming facts.
First, Israel has already agreed to Biden’s framework for such an agreement and it is the Hamas terrorists who are the obstacle to getting the hostages released.
Second, unless Hamas is eradicated it will retake control of the Gaza Strip and commit more attacks like the one on October 7 that caused this war.
After the meeting with Netanyahu, she reemphasized that Israel should end the war in Gaza. Her level of understanding of this war and everything else in foreign policy disqualifies her for the presidency.
If she’s elected, Harris will probably try to renew Obama’s 2015 nuclear weapons agreement with Iran. She doesn’t understand that Iran has had, thanks to that agreement and despite Trump’s revocation of it, more than adequate time to develop nuclear weapons. Nor does she understand that Iran will never surrender its nuclear weapons program peacefully.
Former president Trump will have to hang all of these facts around Harris’s neck in the coming campaign. Both he and vice-presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance must do so relentlessly. Nevertheless, we cannot be overconfident despite Harris’s overwhelming handicaps. There are too many people out there who hate Trump with an irrational passion. He’s not going to win easily, if at all.
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