In another glaring sign that he’s not playing with a full deck, 78-year-old President Joe Biden admonished Fox News reporter Peter Doocy Nov. 3 for asking a “garbage” question about the State Department’s decision to pay illegal immigrants separated from the their children under the Trump White House $450,000. Either Biden hasn’t been informed or he just forgot about the State Department policy to pay illegal immigrants separated from their children $450,00 or thereabouts for their inconvenience Biden bristled at Doocy’s question, acting like how could he ask such a foolish question. Yet the next day, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the White House was indeed considering paying illegal immigrant families separated from their children $450,000. Whether Biden forgot or not, it shows there’s no check-and-balance to the White House press corps.
Fox New represents on the only dissenting voice in the White House press corps, leaving Biden free reign to run amok both in foreign and domestic policy. Today’s USA poll showed that Biden hit a rock bottom 38% approval ratings, even with 99% of the press rubber stamping all of his political actions. Biden and his energy secretary Jennifer Granholm announced their backing of nuclear power to bring the nation to zero-net carbon by 2050. To accomplish that, the Biden White House urges electricity suppliers to go all in on nuclear power. Despite the known hazards of nuclear power with waste disposal and potential meltdowns, not one person in the Democrat-friendly press questioned Biden’s decision to push nuclear power. Yet when it comes to Biden getting surly, the Democrat-friendly press corps relishes the opportunity to slam Fox News, especially correspondent Peter Doocy.
Paying families of illegal immigrants separated from their children at the border represents a new nightmare for the Biden administration, certainly for his approval ratings. Whatever independents or Trump-hating Republicans voted for Biden in the 2020 election, they don’t like hearing that he plans to give illegal immigrant families $450,000. Biden’s nosedive in approval ratings stems from many things but certainly starting with his disastrous withdrawal from Afaghanistan, causing the deaths of 11 U.S. soldiers. Then came all the wrangling over the infrastructure bill that’s lasted weeks, until finally agreeing to $1.2 trillion package with more bickering on the way for money for welfare programs. Biden’s performance on the world stage hasn’t gone well, especially at the COP26 World Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. When he tried to sell nuclear power, things headed south.
What the American public sees with Biden is a shell of the former politician, racked by age-related cognitive decline and probably unannounced hearing problems, making listening to reporters more difficult. It doesn’t take much to get under Joe’s skin, especially when he really doesn’t understand the questions. When you consider the abysmal relations with Russia and China, there’s little to celebrate in foreign policy. When a traditional ally like France calls back its ambassador because of a botched nuclear submarine deal with Australia, things aren’t good. But by far Biden’s worst foreign policy mistakes have come with Russia and China, both essential adversaries with whom the U.S. must have good working relationships. Instead, Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “soulless killer” and accused Chiese President Xi Jinping of genocide against Mulim Uyghurs in Western China.
By far Biden’s worst domestic failing involves the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, mandating vaccines, without considering the legality of forcing citizens to take vaccines or lose their federal jobs. No one knows the long-term down side-effects of mRNA vaccines or, for that matter, whether they really prevent Covid-19 infections. But most egregious of all, Biden defers all his Covid decision-making to 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] bureaucrat who actually funded bat coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has accused Fauci of funding the creating of the deadly virus, prompting angry denials by Fauci. But if Fauci’s NIH record is examined, it clearly shows that he supported dangerous “gain-of-function” experiments in Wuhan. Biden says he has the utmost faith in his chief medical officer.
Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted because the American public, except for the most partisan Democrats Congress and the media, see that Biden’s too old for the White House without major problems in domestic and foreign policy. Pushing nuclear power at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Biden hit a new low antagonizing many U.S. and foreign environmentalists who don’t see nuclear power as the answer to climate change. New nuclear technology doesn’t solve the age-old problem of what to do with nuclear waste, nor does it guarantee that more nuclear meltdowns won’t happen in the future. Recent White House chatter about defending Taiwan militarily in the event of a Chinese invasion violates the “strategy ambiguity” policy that’s kept the U.S. out of a war with China over the last 70 years. Republicans can sit back and watch Democrats self-destruct under Biden’s leadership.
