Opinion - Biden’s reign of error goes on and on

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Opinion - Biden’s reign of error goes on and on

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-b...140000625.html


If Joe Biden intends to humiliate every last one of his supporters before he leaves office, he is well on his way to achieving that goal.


Mostly out of sight while President-elect Trump dominates the spotlight, Biden has decided to resurface inconveniently to destroy Democrats’ claims of moral superiority by pardoning his dissolute son along with a raft of fraudsters and corrupt public officials.


Biden’s mass clemency, combined with the ridiculously broad get-out-of-jail-no-matter-what card for son Hunter, is an outrage in and of itself. But the fallout from his irresponsible behavior will forever taint the Biden-Harris Cabinet. Hatred for Trump didn’t just unite the fractious Democratic Party, it created a toxic blind loyalty to Biden. Now, after four years of defending anything and everything Biden (which absurdly continues), that loyalty is going to bite.


What makes Biden’s mass clemency especially outrageous is that many of the beneficiaries are fraudsters who likely will never make restitution to their victims or to taxpayers. Among Biden’s greatest (or sleaziest) hits are commutation for Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal embezzlement scheme in American history; Meera Sachdeva, who bilked Medicare for millions by shorting her patients’ chemotherapy drugs; and Gregory Podlucky, who defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.


Worst of all, Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan, who, along with a co-conspirator, accepted millions in bribes to sentence more than 2,000 children to a for-profit juvenile detention facility. The damage he did to those young people and their families was (and is) extraordinary, including drug addiction and even suicide.


Biden has managed to wreck any credibility he ever had with respect to the rule of law and an independent judiciary. One of the strongest arguments the Democrats had against Trump was the incoming president’s cavalier attitude toward the legal system. All that is in tatters.


This whole sordid affair brings up further questions as to who was vetting these clemencies. Did anyone get paid off? It’s not like the stench of potentially paying for pardons is unknown to Democrats.


Perhaps Biden is far too mentally checked out to be held responsible for what his aides cooked up and put in front of him. But that leads to a further question — if Biden doesn’t know who he is letting off the hook legally, how can he be expected to discharge his other duties?


Democrats may think the best thing to do is lay low and deflect to Trump as much as possible. So far, that is not working. The public is turning against Biden and the collateral damage is mounting.


Biden’s approval rating is cratering. Last week’s YouGov benchmark poll showed him with a mere 38 percent approval rating against 57 percent disapproval. Just before the election, Biden was at 43 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove, so that’s a nine-point swing against him. In both polls, only unthinking, reflexive Democratic loyalty is propping him up. His approval rating with independents is more than 30 points underwater. The RealClearPolitics approval averages show Biden behind both Harris and Trump.


The lack of courage to break with Biden is metastasizing to other Democrats. Harris, for example, has fallen from even approve-disapprove ratings in the YouGov poll to a 9-point deficit. That is not good for someone who hopes she still has a political future. Pete Buttigieg, a putative candidate for Michigan governor, is not likely to benefit from Biden’s perfidy.


What’s worse about Biden’s numbers is that he should actually be improving in the polls. Post-election, the departing president usually gets a polling bump. The focus moves toward the incoming president and the barrage of election criticism normally falls away. That Biden is sinking so badly is remarkable.


The biggest casualty in the end may be the left-progressive media ecosystem. Whether the traditional newspaper establishment like The Washington Post, the cable news networks MSNBC and CNN or even the new media and social influencers like Harry Sisson, their fervent cheerleading for Biden will not age well. In their role as quasi-state media, pushing over-the-top party talking points, Biden could do no wrong and was a paragon of virtue, particularly in comparison to the odious Trump. But today, Biden looks like just another old, corrupt politician who won’t get out of the way.


As the Democrats seek to rebuild from the political mess Biden is leaving, all the main actors are tainted by their support of the departing president. At some point, they will have to break with the past. Biden’s legacy is that he is making that task more difficult by the day.


Keith Naughton is co-founder of Silent Majority Strategies, a public and regulatory affairs consulting firm, and a former Pennsylvania political campaign consultant.

And on and on and on! ...

#### Salty

the DemonRat puppet doing the Soros orders
.... Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

And the elon puppetmaster pulling fearless leaders strings.

I smell hypocrite.

And the elon puppetmaster pulling fearless leaders strings.

I smell hypocrite. Originally Posted by Precious_b

... And look at that - Whataboutism from you.
Nothing on the thread topic, though.

Nothing on Biden wrecking the rule of law??

#### Salty

Joe Biden is out of office in a few weeks. Who gives a toss.

An awful lot of rage whining from the winners.

Go Joe!

Joe Biden is out of office in a few weeks. Who gives a toss. Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Well for example the families of the Abbey gate bombings victims probably do. Laken Rileys parents probably do. Jocelyn Nungarys parents probably do.

Article doesn’t even mention the 37 of 40 death row prisoners he let off the hook and will now live long, taxpayer funded lives.

... As I mentioned - "Thanks there, Joe." ...
Biden's just cementing his legacy - as the WORST President EVER.

#### Salty

The MAGAs have come a long way from their cute "Let's go Brandon" phrase that excited them.


Now it looks like an attempt at a feeble "roast the President" party.

The MAGAs have come a long way from their cute "Let's go Brandon" phrase that excited them.


Now it looks like an attempt at a feeble "roast the President" party. Originally Posted by VitaMan

all the way to the White House.

anything to say about Biden's many transgressions as the worst president ever?

... And look at that - Tautology from you.


#### Salty Originally Posted by Salty Again

FTFY

Cheers!

Article doesn’t even mention the 37 of 40 death row prisoners he let off the hook and will now live long, taxpayer funded lives. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

Personally, in my opinion the death penalty should be forbidden to the state.

I wouldn't consider that to be an error.

all the way to the White House.

anything to say about Biden's many transgressions as the worst president ever? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Biden is not even in the top 10. In fact, there is only 1 living former president in the top 10.

And that former president is number 3 worst of all time.


And you became a millionaire under the Biden administration. With your "opinion", it would have to be said that was unfortunate, to keep things congruent.

Biden is not even in the top 10. In fact, there is only 1 living former president in the top 10.

And that former president is number 3 worst of all time.


And you became a millionaire under the Biden administration. With your "opinion", it would have to be said that was unfortunate, to keep things congruent. Originally Posted by VitaMan

Biden's presidency hasn't even been evaluated yet. the liberal hacks will struggle to find much good of it. Biden didn't make me a millionaire .. i did and it goes back to Bushy II.


what a bunch of liberal academic hacks think of Trump is as predictable as cold weather in winter. what they think of Biden is jut as predictable. they'll call him the greatest president since FDR's New Deal. what a success that was, yes?