Yesterday’s press conference was Biden’s first in a couple of months, and, frankly, he would have been better off skipping it.
The White House promised a “reset” but provided no evidence of any such thing.
From start to finish, the president came across as an unfocused, unprepared, unserious, ill-tempered mess.
He suggested that it would be fine if Russia invaded Ukraine so long as the move represented a “minor incursion.”
He proposed that the 2022 midterms would be illegitimate if his coveted “voting rights” bills do not pass.
He defended his handling of Afghanistan, despite the bipartisan condemnation of that affair.
He attempted to sell his spending agenda as deflationary, though it was written before inflation took hold.
He slammed Senator McConnell as an obstructionist who will do anything to make him look bad, forgetting
that McConnell signed on to the same trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that Biden proclaimed as a victory in November.
And he insisted, in defiance of all evidence to the contrary, that he did not “overpromise” and has “outperformed” as
president.
The affair was an abject disaster, but it was also par for the course. And that, ultimately, is the problem.