Biden the flip-flopper in chief

 Paul Bedard:

This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden showing more than ever that he’s an able flip-flopper on major issues.

From his prior opposition to packing the Supreme Court, redefining his promise of “unity” to erase Washington Republicans, and putting out the welcome mat for refugees after promising to keep the numbers low, Biden has proven that few of his positions are heartfelt.

Our editor, Hugo Gurdon, sized the president up in a column headlined “Joe Biden — once a fraud, always a fraud.” In it, he wrote: “His chameleon lack of principle was glaring during the election, in which he won the primary in the guise of a centrist to defeat his extremist rivals, then executed a violent handbrake turn and hurtled back leftward.”

Our grader Jed Babbin cited several reasons why this week was worthy of a D+, including whiffing on the border crisis.

Jed Babbin
Grade: D+

Biden had an interesting week that had its ups and downs. He announced we’d withdraw from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, sanctioned Russia, and he’s trying to redefine “bipartisanship” to exclude Republicans.

It is, as Biden said, time for us to withdraw our remaining troops from Afghanistan. And it’s also time to plan for the foreseeable effect of that withdrawal, which Biden isn’t doing. We know that the Taliban will quickly topple the Kabul regime and restore itself to power. Afghanistan will, again, be a safe haven for terrorists, and Biden has no plan to even come up with a plan to deal with it.

Vice President Kamala Harris is still missing in action on the border crisis. She apparently plans to visit Mexico and Guatemala to offer subsidies to would-be illegal immigrants to stay home rather than come here. Those subsidies will probably be just enough for the migrants to pay the coyotes who will smuggle them into the United States. The subsidies are an amazingly stupid idea.

Biden is now pushing another $2.3 trillion in federal spending for “infrastructure,” a term that is subject to varying definitions. And so, according to Old Joe, is “bipartisanship,” which has always meant that a piece of legislation had the support of both Republicans and Democrats. Biden’s new definition excludes congressional Republicans and somehow includes undefinable Republican support outside the Beltway. Sorry, Joe, that doesn’t pass the giggle test.

Democrats have introduced a bill to pack the Supreme Court without giving Biden’s “blue ribbon” commission time to examine the issue. Biden will endorse court-packing as soon as his panel, which is stuffed with court-packers, approves it.

Biden has spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (and won’t be impeached for it), offering only words in support of a nation that is literally besieged by Russia. Biden also wants to have a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the midst of this, Biden created a new round of sanctions against Russia for the 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack. The sanctions include the usual sending home of a few diplomats and, interestingly, a bar of U.S. banks to trade in new Russian state debt and bonds. That can be a significant hit to Russia’s ability to sell bonds, but it will not be enough to damage its economy.

Biden first ordered two U.S. Navy destroyers to cruise the Black Sea in support of Ukrainian independence and then canceled the order after Putin closed the Kerch Strait, which is one of Ukraine’s outlets to the Black Sea. And now, Iran is enriching uranium to 60%. (Weapons grade, about 90%, is a relatively short jump from there.) Biden-style diplomacy is not impressing any of our adversaries.

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Biden appears to be the most openly dishonest person to ever become President.  He is practicing the politics of fraud in a totally shameless fashion.  He seems to survive because much of the mainstream media is willing to tolerate his lies.  His other policies are just as goofy as his border policy only the latter has really become a political problem for him so far.  His appointments to political positions are also terrible. He has a knack for hiring those who hate much of America.

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