WHAT THE HECK IS GOIN' ON IN THE WHITE HOUSE? Part I
…Is a question alot of people have been asking since Biden let Afghanistan fall to the Taliban two weeks ago. And sadly this situation will almost certainly get worse before it gets any better.
Here on POMOCON Carl puts it in poetic form: did Biden just fall? Victor Davis Hansen lists off 5 different very plausible explanations for Biden’s incompetence. Joseph Epstein suggests that Biden simply has no fixed principles (we already should have known that, given his campaign speech that the Declaration just means “endless possibilities”). And Karl Rove very sensibly points out today that:
“if [the White House staff ] is worth their salt, they need to anticipate possible challenges to the President’s goals, not just react to each crisis. They must supervise successful interagency planning, pushing cabinet officials to bring disagreements to the surface, and present options to the President. They must juggle simultaneous challenging events, husbanding the president’s time and building the nation’s confidence in him by making certain he appears in charge -and hopefully he is. In the case of Afghanistan, none of this seems to have been done -or done well- by the Biden team.
It is, after all, the White House staff chosen by Joe Biden.
More on the Biden White House staff anon… “what the h*ll is goin’ on?”…