After Joe Biden’s Disgusting Speech, the White House Becomes More Vindictive and Detached – Opinion

Joe Biden’s “voting rights” speech, which he gave to a Stacey Abrams-free crowd in Georgia some days ago, has been widely proclaimed to be the worst, most divisive of his presidency. There are some other contenders, including his vaccine-mandate and Afghanistan “victory lap” speeches, but no doubt, Biden comparing normal Americans to Jefferson Davis and calling them “domestic enemies” simply because they want to keep the traditional voting procedures in place is grotesque.

Things were so bad that even Sen. Dick Durbin, one of the White House’s biggest allies and a staunchly leftwing Democrat, suggested the president took things too far.

Sen. Durbin says that the president may have gone a bit too far with his rhetoric.

— Doug Andres (@DougAndres) January 12, 2022

Senator Mitt Romney was extremely kind to Biden up to now, laying out his critiques and not treating him as a jerk like Donald Trump. But, he finally had enough of it to fire back.

“And so President Biden goes down the same tragic road taken by President Trump, casting doubt on the reliability of American elections. It is sad and sad. I expected more of President Biden who came into office with a stated goal of bringing the country together,” Romney said.

That’s certainly a perplexing statement. As expected, Romney couldn’t dare take a swipe at Biden without somehow tying it to Trump. I’d also ask the Utah senator why he “expected more” of a man who once accused him of wanting to reenslave black people. Romney, however has not held Democrats to the same level of standards as other Republicans. In that light, it’s surprising he said anything here at all, no matter how mild.

Yet, the White House’s skin only grows ever thinner, even in the face of criticism from those they used to label “good ones.” Jen Psaki lashed out at Romney with one of her most childish, nonsensical responses to a controversy yet.

.@PressSecReply to Sen. Romney

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 12, 2022

Here’s the video if you want to torture yourself further.

Jen Psaki defends Biden’s Georgia speech. She says that at most, he did not foment an insurrection similar to Trump’s and it is “hilarious,” anyone can have an issue with Biden’s speech. pic.twitter.com/SPCeO1YfCo

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 12, 2022

Romney had voted twice to impeach Trump, according to my last check. Putting aside arguments over the wisdom of those votes, that pretty firmly puts the Utah senator in the category of not sitting “silently” over the “last four years for the former president,” right? You can’t get more forthright than trying to remove the president and barring him ever from running.

In other words, Psaki’s “clap back” is completely detached from reality, showing an administration that simply has no answer for anything they are doing at this point. On inflation, Biden actually bragged about yesterday’s disastrous seven percent figure. The White House declared victory over Afghanistan in spite of 13 Americans who were killed and the millions of Afghans living under Taliban rule. Left is right; dogs and cats co-exist.

As a political strategy, the White House’s move to isolate even more Americans, including a quasi-ally like Romney, is moronic. Biden’s entire appeal was a promise to be non-divisive and level-headed. He’s managed to be nothing of the sort, with that reality culminating in that speech he gave in Georgia. Is he going to continue losing support, or further in his own corner? That’s the problem with an administration that can’t just take a loss and pivot to a more workable issue. Eventually, you double down enough that you can’t see the surface anymore.

I’ll end by pointing out the ignorance in Romney ever believing Biden would somehow represent the creation of national unity. Nothing in the current president’s past suggested that was possible. This also serves as another lesson on why it’s futile to try to ingratiate one’s self to Democrats. You will be stabbed in the back. Always.