Civil War Explodes in the White House as the Rush to Absolve Joe Biden of All His Failures Commences – Opinion

The Democratic Party’s civil war has been ongoing for well over a decade. There have been direct conflicts between the progressive caucus and the so-called “moderates” within the party, with the latter desperately trying to hang on in their swing districts.

Then there’s been the butting of heads between the vice president and her staff and the White House. RedState has reported on that extensively, noting that things have gotten so bad that Harris’ staffers have actually cried racism at times.

Yet, during that drama, the White House itself has appeared to remain resolute and united, typically coming to Biden’s defense at all times, seeking to deflect any and all blame for anything that occurs. NBC News reports that Biden has begun to air his complaints about his handlers after the ceasefire broke down.

“Biden was furious that his [Warsaw] remarks were being seen as unreliable, arguing that he speaks genuinely and reminding his staff that he’s the one who is president.”

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 31, 2022

WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.

Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.

Before we go into details, I want to highlight how NBC News created this report. It is clearly written in a way to absolve Biden of his many self-inflicted failures, spending most of its time blaming his staff for all the administration’s ills. You should read it for the truth. It is just an excuse for Biden’s inability to lead, and that is why it was written.

With that out of the way, I couldn’t help but laugh at the assertion that Biden delivers “clear and succinct” statements, only to be undermined by a staff rushing to say he meant something else. You’re right. Joe Biden is the subject. Nothing he says is clear and succinct, and to suggest such is insulting to everyone’s intelligence.

Biden doesn’t just care about policy. He is also unhappy with the West Wing’s current pattern. He makes a clear and succinct statement — only to have aides rush to explain that he actually meant something else. He has said that the so-called Clean-up Campaign undermined him and dampened his authenticity, which he claimed was what fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he’s not fully in command.

Time and again, Biden’s handlers have rushed to clean up his messes because they are legitimate messes. Biden was the president of the United States last time that I checked. Biden isn’t dependent on his communications staff. If he felt that he was right, he could at any moment order his comms shop colleagues to cease contradicting him. I don’t think that’s what has been happening, though. I suspect that NBC News will try to retroactively portray those corrections, which Biden most likely accepted at the time. The administration is continuing to spiral out-of-control and it’s convenient to make them appear otherwise.

Past that, the report also mentions that Biden is furious he wasn’t told about the baby formula crisis sooner, with the claim being made that he was only briefed on it a month ago.

Biden is annoyed that he wasn’t alerted sooner about the baby formula shortage and that he got his first briefing in the past month, even though the crisis had long been in the making

One, that’s unlikely considering how widespread the crisis is, and the fact that news reports on it date back to January. Two, if that’s true, then why is Pete Buttigieg still Secretary of Transportation? It’s cowardly to complain about not being informed while not having the guts to actually punish someone for the supposed oversight.

But again, the overall goal of all of this is to absolve Biden of any blame for all the things he’s so epically screwed up without him having to actually be a leader and take action, including against those in his administration. That’s how you get paragraphs like this from “sources.”

“They came in with the most daunting set of challenges arguably since Franklin D. Roosevelt, only to then be hit by a perfect storm of crises, from Ukraine to inflation to the supply chain to baby formula,” said Chris Whipple, the author of a book about White House chiefs of staff who is now writing a book about the Biden presidency. “What’s next? Locusts?”

To be clear, the assertion that Biden’s plate has been uniquely and historically full is just nonsense. With COVID vaccinations and the path to ending the pandemic, he was elected. It was already on the brink of recovery, and also the economy was soaring. The gas prices were very low, and foreign policy was extremely stable.

Everything was dismissed as chance. Biden had a chance to stop Russia in its tracks by launching crippling sanctions much earlier and not nuking US energy production, which only strengthened Vladimir Putin’s hand. The Afghanistan disaster was completely the president’s fault. Inflation was largely caused by the “American Rescue Plan,” a $2 trillion dollar, largely unnecessary spending bill that blew way too much “free” money into an already heated economy. The fact that Biden presided over the doubled gas price is obvious. However, the conflict in Ukraine is just a small part of the problem.

Biden doesn’t have any excuses. HeThis is what’s the problem. It is absurd to try to exonerate him from all of his failings. No sudden change in messaging will alter the fact that he did what he did. The solution isn’t different handlers. A different president is the solution.