Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) "It’s become a political cliché to recall how Virginia’s Sen. William Scott, declared the Senate’s dumbest member by a D.C. rag, called a news conference to deny the charge – thus proving it.
"Until Thursday night.
"That’s when President Joe Biden – confirmed by a special counsel to be a man of “diminished faculties in advancing age” who in interviews couldn’t drudge up when he was veep, when his son died, who his political friends and foes were or his past policy positions – convened a nationally televised presser to refresh the relevance of Scott’s storied screwup.
"Say you ain’t slow, Joe.
"The daft Delawarean’s angry retort to a cutting kickoff quotation from the counsel’s report: “I’m well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing.”
"As if. The hastily called gaggle dissolved in seconds into a crazed, chaotic, feverish, free-for-all feeding frenzy with the octogenarian as the hapless, helpless red meat.
"The commander in chief’s inability to command the room was the second clue that everything alleged about his mental mush was gospel truth – agreeing to hold the presser being the first.
All multiplied exponentially by his customary combination of tetched and testy demeanor, unsteady steps, groggy gaze, and, of course, foggy flubs – hanging a reference Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as Mexico’s president onto his recent resurrections of dearly departed foreign leaders.
"Ladies and Gentlemen: This. Is. Not. Hard.
"Your correspondent needn’t elaborate on a crystal-clear conclusion the electorate has already long ago reached – including 54% of Democrats.
"If he’s lost his wits, Sleepy Joe must quit." . . .
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