Success has Many Fathers; Now Everybody is Joe Biden’s Daddy
Is this the way it’s supposed to work? President Joseph R. Biden was practically a pariah in his own party. Influential Democrats called him weak, made him a premature lame duck with public statements about his advanced age, damned his accomplishments with faint praise, and bemoaned that his lack of effectiveness was dooming our hopes for the midterms.
Oh, woe is us! The weakness! The sluggishness! The inflation! The Merrick Garlandness of it all!
So, if Democrats perceive their leadership as a sinking balloon, then they watch it sink. Some even stick pins in it. They rush away to be clear of the shrapnel that may pierce their own balloons. Few would-be rescuers rush in to help. The party is down, maybe gasping for breath, and they throw a blanket over it, if not a pall. Thanks for the help, folks. If you smother it, then it’ll be a miracle if it’s got enough breath left to crawl to November.
But now…
But now the fortunes of Biden and the Party are looking up, and everyone is rushing in where the angels formerly feared to tread.
Oh, the joy! The punching back! The student loan debt forgiveness! The Inflation Relief Act! The Merrick Garlandness of it all!
