Hannity: ‘I don’t really give a rip what Joe Biden says to anybody’
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Sean Hannity vowed not to “fake and feign moral outrage” over President Biden calling Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b—-” in Tuesday’s opening monologue of “Hannity.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not apologize for Biden’s profane insult Tuesday, instead saying Biden assured Doocy in a phone call that “‘it was nothing personal, man,’ and also acknowledged that all [reporters] were going to ask him a range of questions.”
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" … [U]nlike fake news CNN and every liberal in the country, we’re not going to fake and feign moral outrage," Hannity said. “I don’t really give a rip what Joe Biden says to anybody. ‘It’s not personal’? Fine. I’ll take it that way. Joe is apparently unable to control his bursts of anger and so many other cognitive troubles.”
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The Fox News host criticized Biden for his day Tuesday, which included a visit to a clothing boutique and a stop for ice cream.
When asked about the risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden answered that “it’s a little bit like reading tea leaves.”
“There you have it, the Biden doctrine — reading the tea leaves, just like he read the tea leaves in Afghanistan,” Hannity responded.
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“Whoever is really running the show in the White House, we, the American people, are not stupid,” Hannity said. “Now it is painfully obvious to everyone: Joe is not fit to serve. U.S. presidents don’t just hang out at ice cream parlors and then call it a day at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. That is not normal. And of course, by all accounts, Joe has never been … to be blunt, the sharpest tool in the shed anyway. Remember, he plagiarized speeches, cheated in law school, still finished near the bottom of his class — lied about that too. High-level officials in the Obama administration, they even openly mocked Joe for getting pretty much everything wrong. But now it’s serious and much worse.”
Biden could be dragging Democrats into ‘political earthquake’: NYT guest essay
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A New York Times Tuesday guest essay predicted that President Biden could be dragging the Democrats into a “political earthquake” after a poll found that in 2021 more Americans are identifying as Republicans than as Democrats, a first in decades.
There was a great difference in Democrats’ popularity in 2021 versus the previous year, which Christopher Caldwell attributes in part to Biden. Gallup found that Republicans outperform Democrats in Americans’ party preferences at 47% compared to Democrats’ 42%.
“Since Gallup began tallying party identification in 1991, Democrats have averaged a four-point lead,” according to Caldwell.
Biden appears to lose popularity apparently synchronously with his party. A January Quinnipiac poll found Biden’s approval to be at 33%, with the majority of Americans disappointed in the president’s handling of COVID-19, foreign policy, and the economy. The poll reflects historic inflation , the withdrawal from Afghanistan , and Biden’s failure to " shut down the virus " as he promised during his 2020 campaign.
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Caldwell said Biden’s widely-panned remarks in Atlanta, which compared those who oppose his election reform agenda to reviled figures in American history, is politically poisonous for the Democrats.
“When … Biden told an Atlanta crowd this month that those who opposed this bill were on the same side as Alabama’s segregationist Governor George Wallace and the Confederacy’s President Jefferson Davis, he was arguably combining the condescension of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 ‘deplorables’ remark with a kind of anti-white race-baiting. That is electorally dangerous,” Caldwell wrote.
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Americans are not buying the story Democrats are selling, according to Caldwell.
“Roughly since the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, Democrats have been telling a story about the country that focuses way too much on race and way too much on Donald Trump,” he wrote. “Democrats have been led astray by their Trump obsession. They have misunderstood what the former president represented to voting Americans. … Trump tapped into smoldering grievances against various information-economy elites and managers. There is no reason that ethnic-minority voters wouldn’t share some of those grievances.”
Hoyer agrees with Biden that midterms could be illegitimate, then walks it back
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., was criticized for appearing to back President Biden’s claim that November’s midterm elections could be illegitimate if Congress doesn’t pass the Democrat-led federal election overhaul that stalled in the Senate earlier this month.
“President Biden is correct,” Hoyer told Politico when asked if he agrees with Biden’s claim last week that the midterms could be “illegitimate” if the federal election overhaul package is not passed. “This is about our Democracy. This is about an America that really believes in making sure that the people’s voice is heard and reflected in the outcome of the election.”
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Hoyer’s comment drew immediate criticism online from Republicans after Politico wrote that Hoyer “appeared to agree with President JOE BIDEN’s suggestion last week that the 2022 election results may not be valid without the passage of voting rights legislation.”
In a statement to Fox News, Hoyer communications director Margaret Mulkerrin said that Hoyer does not believe the midterm elections will be illegitimate.
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“Leader Hoyer shares President Biden’s concern that Republican attempts to methodically exclude millions of voters are deeply alarming, and raise serious questions that people who want to make their voice heard won’t be able to participate,” Mulkerrin said.
“Leader Hoyer does not believe the 2022 election will be illegitimate, nor would he claim ballots ought to be thrown out if a Democrat loses – simply that millions of Americans have been systematically disenfranchised from our democracy by GOP election suppression legislation, and that we ought to take immediate steps to stop it by passing urgently needed measures to protect the right to vote.”
A reporter asked Biden last week if he believed the upcoming election “will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate” if the bills don’t pass. The president responded that “it all depends on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election.”
Another reporter followed up on the topic later, and the president refused to back off, saying, “I’m not saying it’s going to be legit. The increase and the prospect of it being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed.”
Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report
Biden says US-based troops may embark for Europe soon
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President Biden made clear Tuesday that there would not “be any American forces moving into Ukraine,” though U.S. troops could be moved to Europe in the “near term.” The troops may head to NATO front-line countries if Russian begins a large military operation against Ukraine.
Biden’s comments to reporters in Washington come as the White House has urged Americans to leave Ukraine, saying that the security situation in the region “can deteriorate with little notice.”
“There are reports Russia is planning significant military action against Ukraine. The security conditions, particularly along Ukraine’s borders, in Russia-occupied Crimea, and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice,” said a State Department travel advisory Sunday.
The president compared a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine to the kind of operation not seen in Europe since World War II, saying the country would face “enormous consequences” if it attacked its neighbor.
“There will be enormous consequences if he were to go and invade … for Russia,” Biden said when asked to assess the risk that Russian President Vladimir Putin would opt to invade Ukraine. “Not only in terms of economic consequences and political consequences, but there would be enormous consequences worldwide.”
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Biden said that such an invasion would “change the world,” comparing the scope of the situation to World War II.
“If he were to move in with all those forces, it would be the largest invasion since World War II,” Biden said.
The president said trying to predict what Putin will do is like “reading tea leaves,” noting that it will ultimately be Putin’s decision on what to do with all the troops Russia has amassed on the Ukrainian border.
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But officials in Ukraine have sought to calm fears that an invasion could be imminent, arguing that the situation is currently “under control.”
“There are risky scenarios. They’re possible and probable in the future,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Monday. “But as of today … such a threat doesn’t exist.”
No Biden reboot coming from president who thinks he’s ‘outperformed’
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Joe Biden is not about to pivot. No siree, no reboot for this president’s White House.
Biden is not interested in making any course corrections because, after all, he has, by his own modest estimation, “outperformed what anybody thought would happen.” Further, the president is convinced “we have made enormous progress” and everything is “getting better.”
That’s what he told the country during his recent press conference, which was an eye-opener. Turns out Joe Biden is either seriously delusional or utterly sequestered and misled by his team. Don’t take my word for it; read his own statements.
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Addressing his White House’s effort to “shut down” the pandemic, as he promised to do, Biden said, “Am I satisfied with the way in which we have dealt with COVID and all the things that – that go along with it? Yeah, I am satisfied. I think we’ve done remarkably well.”
As to the performance of his embattled and unpopular vice president, Biden said of Kamala Harris: “I think she’s doing a good job.” Well, what could he say?
When asked how his administration’s report card might appear to voters as they approach the midterm elections, Biden said it “would look pretty good.”
That’s an interesting assumption, given that a new Politico/Morning Consult poll found 37% of respondents gave Biden an “F” for his first year in office, more than awarded him an “A” or “B.” A poll which, curiously, graded Biden worse that Donald Trump. For Biden voters, that’s the final ignominy.
But, as Biden declared during the presser, “I don’t believe the polls.”
Joe Biden thinks he has not done a good enough job explaining to people how wonderfully things are going.
The problem is, according to Biden, Americans are too dim to comprehend what a terrific job he is doing. According to him, “We’ve passed a lot of things that people don’t even understand what’s all that’s in it, understandably.” The obvious response from the president? “I have to make clear to the American people what we are for.”
Joe Biden thinks he has not done a good enough job explaining to people how wonderfully things are going. His new idea is to go “out on the road a lot, making the case around the country, with my colleagues who are up for reelection and others, making the case of what we did do and what we want to do, what we need to do.”
Biden is confident this approach will make Americans feel better about his presidency and save not only his approval numbers but also Democrats come November.
Democrats running for office in moderate districts must be horrified, strategizing frantically how to avoid the Great Taint of the Biden White House. Will they, like Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, who skipped out on a major Biden speech recently, claim a “scheduling conflict”?
They are cooked, especially with Independents defecting in droves. In a recent Economist/YouGov poll, only 6% of Independents “approved strongly” of the job Biden is doing.
In addition to getting out more, Biden’s new program includes “bringing in more and more – now that I have time-… experts outside, from academia, to editorial writers, to think tanks. And I’m bringing them in, just like I did early on, bringing in presidential historians to get their perspective on what we should be doing…”
He now has the luxury of this renewal because, as he says, “I’ve gotten the critical crises out of the way, in the sense of it moving – knowing exactly where we’re going.”
Voters will be so relieved to know that Biden has solved our biggest problems.
Even as Biden is quite comfortable with the job he is doing, he is very disappointed in his Republican colleagues, who, he says, are out to block his every initiative. More concerning, it seems, is that the president cannot figure out the GOP agenda.
He challenges Republicans to outline “what are you for?”
For the record, Republicans across the country are running on safe streets, stable prices, secure borders, school choice, strength overseas and getting the country back to work. Does Biden seriously not know these are the topmost issues for voters today?
In fairness, there are two other reasons Biden may not want to pivot, as Bill Clinton did with great success midway through his presidency.
First, he may not care whether his polls improve. His claims of planning on running again for the presidency in 2024 may be, like so much of this presidency, utter bunk. It is inconceivable that this fast-aging president will stand for reelection.
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Last November, the president underwent an annual physical exam, which showed him fit for office, but apparently did not take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which might squash widespread speculation about his mental abilities. Why not? Trump took such a test and passed with flying colors. Why didn’t Biden do the same?
The obvious conclusion may be that Biden knows his mental capabilities are fading, he knows he will not run again and therefore a mid-course correction is not as important as sticking to his leftist guns.
Second, the people who appear to have the most influence over this White House – Democrats like Sens. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, and Bernie Sanders, of Vermont – are zealots. They do not care about their party; they do not care about Democrats running in swing districts. They are on a mission.
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Even as the political tide has begun to swing away from progressives, who have lost most marquee races in recent months to moderates, Warren and Sanders and their colleagues push the envelope. They know they have a limited amount of time to “transform” a country that does not seek to be transformed.
It is unclear whether Joe Biden understands how badly his White House has been damaged; what is clear is he has no intention of changing course.