Last August I published a post titled ‘The Maverick We Have’ – An Open Letter about the Undecided and Independent Voters in the Crowd primarily to poke at the condescending powers over at the legacy site who were much too proud of being among the stubborn “feeling” undecided and “virtue-signaling” independent class. That exercise led into a series of posts about our outgoing prideless executive. Here is the important part of the first in that series:
…I return to the topic tonight just to document what has been obvious for some time to most anyone willing to see but – as of late last evening (evidently) – is now just being openly rubbed in our faces to the cheers and giggles of a fully corrupted party: The oval office has been occupied since January 2021 by a hollow vessel happy to have the title but without an ounce of pride in the authority that goes with it and the uses of it done in his name by others…nameless, faceless others. (He has been mindlessly signing Executive Orders since his very first hours in office like Colonel Henry Blake initialing whatever papers Radar O’Reilly puts under his nose. His party cheered him on…embarrassments galore.)
From my vantage point, this is the culmination of voting undefined “Hope and Change” into power and the big finale of the “fundamental transformation” promised back in 2008. This is the ultimate poison pill: the system we were given does not work when the Chief Executive has no real pride in this sense. (Both parties must abide by this in good faith. Obviously, given the replacement for FJB on the 2024 ticket, our current construct fails this requirement…
I bring this up now to lead into the natural progression of this “rubbing it in our faces” phenomenon into the “fly on the wall” book deal phase as it hit my news feeds this week:
Every four years, the confused, the despondent, and the curious look to campaign postmortems for more details—gossip, really—on what happened in the last presidential election. These tell-all books are usually the work of reporters who hold back key tidbits as the contest unfolds to make the books more revealing when they appear. …
Since there are no real revelations in these supposedly revelatory volumes, one has to look elsewhere for the real story: the media-enabled cover-up by a handful of White House insiders now known as “the Politburo.” The Politburo was made up of Biden handlers Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, and Mike Donilon; first lady aide and attack dog Anthony Bernal; and family members Jill and Hunter Biden. And here the books get interesting, because they do expose not only the delusionary nature of the Politburo in propping up Biden but also the various forms of self-justification they engaged in to continue their charade. …
The Politburo stayed in lockstep until the blowback from the debate made its position unsustainable. Without that debate, its members would never have wavered, regardless of the potential consequences. As former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta told Whipple, “Everybody was marching to the same tune. And there was nobody there to say, ‘What the hell’s going on?’ They just never had a grown-up in the room who could look Joe Biden in the eye and say, ‘What the f— are you doing?’”
It’s a good question. It’s just too bad the Politburo members were not asking the question—or being asked it—when they were propping up someone dangerously unfit to be president at the time they were refusing to ask it. While these books are interesting as a window into what the Biden team was doing as Biden was clearly flailing, the authors fail to grapple with the fact that they and their colleagues in the media were not asking Panetta’s question, either. Biden was serving as president throughout, when the people closest to him and the people working for him should have been protecting the country from him.
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Aside from the disturbing comfort with which it is now admitted that this group is known as “the Politburo,” the thing that sticks out to me regarding this far-too-late admission that there was “never a grown-up in the room” to ask the critical questions is: Where the fuck was the Cabinet? The article tells us “…they rarely saw Biden. And when they did, it was in highly scripted situations.” With all due respect…BULLSHIT. The miniscule levels of intellectual curiosity required to let that charade go by for four full years in total silence does not pass the smell test for a group of Senate approved advisors under oath. (I know. They are Democrats. But not a single peep from the crowd?Not a scruple among them?) The dereliction of duty by the Biden Cabinet should not escape scrutiny…and consequences…during these after-action bragging sessions.
In regard to a hidden Politburo and the acts of impersonating the President, the same Instapundit entry that featured the above article also provided the following:
Conservative constitutionalists believe the President is a singular official — the only branch of our three federal branches of government that consists of only one man.
In important ways, widespread use of the autopen— and certainly abuse without knowledge by the singular President — functionally creates a multiplicity of cloaked Presidents.
Thus, Biden Administration’s massive use of the autopen for the Presidential John Hancock, including multiple versions of the purported Biden signature is itself a microcosm of progressive theories of the Constitution: Reliance not on one man to be President — the system of government bequeathed to us by the Founders — but on a profuse coterie of advisors clustered around the actual sitting President who are all able to use the autopen to — let’s not sugarcoat it — impersonate the President as they might see fit.
Even in the small things, the inversion of the true Constitution in the minds of those that hate it in the progressive movement becomes ever more apparent.
Summarized: We do not have a multiplicity of Presidential impersonators, in the real Constitution, we have a singular President.
Conservative constitutionalists believe the President is a *singular* official — the only branch of our three federal branches of government that consists of only one man.
In important ways, widespread use of the autopen— and certainly abuse without knowledge by the singular… https://t.co/eEl8bp3BFY
Joe Biden never was man enough to rise to the office. Joe Biden never was man enough to fill the office. It is to the shame of all involved that a severely diminished version of the life-long dolt was installed into the office by the fully corrupt machine and then protected in that position for four full years by a party, a “Politburo”, a Cabinet, the Biden family, and a reliably incurious/willfully compliant media.
The stench around the expired Biden Administration grows more putrid by the day…history shall not be kind.
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