Up, Up and Away
“Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?
Would you like to glide in my beautiful balloon?
We could float among the stars together, you and I”
In 1967, the pop group The 5th Dimension had a mega hit with a tune written by Jimmy Webb. Do you suppose that the Leader of the Free World was humming that ditty while trying to decide what to do about a Chinese spy balloon over the country. Thinking about floating along among the stars…Joe?
Joe Biden dilly-dallied last week, unsure what to do about the spy balloon as it floated over some of the most sensitive missile sites in the United States. Discovered and photographed by a keen eyed civilian, Chase Doak, in Montana, the Defense Department was forced to admit the balloon’s existence. They further compounded their inept bungling of this intrusion by stating that they knew about it as it crossed over the Aleutians Islands days earlier. Talk about the gang that couldn’t shoot straight…a fiasco for sure.
Naturally, the White House did everything possible to throw shade on Joe and the gang. They claimed these incursions happened several times during the Trump administration, but three of his former senior national security advisors, John Bolton, H.R. McMaster, and Robert O'Brien have stated that they were unaware of any security breaches caused by Chinese balloons. Note, these three aren’t Trump acolytes by any stretch of the imagination. The regime’s “whataboutism” , directed at the Trump Administration, failed miserably and was further compounded by Biden’s lame claim that he was taking the security of the nation seriously.
Bottom line, Joe and his administration spokespeople lied to the American people about the nature and intent of the Chinese balloon. The absolute absurdity that there were “undetected” spy balloon incursions during the Trump administration is illogical. If they were “undetected”, then how did anyone know they were there in the first place? Maybe it depends on what the definition of “undetected” is? It is beyond astounding that the current regime thinks that the vast majority of Americans are dumb enough to buy this obvious bilge.
The President continued his prevarications in what former U-Boat commander, Wolf Blitzer now of CNN, called the greatest State of the Union speech he’s ever heard. Joe never did mention the Chinese spy balloon specifically but generalized about the importance of American security by saying “as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did”. What? A shoot down of the balloon at the last possible moment after it had overflown sensitive military sites? Come on, man. How’s that closed southern border working out Joe? Kamala? Biden claimed that his crew is handling the southern border with record numbers of drug seizures and more personnel assigned to control illegal entry. According to Biden, his regime is making considerable progress on abating the border crises. It was a one of many Pinocchio moments.
Joe took the country for a 72-minute rhetorical ride Tuesday night in his beautiful, delusional balloon. He implied that Republicans wanted to “sunset” Social Security and Medicare benefits. That outrageous statement had Speaker McCarthy mouthing the word “no” and shaking his head while some GOP members yelled “Liar!”. Unseemly that members had to shout liar at the President, but he was lying. He told the nation that he’s lowered gasoline prices. Wrong. Gasoline was $2.59 a gallon nationally in January 2021. In June 2022, it was nearly double, a modern-day high of $5.04 a gallon. Today gas is $3.48 a gallon, still nearly $1.00 a gallon higher than when Biden entered office. He’s lowered inflation. Nope. It was 1.4% when he took office, currently 6.5%. Another whooper. He has cut the national debt. Not close to the truth. The national debt has risen by more than $4.2 trillion in his two years at the economic throttle. One of his greatest speech whoopers was, “we’ll need oil for at least another decade”. Seriously, what planet is he living on? Who wrote the nonsense that he read?
President Biden wasted an opportunity again to operate as a uniter instead of a divider. Instead the national Biden balloon ride treated the folks to was an angry, divisive, and fundamentally dishonest speech. It’s becoming increasing apparent that Joe Biden could be the most destructive individual to ever sit in the Oval Office. He’s an unprecedented combination of possible corruption, lies, incompetence, and weakness. The country will be fortunate to survive two more years of his befuddled, doddering governance.
As Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in the Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union speech, “The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy.”
The nation needs a younger generation of “normal” dedicated, patriotic, non-progressive leaders.