'The view that the Biden presidency is flailing — and failing — has now moved from the opinion pages to the news pages, from right-wing criticism to Beltway conventional wisdom,' writes NYT columnist Bret Stephens.
President Joe Biden addresses a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022.The view that the Biden presidency is flailing — and failing — has now moved from the opinion pages to the news pages, from right-wing criticism to Beltway conventional wisdom.
Why did the infrastructure bill languish for months in an intramural Democratic Party squabble? How did President Joe Biden give his fire-breathing speech on voting rights in Georgia without first checking whether Kyrsten Sinema was going to cut him off at the knees? Why couldn’t the administration work out a deal with Joe Manchin on Build Back Better — and where was the political wisdom in having White House press secretary Jen Psaki publicly accuse him of breaking his word? Why has the...
The president needs to communicate that he’s a step ahead of these problems. So far he’s been a perpetual step behind.Biden’s performance thus far is sometimes compared with Jimmy Carter’s. Maybe the better source of comparison is Bill Clinton, who ran as a centrist, tilted left in his first year, saw his signature legislation blow up in Congress, suffered military humiliation in Somalia — and then figured out how to recapture the center and save his presidency.
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