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There’s a lot of hot air coming from the White House on the China spy-balloon debacle — the Biden playbook as usual is deflect, downplay and deny.
Make no mistake, this embarrassing incident happened for one reason — because this administration, and directly this president, allowed it to happen. President Biden said over the weekend that he wanted to shoot the Chinese balloon down right away, but his generals told him there was too big a risk to civilians to take that step, so they decided to let it cross the entire country top to bottom, end to end before shooting it down in the Atlantic — once its spy mission was complete.
The problem with this theory is the generals aren’t in charge under our Constitution — the president is the commander in chief, and while President Donald Trump was in office, he made very clear he was the decision-maker and no one else. This incident shows that’s simply not the case with Biden — he punted that call to his generals instead of making it himself.
Remember that Biden as commander in chief had so many opportunities to shoot down this Chinese Communist Party spy balloon — he could have done it over the ocean when it came by the Aleutians and flew down toward our mainland, he could have done it together with our Canadian partners in NORAD when it was over empty stretches of that country, and now both Montana senators — Republican and Democrat — have said they could have taken the balloon down over Montana with no problem because there’s so much open space there.
