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The annual presentation of the American president’s wish list, one that never comes to fruition, commences tonight in the well of the House of Representatives as Joe Biden will deliver what we can only hope is his final State of the Union message.
This particular speech increasingly has become a useless affair. Even the most diehard political observers would be hard-pressed to come up with a State of the Union address delivered by a president of either party that had any meaningful impact on policy, or even a rhetorical line that’s worth remembering. For me, the last line from a SOTU speech I can recall was the Axis of Evil section of George W. Bush’s 2002 address. It was just a few months after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and it was a moment of clarity to identify the coalition of immediate threats the United States faced.
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The ironic part about today’s world that Joe Biden has helped create is that there actually is an axis of evil very much allied against our interests – China, Russia, Iran, with junior partners in Venezuela and North Korea. But the chance of Joe Biden going down that road and talking in stark terms about national security and our need to beef up our military capabilities to combat it is about as likely as the President accepting responsibility for creating an open border that resulted in the death of Laken Riley in Georgia. It just won’t happen.
So what do we expect out of the exercise tonight? Well, there’s the physical aspect of it, and then there’s what will be said, and finally, what won’t be said. First, the physical.
Joe Biden is a very old man. He is physically slowing down. You see it in his gait, you see it in his posture, you hear it in his voice, and you see it in his declining energy. You have eyes. You have a brain. You can process what your eyes and ears report to you. The bar of expectations, based on recent Biden public appearances, is very, very low. If Joe Biden makes it to the podium and gets through the speech without falling and breaking a hip or having his upper denture plate dislodge 10 minutes in, it’ll be perceived in regime media as the comeback story of the century. Joe Scarborough of MSNBC is taking the over on Biden expectation game.
Here’s the problem with Joe’s analysis. No one believes it. Even decades ago before the physical decline of Biden began to manifest itself, he was never considered to be the brightest candle in the chandelier. Former Bush and Obama cabinet official Robert Gates famously said in his memoir, Duty, that Joe Biden hadn’t been right about a single foreign policy decision in 40 years. And that was ten years ago. Biden’s streak of being wrong continues into its golden anniversary jubilee year.
The Joe Biden we’re most likely to see tonight is the one that is clearly on some cocktail of Red Bull, Aricept, and a pinch more of that powder Robin Williams begged for from the pharmacist in Awakenings to get Robert DeNiro up and going.
