Editorial: ’I’ve done all I can do’

I guess Joe has officially lifted off from Mother Earth and rocketed into unknown parts of deep space.  Or so, his comment would seem to indicate.

On the other hand, maybe he means he’s done all he can do to screw things up.

Which would make more sense.

Winging his way into the fourth year of his presidency, Joe appears confused about nearly everything going on around him.  From the chaos along the U.S./Mexico border to a stumbling domestic economy, to COVID goof-ups, to an outrageous national debt, to the war in Ukraine, to his “Don’t.  Don’t, don’t, don’t” wacky-warning to Hezbollah and Iran’s further involvement in the Israel/Palestine conflict.

I won’t even get into his and his son Hunter’s apparent suspicious foreign business entanglements, involving tens of millions of dollars.

Nearly every day a crisis of some sort comes looking for Joe; nearly every day Joe looks glassy-eyed when learning of it.  

“Crisis.  What crisis?  Oh, you mean, that crisis.  There are so many crises’ I get them mixed up” is kind of the expected response from the White House.

But, his recent “I’ve done all I can do” border pleading was a doozy.  Maybe, the best yet.  At least a Top 5 contender in his lengthy list of bewildering remarks. 

Joe admonished reporters to “Just give me the power,” apparently forgetting he already has it.  He’s had it since he was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021.

Inquisitive fact-checkers and liberal-minded media folks may want to verify the veracity of this information to make sure I’m not making it up.

Pretty certain I’m not. 

Specifically, the realization he’s used that authority – or, clumsily misdirected it – is not an indication the Office of the President lacks the necessary influence to reestablish order on the border. 

Joe knows this.  He’s the very same guy who steadily dismantled a once mostly secure border by announcing to the world everyone was welcome to come on in.

Trump is gone and the gates have been flung wide open.  

As a result, they’ve poured in by the millions.  Nine to 10 million by the latest estimates. Also, an abundance of drugs, disease, human smugglers, gang members, terrorists, non-English speaking, and just about every other form of societal debris has accompanied the multitudes.

From Central and South America, Asia, Africa, India, Russia, the Middle East, China, and Europe – a blended variety of thousands of illegal migrants cross daily into our homeland, mostly unrestrained by any meaningful resistance.

Joe, and his merry band of associates, are primarily responsible for the out-of-control immigration disaster.  Ninety percent of this craziness has happened under their watch.  

Not Donald Trump’s.  He hasn’t been in the Oval Office for more than three years.  Presently, he’s too busy defending himself from a Democratic barrage of accusations, indictments, and court trials.

Seeing his border management has evolved into a cataclysmic mess, Joe suddenly denies involvement, insisting he can’t do anything about it because he doesn’t have the people “to make it work right.”

Strange – he had the people to unravel the border, but he didn’t have the people to restore the border.  Aren’t they the same people?

Why do I get the nagging feeling Joe isn’t being on the level?  Again.  For some inexplicable reason, it appears to me he is trying to avoid any accountability for the 2,000-mile-long pile of doo-doo he’s unloaded along our southern boundary. 

Now, with an election approaching this fall, he expects voters to simply ignore what their eyes have been seeing for the past several years, forget the incoherent ramblings of his press conferences, excuse the profusion of lies, and accept the absurdity of his appeals to let him continue to misguide us for four more years.

Sadly, that’s exactly what he’s hoping for.

Well, as the old saying goes “Momma may have raised an exceptionally ugly son, limited in thought and reasoning, but he isn’t a complete idiot.” 

At least, I like to think I’m smart enough to have figured out Joe’s schtick.  And – until someone proves otherwise – I’ll continue to believe it!  

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.