A Failing President

NATIONAL REVIEW

Axios informs us that “President Biden failed to persuade Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to agree to spending $3.5 trillion on the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package during their Oval Office meeting on Wednesday,” declaring in a headline, “Biden bombs with Manchin.”

Every politician walks into office with an enormous, and probably unrealistic, sense of his own ability to persuade others. But with each passing week, the gap between the president that Joe Biden thinks he is, and the president that he actually is, grows a little bit wider.

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The Financial Times reported that last week Chinese president Xi Jinping turned down an offer from Biden for a face-to-face meeting.

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Biden’s new security deal with the U.K. and Australia has left the French livid.

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The surge of migrants at the border has not been part of a predictable seasonal pattern.

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The inflation that was supposed to be short-lived continues to drag on.

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The administration that promised to “follow the science” on vaccines is grappling with what to do.

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Biden, Antony Blinken, and the rest of the president’s team spent a lot of time patting themselves on the back and declaring that “America is back!” after taking office. But as autumn arrives, they look naïve, unprepared, slow-footed, and in over their heads. A flailing president is a failing president.

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Header featured image (edited) credit: President Joe Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 9, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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