“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to (expletive) things up” – President Barack Obama.”

Biden ” has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” – Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Obama Administration.

When President Obama and Robert Gates shared these insights about Joe Biden’s competency we did not realize how prophetic their assessments would prove to be.

How so?

For one thing, Biden’s campaign and inaugural promise of political unity has been betrayed by his threatened ill conceived use of budget reconciliation as a tool to pass a $3.5 trillion bill that will massively expand the welfare state. (How did the nuclear option work out for the Democrats who introduced it under Harry Reid?)

For another, his shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline has foreclosed our energy independence and resulted in higher oil and gas prices.

Further, his passage of stimulus legislation went significantly overboard in countering the economic effects of the pandemic …stimulus checks that provided a windfall to many who did not need the money or, at the very least, had no where to spend it…higher unemployment benefits which served as a disincentive for many to reenter the workforce leading to continuing shortages of help in small businesses which have been the hardest hit during the pandemic and which continues to hinder their recovery.

Add to this the record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing on our southern border based on what was effectively his campaign promise to them of an open border further facilitated by his suspension of virtually all of the prior administration’s executive orders which effectively served to stem the tide of such immigration…. or his lack of an ordered withdrawal plan ( he ignored the warnings of his advisors and the assessment of state department employees on the ground) from Afghanistan leaving our in-country operatives and American citizens at risk and the reestablishment of the country as a Taliban-controlled state for the promulgation of international terrorism.

In fact, for anyone to suggest that he and his Vice President have been anything but dismal failures with regard to both domestic and foreign policy is disingenuous at best and, at its worst, completely dishonest.

Biden’s election promised a breath of fresh air after a tumultuous four years of Trump. That, in fact, is what got him elected. While I did not vote for him I was willing to give him a chance regardless of his less than remarkable career in the Senate. I considered him and continue to consider him ” my president.”

Well, my president is a complete incompetent and I am not sure we can afford three more years of his and his party’s Democratic rule and march to the progressive left. I am hoping that the mid-term elections act as a check on this march and return us to a more centrist agenda for the country.

The country should have all gotten the hint that Joe would be a disaster when Barack Obama first failed to rally behind him as his immediate successor in the 2016 Presidential Election and instead chose to back Hillary Clinton. The second hint was provided in the delayed backing by Obama for Joe in the Democratic primaries leading to the 2020 Presidential Election.

We now have proof positive (hints are no longer necessary) that Joe Biden is in over his head. He is a stellar example of the Peter Principle…he has risen to his level of incompetence as has his Vice President.

It is time for the electorate to admit its mistake and make sure that going forward we decide who are to be our leaders based less on personality and, instead, based on exhibited ability to govern. We need to start voting for a candidate based on what he or she has actually done, what he or she has actually voted for in the past… as opposed to vacuous promises that pander to our interests and which vary based on the direction of political winds.