CERTAIN THINGS BECOME OBVIOUS:  Can the Dems still pretend that President Biden is lofty and above us all?  Things are closing in, with the possibility that the president could decide not to run next year if his legal situation deteriorates further.  It is reported that Kamala Harris is taking English as a first language.  From ace lawyer Jonathan Turley in the New York Post: 

This week, President Joe Biden responded to calls for greater access to the media with a blockbuster interview with . . . the Weather Channel.

The interview immediately prompted critics to speculate that the president wanted to continue to talk about the weather — the same claim made after the disclosure of his participation in various dinners with his son’s foreign associates.

As the number of these dinners, meetings and outings increase, Joe Biden appears to have covered more meteorological subjects than Al Roker.

The problem is that conditions are worsening in Washington.

This week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer released a third report on the ongoing investigations into the Biden corruption scandal.

The latest bank records indicate the Biden family has received more than $20 million, including from corrupt Kazakh figures.

Some of this money provided Hunter Biden with extravagant toys. On April 22, 2014, Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev wired $142,300 to the Rosemont Seneca Bohai bank account.

That account then shows the exact same amount being wired to a New Jersey car dealership for a Fisker sports car for Hunter. Finding the Fisker unsuitable, Hunter traded it in for a Porsche.

Notably, these payments often coincided with dinners and meetings with Joe Biden.
Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the widow of Moscow ex-Mayor Yury Luzhkov, wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton Feb. 14, 2014.

She later attended a dinner with Joe and Hunter Biden at Washington, DC, hotspot Café Milano.

For weeks, Joe Biden’s prior claims have been collapsing as his allies in the media and Congress struggle for an alternative spin on these new disclosures.

The president’s denials of any knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings has finally have been exposed as a lie.

Even the Washington Post has acknowledged Biden lied when he insisted that Hunter never made any money in China.

COMMENT:  When you lose the Washington Post, you lose the healthy-food crowd, and that's the end for a Democrat.  Common sense tells us that Joe Biden has been improperly gifted, to coin a phrase.  The issue is how much that will mean to the American people, and, importantly, the American press.  

Read the rest of the piece.  Can't America do better?  Or are we defining deviancy down, Pat Moynihan's description of a nation that gets used to low standards?

August 12, 2023