Joe Biden was never exactly a colossus bestriding the Earth, but he’s been getting smaller by the day.
A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggested that his presidency is, for now, a smoking political crater. It had him at a 41 percent approval rating, despite the passage of his long-sought infrastructure bill that was supposed to buoy him and his party.
Even more striking, the survey found that Republicans lead Democrats on the generic congressional ballot by 10 points, 51 percent to 41 percent, an unprecedentedly strong showing for the GOP that forecasts an earthquake, tsunami and maybe a few more natural disasters for Democrats come next fall.
And who can be surprised? Biden is stumbling, out of touch and weak. Two of his major initiatives, at the border and in Afghanistan, created completely avoidable catastrophes. He has given no sense of being in control of events or even his own party. He is an accidental president who is running smack into his own inadequacies and absurd pretensions.
No one in Washington over the last four decades ever said that Joe Biden was the just the man with the foresight, wisdom and deft political touch to lead the free world.
No, he was an average senatorial bloviator whose three presidential campaigns flamed out in embarrassing fashion before he hit the jackpot when Barack Obama chose him as his running mate in 2008.
Illegitimate occupier of the White House!