President Joe Biden is expected to sign a narrow executive order on immigration Tuesday afternoon, despite previously claiming he had no authority to do anything about the crisis he created, but the transparently political attempt to throw a life preserver to the president’s job approval before November’s election. Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, as only he can, explained Tuesday morning why he isn’t buying the ploy — and why Biden-sympathetic mainstream reporters shouldn’t either.
“President Biden is in trouble politically — he’s polling right up there with fungal infections,” Sen. Kennedy quipped in a Senate press conference. “Part of the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon-wing of his party and he dissolved the southern border.”
“Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it,” the Louisiana Republican continued. “Hence this executive order. He expects you to report this epiphany that he has had, take what the White House is telling you, balance on your noses like trained seals, and report it uncritically,” Sen. Kennedy said, speaking to reporters gathered for his remarks.
“For three years, we have watched President Biden push on a door that has been clearly marked pull,” Sen. Kennedy assessed. “He’s mismanaged Congress, COVID, the national debt, the economy, inflation, crime, Afghanistan, Iran, the war in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and now of course the border.”
Through all these crises of Biden’s creation, Sen. Kennedy said that “every time” he thinks “the president has hit rock bottom, he has managed to find a shovel and continue to dig.”
“It’s a little late, isn’t it Mr. President?” Sen. Kennedy asked rhetorically of Biden’s sudden realization that the same authority he used to gut border security and open the floodgates to illegal aliens allows him to reinstate the effective policies that prevented the current crisis.