Morning Jolt: We’re Already Talking about Joe Biden in the Past Tense

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY

December 20 2024

We're Already Talking about Joe Biden in the Past Tense

On the menu today: A headline in Politico this morning reads, "Biden is AWOL as Washington spirals into shutdown chaos; Democratic lawmakers haven't heard from the president."

The government shuts down at midnight, and the only thing on Joe Biden's schedule is a visit to Children's National Hospital in Washington. The spending fight centers around the maneuvering of House speaker Mike Johnson, President-elect Donald Trump, the House Freedom Caucus, the Senate, "First Buddy" Elon Musk — nobody's even asking, "What does Biden think?" We've all just accepted that Biden isn't really running his own White House, that he's now just a mumbling geriatric who communicates to the country through issued statements, like an announcement that he's commuted the sentence of "non-violent ...

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