Laughter, please: “The 2024 election’s in full swing and yes, age is an issue. I’m a grown man running again a 6-year-old,” joked President Biden at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner.
All jokes aside, Biden and Speaker Mike Johnson are making progress — most recently passing a bill with bi-partisan support to fund aid to Ukraine despite Hard Right Republicans’ opposition to funding, while they prioritized support of Putin’s and Russia’s war against Ukraine over the Western democratic world’s security, including our own.
“… on Capitol Hill, the House Republicans’ sputtering impeachment has become an embarrassment.” Remember? Those who pushed for impeachment, including Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), used Russian propaganda as their excuse, quoting a Russian spy then embedded in the FBI. That Russian spy is in prison now, considered so dangerous that an ankle bracelet won’t keep him from fleeing the U.S.