Hard To Believe But . . . Government Was Supposed To be Kept At The Margins Of Life

By DEXTER DUGGAN

PHOENIX — The U.S. Founders wanted government to be at the margins of life, not at the center, author and commentator Tom Del Beccaro said on activist Charlie Kirk’s national radio program aired on June 21.
Although that was a foundational belief for the establishment of this nation, it’s so far from the way government works today that it almost sounded startling.
Radical Democrat Joe Biden and his government elite and their allies decide that one form of depravity or another is a new national mandate, and suddenly hundreds of millions of people in a country thousands of miles wide are expected to snap to obedience for what they know is wrong.
That’s not how it was supposed to be, but long decades of encroaching federal power have brought the nation there.
How many politicians ever think today of seriously trying to return to that better vision for this country when they’re just fighting to keep leftist government claws off their constituents’ throats?
Del Beccaro, a former chairman of the California Republican Party, is author of The Divided Era: How We Got Here and the Keys to America’s Reconciliation (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2015).
A description of the book at Amazon.com quotes him: “There simply is so much at stake today. As a result, our governments that benefit so many, employ so many, and tax so widely — in short, our governments that pick so many winners and losers — are understandably subject to an intense competition for their control.”
The threat is even worse today, eight years after the book’s publication, because now the U.S. officially is led by an elderly president whose mind clearly loses its grasp more every day.
Biden may have created more trouble for himself by arbitrarily choosing South Carolina to be the first state holding a Democratic Party primary election in 2024, which drew expressions of opposition in traditionally first-up New Hampshire and Iowa.
He may have wanted to reward the Palmetto State, and ensure himself an easy early win there, because it was the site of an important primary victory for him in the 2020 presidential contest. However, Biden announced his arbitrary decision before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entered the race.
An article posted June 15 at Axios Sneak Peek said: “Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire could defy Biden and move ahead with their contests — even as the party warns it will strip them of their national convention delegates if they jump the gun. That sets up a scenario in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or another long-shot Democrat could win those states — and embarrass the president.”
Even many Democrats are uncomfortable with Old Man Biden forcing himself into another presidential race. If the powerful liberal name of Kennedy gives them an option, would that start an avalanche against the White House incumbent?
Meanwhile, as this article was written overnight on June 21-22, there was talk of a few strong Republicans in the U.S. House wanting to move forward quickly with an impeachment resolution against Biden, although House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) favored a slower approach.
Cong. Lauren Boebert (R., Colo.) reportedly planned to force a vote on impeachment around the time this hardcopy issue of The Wanderer went to press on June 22.
The Hill political news site posted on June 21: “While no fans of the president, Boebert’s GOP critics said her move to stage an impeachment vote this week is wildly premature, harming the Republicans’ ongoing efforts to investigate the Biden family’s business dealings while undermining potential impeachment efforts in the future.”
Even if Biden were to be impeached by the House soon, his conviction in the Senate seemed highly unlikely given its small Democratic majority and the necessity to have a two-thirds vote for removal from office.
A Reuters story posted on June 21 said Boebert tweeted that day: “Republicans need to stick together and get this man out office for his dereliction of duty on the southern border.”
It was true that by throwing open the border, Biden had shown beyond a doubt he was the best friend of foreign sex traffickers, drug pushers, and cartel gangsters. Some American territory along the border was said to be under the control of the foreign cartels.
However, his defenders brushed off these horrors as an inconsequential result of Biden’s supposedly great presidency.
Evidence continued to pile up of the basic dangers the cognitively impaired Biden poses to the nation, but because he’s a left-wing Democrat, the delusional dominant media don’t seem to care even if Biden were to be completely out of his mind and shouting orders to launch missiles against Moscow.
How much fantasy can Biden hold in his head?
In a speech to the League of Conservation Voters on June 14, Biden said the U.S. has plans to build a huge railroad ocean bridge, a remark he ended with his familiar words about having to stop lest he get himself in trouble.
On such occasions, he doesn’t explain whom he’s going to get in trouble with, or why, and listeners are left to speculate that Biden senses he’s jabbering gibberish.
Biden told the conservation voters: “We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. We have plans to build in — in in in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world. I can go on, but I’m not. I’m going off-script. I’m gonna get in trouble.”
Even if Biden meant to say the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Pacific, a railroad bridge extending across the Indian Ocean would be a titanic, and unnecessary, project.
A post at the conservative Washington Free Beacon site commented on June 16: “A railway of that duration, if it began at the Asian coast of the Pacific Ocean and ran all the way across the Indian Ocean into Africa, would be more than 5,000 miles long. Another possible option based on Biden’s wording is a train that begins in the western United States and spans across two oceans and several nations, totaling a length of more than 10,000 miles.”
And think of how many railroad drawbridges would be needed in the middle of the ocean(s) for large ships to pass through.

The Garden Of
A Nursing Home

During Biden’s California fund-raising trip in June, a video showed a congresswoman literally having to lead him by the hand to where he was supposed to be — another illustration of Biden being unable to move about on his own in public.
The June 19 video showed Cong. Anna Eshoo (D., Ca.) pulling an uncertain-looking Biden by the hand outdoors to a group of people, as if Biden were a child, or senile. The “White House Dossier” blog commented, “This looks like a scene from the garden of a nursing home.”
Biden was wearing a ballplayer’s cap once more, as he had at the June 1 Air Force Academy graduation, where he fell over on-stage. The cap leaves a juvenile impression in a formal setting. If he needs to protect his head or shield his eyes from the sun, why not choose a fedora, which adult men used to wear as a matter of course.
Or does Biden get some of his wardrobe ideas from first-term U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), who, like Biden, is cognitively impaired, has trouble speaking English, and won a manipulated election.
Fetterman wore his frequent baggy gym shorts, a hoodie and sneakers when he greeted Biden in Philadelphia on June 17, even though the other men attending the event about the collapsed I-95 bridge, including Biden, wore suits. In a brief statement, Fetterman pronounced the word delegation as “delegadation,” and said “infructure” for infrastructure.
In a video at the New York Post site, Fetterman also referred to the congressional infrastructure bill as “the jewel, kind of a law, of the infra, infration, infriction bill that is gonna make sure that there’s bridges like this all across America getting rebuilt.”
Standing next to Fetterman at a lectern, Biden quietly had his eyes closed, as if asleep, before coming to life.
One of the hosts on the Mike Russell and Rob Hunter afternoon talk program on Phoenix-based KFYI Radio (550 AM) said he himself is informal and keeps his shirt hanging out, but if his son had met the president dressed like Fetterman, the son would have gotten rebuked.
You wouldn’t even want bleary 80-year-old Biden to be your bus driver or jet pilot, but he’s the perilous commander-in-chief of the entire nation. Some people age worse than others, and Biden is past ready to be put into a retirement home. But he says he wants to start a second four-year term in the White House in January 2025.
Is this just a head fake to mislead his incompetent vice president, Kamala Harris, so Biden could slip radical California Gov. Gavin Newsom into the Democratic presidential nomination next year? Or is Biden sufficiently delusional and arrogant to think he, born in 1942, is good enough to last through one of the potentially most arduous jobs in the world until the start of 2029?
“Potentially most arduous jobs” because Biden clearly doesn’t and can’t actually work at his long-sought position that hard, what with his easy schedule at the White House and frequent trips for who knows what kind of medical treatment at his Delaware mansions.

Is The Fix In?

It’s hard to believe this decrepit, befuddled man is within a few points of either former President Donald Trump or Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in opinion polls, either narrowly ahead of or behind the Republicans. Is the fix already in? Is illegal ballot harvesting already arranged?
If DeSantis is supposed to save the GOP from Trump, these polls certainly don’t show that.
As of June 22, the RealClearPolitics polling average shows Trump only 2.4 points ahead of Biden, 45 percent versus 42.6, and DeSantis ahead of Biden only 1.3 percent, 44.4 versus 43.1.
Finally, in a June 13 “Weekly Update” email, the Arizona Republican Party said that Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, a left-wing radical, was using tax money for a drag show in the northern Arizona university mountain city of Flagstaff.
The update linked to an article posted June 11 at the AZ Free News website, which said in part, “Gov. Katie Hobbs’ Office of Tourism and the Arizona Lottery are sponsoring a ‘child-friendly’ drag show next week [June 17] in Flagstaff” and included the 2022 Miss Gay Arizona winner.
The Arizona Republican Party email commented: “The allocation of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars towards such events is deeply troubling. Shouldn’t we expect our funds to be used more wisely, such as investing in education, addressing homelessness, and ensuring the integrity of our elections? These critical issues demand immediate attention and resources, yet they are being overshadowed by the misallocation of funds.”