WSJ: Dem Cover-Up of Biden Senility Began in October 2021https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/22/wsj-dem-cover-up-of-biden-senility-began-in-october-2021-n3792121... The entire Democrat Party created this constitutional crisis by knowingly cooking their primary to ensure the renomination of a president they knew was incapable of carrying out the duties of the office. As I have repeatedly argued, everyone including the media knew that well enough in April 2022, when the White House had the Easter Bunny body-block Joe Biden from contact with Easter Egg roll attendees and reporters.
The Wall Street Journal today reports on the start date of the cover-up -- October 2021. The setting: Biden's infrastructure bill. The stakes: His main legislative agenda. Biden's focus ... almost entirely absent:
President Biden had just finished trying to persuade a group of congressional Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill when Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, took the microphone.
In 30 minutes of remarks on Capitol Hill, Biden had spoken disjointedly and failed to make a concrete ask of lawmakers, according to Democrats in the room. After he left, a visibly frustrated Pelosi told the group she would articulate what Biden had been trying to say, one lawmaker said.
“It was the first time I remember people pretty jarred by what they had seen,” recalled Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who would go on to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against the president.
That was October 2021. That month was the last time Biden met with the House Democratic caucus on the Hill regarding legislation.
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Pelosi finally got her separate vote on the infrastructure bill a week or so later -- after which Biden dawdled on signing it, apparently wanting a good photo op. This series of events looked bizarre to everyone at the time, but in the context of what followed, the WSJ report makes perfect sense. It wasn't just political incompetence -- it was cognitive incompetence. And every Democrat in the caucus, especially Pelosi, knew it.
Now they're all running for the hills, trying to blame White House staffers and the Biden family for hiding the president's cognitive decline:
That October 2021 date needs to be qualified, "Cover-Up ... began in October 2021
that we know of". Very obviously, many in the White House knew earlier - Jill, some staff. It is very possible that some in Congress and the MSM also knew earlier.
In November 2021, Congressional Dems made a choice. They could have told all of Congress and the nation the truth, and in acknowledging the problem, started to deal with the problem. Congressional Dems instead chose to lie. Wittingly or unwittingly (probably both) the partisan MSM joined in the deception. Worse still, a year after Congressional Dems
knew Joe was not entirely home upstairs (and probably knew he was getting worse!), they supported Joe's run for a second term!
DU-folk and many Progs are blaming "billionaires" and power-hungry pols for Joe dropping out, but Joe's decision yesterday was the culmination of nearly 3 years of Dem Party and their MSM-shills' deception.
