Is President Joe Biden doing anything — and I mean anything — right? The news that his multitrillion-dollar swing for the historical fences, the Build Back Better bill, is being shelved just put a bow on his mostly horrible first year in office. If Biden had a blackboard and drew a line down the middle with his achievements on one side and failures on the other, the positive list has maybe two things on it while the negative list is staggeringly long.
Negative: Inflation. Rising crime. More COVID deaths than in 2020. The mishandling of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. A border crisis to dwarf any we’ve seen. The ever-shifting line on school closures.
More in the negative column: Getting dinged by courts on efforts to continue a national eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and on the national vaccine mandate. The disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Bad off-year election results.
Positive: Early on he got a COVID relief bill. Later in the year he got an infrastructure bill. These were ..........
