In announcing her retirement, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) took a strange swipe at me: “When you write the stories, please write that he colors his hair, and I don’t.”
If it was a joke, it landed flat. Anyone who has seen me knows that if I am coloring my gray hair, I’m failing badly. But her comment unintentionally raised an important point about the people we elect, their age, and their impact on our politics.
Voters care about results and how the decisions made in Washington will impact their lives. Unfortunately, Democrats seem to have forgotten that important lesson. Case in point: their party swore up and down for four years that President Joe Biden could execute the most important job in the world. Even when common sense and nearly 9 in 10 Americans said otherwise, they not only defended Biden’s viability, but accused those who questioned his fitness as “cheap fakes.”
Then came the catastrophic June debate. Fifty million viewers saw that our commander-in-chief could not form a sentence or articulate a clear thought – let alone run the free world. It was jarring, and laid bare the truth that our country had been steered into a ditch because the individual at the wheel was incapable of driving.
In the aftermath of his disastrous performance, zero members of New Hampshire’s all-Democrat congressional delegation joined the growing chorus of voices calling for Biden to step aside. Shaheen said Biden should be given time to decide whether to remain in the race. Sen. Maggie Hassan dismissed concerns as a “bad debate,” while U.S. Reps. Chris Pappas and Maggie Goodlander also carried their party’s political water. For them, the political jersey they were wearing mattered more than what was right for America.
Even today, the Democratic Party still refuses to acknowledge its role in the cover up, never mind apologize for it mistake. It’s no wonder the party’s popularity cratered to a record low in a new CNN poll, and that’s before we even get to their whacky policy ideas.
Biden may be gone, but those responsible for his coverup still roam the halls of Congress. Instead of remorse and contrition, they are impeding progress and opposing President Donald Trump’s efforts to turn the country around.
Take illegal immigration. Upon assuming office, Biden signed a series of executive orders weakening or undoing Trump’s immigration policies. Biden signed nearly 300 in the first year of his presidency alone (no telling how many of those were auto penned). Predictably, border crossings soared to an all-time high, eclipsing more than a quarter million in December 2022. Immigration surged to the top of the list of voter concerns, surpassing even inflation and the economy.
Since January, illegal border crossings are down 94 percent. It turns out the Democrats complaining about a failed immigration bill last year wasn’t the problem; it was the man in charge, and his priorities for a secure America.
This week, as the Trump administration gets tough on deporting violent criminals connected to the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Democrats are standing in the way. These deportations are not of everyday citizens – they are dangerous gang criminals with roots in a Venezuelan prison.
No one believes these people belong in our country, except for partisan Democrats who would rather work with their special interest allies by filing lawsuits and halting their deportation because it may be seen as a victory for their political opposition.
The Democratic Party has come a long way from the 2008 primary when Hillary Clinton declared, “If they’ve committed a crime, deport them,” or the “Deporter-in-Chief” Barack Obama.
Therein lies the problem. For four years, the Democrats were led by a decrepit Joe Biden, who let the far-left fringes of his party drive the country. Like St. Patrick’s Day revelers, the bill is coming due, and the price is steep.
Today, blanket and reflexive opposition to a man elected as a change agent is not a strategy. Neither is continuing to push policies of open borders, men in women’s sports or electric vehicle mandates – the priorities that were rejected last November by an electorate seeking change.
