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"Far more prone to salty language behind the scenes than popularly known, Biden also recently erupted over being kept out of the loop about the direness of the baby formula shortage..."

"... that has gripped parts of the country, according to a White House staffer and a Democrat with knowledge of the conversation. He voiced his frustration in a series of phone calls to allies, his complaints triggered by heart-wrenching cable news coverage of young mothers crying in fear that they could not feed their children. Biden didn’t want to be painted as slow to act on a problem affecting the working-class people with whom he closely identifies.... Members of Biden’s inner circle... have complained that West Wing staff has managed Biden with kid gloves, not putting him on the road more or allowing him to flash more of his genuine, relatable, albeit gaffe-prone self."

From "Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump’s/Frustrations are mounting and the window for a political revival is closing" by Jonathan Lemire (at Politico).

Let the seething geezer out — gaffe-prone and erupting with salty language. 

What do you think he said when he erupted saltily over being kept out of the loop about the direness of the baby formula shortage? It's fucking babies, man, babies, fucking babies, man, they need their fucking formula, man!!!

९७ टिप्पण्या:

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

It takes a Potemkin Village to look after Potemkin Joe.

Jake म्हणाले...

That was funny Professor. Thanks for the laugh this morning.

Lilly, a dog म्हणाले...

What about, "Whip out your tits, man, and feed your fucking babies, man."

tim maguire म्हणाले...

He wasn't left out of the loop.

But that's the least of this article's problems. Does anybody really think the answer is to put Biden before the public more often? He won the election by hiding in his basement. Like Hillary before him and Obama before her, Democrats do better when people don't see them. To know them is NOT to love them. In fact, other than Bill Clinton, I can't think of a Democrat since Truman who did better when people could see them.

Christopher B म्हणाले...

... not putting him on the road more or allowing him to flash more of his genuine, relatable, albeit gaffe-prone self."

"Genuine, relatable" is fucking bullshit. He's always been mean, nasty, foul-tempered, and a habitual liar when his mouth is not simply running ahead of his low-wattage brain. The Democrat media complex could paper over the evidence enough to keep him as the Senator from MNBA and assasination insurance for Obama but when it really counted, like during his previous dumpster-fire Presidential runs, the truth came out. He got into the Oval Office by fraud and Democrat desperation, and it's fun watching them squirm.

gilbar म्हणाले...

He "Won" the election sitting in a basement
WHY would they let him out? ANY exposure exposes him as a demented fool

IF he insists on being let out they should just remind him that he was out yesterday..
"Don't you remember sir? You were live on The Arsenio Hall Show just last night, that's why you're so tired."
Then give him a dish of ice cream.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I have some problems with the writing at Politico:

1. "Far more prone... than popularly known" ... too rhyme-y.

2. "managed Biden with kid gloves"... don't talk about "kid" gloves in the context of dead babies. Too Nazi/Ed Gein.

Richard Aubrey म्हणाले...

You would think that, in the USA, the king/emperor/czar was not in charge of baby formula. If he is, if the federal government can restrict the supply by a combination of being stupid and being...stupid, previous administrations with their oversupply of HOA control freaks should have not done it. So swearing would be appropriate.
If Biden can get a couple of thousand apparatchiks out of the way--as a dem that would not occur to him--things would loosen up considerably.

Tank म्हणाले...

Babies are a big fucking deal.

Sebastian म्हणाले...

"Far more prone to salty language behind the scenes than popularly known"

Even more?

Has he ever been anything but the crudest of crude hacks?

Lurker21 म्हणाले...

The outburst may have been more about Joe's sinking poll numbers and finding somebody to blame for the mess than about the babies. I don't think Biden is competent or in control or on top of things, but I also don't believe he's the sentimental fool or compassion machine that he plays on TV. He's been in Washington for 50 years, so thinking and talking like a politician has become second nature to him. He doesn't have to play the role he plays in public for people who really know him. He's not telling them about Corn Pop or Grandfather Ambrose Finnegan or dad staring up at the ceiling or the family sitting around the dinner table worrying about gas prices, and he's probably not wringing his hands about babies. He may be shouting, but he's not doing the stage whisper. I'm not saying that deep down, Biden's a villain, just that he has different sides that come out in different situations.

Does it matter म्हणाले...

For that matter don't talk about kids and Biden in the same sentence. Creepy Joe. I still can't get the image of the young blonde girl leaning away from him with terror in her eyes.

We have seen too much....

Rollo म्हणाले...

When Biden goes out he provides endless fodder for talk radio, but nobody else notices. The legacy media doesn't cover his gaffes, and the result is that what he says is bland, uninteresting and incapable of inspiring anyone.

TreeJoe म्हणाले...

Think about how Biden is portrayed here:

- Whiny
- Out of touch
- Not in control
- Being kept out of the loop and minimized by those around (and under) him

Consider all of that for a minute.

Yeah, November is going to be badly for Democrats.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Fuck is a great word if it's used well. Demolition (2015) mom's new boyfriend correcting mom's son, quote:

You say "fuck" a lot.

So?

So you're just not using it properly.

The fuck does that mean?

That's what I mean. "Fuck" is a great word, but if you use it too much, then it just loses its value. And you sound stupid.

Fuck you.

Exactly.

Leland म्हणाले...

Are these Politico’s words or a quote from anonymous White House staffer: “Biden didn’t want to be painted as slow to act on a problem affecting the working-class people with whom he closely identifies”. Is Biden identifying as working-class because he says so, because Politico says so, or because a White House staffer says so? It was before 1972, if ever, that Biden could even claim to be a member of the working-class.

Temujin म्हणाले...

Hilarious. They've kept him under lock and key for over 2 years now. Releasing him only with script and only for a few minutes at a time. Scurrying him back into his bedroom/basement for a 'cap' on the day, sometimes as early as 9:30am. All the while they've been telling him what they think he needs to know.

And of course, Joe Biden was never an intellectually curious person, so what he's told by his staffs over the years has always been his source of information.

The thing that stood out to me when I first read it was that of all the things going on: Our borders being crushed, fentanyl coming in by the tons, epidemic levels of addiction and overdoses, the hideous retreat from Afghanistan (and there are still allies and Americans left in there), the moves by Russia (which did not happen under Trump), the state of our economy and the price of oil (all of which were better than fine under Trump), the state of our cities- with crime skyrocketing all across America, the state of our schools- not just shootings, but attacks on parents who show concern for what is being taught. All of this and more is apparently not on Joe Biden's radar. What IS on Joe Biden's radar, and what concerns him most is that his poll numbers are lower than Trump's were at this time.

I knew a Joe Biden presidency would be a hideous event for our country. I'm not even surprised at the level of suck it has taken on. He is not only the worst President in my lifetime and possibly in our history, but the people he's gathered around him are the most mediocre ever for a Presidential cabinet. One wonders how these people could have possibly found their way in the world if not for politics.

Balfegor म्हणाले...

I don't think Biden is particularly good at project management or coming up with effective solutions to these kinds of problems. But I do think he has a much better sense of how ordinary people react to developments than his twitter-cocooned and addled advisors. We've seen this before with immigration, when his immediate reaction to hearing that the US government wss going to pay enormous sums of money to illegal immigrants was that it was total garbage, only to be forced into a humiliating walkback a couple of days later, with some face-saving semantic quibbling, and then the following month (perhaps after the President successfully browbeat his advisors into submission?) ending discussion of payouts for illegal immigrants entirely. Not sure where those discussions stand now, but Biden's instinctive, unreflecting reaction to developments before his advisors get to him is not that far off from the average member of the public.

If he had been made aware the baby formula crunch was coming, I think he'd have recognised it as a big problem, in a way that his advisors and senior civil servants seem not to have done. And he might have been able to kick the civil service in the teeth to force them to move more quickly, or just mobilised the military earlier to circumvent FDA and customs regulations, as seems to have happened once his advisors were finally forced by news reports to tell him what was happening.

He's not an intelligent man, but I think his instincts on domestic issues are much better than the people around him.

Butkus51 म्हणाले...

We all know what kind of guy Joe is. He's the old angry white guy that dems are so sick of.

Eleanor म्हणाले...

Many people with dementia retain long term memories, but find it difficult to make new ones. If that's the stage where Biden is, his staff may be including him in the loop, but Biden isn't capable of storing the information. We'll see how long his staff will take the hit for him before more than Psaki and Klain jump ship. They all want to be able to find jobs after Biden leaves office.

Jim K म्हणाले...

Loved the Biden impression! Made my morning.

Tom T. म्हणाले...

Someone's really trying to stick some knives in. This not only makes him sound weak and out of the loop, it portrays him as coldly concerned with the baby-formula issue only to the extent that it harms him politically.

typingtalker म्हणाले...

The Crazy Uncle in the White House Attic' is one heartbeat away from the Presidency.
...
I guess Joe is good sport for the media. He gives the sound bites that break up the drudgery of the daily news flows and helps fill up the news hour. A delight for a news editor trying to fill the page, or the time slot.

But on a serious note, the "crazy uncle" is just a heart beat away from going from the attic to the Oval Office.


Not any more ...

American Thinker

Earnest Prole म्हणाले...

The superlative of cringeworthy is cringeworthiest.

wendybar म्हणाले...

When you have career politicians who have no clue how to run a business, let alone a country, WHAT did you expect?? Love him or hate him, TRUMP knew how to run things. This imbecile can't even run his own family.

MayBee म्हणाले...

What is the problem for Biden? Does he not want to be painted as slow to act, as the article states? Or did he not want to be slow to act? Did he want to have acted to solve the baby formula shortage?

rcocean म्हणाले...

So, if Biden has ignored the Baby formula shortage, someone else is to blame. its those Goddamn unnamed WH aides, hiding Biden's newspaper and not telling him what's going on.

Of course, if Trump was in office the MSM would've done the story the same way. Damn those Trump aides, the NYT's would written. Trump is full of rightous anger over babies.
LOL!

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

He's the President. Fire the staffers. Let Brandon, be Brandon.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

all he had to do was ask / fire people [his apprentices]

cassandra lite म्हणाले...

Two probable scenarios:

1. He wasn't kept out of the loop, but doesn't remember being in the loop and either telling whoever to go fix it or thinking it would fix itself.

2. He was kept out of the loop because his staffers knew there was no point looping him in anyway.

This would've been a good assignment to give to the vice president. But why bother? (See #2 above.)

RMc म्हणाले...

his genuine, relatable (...) self

Only a lefty thinks that Joe Biden is the least bit genuine or relatable.

Actually, the lefties don't believe it either, but, hey, they got him elected, right? And if it works once, it'll work again, right...?!

Josephbleau म्हणाले...

“ This imbecile can't even run his own family.”

I know that people have family issues that they can’t control, but in Beiden’s case, if he was a sensible moral person, he would have not enabled Hunter by providing him graft based sources of money and let him find bottom and get help. Next he would have put out the word that making a deal with his brother was not the same as making a deal with him. But Beiden is not a sensible moral person.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

"They...they...there's a secret formula that the babies...that Trump...that every President...was supposed to keep chained to his wrist, he didn't...to...no...yeah, to that...the guy who...when we...after the thing, but he called for an insurrection, as you know, instead and now we're trying to...What? Okay, they're telling me I'm not supposed to say that, but come on, man! Mothers need to eat too...you know Jill was...she used to have a box with all kinds of...and she'd write really small and then cook dinner...maybe she has the...her own formula or like there's grandmothers who are good people...black...hispanic...many are women and...so we're asking...the Pentagon is asking...what do they call that? Crowdstrike? Crowd control?...Don't come to Washington...we have a web thing, ask your grand kids, okay? It's like MeToo for secret baby formulas is what...Anyway, look I'm going to...huh? They say I have to go, but...okay...here comes Jill...you're not Jill..."

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

Biden worrying about baby formula, while there’s a war in Ukraine was the framing the staff worried about.

The staff gets blamed, that’s what they’re for.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

He's not an intelligent man, but I think his instincts on domestic issues are much better than the people around him.
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as Balfegor said : so his minions are undermisextimernating him

mikee म्हणाले...

Dementia is a horrible thing. Joe may know he is losing his mental faculties and is striving mightily to cover that up, by acting "angry" over "lack of info." Worse, Joe might not know anymore that he has mental problems, and is living in a state of constant confusion and fear, surrounded by things now unkown as he is propelled from one place to another by handlers who hope he can still read the teleprompter.

Howard (not that Howard) म्हणाले...

Straight fire, Christopher B.

Charlie म्हणाले...

The left wing media knives are out for Sleepy Joe........soon he will sleep with the fishes.

Sally327 म्हणाले...

That's a very male point of view, I think, that we're supposed to be impressed by shrieking rage "behind the scenes". Swearing, that's definitely supposed to make him seem like a real sh*t kicker, one of the bros, letting it be known he's mad as hell and he's not taking it anymore.

I doubt anyone would be surprised, though, because he's always seemed to have a pretty short fuse, even in public appearances many years ago, if flashing that toothy grin didn't work he'd get the nasty glint in his eyes.

Aggie म्हणाले...

Poor old wise-cracking, crazy uncle Joe, it's The People's Narcissist suffering the worst cringiest fate in the world: Being confronted as the Man In Charge of the results.

Rusty म्हणाले...

"I knew a Joe Biden presidency would be a hideous event for our country. I'm not even surprised at the level of suck it has taken on. He is not only the worst President in my lifetime and possibly in our history, but the people he's gathered around him are the most mediocre ever for a Presidential cabinet. One wonders how these people could have possibly found their way in the world if not for politics."
Which makes it difficult to understand 81 million people voted for him. Then the usual suspects post something here and you go," Oh, yeah. I see it now."

Owen म्हणाले...

Jake @ 7:46: What you said. Thanks, Prof A.

Owen म्हणाले...

Temujin @ 8:21: Preach it, brother. And your use of "hideous" is hereby applauded.

My sense of Gropey Joe is, he has pretended for so long to be Joe Sixpack (or actually, per the long-ago song, "Joe Hill.") that he can pretty readily channel the emotions now widespread among Americans not collecting a guaranteed paycheck from Uncle Sugar or the DC Elite. Therefore if you are looking for a crude barometer of popular opinion on, say, inflation, gas prices, formula shortage and general collapse, you might consult Gropey Joe --certainly before considering the words of his handlers and the DNC. But, as already noted, we do not get the chance to consult Gropey Joe. He is managed very carefully.

Did any Chinese Emperor in the Forbidden City ever enjoy a more perfect isolation?

tommyesq म्हणाले...

Seems entirely plausible, but haven't we learned over the past several years that stories based on "a White House staffer and a Democrat with knowledge of the conversation" often do not turn out to be accurate.

Scott Patton म्हणाले...

Seething Geezer
Genre:Gerontological Punk
Best Selling Single: No Fucking Formula
B side: I Didn't Do That Shit Motherfucker

Beasts of England म्हणाले...

Left out of the loop? That gold, Jerry - gold!!

'Look, Joe - we only tell you what you're about to read from the teleprompter. The rest is on a need-to-know basis and you'd only fuck it up worse.'

Mattman26 म्हणाले...

This seems like a corollary to the “Republicans pounce” rule. The problem isn’t that his administration fucked up and put the lives of American infants at risk. It’s that Joe is paying a political price and he’s mad as heck about it.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

I'm very curious to see what happens when Joe Biden figures out he's not the President in any meaningful way. Hell, they even built him a fake White House to putter around in.

Enigma म्हणाले...

Leaks and criticism of Biden =

self-awareness of a major tactical problems among his stage managers =

recognition of the unintended fallout the anti-Trump strategy =

return of the deep 2015 Democratic Party cracks revealed by Bernie vs. Hillary.


The meaningful political debate today is between the revolutionary anti-USA left and the traditional pro-USA left. The USA right (including Trump) never proposed significant action (ever), and mainly wants to return pro-USA laws, rules, and strategies.

Tommy Duncan म्हणाले...

"Biden didn’t want to be painted as slow..."

Regardless of appearances, Joe is slow in more ways than one.

I'll confess I'm surprised that Joe is even aware of his polling numbers, much less a baby formula crisis.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Here's what he didn't (apparently) say, "I want to know the string of officials that led to this fiasco. I will NOT accept a bunch of crap that says, "No one in particular". I want a resignation letter from any of them that are political appointees, including cabinet level. I want all the others moved to positions outside of DC and into slots where the harm they do is minimized. If this isn't done this week heads will roll beginning with those receiving this order".

JaimeRoberto म्हणाले...

The Seething Geezers are the hottest punk cover band at Del Boca Vista.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Of course the above post of mine is tongue in cheek. A Biden type would never do what any decent business person would do.

Government is too big (I keep being told) for responsibility to be assigned.

So we should gut governmental powers (sure, sure) or just accept fluster clucks forever more.

The buck stops here - Truman
The buck stops in my bank account - Biden

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

I am going to call this story complete horseshit. An attempt to make Biden look like he isn't demented and impotent.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

I'm guessing he said 'dadgummit' and 'balderdash.'

Pretty strong stuff...

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Tom T wrote:

"Someone's really trying to stick some knives in. This not only makes him sound weak and out of the loop, it portrays him as coldly concerned with the baby-formula issue only to the extent that it harms him politically."

I don't think that is the motive at all- I think it was a genuine effort to make Biden look better, but it fails because the people doing the messaging for Biden are incompetent.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Bob Boyd shows you how to imitate the Joe Biden of today.

Jefferson's Revenge म्हणाले...

I haven't been hearing much from my liberal acquaintances over the last year or so. They've been very quiet. No talk about how great tings are. Crickets. Theses are the very same people who would not shut up about mean tweets 3 years ago when every section and demographic in the US was demonstrably doing much better than they are now.

Also, in general, Senators make lousy Presidents and the longer they've been in the Senate the worse they are as Presidents. Biden is a prime example of that, even if he were sane and honest, which he is not.

Lloyd W. Robertson म्हणाले...

Kyle Dunnigan does a pretty good Biden. Interviewed by Megyn Kelly: "Did you shit my pants, or did I?"

Lloyd W. Robertson म्हणाले...

Kyle Dunnigan does a pretty good Biden. Interviewed by Megyn Kelly: "Did you shit my pants, or did I?"

PM म्हणाले...

Is Biden a paid traveler for the Republicans?

Jim Howard म्हणाले...

Senators make crappy leaders, and the longer they are in the Senate the more incompetent they become.

Think about what Joe's life has been life has been like the last several decades. He wanders into his office when he feels like it. There is a line of people waiting to kiss his ass in exchange for something or other.

As a member of a 535 person committee he never has to take responsibility for any decision. He can claim credit for good things and deny he had anything to do with bad things.

With a supplicant press devoted full time to shoving his flubs and flip-flops down the memory hole he can truthfully state that he voted in favor of/against some issue, because he's voted on both sides of many issues over time.

He was never very smart, throw in a clearly aging brain which never had to take responsibility for any decision, ever, no wondering he is reduced to be a confused babbling old man while bucks pile up on the Oval Office desk.

Darkisland म्हणाले...

Shorter and more classic Balfegor:


"If only Comrade Stalin knew..."

Not saying you are wrong, just that the song has been sung before

John LGKTQ Henry

rcocean म्हणाले...

How many times does 80 y/o Biden have to act like a Senile old fool, before people accept that he's a senile old fool.

It was obvious in 2020, that he was unfit to be POTUS, but y'know we had to get rid of Trump because "mean tweets". Anyway, thank God we have Kamala as backup.

Right?

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

This one of a series by Politico reporting what no one else has. The one last month was Biden raging about the border crisis and asking "Who do I have to fire to get the border under control?"

Last week it was him being furious that his staff issues corrections to his stupid misstatements. Now we hear him raging about baby formula. What do all three have in common?

1. Biden is so completely out of the loop or out of memory that he doesn't hear the stories we all hear about the state of things.
2. He thinks someone else is "in charge" of these things, but it actually reveals NO ONE is paying attention to what Biden claims to care about.
3. Biden apparently fails to recognize most of these were his campaign pledges to "transition from oil to solar" and "reverse Trump era policies" regardless of efficacy.
4. The "state of things" is exactly what Progressives wanted with their support of Biden because they are all-in with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum gang.

Darkisland म्हणाले...

Is it just a coincidence that Brandon started talking about Ukraine surrendering a few days after signing the $40,000,000,000 Grift package to Ukraine?

Did I say Grift? I meant "aid". As in aid to Brandon friends and family

John LGKTQ Henry

Michael K म्हणाले...

I say unleash the senile idiot ! It will be entertaining. He's already doing as much harm to the country as possible.

I wonder how many people saw Buttplug describing how Socialism will solve the inflation problem ?

stunned म्हणाले...

Epic trolling.

“We have good milk, good meat products for kids, canned food, formula, everything. If they’d like it, we could launch supplies tomorrow,” he said. The Belarus leader, who was sanctioned by the US for alleged violations of human rights, added that he was willing to offer the food either as a commercial product or as humanitarian aid.

He added that he believed Americans could afford to pay for Belarusian products.The president made the remarks when talking to the press. He called on reporters to relay his offer “to every American.”

https://hiindia.com/2022/06/03/belarus-offers-to-help-us-with-baby-formula/

JK Brown म्हणाले...

This raise the question

Who is the current President of the United States?

The Constitution vest the power in one person, one man. Not a committee of unelected political operatives. If Joe Biden isn't in the loop, who is using his name? Who are the pretenders to the office?

effinayright म्हणाले...

Meantime, Joe's incompetent handlers are inching us toward a nuclear war with the Russkis.

THAT's what I'm really worried about.

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

"Far more prone to salty language behind the scenes than popularly known, Biden also recently erupted over being kept out of the loop about the direness of the baby formula shortage..."

As others have pointed out, we'll know the person running the Biden* Admin is actually upset at a "failure" when it's announced that "the following people were fired of X".

Until then? It's all BS.

"I am upset that I was kept in the dark. X, Y, and Z knew about this, and kept it from me. To keep that from happening again, they have all been fired."

Do that, or shut up

Real American म्हणाले...

he's kept out of the loop because he is only a figurehead president. His staff keeps him out of public view as much as possible. He won't sit down for any difficult interview. They also determine what questions he'll be asked and what the answers are. The pliant media plays along. I'm sure they all promise to keep him better informed and here's an ice cream cone and time for your nap, Sir.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Biden is a creepy weirdo - yeah- weirdo - it fits. no matter how media/Politico soft-spins him.

Bilwick म्हणाले...

Michael K., Buttplug was channelling his Marxist dad.

effinayright म्हणाले...

Meantime, Joe's incompetent handlers are inching us toward a nuclear war with the Russkis.

THAT's what I'm really worried about.

You should too.

Kate म्हणाले...

Realclear has Reagan's "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc". Had me bawling (as it always does).

Reagan was no saint, but damn. To even contemplate Biden after reading that speech is wrong.

Ambrose म्हणाले...

“If only the Tsar knew…..”

Rollo म्हणाले...

They are wishing for an electorate that is as zombified as Biden's staff or Biden himself. Nobody found Joe "relatable," and he isn't at all persuasive. He won the election (if he won the election) because he wasn't Trump. Since he wasn't Trump, his voters could believe the ads and assume that Joe was "competent and compassionate." Those assumptions don't last long the more one sees Biden in action (or Biden's inaction).

madAsHell म्हणाले...

I wonder how many people saw Buttplug describing how Socialism will solve the inflation problem ?

Pete can toss a word salad just like Kamala!!

Balfegor म्हणाले...

Re: JAORE:

Government is too big (I keep being told) for responsibility to be assigned.

I disagree. It's not the size of government, but how lines of authority are delineated. For example, the obvious mechanism for accountability is that cabinet ministers and senior political appointees should be responsible for decisions made by the civil servants acting at their direction, e.g. prosecutors acting under the supervision of the Attorney General or US Attorneys (all political appointees), or FDA and CDC personnel reporting to their agency directors, who in turn report, I believe, to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (again, all political apoointees). In other words, that if civil servants have fucked something up while acting under the direction of one of these political appointees, then the political appointee ought to resign or be dismissed by the President.

But in the United States, this is complicated by the norm that civil servants ought to be able to carry out their jobs without interference from political appointees. But if we take this norm seriously, then it becomes absurd to hold political appointees responsible for civil service fuckups. This is further complicated by the proliferation of boards and commissions in the executive branch (e.g. the SEC, the FTC, EEOC, ITC, etc.) generally with staggered terms and/or partisan split requirements, with the effect of smearing political responsibility around as broadly as possible -- civil servants are reporting to a committee rather than a single responsible appointee.

The obvious alternative here would be to hold individual civil servants accountable for their fuckups, but they're protected both by court-created doctrines like qualified immunity and by civil servant unions that make it difficult to fire members of the civil service.

Everyone in politics and the civil service is keen to avoid responsibility, which is how we ended up with this nonsense system. It's designed to serve their interests, not the interests of the public.

Iman म्हणाले...

How can one keep this demented, old crook “in the loop”?

Not hard, the guy is loopy. The trick is to ensure that HE UNDERSTANDS what he’s being told.

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

"Far more prone to salty language behind the scenes than popularly known"

Would that be their way of saying "yeah, we've been covering this up for decades, but now we're going to talk about it"?

HoodlumDoodlum म्हणाले...

If only Comrade Biden knew!

n.n म्हणाले...

Oh, what a "burden".

Will no one relieve us of these "burdens". Madam... or is it Sir..

Just when you think it's over, "our Posterity" is conceived as the next generation of "burdens".

[catastrophic] [anthropogenic] immigration reform was supposed to relieve native "burdens".

I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs. Get in my stomach! h/t Fat Bastard

HoodlumDoodlum म्हणाले...

They did this for 8 years already; "oh, President Obama just found out about this problem from watching the news last night, but now he'll study it and take appropriate action."
We used to expect our leaders to be informed and blame them when their shitty hiring practices harm their effectiveness as executives (as with Trump and literally everyone he brought on), but I guess that buck stops somewhere else.

Are W म्हणाले...

If the seething geezer got out more often, the silver alert system would overload.

Kevin म्हणाले...

Trump can run in 2024 on MBFA.

Make Babies Full Again.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

"Salty"? No doubt peppery as well.

In my experience, buttery is the best way to serve vegetables. Somebody -- maybe Dr. Jill? -- should put a nice, big pat of butter on Resident Biden.

Mr Wibble म्हणाले...

As this all gets worse and the knives come out for Biden, I suspect that the admin will flail harder. Expect an indictment of Trump, possible before the midterms.

Rick67 म्हणाले...

"Biden didn’t want to be painted as slow to act on a problem affecting the working-class people with whom he closely identifies"

Oh. So Biden identifies with the working class does he?

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Biden wants to get out more. The bunny smiles. It rubs it's little, front paws together. It's waiting and Biden it's time. It's patient, the bunny is. The bunny finished off one President and like Woodward and Bernstein, it's wanted another one ever since. The bunny is out there, hungry for bumbler.

boatbuilder म्हणाले...

Ah, "salty language."

Anybody remember the outrage about "shithole countries?"

Rollo म्हणाले...

So basically, the Cabinet is a sham. Gina, Pete, Jen, Deb, Marty, and Marcia are just there for show and have no control or understanding of what the permanent government does. Those higher up -- the secretaries in charge of people with guns -- have more power, but aren't any more competent. Was it always like that?

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

'Anybody remember the outrage about "shithole countries?"'

That's the U.S. these days...

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

If the supply of baby formula needs to be managed at the presidential level, then this country is done for.

My cats like Fancy Feast brand food, which has been hard to obtain the past 6 months. Is Biden gonna help out with that too?

Rusty म्हणाले...

Blogger Kevin said...
"Trump can run in 2024 on MBFA.

Make Babies Full Again."

Babies ARE fun. They are just about the coolest people you'll ever meet.

NotWhoIUsedtoBe म्हणाले...

The wall street journal reported on the shortage January 12. It was obvious before that to anyone who went to a grocery store.

No one kept the information from the president. He didn't bother to to notice.