On TV the other day, an interview show featured a guest whose title was “senior advisor to the Biden Administration.”
Do you suppose he puts that on his resume?
Be honest now. Is that a good thing?
What do you suppose a “senior” advisor to the Biden Administration did to earn his salary in such a mistake-rich environment?
Were the big whopping mistakes the work product of senior advisors, while the junior advisors worked their way up by weighing in on lesser crippling, bone-headed decisions?
Or could some junior advisor shoot for the moon, and screw up a steel ball with a rubber hammer so utterly that he or she could ascend to senior advisor status immediately?
As I watched this guy – blonde hair, kind of doughy, mid-30s, no doubt educated somewhere with ivy on the walls – I tried to think of a time I paid someone half my age for wise advice. (I'm not talking about doctors here. They're an exception. All my doctors look like they just got out of the Junior High.)
I have an older brother who is a mechanical engineer. One time the subject of paid consultants came up. He pointed to a nasty rash on his ankle and said, “Consultants are about as useful as that rash on my leg!” Case closed. (Engineers are good at closing cases.)
One must wonder if an advisor advised AGAINST opening our borders to millions – yes MILLIONS, 12 million, maybe 20 million, Donald Trump says even more – of undocumented aliens? Did anyone say, “Now wait a minute. What could go wrong with this?'”
Was our senior policy advisor on the job the day that famously stupid call was made, condemning our country to years of crimes that could have been avoided had the Biden Administration shown the sense God gave a fence post and simply enforced our border laws?
Ya' think?
I've heard the dumb argument made that, by percentage, illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than the rest of us. But, let's be clear. Letting thousands of criminally-minded aliens into our country was a layer of crime we didn't need. We didn't have to add other countries' criminals to the ranks of our home-grown, prison-bound reprobates.
How about when the key decision was made to toss so much new spending into a bill cynically called the “Inflation Reduction Act” that it actually INCREASED spending by $500 billion, and inflation to a temporary high of 9 percent? On what planet is that inflation reduction? Were our senior advisors to the Biden Administration out to lunch the day that whoppingly stupid decision was made?
(A moment of tribute here to the late, great NBC newsman Edwin Newman, who in his book “Strictly Speaking,” asked the question, at what point, precisely, does something “begin to whop?”)
Then there was the whole “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” mania invading just about every aspect of American life. And then suspension of the SAT test to qualify for many top universities. And don't forget the mindless new regulations that Democrats love so much. (Don't believe me? Those nuts wanted to outlaw your gas stove, along with your gasoline-fueled car.)
How about when they had the FBI raid the private home of a former President of the United States, the first time that has happened in American history? Did some advisor think that was a swell idea?
Of course, it wasn't just the Biden Administration that was getting bad advice. Remember when former Attorney General Eric Holder “vetted” vice presidential candidates for Kamala Harris? And who did Holder pick?
(Wait for it...)
(Oh man, this is my favorite example of senior advising gone horribly bad.)
Gov. TIM freaking WALZ!
I think that may have been the Michael Jordan of bad advice. And I'm tempted to rest my case here, Your Honor.
We hear so much bad about Donald Trump from our Democrat friends and their friends in the news media, that I thought it might be invigorating to revisit some of the numb-skulled, pea-brained stuff that came before.
Looking at Biden in the rear-view mirror, I'm honestly having trouble coming up with one good thing that the man did.
Except, maybe, retire.
Dave Simpson can be reached at: DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
