Where’s Lloyd Austin?

Have you ever played the game Where’s Waldo? It’s a game where a little man, Waldo, is hidden somewhere, and whoever finds him first wins the game. It’s funny, and there’s often lots of laughter.

What isn’t funny is when it’s not Where’s Waldo, but Where’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin? That’s the game we were all playing last week, even though none of us knew we were playing.

The astonishing news broke over the weekend that the secretary of defense had gone to the hospital for routine elective surgery before Christmas. But something went wrong.

A few days later, Austin checked himself in at Walter Reed National Medical Center and found himself in the intensive care unit for several days. In fact, reports indicate that he was still in the hospital as of yesterday afternoon, with no indication of when he would be released.

We live in dangerous times with multiple wars around the world and all kinds of threats against the United States. And the secretary of defense told virtually no one that he was in the hospital.

While some people at the White House were eventually informed, they evidently didn’t tell President Biden that his secretary of defense was incapacitated. Why didn’t they tell him?

Some suggested that if a crisis erupted, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks would take over. But she was out of the country on vacation and wasn’t called back to Washington.

It all reminds me of a press conference in the early days of the Biden administration. Biden referred to Secretary Austin but couldn’t remember his name. He eventually called him, “the guy who runs that outfit,” meaning the Pentagon.

Do we need any more evidence that Joe Biden is not in charge of his own administration? He’s all in on the leftist agenda, but he doesn’t know what’s happening around him!