Who's In Charge?

After Biden introduced his budget, he took questions from reporters. The White House clearly knew the president was going to get tough questions about his comments calling for regime change in Russia, comments that were immediately repudiated by our NATO allies, France, Germany and Great Britain. 

In fact, they even sent Biden into the press conference with prepared talking points that were captured by network cameras. Biden's White House handlers were so worried about what he might say that they wrote the exact words for him to read to us on a card:

"Tough Putin Q&A Talking Points. I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the actions of this man. I was not articulating a change in policy."

As usual, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked the most challenging questions, specifically whether world leaders could believe that America is really "back" when so much of what Biden says has to be "walked back." 

Biden incredulously asked, "What's getting walked back?"

So, Doocy then went through the litany of recent remarks from Biden -- telling U.S. troops they were going to Ukraine, that we would use chemical weapons against Russia and that NATO was seeking regime change in Russia. 

As I noted yesterday, multiple administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have been desperately trying to clean up Biden's mess and "walk back" his gaffes.

Well, Biden doubled down yesterday, saying, "I'm not walking anything back." 

All of this leads me to wonder whether Biden understands what he said last week or even what he said yesterday! Is he even aware that his comments are being walked back by his own staff? 

Does he know that NATO allies rejected his demand for regime change? 

Who is running the White House? 

White House officials said last week that Biden watched portions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings. They even said he was "moved by her grace and dignity." But when asked about the hearings yesterday, Biden said, "I didn't get a chance to see any of it, unfortunately."

Well, which is it – did he watch the hearings or not? Who's lying to us?

Is it Vice President Harris who is really running the White House? That's doubtful. She can barely run her own office.  

Is it Clinton crony Jake Sullivan? Is it Obama pal Susan Rice? 

Or is Barack "pulling the strings" himself?

Any honest person is asking themselves some tough questions right now about Biden's mental abilities, and the answers could well determine the fate of the Republic. 

Is there one Democrat in Congress willing to publicly raise the question of whether this president is able to effectively do his job?