A Second Term for Joe?

(“Biden Is No Sure Thing for 2024. What About Buttigieg? Harris? Even Whitmer?”)

This week President Biden was given a lifeline for 2024 by his once and maybe future opponent, Donald Trump, who was principally liable for turning those anticipating a Red Wave blue. And maybe made up Mr. Biden’s mind about whether a second term was just what the doctor ordered.

But there are several obstacles that may block the President's path in coming months. With Republicans virtually assured of control of the House, any possible legislative achievements hereinafter are a non-starter. There will surely be investigations aplenty of every morsel of political food that attaches to Mr. Biden. The debt ceiling morass is a certain calamity in the waiting. And if the Senate goes as well, well then today's smiles will soon be but distant memory.

And what if the Republican candidate next time around is not the same old codger, uniquely repulsive and carrying around enough barrage to fill a 747, but a younger, stronger, smarter version who relies on something far more attractive than Mr. Trump’s disagreeable persona as his calling card? Is Joe the answer to that riddle?

It is far too early to pick horses. The starting gate is still many miles away. Some will surely come up lame. Others may find new found strength. Remember when Rudy Guiliani was the fair haired comb over boy for the Republicans for a nano-second? Or our dear Joe was almost a bad punch line and given up for dead before South Carolina revived him?

For now, let's just all agree that the President today is looking much fitter than his recent polling numbers have suggested.

Thanks, in large part, to someone who has wanted nothing more than to bury the man who "stole" his crown two years ago.

Now that, my friends, is irony at its finest.