A favorite Lily Tomlin line was made for this moment: “No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
She could have been talking about the Biden White House.
Those of us who were long convinced that aides were hiding the president’s cognitive decline weren’t cynical enough.
We also needed to believe they were hiding other serious ailments, such as prostate cancer.
Hmm, what else didn’t we suspect that we should have?
Whatever it is, the odds are soaring that we are going to find out.
The announcement of his advanced cancer follows the release of the recording of the former president’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
Together, they amount to a bombshell of bad news for Biden and his party.
The interview, about the stash of classified documents he kept, electrified Washington because it revealed how bumbling and incoherent Biden was back in October 2023, 16 months before he left office, meaning we had a president unfit for duty for at least that long.
And to think he was then still seeking re-election and was effectively tied with Donald Trump.
Gallup found that 75% of Democrats supported him.
Hellbound and Down 