Biden puts feelings of small group of progressives ahead of American needs

President Biden was “furious” about the situation at the southern border, and was “dropping f-bombs” at the lack of solutions, a new book claims.

Oh spare us.

We imagine whoever leaked this anonymous tidbit to author Chris Whipple for “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House” thought he or she was humanizing the president, or demonstrating that he cares.

Instead it proves two things: Biden keeps lying to the American people. And he is too afraid of his own political party to do what is necessary. 

On the first point, the administration keeps claiming the border is under control, and that, as White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier this month, “the president has done the work to deal with what we’re seeing at the border since day one.” 

But Biden’s private tantrum shows that isn’t true. He understands what a problem it is, both for the country and as a political liability. Besides putting Vice President Harris in charge of the “root causes,” a portfolio she’s ignored, he hasn’t done anything to fix it. Every time Biden waves it away as “not a big deal,” he’s lying.

As for being mad over the “lack of solutions,” give us a break. There are plenty of solutions. The most obvious one is telling asylum seekers at the border that they are not allowed to come in. The law says they must apply for asylum in the first safe country they enter. Biden could make diplomatic deals with Mexico to stop the caravans. If the images on the news were people being turned away, how long before they stopped coming?

But these were all things that the Trump administration did, and Biden knows that left-wing activists control the Democratic Party and hate any sensible immigration plan. On his first day in office, in fact, Biden halted construction on the border wall, stopped deporting illegal immigrants and erased every deterrent we had. 

He was then shocked, apparently, that migrants would rush the open border. According to the book, an adviser said, “It’s like, ‘How would you feel if you were me and these were the solutions you had?’ It’s the weight of the presidency, right?’”

It is the weight of the presidency, but Biden has made his choice. He knows what the solution to the southern border is, he just doesn’t want to implement it. He put the feelings of a group of progressive lawmakers over the needs of the American people.