Biden: No course correction

BIDEN: NO COURSE CORRECTION. The failures of President Joe Biden's first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big cities. The U.S.-Mexico border is a mess. The American withdrawal from Afghanistan was a mess. And with it all, the president and his party are obsessed, most of all, with passing a voting rules bill that would help ensure their future election by federalizing the voting system along lines favorable to Democrats.

As Biden approached his first anniversary in office, there was much talk of some sort of "reset" or "reboot" or "restart" for his flailing administration. But it's just talk. As he pieces together an approach to governing in Year Two, Joe Biden is still Joe Biden. His judgment is still lacking. And he's not really planning to do anything differently.

Biden said so himself at his news conference on Wednesday. After pronouncing himself "satisfied" with his team's performance in the first year, Biden said, "There's three things I'm going to do differently" in the next year. The remarkable thing is that none of those three things is substantive. None involves Biden actually changing course from his unsuccessful first year.

The first change Biden listed was: "I'm going to get out of this place more often." In the coming year, he will travel more around the country and talk to voters. "I'm going to make the case of what we've already done," Biden said, and try to use his record to build support for future action.