Feckless

Feckless

I had a little story on hockey betting planned for this morning when I came across these three very lightly-covered stories.

--White House interns have written a letter that "demands" Biden support a ceasefire in the Israeli war. ("We, the undersigned Fall 2023 White House and Executive Office of the President interns, will no longer remain silent on the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. We are Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Black, Asian, Latine, White, and Queer. We heed the voices of the American people and call on the Administration to demand a permanent cease-fire. We are not the decision makers of today, but we aspire to be the leaders of tomorrow, and we will never forget how the pleas of the American people have been heard and thus far, ignored.")

--White House staffers held a White House candlelight vigil supporting Hamas.

--The State Department has embargoed rifles the U.S. had planned to send to Israeli police.


The strange preoccupation with making war more gentle aside, what are we to make of this public administrative chaos? The administration is supposed to effect policy; we clearly don't have a policy. We have public statements and actions that disagree with them. It would be one thing if this ineffectual behavior was in a foolish city council meeting but this is the public face of the world's leading democracy.

What if watching illegal immigrants pour across the border is the policy. What if opening doors for people robbing stores is the reflection of their beliefs. What if saying and doing contradicting things is what they are.

What if this is the best they can do. And, if so, imagine how this reflects upon their other lofty publicly stated aims.