Biden's Shame
By: Bill O'Reilly May 14, 2023
President James Buchanan was the worst chief executive in United
States history, as I have mentioned. He sat in the White House for
four years doing nothing as southern secessionists defied the
federal government. That emboldened the movement that directly
caused the Civil War. More than one million casualties in that
conflict.
In 1866, after the war had ended, Buchanan published a book
called "Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebel-
lion." The time is extremely hard to find, but last weekend I
discovered a first edition signed by Buchanan himself!
The book is 300 pages of excuse-making. Essentially, James
Buchanan says he could not stop the growing Southern rebellion
because Congress would not give him the authority to do so.
Ridiculous.
As President, George Washington traveled to Western Pennsyl-
vania, commanding the troops that put down the Whiskey Rebellion
in 1794. All Presidents have the Constitutional authority to quell
uprisings. That's demonstrated by Mr. Biden sending the National
Guard to the southern border just last week.
The truth is James Buchanan was a coward, and President Harry
Truman, a true student of history, knew it. In a private letter
dated May 18, 1959, Truman wrote this: "History will tell you that
old Buch was short on decision, and had he acted with the firmness
of Andrew Jackson in dealing with the problems of the South, the
War between the States might well have been averted."
A portrait of President James Buchanan is on display at the
National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Feb. 14, 2015. (AP
Photo/Jon Elswick)
Enter President Joe Biden, who is emulating Buchanan's cowar-
dice by failing to enforce immigration law, thereby enabling
millions of undocumented foreign nationals into America. I don't
have to explain this; you can see the video on television. What
we can't see is the tremendous damage being done to the tax-
payers who are providing billions to support the migrants. That
will continue for years to come through entitlements.
It is difficult not to get angry at Mr. Biden and his incom-
petent administration for encouraging the immigration chaos and
then denying all responsibility.
Like Buchanan, Biden blames Congress for not passing new
immigration laws that would grant amnesty. Biden says two
things: that he, himself, is blameless and that evil Republi-
cans are responsible for the border madness.
History always repeats itself, and soon, Joe Biden will
take his rightful place behind James Buchanan as the second-
worst president of all time. I regret slighting Andrew Johnson,
Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding, and Herbert Hoover, all of whom
tried hard to best Buchanan. They have now been passed by Joe
Biden.
Whether it's the border, out-of-control federal spending,
unfair and divisive equity policies, or blatant laziness on the
job, President Biden is a disaster for America.
He's got about 20 months left in office. Then he can retire
to Delaware to assemble his own book. He might call it: "Pres-
ident Biden's Policy Achievements."
The pages will be blank.**
I predict that Joe will surpass Buchanan by leaps and
bounds as the worst President in the history of America just
barely ahead of Obama.
He has proven that the Peter Principle exists and he has
taken even that to an all time low.
Like Obama, with each crisis, they were and are sent off to
Vegas, Hawaii, Delaware, and now Lake Tahoe.
It is obvious that as dumb as his handlers are, they are so
misguided that they actually don't think Republicans are not
smart enough to see through their cluelessness.
At this point in time, with their level of desperation that
is consuming their every thought, I pray that God will educate,
at least some of them, what Romans 6:23 explains about the
wages of sin and God's judgement will teach them.
Conservatively,
John
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