HAVE YOU NOTICED?    IT'S HARD NOT TO NOTICE.  IN THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DAYS THERE HAS BEEN A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN THE POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN WASHINGTON:  It may have begun with President Biden's embarrassing performance during his trip to Asia, and the reaction here at home.  Or, we may have noticed how mainstream liberal news organizations like CNN are getting serious about covering the Biden scandals, in part because House Republicans will now conduct a formal impeachment inquiry.

And then there was the latest polling, showing Biden/Harris sinking faster than the Titanic.  And then the body-blow column by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, a mouthpiece for the Washington liberal establishment, calling for President Biden not to run for re-election.  And now a similar request by Republican 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in announcing his own retirement, recommending that the president join him in retirement.

And then there was the blunt question asked by a reporter at the latest White House press briefing:   Why does Joe Biden say so many things that aren't true?  It doesn't get much worse than that.

What was unspeakable in public only weeks ago has now become very speakable:  It is time to go, Mr. President, and time for you, too, Madam Vice President.  Some 70 percent of Democrats in a recent poll agreed.

It will not be easy.  Biden seems determined to go for it.  And, even if he could be persuaded to leave the Democratic ticket, in the interest of party victory, his logical successor would be an equivalent disaster.  Kamala Harris has flubbed it, and almost no one thinks of her as a president.  Maybe president of an eighth-grade student government. 

I can't imagine Kamala going quietly, or even going at all.  She would have to be defeated in a primary race for the top job, president of the United States.  Who will take on a woman of color in the primaries?

With former President Trump heading for his first court trial, with the dam bursting all around Biden and Harris, 2024 is shaping up as the most dramatic presidential election in modern history.  And most of Washington has gotten the message. 

May combat begin.

September 13, 2023