(Headline USA) With President Joe Biden’s popularity close to rock bottom and a grand jury probe on his son Hunter heating up in Delaware, his former boss—who maintains a posh office and stately residence just a few miles from the White House—has suddenly reappeared.
Biden and former President Barack Obama are marking the 12th anniversary of the law that back in 2010 the then-vice president had memorably called a “big [expletive] deal.”
The pair plan to meet for lunch, recalling their weekly ritual when Biden served as Obama’s vice president.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated that the two presidents would also discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
“They are real friends, not just Washington friends,” Psaki claimed.
But the last time Obama was officially in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor, Republican President Donald Trump, to the Capitol to be inaugurated.
His absence on the campaign trail—with rumors swirling that he opposed Biden’s nomination and had advised Democrat backers not to “underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up”—was telling, as was his blatant disregard for Biden’s mask mandates during a 60th birthday party last year, which some analysts construed as a sort of middle finger to the administration.
Yet, speculation has long swirled that he is one of the political puppetmasters helping to engineer the empty-suited Biden’s agenda, which has lurched toward the radical left even while Biden himself ran as a moderate.
Several Obama administration alums remain in key positions in the current administration, including former national security adviser Susan Rice, believed to have been involved at some level with the Russia-collusion hoax that weaponized intelligence agencies to undermine the Trump administration.
In fact, some, such as the late Rush Limbaugh, have boldly predicted that Biden, the most pliant and subservient of the 2020 Democrat contenders, may be serving at the pleasure of the Obamas, who undoubtedly have ample dirt on Biden and his family to dispatch with his presidency at any time.
Recent indications are that Limbaugh’s Dec. 15, 2020 prophesy is already coming true with the New York Times and Washington Post sheepishly admitting they lied about Hunter Biden’s damning laptop material.
“They’re gonna prop up Biden until, until—I’m gonna tell you, folks, I think we’re seeing enough information on the Bidens now to safely say that Biden will serve at the pleasure of Barack Obama,” Limbaugh said in one of his final radio appearances.
“If Obama gives the green light to Democrats to take Biden out, there will be ample evidence that Biden has lied about his knowledge his family was selling his name and office with his permission, and if that’s in fact the case, then there’s likely unreported money that will be found,” Limbaugh said.
“The fake news media will temporarily become hard news media if the decision is made that Biden has to step down,” he continued. “Until that time, they will be covering for Biden, they’ll be making excuses for Biden, they’ll be ignoring all the negatives.”
While the mainstream media still has connected the dots, the implications of their having authenticated the Hunter Biden laptop also means that Joe Biden himself is implicated in a range of issues.
That includes accepting kickbacks from foreign governments like Ukraine and China, as well as his knowing about an inappropriate, incestuous relationship between Hunter and his teenage niece.
Indeed, the Obamas may have even more dirt on Joe himself, who was long rumored to have conducted his own sexual improprieties with women and children, including, allegedly, an inappropriate relationship with his daughter Ashley.
MIDTERMS THREATEN OBAMACARE?
Regarless of any behind-the-scenese machinations, the formal plan for the Obama–Biden reunion also seems to be part of an effort to stave off growing public malaise that could have a devastating impact on Democrats in the upcoming midterms, by trumpteting an old success.
Having withstood the slings and arrows of Trump’s term in office, Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system, and Biden is looking to extend its reach.
Its staying power has been enhanced by three Supreme Court victories and an emphatic thumbs-down vote by the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which took the wind out of Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace it.
The law was such a bugaboo in 2010 that Democrats rarely invoked it as they went into a midterm election that turned out to be, in Obama’s own words, a “shellacking.”
Now, Democrats are hoping the political equation will work to their advantage, and that a focus on shoring up the law can help them avoid a debacle at the polls this November.
Obama and Biden have no shortage of topics to discuss.
Unless Democrats in Congress finally coalesce around a version of Biden’s social legislation, his enhanced financial assistance for millions purchasing ACA plans will expire at the end of this year.
A return to higher premiums would likely trigger an increase in the number of uninsured people, a political embarrassment for Democrats committed to expanding coverage.
The Biden legislation, which passed the House but sputtered in the Senate, also includes a mechanism for providing coverage to as many as 4 million uninsured low-income adults in states that have refused the health law’s Medicaid expansion.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
