The View from Right Field

Will Conservatives Be Happy With the Supreme Court Overturning Chevron If Trump Wins in November?

The following appears in the Letters section of today’s Financial Times under the heading “US courts vs. agencies is not a left-right problem”:

"Brooke Masters is quite right in saying that U.S. businesses may come to regret at least some aspects of the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision overturning the “Chevron deference” doctrine that held judges should defer to the decision of government agencies when laws are ambiguous (Financial Times, Opinion, “Red-tape win for US business may backfire”, July 12).  This may also be true, when political winds change, for conservatives who applauded the decision.  Progressives, on the other hand, may come to love Loper Bright.

The Biden Watch: And the Beat Goes On

As I watch more and more Democratic leaders try to push Joe Biden out of his race for re-election, all I see them saying is that he will lose to Donald Trump and/or his staying in will result in the Democrats losing the Senate and more House seats in November.  Nobody seems to be talking about whether Joe Biden is capable of being President for another four years.  That is what the American people are thinking.  We see Joe Biden and think to ourselves: This guy can’t be president for four more years.  We wonder whether he can do the job for the next six months.  And yet the Democrats just talk about whether he can win in November and whether he will hurt the election chances of other Democrats. 

Maybe their theory is that they have a better chance of getting Biden to withdraw if they talk about the politics of it, as opposed to telling him that he just can’t do the job anymore.  But while that might be the best way to get him out, how about some honesty with the American people?

Biden? Trump? The Biden Watch – It’s Not About Whether He Can Win, It’s About Whether He Can Be President – For Four and One-Half More Years

I didn’t watch Joe Biden’s press conference tonight because it’s not relevant.  The question is not whether Joe Biden could do okay tonight.  And it definitely is not whether he can beat Donald Trump in November.  The question is whether he can be President for four and a half more years. 

Even if you think he is okay right now, do you think he will be okay a year from now?  Two years from now?  How about three years from now?  Do you think he will be fully with it and able to be President three years from now?  Because three years from now, he will still have another year and a half to serve as President. 

Biden? Trump? The Biden Watch.

I have lots to do (even if I am retired), and yet I keep reading articles about Joe Biden.  Is he leaving?  Is he staying?  How bad did he do today?  What’s going to happen?

To me, it’s obvious Joe Biden cannot be President for “four more years”.  I’m not even sure he should be President for six more months, but we can probably get through that.  Four more years?  Of course not.  Even if the debate was a bad night and even if Joe Biden was never all that articulate, he is on a downhill slide.  Even if he hasn’t gone down very far, it’s not going to get better.  And the concern is that it will be like what Ernest Hemingway said about going bankrupt: “Gradually and then suddenly.”