You know those dried-out rubber bands you find in the back of an old desk drawer? And as soon as you stretch one, it breaks into a useless thing? That’s all I can think of now whenever I see our departing president violate yet another social norm.
Washington, D.C., is a beautiful place. It will be even more beautiful when Joe Biden skulks out of town back to a peaceful ocean beach he doesn’t deserve. This bitter, mean old man has turned lying into a skill.
You almost have to admire the consistency with which he utters serial lie after serial lie, fictitious achievements, made-up encounters, and quotations that everyone within hearing distance knows are completely false.
He’s done it all so smoothly and so well for so long that he emits none of the telltale eye or head movements that homicide detectives use to spot as lies. He’s announced one thing, done another, and denied any…