Biden’s Cancer
No more criticizing, say Dems: Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone. David Axelrod, a Democratic operative, argued on CNN that conversations about Biden’s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.” He was referring to the discourse around Original Sin, a book by Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper that chronicles the coverup of Biden’s mental decline by those around him as he was seeking reelection.
But if anything, the announcement raises more questions. Less than a year ago, Biden’s physician claimed he was a “healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” This already strained credulity for people who noticed his mental decline; it is still more suspicious now, in light of this stage four diagnosis, signs of which were likely present 10 months ago.
The Axelrod line is an attempt to ensure there’s never a reckoning. You can be sensitive toward Biden’s condition, which is surely very sad for his family, while also trying to uncover which operatives tried to perpetrate a fraud, lying to the American people about the man for whom they were going to be asked to vote. In fact, the two aren’t really in tension at all. Which Democratic aides, staffers, and decision makers tried to pull the wool over people’s eyes? It’s important to suss out how culpable the Bidens were in all this, yes; but the former president doesn’t have some long political career ahead of him, whereas some of the people who were complicit in all this might have many decades left.
I truly hope the former President makes a full recovery. I also suspect this was yet another serious lie of omission during his Presidency about his health (& there’s ample reason not to give them benefit of doubt). They’re using a more sympathetic, smaller lie to deflect from… https://t.co/Zg1Wcw6aID
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 18, 2025
House budget committee approves the “big, beautiful bill”: Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) appears to have convinced the deficit hawks to give up for now and do President Donald Trump’s bidding.
Sunday’s vote was 17–16, with four Republicans voting present and all Democrats opposed to the measure; the deficit hawks who reversed their stances (voting present instead of no) are Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma.
During earlier negotiations, this group had “blocked their own party’s sprawling domestic policy measure from advancing out of a key committee on Friday” due to their “fundamentally different view of federal spending and debt than the rest of the G.O.P.,” reports The New York Ti
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