“Libertarians Want Control Over Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell,” the headline read.
That’s odd. Libertarians don’t usually want control over anyone.
But at issue is whether Sleepy Joe and Motionless Mitch have control over themselves.
“The U.S. Libertarian Party has filed for conservatorships for President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, referring to them as ‘geriatric elites’ mentally unfit to properly serve the American populace,” Newsweek reported on Tuesday.
“Both subjects’ ability to receive and evaluate information effectively, make decisions, and to communicate are impaired to such an extent that they lack the capacity to represent themselves or the interests of Americans,” explained a party news release.
“These men, and others like them (like Diane Feinstein and John Fetterman) are not well enough to be left alone in the house all day,” Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle argued. “How are they well enough to govern our lives and spend our tax dollars?”
She added: “so we’ve compassionately decided to step in and make those important decisions for them.”
At 80 years of age, Mr. Biden is the oldest president ever. If re-elected in 2024, he would be 86 at the conclusion of his term. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, 81 years of age, has been in public office in Washington for the last 38 years.
The problem, of course, is not age as a number, but that both men have exhibited behavior that concerns us for their health and well-being. Mitch has repeatedly frozen in public, to be led away like a zoned-out sleepwalker, while the president, on his recent Vietnam trip, closed a press conference with “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.”
Still, their string-pullers persist in milking each to the last drool-drip of inertial power. Their families should step in.
Until then, the Libertarian Party will have to do.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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