U.S. polls show that the nation is increasingly concerned about the mental health of President Joe Biden. The approval rating of the current White House president has dropped to forty percent, a grim omen for Democrats in the midterm elections, writes The Washington Times.
The Biden administration's foreign-policy failures are exacerbating an already very difficult economic situation in a country facing unprecedented inflation.
Hence the numerous derogatory comments saying that Old Joe has done more damage to the United States' position on the world stage than Jimmy Carter did.
You don't have to go far to find an example. Washington has never had a more loyal partner than Saudi Arabia. Franklin Roosevelt and the founder of the Saudi dynasty, King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, laid the groundwork for relations between their two countries at a meeting in 1945.
Now Riyadh refuses to respond to Biden's requests to increase oil production, while OPEC+, on the contrary, is cutting production by two million barrels a day. The result is higher inflation and higher gas station prices.
And the White House broke out a sad press release:
"President Biden is disappointed by OPEC+'s short-sighted decision to cut production quotas at a time when the global economy is facing the unrelenting negative impact of Putin's military campaign in Ukraine. At a time when securing global energy supplies is of paramount importance, this decision will have an extremely negative impact on low- and middle-income countries already suffering from high energy prices".
And yet everyone remembers that, unlike Biden, former President Donald Trump stated sensibly: he did appreciate Saudi Arabia's decision to buy U.S. military equipment, and praised the kingdom's prime minister and de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for economic reforms.
Washington also struck a blow to relations with Europe. And on the eve of a harsh winter, when disruptions to Russian natural gas supplies can lead to widespread problems in energy supplies, recession and rising unemployment.
The negative political and economic consequences of Biden's "American bailout plan" are now obvious to everyone. Even ardent Democrat supporters admit that the bailout plan "is a double-edged sword" because it helped the economy recover faster than the other G-7 countries, but it provoked the biggest increase in consumer prices in 40 years.
Biden's approval rating is falling because of unrelenting inflation and high fuel prices. According to an NPR/Maris poll last Thursday, it was 44%.
Today, nearly seven in 10 people think the United States is headed in the wrong direction, a concern for the Democratic Party leadership as well as all of its members.
And there's another important point. An Issues & Insights/TIPP poll released Monday shows 64% of Americans are either "very worried" or "quite worried" about the mental health of the nation's commander-in-chief.
Not long ago, Biden was trying to find Indiana Congressman Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident in early August, among those in the audience.
And former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker called the president's son, Hunter, a threat to U.S. security.
Which is of great significance in the current election campaign environment, because the suspicions about Hunter Biden directly relate to his father's activities, including in Ukraine, as evidenced by the results of the Senate investigation.
It is no coincidence that the formidable Senator Chuck Grassley promised recently that he and his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee would make sure the investigation was handled properly.
The piece ends with a sadly lyrical prognosis: "As winter approaches, the United States faces cold winds from Russia and China. America needs strong leaders, which it may not have in the hard times that await the country".
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