While the Democrats avoided the “red tsunami” that many of them clearly feared was coming on Tuesday, they didn’t chalk up any measurable success, either. And they can’t be blind to the terrible poll numbers that the Biden administration has been garnering and the negative marks people of all stripes have given the direction that the economy is taking. So with the election safely behind him for another two years, will we be seeing any changes in Joe Biden’s governing policies? He was asked that question by reporters last night. Are there any things he plans to adjust his course on and do differently? Biden’s response was short and to the point. “Nothing,” he said. He won’t be changing anything in “any fundamental way.” Seriously? Apparently so. (National Review)

President Biden on Wednesday admitted that he plans to do “nothing” differently in the second half of his first term to restore Americans’ confidence in the direction of their country, despite the possibility that Republicans reclaim a majority in the House after an otherwise lackluster midterm performance.

Speaking to reporters the day after the midterm elections, Biden was asked what he might do differently to address voters’ concerns about the economy and the widespread sentiment that the country is generally moving in the wrong direction.

Biden replied: “nothing.”

“I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way,” he added.

It has already become obvious that the nation didn’t undergo the sort of radical “reorientation” some had been predicting during the midterm campaign season and broadly embrace the GOP. But it’s even more true that the election results were not some sort of boisterous confirmation of the value of Biden’s policies or the state of the nation. The rebuke to the Biden administration may have been smaller than predicted, but his party has almost certainly lost the majority in the House and could still lose the Senate as well, depending on how the final vote-counting plays out.

Under conditions such as these, wouldn’t you imagine that an elected leader might pause to take stock and figure out how he could restore the faith of the people in his leadership? Wouldn’t they ask why people seem to be so underwhelmed and disapproving of his administration? Apparently not in this case. Joe Biden seems bound and determined to just keep on serving up the same disastrous dish that’s been showing up on our tables since he took office.

Biden made a brief but spirited attempt to claim that people won’t be seeing the beneficial impacts of his early policy initiatives until further down the road. That flies in the face of reality, doesn’t it? We can easily argue that his open border policies began producing disastrous effects almost immediately and they’ve only continued to worsen since then. His decision to continue printing trillions of dollars of imaginary money in the name of combatting the pandemic took a bit longer to bear fruit (and was a continuation of things done under the previous administration if we’re being honest) but now the predicted inflation and skyrocketing prices have arrived. The idea of defunding the police didn’t originate under Biden, but he certainly didn’t do anything to dissuade it until the crime wave reached critical levels.

All in all, we’re living every day with the results of Biden’s policies. They aren’t going to magically begin making America into a paradise next year or the year after. And the condition of the nation remains bleak. But that doesn’t seem to phase Joe Biden in whatever world he’s inhabiting these days. He still has his job and everything must be fine in Biden’s world. So if you were expecting something different and more productive out of the White House over the next two years, what you will actually be getting is, in his own words, “nothing.”

Best of luck to all of us. We’re going to need it.