It's Good to have Human Beings Back in the White House

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

I respect Joe Biden's skills as a politician and his decency as a human being, but in all honesty I am not an ardent Biden political supporter.  Last year I voted for another candidate in the Missouri presidential primary, even though by the time that the "show-me" state finally got around to holding a primary, Biden was already the de facto nominee.  Being a practical and sane person, however, I did vote for Biden in the general election.  Practical and sane people really had no choice in the 2020 general election.

So far I am pleased with the Biden presidency.  I feel personally safe and I feel that the country is safe under his leadership, and that is clearly something that many of us never felt with his predecessor.   The nation seems less angry and much quieter on Biden's watch.  We don't wake up every morning to an onslaught of rage tweets coming from the occupant of the Oval Office, and minor political incidents aren't amped up to the level of national or international incidents.

Calm is prevailing, and I like calm.

But lest we forget how awful things were just a couple of months ago, the bills from that four-year fiasco are still coming due - literally.

Monday the Daily Beast ran a report saying that a political junket that the son-in-law of the last guy to inhabit that White House before Biden had resulted in a hotel bill in the amount of $24,335.  That, of course, would be an outrageous hotel bill for even an actual diplomat.  But Jared and Ivanka Trump won't unpack their bags in places where most Americans would feel comfortable and safe.  They're special.

That junket was in December after Ivanka's daddy had already lost his re-election effort and the Kushner's knew that their time on the public payroll was careening to an end.  At about that same time they moved out of the White House and into a private home in Washington, DC.  As a part of that move they spent over $100,000 of public money to rent an apartment across the street from their new digs because Ivanka refused to let those common Secret Service agents use any of the five bathrooms in her new home.

Another much ballyhooed instance of the Kushner's living large on taxpayer money occurred in 2018 when they took a weekend vacation to a resort in the Dominican Republic.  During that outing they spent $58,000 just for accommodations for their security detail.

Joe Biden is not be as noisy and as self-absorbed as the guy who was President before him, and I like that. I also like the fact that his family doesn't behave like they are all a bunch of entitled British royals.  

It'sgood to have human beings back in the White House!