Joe Biden’s ‘First Hundred’ Daze
Did anyone truly expect a known plagiarist wouldn’t claim to have authored the pandemic’s ending?
By Thaddeus G. McCotter
December 18, 2020
Often during spring training, the Hall of Fame baseball manager of the Reds and Tigers, Sparky Anderson, was asked about how his team would fare in the upcoming season. To put off the question without appearing rude, the skipper would say, “we’ll know after the first 40 games.†Interestingly, the jury is still out on whether Sparky actually believed this, because after the first 40 games he slyly put off the question for more and more games until his team had patently proven its competitive mettle (or lack thereof) to reporters and fans.
In politics, Sparky’s 40-game “rule†is the “first hundred days.†The phrase and, indeed, the concept of its alleged importance was unknown in presidential history until 1933, when it was spawned by that marketing genius, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Entering office during the depths of the Great Depression and armed with only a haphazard amalgam of ad hoc, pragmatic policy proposals (the merits of which are still being debated today), FDR devised the “first hundred days†standard to show the new president was acting with urgency to solve the crisis. Consequently, the first hundred days was not a matter of economic policy; it was a piece of political propaganda.
Today, Joe Biden is spending his “presidency-elect†(or whatever the spoon-fed press calls it) pretending to be relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Granted, Biden got off to a bad start by opposing the barring of Chinese nationals’ travel to America; promising to “defeat the virus†with a secret plan that turned out to be establishing a commission; and supporting—then denying—continued lockdowns.
Now, like FDR, Biden is under political pressure to show he is acting with alacrity; and to portray himself as the leader responsible for solving the pandemic that got him elected.
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