This coincides with a looming deadline to approve a federal budget, already delayed by fractious factions’ unwillingness to budge or negotiate in good faith.

Which coincides with the longest presidential campaign in history, not yet even half complete. One party looks headed to nominate a 77-year-old, thrice-married former president under four legal indictments, seeking redemption and revenge in another term.

The other party looks headed to nominate an 80-year-old twice-married incumbent who lies like the Oval Office rug, is gripped by frequent mental freezes, and stumbles and walks like a man far older.

Biden can sit in that office looking directly at the nation’s highest-ranking general in uniform and praise his experience at the Justice Department.

Then, there is ongoing inflation, rising crime, congressional paralysis, corruption, and a sense that no one of intelligence is in control. Even President Biden often admits openly that he’s being told what to do.

All delinquently chronicled by a dishonest media playing blind to the commander in chief’s disabilities because they favor his current ideology over that miscreant usurper Trump.

No wonder, then, that three-quarters of Americans tell pollsters the country is headed in the Wrong Direction and that they do not want either man to run, let alone be reelected.

While the free world, accustomed to a steady, if sometimes zany United States’ leadership, watches helplessly with mounting unease. And the malevolent actors of China, Russia, Iran, et al. await their perfect opportunity. 

Hamas didn’t wait. It seized upon U.S. weakness and the Jewish Sabbath to launch the largest attack on Israel and innocent Israelis in decades.

The chaotic DC spectacle is not just a petty political fight over the extra $50,000 paid the occupant of a Speaker’s chair that sits higher than others in the House of Representatives — far from it.

Each combatant spray-paints their cause with swell-sounding words of fairness, equity, diversity, and accusations of betrayal and ideological inconsistencies.

But here is The Truth:

What we are witnessing now in that moral swamp is actually an awful, perfect storm of events, ambitions, weaknesses, and coincidental conspiracies from the extreme ends of both parties, now dashing freely after their own destructive ends. 

As Americans watch helplessly, they begin to realize slowly there is no real leadership anywhere looking out for the Nation’s good beyond a momentary personal gain and preening for the immediate news cycle.

The goal of these bad actors is not to build anything new and better. The goal is to destroy what is. Then fight over the remains to construct a new alien culture unfamiliar to traditional American values and standards.

The Woke movement is part of that, designed to demolish in the name of equity, among other things, a belief in excellence and American exceptionalism. 

Another part is the administration’s censorship collusion with news and social media, determined to financially smother divergent voices and opinion, like this site and others. 

As are its determined efforts to embed a separate and unequal system of justice. There, innovators from the wrong party, like Elon Musk, draw retaliatory investigations by four Biden government departments. As others pursue Trump.

The FBI and intelligence community pretend to believe a Russian hoax concocted by actors in one party to undermine a major opponent. 

All the while overlooking a laptop full of incriminating evidence on a president’s son and his co-conspirators, and when caught, crafting a sweetheart-plea deal, then, exposed again, naming a sympathetic official to pretend-prosecute.

All the while allowing one of their own, named Hillary Clinton, to skate free and clear from national security violations and destruction of evidence. All delivered in news morsels by a complicit media.

And now, there is clear documentation of multi-million-dollar financial transfers from abroad into Biden family shell companies. What normal people on the up-and-up feel the need to use code names in family communications? 

This all plays out in a tragic drama selectively chronicled by media guarding their own self-interest, ignoring inconvenient truths, and hyping conflict. As Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote:

A common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States.

As civilization's second-oldest profession, politics in its best form is about elected representatives working with people they disagree with on compromises that accomplish some of the goals of both sides. Not all of them, just some. And returning later if desired to move ahead a few more inches.

It’s messy and inconsistent. And noisy at times. Two steps ahead, one step back. It demands patience from a generation that expects 5G speed. 

It’s worked rather well for two-and-a-half centuries. We even had a Civil War, the deadliest conflict in our history. But at just the right times, a steadfast national leader emerged with a unifying vision and the ability to speak it. Abraham Lincoln comes to mind. FDR also.

We have no such leader now. We have an empty suit with a glassy stare and a marshmallow mind. Compromise is an evil word meaning “sellout.” Everyone is in it for themselves. Everything is transactional.

Matt Gaetz, the leader of last week’s GOP House revolt, seemingly has no vision beyond getting even with Kevin McCarthy for not derailing his ethics investigation and then getting some more TV hits on his complaints, perhaps because Gaetz craves another office.

The Gaetz caper jeopardizes future GOP House election fortunes and the party's significant poll leads on virtually every major issue. He doesn't care. Who wants nihilistic, pouty politicos like that?

As Roll Call put it:

A political ecosystem that rewards the agents of chaos over steady-as-you-go pragmatists could jeopardize the GOP’s slender House majority next year. Voters in suburban districts have shown little appetite for the antics of hard-liners such as Gaetz and the messy public squabbles that have fractured the party.

Right now, it raises the specter that a minute, far-right faction of Republicans can seriously disrupt the operations of a legislative chamber with 437 other members. At some point, such as 2016, American voters' patience and frustration with D.C.'s chronic double-dealing runs out. And they opt for someone unexpected with unforeseen consequences still unfolding.

No one studies history anymore because it's old and over. But those who have remember 1930s Germany voluntarily asking Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor to lead it from the chaos of inflation, divisive politics, and the Depression.

Today's internecine GOP struggle has serious implications for foreign policy, not least in Ukraine, whose valiant ongoing struggle against Russian invasion relies on continued Western military aid. 

To ensure this conquest and others to come, Vladimir Putin is counting on U.S. support waning as it always has in long foreign struggles since World War II.

Next up for his conquest: the tiny Baltic states. But they are alliance members, requiring an instant NATO military response, including U.S. troops. 

Gaetz’s biggest professed beef with McCarthy was the Speaker relying on Democrat votes to pass a continuing budget resolution and avoid a government shutdown.

The D’s could have let the R’s fight it out, according to the time-honored maxim: If your enemies are fighting amongst themselves, let them.

But then, when it suited his own benefit, Gaetz turned to those same Democrats to join in the McCarthy ouster for their own purposes of chaos and 2024 political gain to ensure the GOP Speaker's dismissal, an historic event beloved by media. 

Oh, look! That House coverage just happened to drown out Joe Biden’s dramatic, vow-breaking switcheroo on building more of Trump’s border wall. 

Joe Biden in 2020: “There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration!”

Biden Administration, 2023: There is an “immediate need” to waive 26 federal laws and build 20+ additional miles of wall across the bottom of Texas. 

Which means there will not be another foot of wall constructed under Joe Biden. There will be another 106,000 feet of wall.

This sudden border-sealing show has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the nation from invading hordes of illegal aliens. The barn door has been open since Biden took office, and more than two million illegal aliens have permeated the country, with additional thousands arriving daily. 

They require housing, schools, and other expensive services to be paid for by -- you guessed it -- hard-pressed taxpayers who had nothing to do with creating the crisis. Except maybe those who voted for Biden.

The Biden administration is even busing illegals to melt into inland communities free from future detection.

No. This is not about finally controlling more of the nation’s border. Mr. Empathy can’t explain it, but he’s suddenly into building more wall for his own good. GOP governors have been criticizing Biden for the flood of illegals, even busing some to sanctuary cities. Biden cared not.

But now, it’s Democrat governors and mayors wailing about the flood of impoverished, illiterate humanity demanding expensive government services. So, Biden is acting.

Everything in our government has become about acting.