Honestly senile

There’s one genuine advantage of an honestly senile president.

Repooflicans are mocking Biden for working short hours. Allegedly he works only 10 to 4, and isn’t available for all the usual publicity crap.

1. Well, you don’t like what he does when he’s working. You should be happy he doesn’t work much. (Incidentally, Dems made the same complaint about Reagan, and I made the same answer to them.)

2. Broadly: In earlier eras executives generally worked short days and short years. They spent weeks on fishing trips and months on cruises to Europe. They summered in Maine and wintered in Florida. The PURPOSE of becoming an executive was short work and long responsibility.

3. Specifically: the president of this miserable country was meant to have only a few actual duties, listed in the obsolete “constitution”. He was meant to be the final editor for bills passed by congress. He was responsible for appointing certain executive branch officials. He was supposed to WRITE an annual report to congress. That’s all.

The bill editing used to be a daily task, but now that congress glops up all of its meaningless “laws” into one omnibus “law” each year, the president’s part should take only a few minutes per year, and isn’t even a real decision. Congress always ties the president’s hands with political extortion, so he MUST sign the meaningless annual “law”.

Over the years presidents have tacked on dozens of other expected duties, like press conferences and campaigning and radio podcasts and State of the Union stageshows. Those are NOT in the original contract, and it’s refreshing to have a serious codger who abandons those accretions.