What Joe Knows

By Hubie and Bertie

If we'd been lucky enough to have a post-blistering-speech lunch with POTUS today, we would have said to him, in our best Richard Haydn Sound of Music voice, "You know something." To which he may have mysteriously replied, like the exquisite Eleanor Parker, "Perhaps."

We're always happy for an excuse to post a photo of Parker, but our point is this: President Biden would not have been able to make today's speech a year ago, as some impatient liberals have complained.

First, there were a few little national emergencies that he needed to attend to — like the pandemic, and getting people vaccinated and COVID relief passed. But second, he needed to have some solid investigating at his back. It was clear to us as we listened today that he knows what DOJ and the January 6 committee have so far. A current President wouldn't make such serious accusations against a former President unless he knew them to be true.

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, whose liberal impatience is legendary, called Biden's address "one of the greatest speeches in American history." Not modern American history. Not Presidential history. All of American history. We cats agree, and we PURR.