Erick-Woods Erickson
The Middle East is on the brink of war.
The stock market has plunged.
Recession looms.
And Vice President Harris yesterday released a picture of her in the Situation Room. Notably, she left after a time while the meeting continued. But the meeting highlighted something else.
Look at how the name plates are positioned.
Now let’s do Reagan, who some Democrats like to say was getting Alzheimer’s while in the White House (that’s not true).
Here’s George H. W. Bush in the Situation Room.
Now Bill Clinton.
Here’s George W. Bush.
And now here is Barack Obama.
Followed by Donald Trump.
Going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, no one needed to have their name plates facing the President of the United States.
Joe Biden has been in Washington for fifty years. He hand picked each of the people around that table. And he needs the name plates facing him to know how to call on them.
That is a troubling sign.
Again, Democrats want to point to Ronald Reagan, but Reagan didn’t need the name plates facing him, even in his final years of the presidency.
That Joe Biden does is alarming. That Kamala Harris continues to cover for him is just as alarming. And that Harris left the room as the meeting proceeded is remarkable.
