It's a rare moment that we can place a time stamp on a U.S. president's worst decision. But in the case of Joe Biden, we can thank politics-by-Twitter for the ability to write definitively that the dumbest move —both governmentally and politically — by our 46th POTUS is the unforced error that he committed at 3:33 p.m. last Thursday.
"I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule — but I don't support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor's objections — such as lowering penalties for carjackings," Biden posted on Twitter. "If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did — I'll sign it."
Before that moment, it's safe to say that most Americans outside of Washington had been paying attention to other issues — like the toxic train derailment in Ohio, or the war in Ukraine — than what had been a largely local fight over modernizing the criminal code in our nation's capital. And to the extent that any voters did know anything about the squabble, it was the Fox News-fried talking point that threw this issue before Congress in the first place — the claim that soft-on-crime Democrats are making life easier for carjackers.
