Biden ad boasts: I met basic presidential expectations.

New Biden Ad Campaign Brags: I Barely Managed to Do What’s Expected of Every President

The debt ceiling issue was basically like a meteorite approaching Earth, fiscally speaking. If a deal to raise it wasn’t reached, the United States would default and the world economy would suffer potentially catastrophic consequences.

Past presidents, knowing they would have to deal with hostile Congresses, planned long and hard to avert such disasters. But not Joe Biden. He looked up into his macroeconomic telescope, saw the meteorite coming, and said nope, we’re not doing anything. We’re not negotiating with no meteorite, bub. Ol’ Uncle Joe’s one bad dude.

“Let’s put this into perspective: This is the president taking a victory lap on being able to achieve a basic matter of governance.” – CBS News’ Margaret Brennan

Now, this wasn’t technically the White House’s reasoning. The actual line — slightly more boring, but still just as ill-conceived — was that