So the betting is on for when Joe will be ushered gently out the door. It’s been on for a long time, pretty much since he took office or even before. Originally, many people thought he’d be pushed out by June of 2021. That didn’t happen. Then the theory was that they would wait till he’d served for two years, so that Kamala could get two and a half terms out of it. But she turned out to be a dud, and so here it is two and a half years later and Joe is still president.

We can argue about how active he is in his own administration, but I have long been of the opinion that although he’s being manipulated somewhat by others, he’s more in charge than most people on the right believe. I also think he’s stubborn and still highly ambitious and prideful about himself, and won’t be pushed aside easily. And then there’s the conundrum of what to do about Kamala. I don’t think that problem has yet been solved, and until it is I think Joe is staying.

[Same, as I wrote earlier. — Ed]