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It’s been two months since President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and we’re still learning more about just how badly it was handled with each passing day.

This week we learned that the federal government collected more in taxes this year than ever before. Tax revenues surged by 18 percent – the biggest year over year increase since 1977.  Even so, President Biden and Democrats in Congress have spent so much, that even with this record spike in tax collections – the federal government still posted a record deficit. It’s pretty obvious: Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.

Congress returned to Washington this week – but not to address pressing concerns like American citizens and residents still stranded in Afghanistan, runaway inflation, a spike in the murder rate, or the rapidly deteriorating situation on the US-Mexico border. Instead, Speaker Pelosi brought lawmakers back to push through legislation that would suspend the federal government’s $28.4 trillion debt limit – until the end of next year.

President Biden declared this week’s chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan that ended Monday afternoon – leaving hundreds and perhaps thousands of Americans behind – “an extraordinary success”. Like many Americans, I was shocked to hear the president characterize the debacle that has unfolded over the last two weeks – leaving 13 American military personnel dead – in this way.  One cable news host put it this way:  “Biden bragged about what a remarkably, really stunningly and historically successful military and intelligence operation we have just witnessed,” he said. “Apparently, Biden is under the impression that the entire United States has lost electrical power and no one has a working internet connection.”