The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner "How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge." Tuesday's New York Times story "A Weary Biden Heads For the Exit" told a similar tale, as departing staffers have starting spilling the beans.

Earlier this month, Biden, 82, appeared to fall asleep during a summit with African leaders in Angola.
If this were a game of "Tell me something I didn't know," big media would lose.
If you follow the news, you've seen Biden shuffling across the White House lawn or looking lost at the end of the diminishing number of public events POTUS holds. Sadly, after he bowed out of the 2024 campaign, Biden appears to have lost interest in the job. Over the past week, as a partial government shutdown loomed, Biden has been conspicuously inconspicuous.
At Friday's press briefing where budget negotiations were discussed, a reporter asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, "The strategy is, he is leading by staying in the background?"
Earlier this month, Biden, 82, appeared to fall asleep during a summit with African leaders in Angola. The White House announced Thursday that next month Biden will travel to Rome to meet with His Holiness Pope Francis, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. What could go wrong?
No joke.
In February, when Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report on his investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified material, Hur opined that Biden could not be convicted in court by a jury that would see the president as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
And Biden isn't working it as hard as he used to. CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller, the unofficial bean counter of presidential events, has tallied nine Biden cabinet meetings, compared to 19 cabinet meetings for the first terms of President Barack Obama and 25 for Donald Trump.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin dealt regularly with Biden during his first two years in office, the Journal re...