Overnight News: A president with the yips is an ex-president.

Fiasco Joe has by now lasted 15 days longer than I thought he would. Even as I admonish myself to abjure all predictions, still I keep expecting the world to drop that old shoe.

Here’s what’s what: Traitor Joe has the yips. Always has had, and the yips might well be the source of the ‘stutter’ he is alleged to have had. I’m not sure if he really has senile dementia or if he’s faking it to hide all the treason, but his response to all challenges – hiding – is only making the yips worse.

As is the world. A golfer with the yips is only looking at one ball. A batter with the yips is only staring down the next pitch. But the world will not stop throwing emergencies at Sleepy Joe, and hiding from them not only makes them worse – it makes everything worse.

I know Walkaway Joe is toast, because the preference cascade against him will swell with his every abdication of responsibility.

Hide and watch: A president with the yips is an ex-president.

In other news:

CNBC: Mortgage demand falls to lowest in two months as rates stagnate.

Mark Helprin: Defense Rests: We cannot survive without the defense of our sovereignty and independence.

City Journal: When Flags Waved: The stirring response by New Yorkers and Americans everywhere to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is a reminder of what the country used to be – and can be again.

Roger Kimball: ‘Adults,’ ‘Progress,’ and Disaster: Historians will look back at the Great Afghan Fumble of 2021 and say it was there and then that the United States took a large public step towards its own diminishment.