During the evening of Dec. 1, when the media had effectively closed shop for the night and everyone was engaged in some quotidian Sunday-night activity—preparing for the upcoming work week, watching the San Francisco 49ers play the Buffalo Bills, doing some online holiday shopping, or whatever—President Joe Biden was busily engaged in the exercise of his constitutional authority.
That might be the lede for a story about an important foreign or domestic policy decision to benefit the public. Is that what the president did? No; try again. Did he propose a major Middle East peace initiative? No; make another guess. Did he award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to an American who has dedicated his or her life to developing a vaccine or cure for a dreadful ailment, or to comforting the afflicted? Nope.
After steadfastly denying for months that he would do so, President…
