Carville to Biden: Sod Off, Swampy

To quote the great philosophical commune known as Motley Crüe: Girl, don’t go away mad. Just go away. Or to quote Glenn Reynolds … sod off, swampy.

That message to Joe Biden didn’t come from Donald Trump, or even J.D. Vance. It came from the Ragin’ Cajun yesterday, and captured by the Daily Caller and the Daily Wire. James Carville tried to soften the blow by referring to the infamously nasty demagogue as a “nice guy,” but one whose “last act was terrible.” Indeed, and it lasted four frickin’ years:

Wow, James Carville did not hold back on Joe Biden: “What he’s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there.”

“Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on.”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/CajCL7xPhO

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) January 23, 2025

“What he’s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Okay, just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there. And that’s not because we’re bad people or we’re mean people. It was all his doing. All his doing, this entire thing,” Carville said, noting that the Democratic Party was not interested in talking to Biden either.

Carville briefly mentioned Biden’s repeated claim that he could have beaten Trump in November if he’d remained in the race, and made it clear that he wasn’t buying it: “No one f***ing believes that at all!”

“And then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi,” Carville continued. “I mean, just look, guy — you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on, and it’s very sad, but that’s just where we are. And he created this himself. He has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody.”

Oddly enough, Carville may be too quick to assign all of the blame to Joe Biden, although it’s certainly understandable why he’s quick to do so. There remains a real question as to just how much control Biden actually had during his presidency, a question that Democrats are anxious to leave unanswered. An answer might not implicate Carville in what could be one of the worst constitutional scandals in American history — Carville never had any role in the Biden White House — but it might implicate most of the rest of Democrats in the administration and in Congress. 

Declaring that Biden’s terrible “last act” is all his doing is a convenient way to avoid answering any tough questions about Biden’s competency. (He also seems to be referencing the family pardons, rather than the entire disastrous run starting with the American Rescue Plan and the Kabul Bug-Out.) Demanding that Biden keep his mouth shut from here on in accomplishes the same mission, no?

Otherwise, Carvile’s correct in his advice, but it’s better aimed at Democrats who went all in on Biden and Kamala Harris. Carville tried repeatedly to warn his party that they were following like lemmings running off the (apocryphal) cliff, to no avail. The entire party tried to create and then live in a progressive fantasy bubble of unreality, only to be shocked, shocked that voters noticed President Aphasia wore no cognitive clothes and VIP Joy McBrat was almost equal in intellectual nakedness. 

Perhaps Carville should have included Kamala Harris in that warning. That would make the song reference even more apt, and since I have yet to find a good rock tune with a catchy hook containing the lyrics “Sod off, swampy,” here’s Motley Crüe’s “Don’t Go Away Mad” instead. Although maybe it might be more appropriate to play “I’ll Be Watching You” to all of the conspirators that provided America with a Weekend At Bernie’s presidency.