After more than 11 months in office, with inflation skyrocketing and the country's superpower status plummeting, Americans can't stand either President Joe Biden or his vice-presidential-beneficiary of-affirmative-action, Kamala Harris.
As border czar who for three months avoided visiting the Mexican border, Harris relented only after plans were made known of former President Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott traveling to the frontier - and then she briefly visited only a border patrol station about nine miles from the actual border, far removed from where masses of illegal migrants have been crossing.
Harris went on to laud the $5 trillion Build Back Better package of new entitlements, guaranteed to pour gasoline on inflation, by absurdly claiming, "It brings down the cost of living." Asked about West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's defection on the bill, Harris went off into a childlike non-sequitur about how "I'm the tiebreaker. I'm the tie vote the president and I joke and when I leave one of our meetings to go break a tie, he says, 'well, that's going to be a winning vote.' Whenever I vote, we win!".
Asked "Do you think you're being set up to fail?" by Biden and administration staff with an array of no-win assignments, she claimed, "I'm the vice president of the United States. Anything that I handle is because it's a tough issue. And it couldn't be handled at some other level" - which means the vice president is either a shameless liar, a hopeless naif, or drunk with delusions regarding her elective office.
Fox liberal commentator Richard Fowler's dubious advice to Kamala Harris is to arrange more interviews with "Black female journalists so she could begin to have a conversation with black America" and apologize for "This White House's mistreatment of Haitian refugees at the southern border of the United States." In other words, it's a communication problem - the perennial self-denial of the left regarding its failures.
Politically, if Vice President Harris had any degree of shrewdness, and any awareness of the trouble she is in, not to mention a handle on the dynamics of the left within the Democratic Party, she would display some fortitude and self-respect by letting it be known that she, as a nationally elected figure - not Biden or anyone else - will decide what issues she will or won't work on, instead of being the yes woman of an incredibly shrinking president.
Harris would be more respected across the ideological spectrum if she acted like her own woman.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/30/vice-president-kamikaze-harris/
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