The Kamala Harris Disaster Has Finally Exploded - 19FortyFive
By: Brandon Weichert (FortyFive)
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Kamala Harris: Can She Be Saved? Franklin Foer's new book, The Last Politician, was billed as a rare account—from the inside—of the Biden Administration's first two years in office. Foer, a writer for The Atlantic, is clearly an ideological fellow traveler with the Biden Administration (which is obviously why so many otherwise tight-lipped insiders gave him the inside scoop of the last two years).
He takes great pains to make his subjects look good, even when he clearly knows they will not be perceived in a positive light. Such is the case with Vice-President Kamala Harris, who comes across as a downright awful pick for Biden's number two.
Foer's description of her is almost painful to read because you know that the truth about Kamala Harris's performance and capabilities as vice president must be far more shambolic than what the author of the book wants you to take away. According to Foer, Kamala Harris simultaneously impresses and depresses her various interlocutors.
Kamala Harris: What a Mess
In one meeting, as Foer describes, Kamala Harris complicated the Biden Administration's attempts to gain bipartisan support for the much-ballyhooed infrastructure bill. During such a meeting with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MI), Harris was brought in to help woo him. Instead, she ended up hectoring him about how awful his preferred president, Donald J. Trump, was for the economy.
She then essentially attempted to guilt the ideologically right-wing Mississippi official into supporting the Biden agenda. At another meeting, after Harris was believed to have made a "power play" against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Harris failed to shake Manchin's hand at an event—prompting Manchin and the press to describe it as a snub, exacerbating the Biden White House's long-standing issues with the fiercely independent West Virginia Democrat.
Ah, but you see, Franklin Foer says it's all a byproduct of just how brilliant and detail-oriented the vice president is. She's a failure because she's just so darn successful.
That's the insinuation that Foer wants you to take away, lest you conclude the blatantly obvious: that Harris is a one-woman dumpster fire, speeding toward political oblivion, who risks blowing up her own administration—which is already teetering on the brink—with each astounding, entirely avoidable misstep she makes.
How in the world does Foer take away that Harris is just too prepared for her own good?
With such displays of brilliance, such as Harris' best J.B. Smoove from Curb Your Enthusiasm impression, when she went on a bizarre rant about how "we are here and I am here" while visiting Poland.
Or her recent mind-numbing (technically incorrect) definition of culture as being, "Something that comes in morning." According to Harris' weird word salad definition, culture is "a reflection of our moment and our time."
The audience in question sat dumbfounded at her remarks - as most audiences that hear the vice president babble on appear.
Franklin Foer, like most left-leaning individuals, clearly thinks that former President Donald J. Trump was such an awful human being - like, literally, Hitler - that even the most absurd lie and most egregious misrepresentation of something we can all see to be terrible - in this case, Harris's time as vice-president - is somehow really good. She's just too darn smart.
They Wouldn't Hold Back if Kamala Harris Was a Republican
Put the jackboot on the other foot. Imagine if Kamala Harris were a Republican vice president rather than a Democrat. Regardless of her gender or race, do you really believe that anyone at The Atlantic or elsewhere in so-called elite society would not only excuse patent ineptitude but would downright lie about it to protect the dignity of that Republican?
Of course not.
Kamala Harris is a terrible vice president, qualitatively and quantitatively. Quantitatively, she has failed to achieve a single positive outcome for any of the policies she has been tasked by President Joe Biden, himself no newcomer when it comes to displays of competence, to resolve.
Kamala Harris has failed to bring any meaningful resolution to America's broken border. Harris is a disaster on space policy. Further, she hasn't resolved the Russo-Ukraine War to any meaningful conclusion.
But, of course, we are all just too stupid to appreciate just how prepared and brilliant she really is. Give me - give us all - a break and admit that Harris was one of the worst possible choices for Biden's number two.
It's okay to admit failure. And with the Biden Administration, failure seems to be their one consistent, defining trait. Harris exemplifies that failure.
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Not an absolute but often enough, when the right wing attacks someone or something, the right wing either has a fear of their accomplishments or is unable to competently reply or counter the message being offered.
Fear? That seems to be a new buzz word.
What, precisely, has Kamala Harris accomplished as VP? She's been given numerous "jobs", and to date, has not come close to even setting a ground plan for any of them.
Somewhat the same as dems do. Trump ring a bell? STILL affects several on this very site. Scared shitless.
Exactly
Exactly what accomplishments? You know what, never mind. We know you, nor any other Bidenite here on NT cannot list a single "accomplishment".
If they ever had any integrity or shame, it’s long gone now since they’ve become card carrying Bidenettes.
I thought integrity was considered a detriment for Republicans, judging how they treated Liz Cheney.
Really? Then please give me good reasons for your comment, and don't bother to include "party loyalty" because party loyalty is what supports Donald Trump and that is not necessarily a good thing.
I think that my opinion of how Republicans treated Liz Cheney who put integrity ahead of party loyalty is quite valid, reasonable and intelligent. The fact that so many Republicans have no respect for integrity is a scar on the face of America (borrowing a description from the movie The Da Vinci Code). In the movie Finding Forrester, "integrity" was considered very important. I consider it very important, and I look to some sickening examples in America where it is discarded, all the way up to your SCOTUS, justifying my opinion.
At least I gave YOU a meaningful answer.
Yes, but as George Orwell would have said, some opinions are more equal than others.
If you think integrity is the main reason she did what she did then you don’t know the Cheney family very well.
The people of Wyoming said it best by sending her packing in a crushing 38 point defeat in her primary. 38 points! Finally bringing to an end the Cheney Warhawk years in Wyoming.
No one knows her better than her own constituency. Certainly not you.
Gee, if only the people elected their representatives to represent them instead of putting their wishes over those of their constituents.
So basically what you are saying is, the people they represent (their constituents) are voting against their own interest?
Hilarious.
I have to wonder why she was elected in the first place and kept in office for as long both by her constituents and in an important position in the party as she was and only when she turned on Trump did she get booted by her own party and her constituents. I'll stick with my opinion.
I love it when liberals defend a person who turns out to be one of the most conservative republicans in congress after they consistently fried her father.
The power of TDS ….
Are you labelling me as a liberal?
I've voted Conservative in the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial elections for the past 40 years. The last Liberal I supported was Justin's dad, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, whom I considered (and still do) the best PM Canada has ever had. However, my opinions are NOT stuck in one direction as perhaps yours might be. Years ago, a member here named Krishna produced a test as to which direction members might go, liberal or conservative, and I tested out to be almost exactly a Centrist - i.e. neither liberal nor conservative, and I think that my comments on this site bear out that fact. You see, I have no reason to lock myself in one direction or another when it comes to American politics, because I'm not an American and I never will be one, nor do I live in America and I never will. A person with any intelligence would realize that that makes me considerably more objective when it comes to American politics.
I’m not labeling you anything. You label yourself with how you post here. That said stop trying to make this personal. It wasn’t, not for me anyway.
My comment was simply a general one but if the shoe fits ……
You replied to me. If you didn't want to make it personal you could have just made a general comment and not a reply. You think the shoe fits? That reminds me of a stanza from a Bob Dylan song, Positively 4th Street:
I did make a “general comment” that you apparently took personal.
Not my problem Buzz. Not my problem.
Song lyrics are meaningless in this context.
Harris has been promoted to her level of incompetence!
the late night shows and SNL would never have to bother looking for other material.
The amount of right wing whining about Kamala Harris is mind blowing.
Exactly, it’s hard to imagine a better VP.
Kinda reminds me of Dan Quayle for some reason.....
Nothing wrong with Quayle. He followed the law, The Constitution and did his job the best he saw fit. Was he always right? Of course not. Nobody is always right. Nobody.
Forgot my /s again, my bad..
They're afraid of her. She revealed who Bill Barr was.
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Hard to be afraid of somebody who is the laughing stock of the Biden administration.
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Lol ….. bazinga!
Hahahahaha……As opposed to the amount of left wing whining about someone who is out of office and has zero power?
JR, we're not whining, we're "making fun of her" because she's an idiot.
The amount of left wing enabling of giggles is exponential.
You mean The Vice President of the United States of America Kamala Harris who is credited with giving President Biden his winning edge among women and minorities in whooping Trump and Pence?
Yeah, that uninformed enabling.
Exactly.
Was her approval rating underwater then?
Absolutely.
Seems to me that VPs are so meaningless until they have to take over the rudder themselves, like Harry Truman or LBJ. Here's an interesting article that speaks of both Harris and Dan Quayle:
Column: So you think Kamala Harris has it rough. Remember Dan Quayle?
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No wanted Dan Quayle as President either.
Being VP killed his political career.
It should be the end of Harris' as well.
She can probably go back to her prosecutor job. For a minute forget your partisan position and tell me who you think would be Biden's smartest choice to replace her?
You really think California Democrats want her back in any capacity? She failed miserably on the national level. She is an embarrassment to the Democrat party. They just want her to disappear.
Frankly I don't give a damn who the Democrats pick to replace her or Brandon. After the last seven years plus of what they have put this country through I wouldn't elect a Democrat to dog catcher.
Moderate and Democrat don't go together. The Democrats have cast out all of their moderates. I don't think Manchin or Sinema would even take the job if it was offered at this point. Sinema already left the Democrat party; and Manchin is well on his way out.
The radical leftists won't accept a moderate Democrat as VP anyways. Especially one that doesn't check all of the qualification boxes. If there is a lower middle aged, violent eco nut job, that is a black, transgender, lesbian, and who is full on communist they would jump to make sure that is the VP choice.
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Harris is a poor mans Quayle
Harris was chosen for only two reasons: her race and gender. Virtue-signaling at its most obvious level.
I think you're right. Too bad she wasn't a disabled gay Muslim - May as well have covered the waterfront.
I'm not sure what your comment meant. My comment 7 referred to left wing media articles. Here are two:
From August 2020:
There are more.
Sorry I didn't understand what you wrote. Turns out, doesn't it, that I'm not the only person who doesn't understand or misreads what they see.
He sure as hell better hope for a turnaround in the economy, and I mean the ACTUAL economy, not what HE says it is.
When he was inaugurated I was willing to give him a chance to prove he was worthy, but he focused more on inclusion than on brilliant competency, and he became more concerned about maintaining personal support than benefitting the people, and now I see he is just a plain old liar. Let me explain what I mean. For my first criticism I turn to my love of the movies for an example. I think the original Yul Brynner version of The Magnificent Seven was an excellent competent "western" remake of the great movie The Seven Samurai. But the second remake with Denzel Washington, as much as I like him as an actor, was more concerned with inclusiveness than about the plot. For the second matter, out of chickenshit fear of being called soft on China he refused to terminate Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods, and all that did was hurt the American consumers who weren't millionaires. As tor the third, in Vietnam he just said "I am not trying to contain China." I can't understand why his pants didn't burst out in flames when he said it.
Bingo!