Kamala Harris is in over her head and embarrassing herself
By: Eddie Scarry (MSN)
Thankless job.........and the perfect person for it.
Have you found the southern border yet?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Next to tending a parking lot, the vice presidency can be the easiest job in the world, yet, somehow, Kamala Harris is making it look like a monumental undertaking.
Four months into the role, it couldn't be more clear that Harris is so far in over her head that she'll need dynamite to blast her way out. (She might hope it will be powered by a rolled-up solar panel.)
Admittedly, Harris hasn't been done any favors by her boss. President Joe Biden keeps saddling her with work she either doesn't want or doesn't know how to do. He said on Tuesday he was making Harris the lead person in his administration on efforts to dismantle all the ways that states organize their elections. (This is often referred to by Democrats and the media as "expanding voter rights.")
The New York Times expressed its deep confidence in the decision, stating in a news article that Biden had "added another politically thorny problem to the vice president's policy portfolio."
Translation: Does Biden know what he's doing?
Biden's other big gift to Harris in recent weeks was a splashy announcement that she would be the one to oversee the obscene crush of destitute migrants dumping themselves into the care of U.S. taxpayers at the southern border. The numbers have climbed to new, astronomical heights under Biden, and there's no sign that they're dropping or even plateauing.
In response, Harris and her team so far have done nothing but try to work the media into believing the vice president isn't really expected to do anything, so you can't blame her for failing. In the same New York Times report about Harris taking on "voter rights," the paper noted that "the vice president … and her staff have worked to reframe expectations around her role, stressing that she will examine the root causes of migration, not single-handedly stop the flow of migrants to the United States."
Ah, yes, "reframe." So Harris will "examine" the border crisis, not actually produce any tangible, weighable result.
Apparently, however, the belief that Harris might actually have been given a responsibility wasn't inherent in Biden explicitly stating he was appointing her to help in "stemming the migration to our southern border," as he said at the White House on March 24. But it was a political trick pulled off by — ah, ha! — Republicans!
CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand said Monday that there had been "confusion" over what Harris was actually supposed to do at the border and that Republicans "kind of seized on that confusion" and "made it seem" that Harris was expected to do something real.
Darn those clever Republicans.
Sorry, Bertrand, but I'm not so naive. The truth is that Harris doesn't know what she's doing.
Even at the simplest part of her job, public appearances, she is falling embarrassingly flat.
She says ridiculous things in interviews with friendly journalists, as when she said in February that she was taken aback at the lack of a vaccine "stockpile" when she came into office. (Why would there be a stockpile of vaccines that had been rush-produced and were immediately distributed in order to stop a pandemic?)
She laughs when it's inappropriate, such as that time when a reporter asked if she had any plans to visit the southern border, and her answer, "not today," was followed by a forced and self-conscious cackle.
Addressing a graduating class at the Naval Academy last week, she crammed in a gender-inclusive line about male soldiers wanting to carry lighter equipment the same way women do. She pushed out an uncomfortable giggle for that one, too.
Harris has fast become our cringiest vice president. Maybe Biden should help her out and take back some of those fake responsibilities.
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And yes, it is an opinion. And pretty accurate from here. Not really a surprise to a LOT of people.
Trump is off topic as are all members of the GOP ...............and as always, thanks for reading.
Guess I won't read it ... should not be too hard to figure why not.
Truth is hard to accept, so best just not to read it?
Why are all members of the gop off topic?
Who is the person the seed is all about?
She’s in way way way over her head.
So, you think this is why only 2 out of 3 Americans approve of the job that Biden and Harris are doing?
Do you not understand that outside the far rightwing bubble things are going quite well for Americans?
That is supposedly Biden's approval rating number and has absolutely NOTHING to do with Ms. Harris for one thing. Number 2, just what do you see as going quite well for Americans? And there isn't a bubble. Actual real world. He is a bumbling fool controlled by handlers of which Ms. Harris is one. Have you a listing of what she has accomplished at the border? How about the manufacturing oversight she was assigned? Or a few of the other things pointed out in the article?
And while you're at it, perhaps you could pop up a few things that Mr. Biden has so miraculously done in the last 4 months. Leave out any Covid reference as that was well underway prior to his occupancy.
The why is Biden's approval rating so very high?
Here in reality America and Americans are doing great
53% is not very high.
No, they really aren't
That is providing one is willing to believe results of polls the Dems are putting out. I don't and I stopped believing any political polls on DC politics years ago, no matter which side puts them out. I find it outright laughable how pollsters will poll about 1,000 people or so in preselected demographic areas, manipulate the results, then try to convince the American public that said results represent the will of the entire nation! The most hilarious part is that there are people out there that swallow this and believe them!
It's much much much higher than [deleted ever got!]
Yes it did. Just didn't type {deleted} when I took out the name.
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That's a good way to mention #45: deleted Like his failed blog and everything else in his life! What a loser! Like he wants to delete the results of the 2020 election!
You're getting personal Jim. Shouldn't you [delete] that comment?
jbb knows what (rather whose name) was typed. Ask them [Deleted]
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According to above it’s 2/3 of all Americans. Democrat math.
They don't.
They do!
I don't know if her refusal to head up the border crises as directed by her supposed boss Biden reflects worse on her or Biden.
Meh, not sure why anyone's surprised when the main criteria for her nomination was seemingly more about gender and race than ability.
She's an unqualified token, selected only because of her race and gender
I hate that label.
That's racist Greg!
How so...
Be specific
Remember Tessy, the left isn't allowed to point out the token minorities put in the spotlight on the right like Candice Owens or Tim Scott, if we do they claim that's racist. Only those on the right are allowed to claim minorities on the left (even though the vast majority of minorities vote Democrat thus disproving the token claims) must be "tokens". You just have to keep in mind that the hypocrisy on the right truly knows no bounds.
. the left isn't allowed to point out the token minorities put in the spotlight on the right like Candice Owens or Tim Scott, if we do they claim that's racist
No, you aren't supposed to use slurs when talking about them. But that's never stopped the progressives here, has it?
Not at all, "Uncle Tom" seems to be the label of choice.....
Stopped them?
Hell, every time one of them uses a slur, it encourages most of the others to double down on their knowledge of different slurs.
They know a lot.
What slurs?
I've never used that term to describe the few minorities that the right wing likes to roll out anytime they're trying desperately to prove they are somehow diverse even though they know they're a tiny speck of their voting base.
Again, wtf are you yammering on about? Slurs? Instead of just making baseless claims why not try linking some of what you claim to be "slurs"? It was one of the conservatives here who threw out "unqualified token" to describe our over-qualified vice President all apparently because he thinks females or black Asian American former US Senators and State Attorney Generals aren't qualified to hold high elected positions, or perhaps he's too bitterly butt hurt about his favorite dip-shit-in-chief losing like so many of that piece of shit dishonest Donald's sore loser base.
By whom???
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Ain't no flies on her, unlike a certain someone else.
Go for it. Don't give a shit.