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Kamel-Toe is in over her head
Posted on: June 2, 2021 at 13:06:54 CT
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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.”
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.
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.”
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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