Nov162021

Episode 448 – Kicking Her While She’s Down

Kamala Harris isn’t happy but how did CNN find out. Then gets embarrassed.

And the Democrats release their 2022 election strategy. I hope they run on this.

 

That’s an Unlikely Source

CNN released what a report about VP Kamala Harris and it’s less than complimentary. In fact, I have to tell you, it looks like a hit piece formulated by the Biden administration. Let’s look at it:

Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff — deciding there simply isn’t time to deal with them right now, especially at a moment when President Joe Biden faces quickly multiplying legislative and political concerns.

The exasperation runs both ways. Interviews with nearly three dozen former and current Harris aides, administration officials, Democratic operatives, donors and outside advisers — who spoke extensively to CNN — reveal a complex reality inside the White House. Many in the vice president’s circle fume that she’s not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. The vice president herself has told several confidants she feels constrained in what she’s able to do politically. And those around her remain wary of even hinting at future political ambitions, with Biden’s team highly attuned to signs of disloyalty, particularly from the vice president.
Couple of things here:
  • She’s the vice president of the United States. This is one of the more irrelevant positions in politics.
  • She is the lowest rated VP in modern history. At 28% approval ratings, she’s has a lower approval rating than Dick Cheney after he shot that guy while hunting.
  • Everything she has done she’s failed in. That includes the border crisis and voting rights. Everything she’s been assigned to.
  • She’s inauthentic and a terrible speaker. And that laugh.
  • Shouldn’t she already be prepared for vice president? Does she really need to be prepared and trained to vice president? If Joe Biden keels over tomorrow, wouldn’t she be president?

The article continues:

Few of the insiders who spoke with CNN think she’s being well-prepared for whichever role it will be. Harris is struggling with a rocky relationship with some parts of the White House, while long-time supporters feel abandoned and see no coherent public sense of what she’s done or been trying to do as vice president. Being the first woman, and first woman of color, in national elected office is historic but has also come with outsized scrutiny and no forgiveness for even small errors, as she’ll often point out. 

She’s vice president not a picture hanger. Her moves determine policy and the directions our lives end up going. Forgiveness is not a thing. And she was never qualified for this. She’s picked because she’s a woman and she’s black (which tells you how the response to this article is going to be).

Defenders and people who care for Harris are getting frantic. When they’re annoyed, some pass around a recent Onion story mocking her lack of more substantive work, one with the headline, “White House Urges Kamala Harris To Sit At Computer All Day In Case Emails Come Through.” When they’re depressed, they bat down the Aaron Sorkin-style rumor that Biden might try to replace her by nominating her to a Supreme Court vacancy. That chatter has already reached top levels of the Biden orbit, according to one person who’s heard it.
She’s perceived to be in such a weak position that top Democrats in and outside of Washington have begun to speculate privately, asking each other why the White House has allowed her to become so hobbled in the public consciousness, at least as they see it.
Some things:
  • She was put in charge of one of the biggest issues in the United States, the border. She screwed it up. Actually, she just didn’t do anything.
  • Joe Biden had her speaking to other world leaders for a while. Obviously that didn’t work out well.
  • The E-mail thing is funny.
  • Putting her on the Supreme Court? She’s terrible and will never get confirmed. Do you realize how smart you have to be to get confirmed? She was a terrible attorney general.
  • Who’s he going to replace her with? Pete Buttigieg, who took three months off for paternity leave?

Kamala Harris is a disaster. She was a disaster as an attorney general of California. She was a disaster as a senator of California. Her presidential campaign was a disaster. Now, she’s a disaster as a vice president. This is not something one didn’t see coming. She has a history of sucking. This is not a shock.

The question is where did this come from? CNN has always praise Kamala, not for her accomplishments but for her race and sex. Suddenly, they’re tearing her apart. Where did this come from? It is a good, well-researched article. Could it be that CNN finally decided to do some legitimate journalism? Could it be that Kamala is so bad that an article like this, which many are calling a “hit piece”, that CNN could get away publishing something like this? CNN had to know this was going to create a storm and it did.

Many think this might have came from the Biden administration itself. CNN has always pushed talking points from the administration. The Biden administration knows Kamala is not popular and keeps failing at everything she assigned to. Nobody, including Democrats, want her as president. If Biden doesn’t run in 2024, Harris has no chance at winning the nomination to be president. I believe they do want to replace her. But the Supreme Court? Really?

Jen Psaki was asked about Kamala Harris being unhappy and if Biden will endorse her for 2024. She decides not to answer the question:

She later tweeted the same talking point:

At least she’s consistent. She doesn’t answer the question on Twitter either.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/politics/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-refuses-to-answer-if-biden-would-back-harris-running-for-president-and-if-harris-is-unhappy

 

That’s Has to Hurt

Yesterday was the signing ceremony for the infrastructure bill. An embarrassing moment happened for poor Kamala Harris. She’s having a rough week.

While standing at the podium with Hail to the Chief playing in the background, Kamala Harris is ready to make a speech. That’s when the announcer announced union political activist Heather Kurtenbach.

Oops. That’s embarrassing especially after that CNN article. Even conservatives on Twitter felt kind of bad for her.

 

 

 

That’s pretty bad. But here are more telling tweets:

 

Why are these tweets telling? It’s the same reason the “Let’s go Brandon” chant is telling. The Biden administration is seen as a comedy. It’s seen as a joke.

This was embarrassing.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-announcer-appears-to-skip-harris-at-infrastructure-signing-after-disastrous-cnn-report

 

The Definition of Insanity

There is a famous quote:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

That tells us a little bit about the Democratic party.

Politico got a memo from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee defining their strategy for the 2022 midterm elections. This just shows they learned nothing from the elections two weeks ago.

It starts:

One year from Election Day 2022, our key to victory is clear: President Biden and House Democrats
are delivering on their hopeful, unified vision for America’s families, stabilizing the U.S. economy
and making robust investments in our future.

Then they come up with their talking points that include:

  • Spending $1.2 trillion on the infrastructure bill.
    • By the way, support fell 8 points before it was signed according to Politico.
    • That’s not going to bode well for Republicans that voted for it.
  • President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda which includes:
    • Extending the Biden Child Tax Credit.
    • Ensuring access to universal pre-k for three and four year olds.
    • Bringing down prescription drug prices, and making historic investments in eldercare.
  • The problem with this is that the Build Back Better bill doesn’t look like it’s going to pass.
  • Democrats Deliver By Crushing COVID-19 And Rescuing The Economy With More
    Than 400 Million Shots In Arms And Five Million Workers Back On The Job.
  • Democrats Fight For American Values: House Democrats have a hopeful vision for
    America focused on jobs and justice. While Republicans seek to divide America and
    undermine our democracy, House Democrats passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing
    Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the Women’s Health Protection Act which would
    enshrine into law women’s access to reproductive care.

Contrast this record of securing good-paying jobs for hard-working Americans and
fighting for justice with House Republicans’ reckless and dangerous vision for America.
The stakes are clear — House Republicans are too dangerous for American families.

Does anything here sound any different than what they were doing before the drubbing two weeks ago? They are running on spending money, raising taxes, federalizing the elections and calling Republicans evil. All they need to do is say something about January 6th. Oh, yeah, they did that:

The moment Washington Republicans felt their grip on power loosen, they unleashed a full assault
on American democracy, culminating in a murderous assault on the Capitol and the introduction of
anti-voter legislation across the country. Every day, Republicans demonstrate how unserious,
cynical, and dangerous their return to power would be.

On January 6th a violent mob incited by former President Trump and House Republicans stormed
our Capitol, hunted down elected officials, assaulted police officers, and threatened the very
integrity of our democracy in an event that resulted in the deaths of five Americans. Since then
Republicans have attempted to block investigations of the assault, cover up their alleged
involvement, and have even defended and celebrated the rioters.

Dude, nobody cares about January 6th! No one is paying attention to the hearings! Everyone knows it was a bunch of morons acting like morons. They are all in jail. It is done.

Of course, no Democratic memo would be complete without mentioning Donald Trump. Yeah, the guy who will have been out of office for two years when these elections happen. Here’s what they say about him:

Kevin McCarthy has turned over control of the entire caucus to Donald Trump. McCarthy’s cowardly
abdication leaves House Republicans with a toxic agenda and a field of conspiracy promoting,
scandal prone, anti-democracy candidates that face an uphill battle convincing battleground voters
to support them.

You know what? They should run on this. Run on government spending. Run on raising taxes. Run on the never-ending pandemic. Call all Republicans evil. Run on hate. Run on negativity. Don’t change at all. Let’s see how it works out.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-2158-d3c9-a77d-2bda95cb0000
https://www.dailywire.com/news/support-for-infrastructure-bill-fell-8-points-in-days-before-signing