For that matter, what does she know of business, which is America’s business?
The only skill Kamala seems to have mastered is how to have sex with powerful people to secure career advancement.
It’s instructive noting that we might’ve never even heard of Kamala Harris had it not been for a man named Willie Brown. Harris began a sexual relationship with Brown in 1994 when she was 29 or 30 and he 60. Brown, then-speaker of the California Assembly and a Golden State mover and shaker, helped jump-start Harris’s political career by giving her a couple of patronage positions and, by his own admission, helped her win her district attorney’s office.
This said, critics’ claim that she “slept her way to the top” is over the top.
At most, she slept her way to the middle.
Cultural affirmative action took her the rest of the way.
Harris’s sex and racial identity were, after all, why she was chosen to be Biden’s 2020 running-mate.
They’re also a major reason she’d be hard to replace at the Democratic ticket’s pinnacle: Doing so would risk alienating black women, a major left-wing voting bloc.
Is “Experience” the Critical Factor?
Ronald Reagan had only ever been an actor when he won California’s governorship in 1967, but he proceeded to become a legendary modern president. Trump was a real-estate magnate and reality TV star who it also could be said didn’t have experience in geopolitics or war, yet he negotiated geopolitics effectively enough to become the first commander in chief in 40 years to not get us involved in any new war.
In contrast, Biden has had more than 50 years of political “experience.” Lyndon Johnson was another such failed president, having been a congressman and then senator for decades.
Whatever you think of the above men, it’s obvious that it isn’t experience that’s the critical factor here, but wisdom (along with other virtues). In fact, because wisdom is a prerequisite for deriving great value from your experiences is why some people have more “experience” after one year than others do after 10.
Consider, too, that while most people have expertise in only a very narrow range of endeavor, a president must tend to a multitude of areas from war to economics to soup to nuts. He ideally should be a Renaissance man — i.e., a jack of all trades and master of some.
Does Kamala Harris fit the bill of being a wise Renaissance lady?
Kamala’s own staff resoundingly says “NO!”
Under Kamala Harris, the Office of the Vice President has been called a “revolving door,” a “staff exodus” of key aides “heading for the exits.” Kamala has experienced an extraordinarily high 91.5-percent staff turnover rate. As of March 31, 2024, only four of the initial 47 staffers from the first year are still employed – consistently and without interruption – by the Vice President. The turnover chaos isn’t getting better. In the past 12-month period, 24 staffers left — that’s almost half the employees.
The “top-to-bottom dysfunction” that The Atlantic referenced in October 2023 is shown in the reported payrolls.
“In her first year and a half as vice president, Harris saw the departure of her chief of staff, communications director, domestic-policy adviser, national security adviser, and other aides,” the magazine wrote.
“Working for Harris is a nightmare, not just because she rides her staff hard, but also because she does so without the competence, decisiveness, and effectiveness that inspires people in politics to suffer under demanding bosses,” Dan McLaughlin wrote in a January 2022 National Review article titled, “People Really, Really Do Not Want to Work for Kamala Harris.”
Harris Avoids Transparency and Accountability
Kamala Harris tried to hide this mess from the public.
In 2021 Forbes reported, “VP Kamala Harris Is The Least Transparent Elected Official In The Nation.” Forbes outlined the OVP’s refusal to provide any information to the public and taxpayers. Her office denied FOIA requests and claimed that they were immune.
Multiple press agencies filed FOIA requests with the OVP for its staff payroll in September 2021. A spokesman replied:
“Thank you for your inquiry. The Office of the Vice President is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. See 5 U.S.C. 552; 44 U.S.C. 2207.”
“Open the books” even tried to coax the information out of the OVP:
“I understand the OVP isn't subject to FOIA — is there any information you can provide me at all about the office staff? Whether it's total staff employees (without names or any other employee-specific info) or total payroll for 2020 or current numbers for 2021?”
However, the spokesman replied:
“Thank you for the inquiry. OVP does not have any information to share at this time.”
Thereafter, “Open the Books” had to rely on the U.S. Senate’s semi-annual report for Oct. 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, which gives a list of the 28 staff members who had been hired by the new administration between Jan. 20 and March 31, 2021. Over the next few months, the OVP added another approximately 20 staff members.
Open the Books calculated that for VP Harris’s 28 staff listed in the Senate report, the 2021 salaries added up to $2,334, 223.
But President Joseph Biden’s congressional budget submission shows the OVP got $5 million for 23 full time staff in 2021 and requested over $6 million for 27 full time staff in 2022.
The OVP wouldn’t answer for the discrepancy in budget and staffing, citing the earlier provision that states only federal agencies are subject to FOIA, and the OVP, it argues, isn’t a federal agency.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the second-in-command, and possible next president of the United States, is the only elected official in the country not required to share her office’s spending with the public.
Vice President’s are not asked to do much. But the little that she has been asked to do has been abject failure.
Border Tzar? A total failure.
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