We must feel sorry for Vice President Kamala Harris. She’s in way over her head and is increasingly ridiculed for spewing great gouts of gibberish when she answers reporters.
Her favorable rating is in negative numbers.
But we must also feel absolute terror that her boss, President Biden, is 78 years old, shows increasing signs of dementia, and that Harris would, should he die or have to resign, take his place.
A sample of Harris’ recent media appearances suggests that Americans must pray, and pray hard, that Biden lasts his full term, then loses reelection to a Republican. If he defeats his next GOP opponent but Republicans take back Congress, they have no choice. They must impeach Biden and Harris to remove them from office so that the Speaker of the House assumes the presidency.
Bad as Biden is, having set the country on a dangerous, self-destructive course, Harris will be worse. Much worse.
Word Salad
Harris’ latest disaster came in answering a question on the NBC’s Today show about sanctions on Russia’s gas and oil industry as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine.
The veep began by lauding Germany for its decision to halt the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline from Russia.
Then she added this:
As it relates to what we need to do domestically as well as what we need to do in terms of this issue generally, we have, as the president said, reevaluated what we’re doing in terms of the Strategic Oil Reserve here in the United States to make sure that it will not have an impact, or we can mitigate the impact on the American consumer.
The average price of gas is $3.61 per gallon, up from $2.53 when Biden took office. SPR holds 727 million barrels of oil. Americans use 15-20 million barrels per day.
Discussing American allies and their approach to Russia, Harris continued:
Understanding that right now on the issue of energy, our allies have stood firm and unified in a way that many of the pundits didn’t predict would happen, to ensure that we are unified in our approach to this issue.
On March 1, she appeared on WKYS radio’s Morning Hustle. The station bills it as the “freshest program in broadcast with an entertaining, humorous and informative take on urban pop culture from the Millennial and Generation Z point of view, meant to wake up its audience to the beat of today’s Hip Hop.”
Leave aside the question of why Harris would waste her time on a Hip Hop station, and just listen to what she said when the host asked her to explain the situation in Ukraine.
“Break it down in layman’s terms for people who don’t understand what’s going on and how this can directly affect the people in the United States,” the host said.
“Ukraine is a country in Europe” and “it exists next to another country called Russia,” Harris began as if she were explaining geography to second-graders:
Russia is a bigger country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine so basically that’s wrong.
In her defense, Harris was speaking on a Hip Hop program, which suggests that listeners might not be the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Still, ridicule ensued.
“When two countries love each other very much, they sometimes make littler countries,” Spectator columnist Stephen Miller tweeted. “And sometimes as they get older they drift apart and then split up. This is not the fault of the countries really.”
In January during a sit down with Harris, NBC’s Craig Melvin observed that former administration officials said the time had come for Biden to change his “pandemic” strategy.
Harris tossed a word salad.
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing,” Harris said:
And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.
Ratings
The Real Clear Politics average of polls on Harris’ favorability rating is grim. The rating has been negative in every poll since a Politico-Morning Consult survey from July 31 through August 2. That was -4.
A USA Today/Suffolk poll put Harris at -19 later in August. She hit -20 in December.
RCP average: 37.5 percent of those polled view her favorably and 51 percent don’t, for a favorable rating of -13.5.
Biden’s favorable rating is better, at -11.5, 41.9-53. His numbers began heading south in August, then cratered in September.
RCP’s job-approval rating for Biden matches Harris’ favorable but with slightly different numbers: 40.7-54.2. Again, voters began turning on Biden in August, then sent him to the negative digits in September.
H/T: Powerline, New York Post
