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How hard must it be to bungle a job that has virtually no responsibilities? Kamala Harris has found a way, and that fact is getting increasing notice: on Tuesday, The Hill ran an op-ed entitled “Will Kamala Harris rank as one of the worst VPs in history?” She very well might, and that’s not a good sign for Democrats who are looking for a way out of the corner into which Old Joe Biden has painted them.
Merrill Matthews, whom The Hill identifies as a “resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation,” says that “Historians and polling companies love to provide their assessments of past presidents, and to a lesser extent vice presidents. While it is still early in her tenure – so there’s a chance she’ll make a comeback – let’s just say those future assessments of Vice President Kamala Harris’s job performance will likely not be kind.” That seems certain.
This fact in itself is “remarkable, since the U.S. Constitution gives the vice president almost no duties to fail at — and yet failing she is.” Not only is Harris performing abysmally at the slight and largely symbolic tasks that she has been given as vice president, but she also suffers by comparison to other lightweights and nonentities who have stood a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
This means that Harris will likely end up being ranked lower than Dan Quayle, the modern-day standard for a poorly performing vice president, although Quayle’s legendary gaffes (spelling “potato” with an “e” at the end, saying things such as “I have made good judgments in the future”) pale in comparison to those of Old Joe Biden, who served eight years as vice president himself.
In the race for the bottom spot, Harris will also likely outpace Spiro Agnew, who resigned the vice presidency in October 1973 under a cloud of corruption allegations. This is probable even though, as Matthews notes, when Richard Nixon “was asked why he kept Agnew on the team in his 1972 bid for reelection, Nixon reportedly quipped, ‘Because no assassin in their right mind would kill me.’”
If Harris is ranked as the worst vice president in history, that means she will also have outpolled Schuyler Colfax, vice president from 1869 to 1873, who survived a party-line impeachment vote over bribery allegations, and John C. Breckinridge, vice president from 1857 to 1861, who after he left office became a general in the army of the Confederate States of America.
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Check Burry says
She certainly is a FRUIT
Don McKellar says
Low hanging fruit, many say.
Don McKellar says
“…when Richard Nixon “was asked why he kept Agnew on the team in his 1972 bid for reelection, Nixon reportedly quipped, ‘Because no assassin in their right mind would kill me.’”
That’s hilarious. For Biden it’s: “Because no congress and senate in their right mind would impeach me.”
And I’m serious when I think he probably said that.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe Biden is making it clear to everyone that he is not really in charge of anything. The U.S. is currently in the hands of a few un-elected people called “The White House.” Biden and Harris are both puppets of The White House but sometimes the wires get crossed. The only duty Harris has is to preside over the Senate and cast a vote in case of a tie – again, something that could be done by a dummy. It would only be fitting that the worst President ever, and a dummy, should be replaced by the worst Vice President ever, and a dummy. Welcome to the world of Dumb and Dumber with the only question being: which is which?
Bruce Stanton says
The movie ‘Idiocracy’ is becoming more and more true.
James Lincoln says
Affirmative action in “motion”:
Imagine, after boarding a commercial aircraft, you hear on the intercom:
“This is your captain speaking. I have been promoted to this position due to the fact that I am a Black Leftist female, not because of my personal aviation knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Enjoy your flight.”
Keith O says
Pretty good analogy James.
Sad that what was once a great nation has sunk to these levels.
Bruce Stanton says
Sadly, Supreme Court justices appear to be nominated using the same criteria.
James Lincoln says
Yes, sadly true.
Glad to see your posting again, Pilgrim.
tim gallagher says
I agree, James. The people of the USA got a woman of colour as Vice President but, unfortunately, she seems to be an unbelievably ignorant person.
gravenimage says
The Fruit of Identity Politics: Is Kamala Harris Our Worst-Ever Vice President?
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One of the few politicians worse than Biden, even in his current confused state.
Andrew Blackadder says
Kackling Kamala is doing what she is best at doing… Cackling at nothing.
Look up the Book, Siddhartha, and you will find a female character in that story that is a high end whore that manipulates men and her name is Kamala…. Ms Harris had a Mother from India…. This book is about India…Check it out..