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To staff, Kamala Harris is a clueless bully who refuses to do her homework
Before she became vice president, Kamala Harris had a bad habit of ignoring prepared briefing materials.
She does not appear to have kicked this habit, even after making it all the way to the White House.
“Staffers who worked for Harris before she was vice president said one consistent problem was that Harris would refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared,” the Washington Post reports.
One former staffer told the paper, “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work. With Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it’s not really clear why.”
Naturally, the vice president’s office denies the Washington Post report, attributing the recent exodus of Harris staffers to purely innocent and definitely not dysfunctional reasons.
But it’s all true, or at least plausible, because Harris is routinely unprepared to answer even basic questions. Consider, for example, Harris’s appearance this week on the Today show.
Journalist Craig Melvin asked the vice president whether it’s time for the White House to change up its strategy for battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is Harris’s verbatim response: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing 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.”
What possible excuse is there for this comical, nonsensical answer?
Harris has held public office for nearly 17 years. She’s a former district attorney, attorney general, and senator. How does she know so little about how to speak to the press?
Earlier, CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked Harris, “Was it wrong to consider inflation transitory? I mean, these price spikes seem like they’re going to be with us for a while.”
The vice president’s answer was typically meandering and senseless.
“We have to address the fact that we have got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and are — [they] need solutions to it. So let’s talk about that,” said Harris. “Short-term solution includes what we need to do around the supply chain, right? So, we went to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Georgia, and said, ‘Hey, guys, no more five days a week, eight hours a day; 24/7, let’s move the products because people need their product — they need what they need.’ We’re dealing with it in terms of the long term. And that’s about what we need to do to pass Build Back Better. It strengthens our economy. What do we need to do in terms of bringing down the cost of living, right?”
It’s really like an episode of Veep. At least she didn’t misspell “potato” — then we’d have a real crisis of credibility on our hands......
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An uninformed elitist bully. That is who the Democrats have coronated to lead them.
Before she became vice president, Kamala Harris had a bad habit of ignoring prepared briefing materials.
She does not appear to have kicked this habit, even after making it all the way to the White House.
“Staffers who worked for Harris before she was vice president said one consistent problem was that Harris would refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared,” the Washington Post reports.
One former staffer told the paper, “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work. With Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it’s not really clear why.”
Naturally, the vice president’s office denies the Washington Post report, attributing the recent exodus of Harris staffers to purely innocent and definitely not dysfunctional reasons.
But it’s all true, or at least plausible, because Harris is routinely unprepared to answer even basic questions. Consider, for example, Harris’s appearance this week on the Today show.
Journalist Craig Melvin asked the vice president whether it’s time for the White House to change up its strategy for battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is Harris’s verbatim response: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing 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.”
What possible excuse is there for this comical, nonsensical answer?
Harris has held public office for nearly 17 years. She’s a former district attorney, attorney general, and senator. How does she know so little about how to speak to the press?
Earlier, CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked Harris, “Was it wrong to consider inflation transitory? I mean, these price spikes seem like they’re going to be with us for a while.”
The vice president’s answer was typically meandering and senseless.
“We have to address the fact that we have got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and are — [they] need solutions to it. So let’s talk about that,” said Harris. “Short-term solution includes what we need to do around the supply chain, right? So, we went to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Georgia, and said, ‘Hey, guys, no more five days a week, eight hours a day; 24/7, let’s move the products because people need their product — they need what they need.’ We’re dealing with it in terms of the long term. And that’s about what we need to do to pass Build Back Better. It strengthens our economy. What do we need to do in terms of bringing down the cost of living, right?”
It’s really like an episode of Veep. At least she didn’t misspell “potato” — then we’d have a real crisis of credibility on our hands......
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An uninformed elitist bully. That is who the Democrats have coronated to lead them.