Is it a good thing that Kamala Harris is working with Joe Biden’s folks at the White House to resolve differences?
If we believe the recent reports about divisions between the camps, it is not well.
When even CNN is writing about it, you know there’s an issue. Are they abandoning Kamala or simply taking Biden’s side in the throw down?
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.
Exasperation can run 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.
She was largely ignored by French authorities during her Paris trip. Politico.eu had this to say about the trip
— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) November 16, 2021
What is missing? They mocked the French.
So if the idea was to use her to help with relations or meant to launch her on the world scene, it doesn’t seem to have done the trick.
Harris was one of the VIP guests at the opening ceremony of the Paris Peace Forum, Macron’s yearly marquee event on global multilateralism.
Harris offered little in the way of new ideas or concrete solutions to combat inequality, but her speech was a bit bland.
Instead, the U.S. vice president called on world leaders to “refuse to accept the status quo” and fight the “dramatic rise” in inequalities.
In order to be launched, they first have to notice that you’re there. It would also be an essential element of all the above.
But this is a big part of the reported division — that Harris doesn’t think that she’s getting treated appropriately or featured favorably for things she wants.
That’s why what happened at the signing of the infrastructure bill today with Joe Biden was so funny and in true Biden-Harris fashion, completely confused.
Harris was there, trying to be in on the “success” of signing the bill. However, when it came her time to speak, the music played, “Hail to the Chief” which was more than a little odd with Joe Biden sitting right behind her. She can be seen beaming in joy at the idea that this song may one day come to her.
Announcer: “Please welcome Heather Kurtenbach”
Kamala Harris: “In a moment.” pic.twitter.com/oLo2R4NArY
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 15, 2021
Then the announcer asked everyone to “Please welcome Heather Kurtenbach” as Harris awkwardly stood at the podium to make her remarks. Kurtenbach was standing next to Harris. You could see Harris’ face change and tighten, then came the fake smile and she said, “In a moment,” obviously disturbed. Joe Biden laughed and she cackled.
You would have thought that Harris would normally be the one introducing Joe Biden to make comments about the bill. Kurtenbach was instead. the political director of Iron Workers Local 86 in Washington state.
What is the secret to this? Harris probably was penciled in at the very last moment to offer remarks to her to console after hearing about division. But then they didn’t change the order of things with the announcer. This is the usual incoherence that the Biden-Harris Administration displays? Oder was this Harris’s blatant troll? All we can say is, it’s the Brandon-Kurtenbach Administration now.
This post was last modified on November 15, 2021 10:36 pm
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