Kamala’s Sociopathic Dishonesty on the Border; Here Come the Flip-Flops

Kamala’s Sociopathic Dishonesty on the Border:

Don’t try this at home.

‘L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”

So says George C. Scott’s General Patton in the eponymous movie when his comrades want another day’s rest during the Sicilian campaign.

No one is going to mistake Kamala Harris for Patton, or even George C. Scott, but her latest tack on immigration honors his call for “audacity, audacity, always audacity.”

After helping preside over a comprehensive failure at the border, a lesser politician might mumble something or other and change the subject to aborting babies.

A politician with an ounce of respect for the public might at least acknowledge, before saying anything else, that “mistakes were made.”

A politician less certain that the media would swallow any set of absurdities deemed in her interest might hesitate before making such facially preposterous claims.

The idea that Harris has been a tough-minded success on the border while Donald Trump was a failure is sociopathic in its dishonesty.

It’s tiresome and apparently beside the point to recite the basic facts, but after experiencing what was a migrant crisis by the old standard that now seems quaint, the Trump administration implemented a series of measures that all but brought illegal crossings to a halt.

Then, the Biden administration reversed them all and illegal immigration quickly accelerated to record levels. —>READ MORE HERE (or HERE)

Here Come the Flip-Flops:

Vice President Kamala Harris managed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee in record time after President Biden was forced to drop out of the race, and now, with breathless speed, she is dramatically reversing positions that she once claimed were strongly held when she last ran for president. Whether these new positions last longer than the old ones is something voters won’t know until after the election.

When Harris entered the Senate in 2017, it was the heyday of anti-Trump resistance on the left. With the aging socialist Senator Bernie Sanders having given eventual loser Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the prior year’s primaries, there was a growing belief that the next Democratic nominee would have to appeal to his movement. As a freshman senator with presidential aspirations and with a prosecutor image that alienated some on the left, Harris wasn’t going to miss a beat. In a short period of time, she racked up a voting record that ranked her as the most progressive U.S. senator.

Harris was one of 16 co-sponsors of Sanders’s socialized health-care plan branded as “Medicare for All,” which would have cost $34 trillion over a decade, according to the left-wing Urban Institute. It would also have necessitated kicking about 180 million people off their private insurance plans. She also signed on to the Senate version of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s radical Green New Deal.

In 2019, as the Democratic primaries took off, there was fierce competition to the left of Joe Biden. Harris dug into her support for banning private insurance before (unconvincingly) trying to take it back. She called for banning fracking and offshore drilling. She said those who crossed the border illegally shouldn’t be treated as criminals and called for getting rid of ICE and starting from scratch. She advocated banning AR-15s and confiscating them (under the euphemism “mandatory buybacks”).

What were once seen as necessary stances to woo a rabid progressive base in the 2020 primaries are now general-election liabilities. And so, for about 100 more days, Harris wants to be unburdened by what has been. —>READ MORE HERE

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