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Asked during an address he had given at Western Connecticut State College shortly after President Richard Nixon had returned home from a triumphant visit to China, “What was Nixon really like?” Bill Buckley replied, “Which one? There are at least three, maybe four.”
American politicians do like to change faces, especially during election periods.
There are at least four separate faces of Kamala Harris – attorney general (hard bitten prosecutor), U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, and soon to be the Democrat National Convention’s choice for president.
Current President Joe Biden, who lame ducked himself by declining to run for reelection, has worn out nearly all his many faces. Over his own strenuous objections, “elites” within Biden’s Democrat Party pushed him out of office to make room for the canonization of Harris, to the disappointment, Biden has said, of the 14 million Democrats who voted for him in the Democrat presidential primary.
Lately, Biden has busied himself by introducing ideas that will be dead-on-arrival in the U.S. Congress.
The lame duck president wants to persuade congress to slap term limits on Supreme Court justices. This cannot be done without amending the U. S. Constitution, and amendments to the Constitution cannot be effectuated without a two-thirds vote of approval in both houses of Congress. This is not likely to happen.
Biden’s measure also may be approved by a Congressional convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. The amendment must then be ratified, as determined by Congress, by either the legislatures of three-quarters of the states or by ratifying conventions conducted in three-quarters of the states. This farfetched process has been deployed only once in American history, during the 1933 ratification of the 21st Amendment that repealed the 18th prohibition Amendment. Henry Menken said prohibition was easily overturned because the public had become thirsty for hooch.
Neither option is likely. No one, we have all been told repeatedly by the friends of democracy, is above the law. Maybe yes, maybe no, most people think. But everyone is certain that no one in the United States can be above or below a law that cannot and will not be passed.
The Biden proposal is, some suspect, little more than a campaign advertisement to show how far left Democrat Party presidential candidates have drifted since pre-President Barack Obama days.
Few people will protest if it is suggested that former President Obama was a left leaning politician. Obama was followed by President Donald Trump – no lefty -- who was followed by President Joe Biden, a far left political chameleon, who in due course may be followed by President Kamala Harris, nature’s God and the American public willing.
The question arises: How many different political personas – public faces – has Harris presented during her 20 years in politics, first as attorney general of California, then as California U.S. Senator, then as U.S. Vice President, and lately as a prospective Democrat Party President?
The Telegraph, a British publication notes that Kamala Harris has abandoned previous leftist positions after having been challenged by the Trump administration: “The Vice-President, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for November’s election, has abandoned her opposition to fracking and private healthcare, and is claiming a tough record on crime and the illegal migration on the southern US border… Since she replaced Mr. Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee on 21 July, Ms. Harris has sought to downplay her previous liberal views while serving as a senator from California. In 2017, Ms. Harris co-sponsored Bernie Sanders’s ‘Medicare-for-all’ bill, which would have scrapped private health care in the US and replaced it with an NHS-style system… During the 2020 campaign, she said there was “no question” she was in favor of banning fracking, which produces a substantial proportion of U.S. natural gas and oil. Her campaign said on Friday she would “not ban fracking” if elected later this year… She has since rowed back on her 2020 statement that cities should “redirect resources” away from policing in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd… Ms. Harris’ previous statements on the US migration crisis, in which she called for a more humanitarian approach, [are under revision]… On Saturday, her campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said that Mr. Biden’s plan for a tough new border crackdown ‘will continue’”
Republicans are convinced that Harris’ astonishing about-faces on so many issues of importance to American voters will eventually clip her wings.
Abraham Lincoln once responded humorously to a possible opposition party plant in his audience who had accused him of being two-faced. “If I had two faces, do you think I’d be wearing this one?” Lincoln jibed to howls of laughter. He was not the prettiest of presidents.
But Lincoln could also be serious, never more so than when he said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Americans generally allow for the usual tools of the political trade – trimming of the truth, hyperbole, sloppy tear-soaked appeals to empathy, bloviating partisanship – and a tolerant public expects them to be deployed during political campaigns. But there are lines that must not be crossed, red flags that must not be waved.
Tomfoolery is OK, but fooling most of the people most of the time, is not OK with most people – all of the time.
Good place to make a common sense point about Harris. Harris questions her own ethnicity. She throws ethnicities against the wall to see which one sticks. Back off snowflakes once you question your own ethnicity you are fair game for being called out on your attempt to be the ethnic group you are pandering to. Sounds like Biden. She also questions her own accents like southern, in Georgia. She’s a fraud and the same as the puppet Biden but worse.