Harris' strategy echoes Nancy Pelosi: You'll have to elect me too find out what I'll do
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was responding to just about everyone who was puzzled by what surprises might be hidden in the massive Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare:
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
It’s perhaps the most honest thing ever uttered by a politician. Her unscripted comment was an answer to those—ugh—Republicans who rightfully complained that the bill was being rushed so quickly through the House that no one had a chance to read its 906 pages (or up to 2,000 pages by some disputed estimates)
Of course, Kamala Harris never said exactly, “You have to elect me to find out what I’ll do as president.” But she might as well have said so, considering the way she has been avoiding questions (even by the liberal establishment media) about, for example, her claim that her economic policy will “pay for itself.”
Like Pelosi’s rush job, the Harris campaign is in a hustle with so little time left to the November election. Maybe if she had more time to explain herself, we’d get it. Wait, she’s had much more than that as vice-president, senator, attorney general, etc. to craft a focused, consistent, persuasive and understandable platform.
Harris’ various claims scream for believable explanations. But possibly it won’t’ ever come. Democrat delegate Kaivan Shroff described what seemed to be her strategy of silence:
Vice President Harris has been incredibly brave to roll out an ambitious economic agenda… The more details you share, the more your policies are going to get picked apart. But she’s saying, I trust the American people, I trust the journalists, to explain these policies and our values to folks. And I think when that happens, it will be successful for Democrats.
Wow, it took just three sentences to perfectly captured the Kamala Harris strategy. To paraphrase: We don’t tell anyone anything except in the broadest terms. We won’t provide any details; we’ll leave the media to fill in the blanks with their own guesses. We think Americans are so stupid that they’ll be fine with this approach.
Thank you, Kaivan, for your honesty.
Well, maybe her supporters are that stupid, or at lease incurious:
As the Media Research Center reported:
When asked about ten different aspects of Harris’s public record — on issues as varied as her sponsorship of the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance — between 71% and 86% of these Democrats and Independents said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure.
That’s stupefying. Democrats are right when they say Democracy is in danger. At least four out of five voters surveyed don’t know what they’re voting for. At the risk of being call a racist and/or misogynist, I’d say that voting for her is like buying a pig in a poke.
A few days ago I asked, “Will Whirling Dervish Kamala Harris stop her twirling long enough on Friday for us to get to know who she really is?” Well she gave us a few ideas that were spun off by centrifugal force with her price control speech. They were such a mishmash of cliches that Winston Churchill’s famous quote would apply: “Take This Pudding Away—It Has No Theme”.
Might as well throw in another quote. St. Paul warned against becoming “all things to all people.”
Here’s the complete passage that describes how it seems that he must change himself to fit the audience.
Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law… so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law…so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. (1 Corinthians 9:19–23).
Sound familiar?