You don’t need “sources,” much less good ones, to surmise that Harris would dearly love to throw Biden under the bus. She probably felt that way from the day he asked her to be Veep.

Byrd was a KKK organizer in West Virginia ca. 1942. It was a very odd thing to be doing at the time. The 2d incarnation of the KKK was a fad organization which imploded demographically after 1924. West Virginia was a state that had perhaps 70,000 blacks at the time and may have had proportionately fewer immigrants than any other state in the country. The 2d incarnation of the KKK dissolved as a corporation in 1944. It was refounded in 1946 but then broke up into klanlets with the death of it’s leader, Sam Green, in 1949. IIRC, surviving correspondence indicates that Byrd remained a Klan admirer during some portion of his years in the West Virginia legislature. Not sure there’s any indication he attended Klan meetings after 1944.

Byrd’s eulogists maintained he joined the Klan ‘to get elected’, but that’s rubbish. Antagonism to blacks did not have much purchase in West Virginia politics. There were five notable pieces of federal ‘civil rights’ legislation passed by Congress over the period running from 1957 to 1968. The West Virginia delegation cast 33 votes in favor of final passage of these pieces of legislation. There were three occasions where a member wasn’t present (of whom one was a member dying of cancer) and one ‘no’ vote. One of the absences was Byrd’s and the solitary ‘no’ vote was Byrd’s.

Thirty years ago, the cast of characters included George Mitchell, Robert Dole, Thos. Foley, Richard Gephardt, and Robert Michel. Except for Gephardt, these men were public spirited to a degree. George Bush’s cabinet was studded with serious policy wonks and men who had taken a step down financially to take a cabinet post. Note that the culture of the Democratic Party was quite different at that time as it was still possible for partisan Democrats to acknowledge having made erroneous decisions.

The stories I find on the web about Harris underbussing Biden peaked in mid-August, just as Afghanistan was falling.

I can believe Harris was checking Biden’s support then. She probably wasn’t the only one.

However, since then Team Biden and its media supporters have settled on the narrative that Afghanistan was a Biden triumph, I don’t see how they can flip that around to “senile Biden must go” without looking like a sketchy dictatorship.

The Biden people seem to have consolidated their power for now, and if anyone should be watching their back, it is Harris.

Poso has good WH sources; more than Maggie Haberman.

physicsguy:

Or as folksinger Phil Ochs said of liberals:
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An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally
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Of course, Ochs said that like it was a bad thing.

Good article.

I regularly tweet at KH’s top PR flack who is from Omaha (and, sadly, Creighton) to get to work building the case.

Academia and the DC Swamp are fighting for their lives. Their clueless incompetence is becoming impossible to hide, but hiding it is the only thing they can do. Letting go of the gravy train is impossible.

At some point some popular objectives will emerge, and a new Reagan will emerge to promote them. That person does not exist today. Reagan had at one time been a Democrat. Current GOP leaders can never attract a Democrat following because of their pro-life fanaticism.

Great lead article over at AT this morning about a changer for Neo. I don’t know if it’s original to the author, but she had a pithy saying: “It’s easy to be a liberal until the shit hits your OWN fan.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/liberalism_in_the_rearview_mirror_.html