More long knives coming out for Kamala
Democrats are increasingly fearful Vice President Kamala Harris’ missteps will open the door for Republicans to regain the White House, a new report said Friday.
Dems, including senior White House officials, fear that Harris will lose to any Republican she faces — including former President Donald Trump — if President Biden does not seek reelection in 2024, Axios reported…
Right now, one operative told Axios, the feeling among Democrats isn’t “‘Oh, no, our heir apparent is f—ing up, what are we gonna do?’ It’s more that people think, ‘Oh, she’s f—ing up, maybe she shouldn’t be the heir apparent.’”
Ouch, that’s harsh.
Somebody doesn’t like Kamala Harris and really really really doesn’t want her to run for president. It’s probably not a single “somebody,” either; there may be several “somebodies” involved. None of these disclosures are without a purpose, nor are they likely to be the result of rogue actors. This is a campaign – or, rather, an anti-campaign. Be it Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Barack Obama, or some other behind-the-scenes mover[s] and shaker[s], the ground is being prepared for the political sidelining of Kamala Harris.
It shouldn’t be that hard to do, since she doesn’t have much of a constituency anyway.
Personally, I think the major player here is Obama. It’s just a guess; I certainly could be wrong. I don’t think Biden or even “Dr. Jill” has enough clout. I have long thought that Obama is at least one large factor in decisions that are made about who will be pushed forward and who would be edged out. I recall hints that he was the person who felt that Sanders would be a disaster as nominee in 2020, and who felt that Biden – as awful as he is – would be “electable” and also a malleable enough president that the leftist agenda of Sanders could be enacted anyway, without alerting the electorate in advance. Thus, Biden was pushed in the later primaries, when it counted, and when Sanders was the frontrunner.
This report about Harris’ lack of electability is much like what happened to Sanders, although for slightly different reasons. The Democrats are very concerned that they nominate someone who appeals to their base but also manages to appeal to enough people in the middle that the person has a good chance of winning.
Because HR1 didn’t pass, although there will be opportunities for voting fraud in the next election (2022), those opportunities will be more limited than they otherwise would have been had the bill passed. And unless the Democrats win the Senate in 2022 and also retain the House, and are therefore able to pass HR1 in time for the 2024 presidential election, nominating a candidate who is attractive to a goodly portion of voters is a very important goal for the left.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to them that Harris doesn’t seem to be that person.
I don’t know, but I think that it could be that “Dr.” Jill might have a lot to do with it. I get the feeling that she loves the attention and power that she now enjoys, and resents the idea that Kamala was originally put in place to take over when Joe decompensates mentally.
I look at the glowing press she receives (think of that photo of her, reading glasses on the end of her nose, surrounded by books, “studying” for her upcoming meeting with foreign leaders) and think that she is being groomed for more.
It may be nothing, but I’m curious as to why so little has been said about the Second Gentleman, i.e., Harris’ husband. He’s an entertainment lawyer presently teaching a course on “Entertainment Law Disputes” at Georgetown. Emhoff has two children by his first wife; he married Harris in 2014 with Harris’ younger sister as the officiant. Harris and Emhoff are worth close to $6 million, and own three houses (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and The Swamp) as well as living in the VP’s official residence. I wonder whether the Second Gentleman made some enemies along the way (I’m sure entertainment law is red in tooth and claw) who would be happy to funnel dirt on Harris to her enemies, or whether he is presently keeping quiet because of the open antisemitism of The Squad– he is the first Jewish spouse of a sitting VP. I have no particular insights here; I simply find it odd that so little attention has been given to a man who is a historic “first.”
‘It’s more that people think, ‘Oh, she’s f—ing up, maybe she shouldn’t be the heir apparent.’
No surprise here about Harris. It is clear Obama is the major player. I am still waiting for Dems to be the slightest upset with the results of the primaries, which he played a part in when he asked candidates to step down.
Tulsi Gabbard would be the best choice to replace Harris. It is unfortunate that she has integrity and will not take orders from Obama, the military complex, and ‘Dr.’ Jill.
Chris B. Brings up a good point about Jill. She is playing the same role President Wilson’s wife played after his stroke.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Woodrow_and_Edith_Wilson2.jpg
PA Cat:
I think it’s that he’s Jewish, which does not appeal to the left and might take away a bit from Harris’ identity politics creds.
Despite his occasional moments of clarity, Biden is getting worse and is unlikely to be capable of credibly running in 2024. Even liberal Joe Rogan says he’s a trainwreck.
But upon what legal basis can Harris be replaced?
Plus, replacing Harris before 2024 would be a tacit admission that the democrat party was incapable of offering an electable candidate in 2020.
Side note: Of course, Biden wasn’t viable either but the democrat electorate would have voted for a horse’s ass to get rid of Trump. Wait. Biden is a horse’s ass… (the real Joe Biden comes out when he gets angry and of course when he’s around prepubescent females). Isn’t he a nasty piece of work… and Jill Biden is clearly comfortable with it..
So replacing Harris is only going to work if she has a fatal ‘accident’. Perhaps Harris will accomodate her betters by committing suicide. Conveniently leaving a note that the pressure was too much with the FBI then ‘confirming’ it to be suicide.
Hey, that would open the door for mass murderer Gretchen Whitmer. Or witch Warren. Or ‘Governor’ Stacy Abrams.
But it has to be a woman (biological) and optimally, non-white and transgender. Because the President has to be a ‘man’… at least in their own mind.
GB says, “Isn’t he a nasty piece of work… and Jill Biden is clearly comfortable with it…”
“Doctor Jill” is a nasty piece of work herself, according to her first husband: “Stevenson claimed he first suspected an affair in 1974 — when Jill allegedly passed up a chance to meet Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey.
‘I asked Jill to go with me and she said no — she had things to do, she had to look after Joe’s kids, Beau and Hunter,’ Stevenson recalled. ‘It was kind of a big deal to go meet Springsteen. I had no idea she and Joe were that kind of friendly.'”
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/jill-biden-felt-like-a-failure-after-divorcing-first-husband/
[There are photos at the link of J and J kissing while wearing Fauci-certified face diapers; readers with sensitive stomachs are hereby warned.]
Personally, I think the major player here is Obama. It’s just a guess; I certainly could be wrong. I don’t think Biden or even “Dr. Jill” has enough clout. I have long thought that Obama is at least one large factor in decisions that are made about who will be pushed forward and who would be edged out.
neo:
That’s been my default since Hillary lost. Obama’s not much for hard work, but I don’t believe he has lost his ambition to call the plays.
I hope Neo hasn’t fallen under the spell of those Obama pant leg creases.
The Magical You-know-what isn’t the great string-puller. Spends far too much time admiring his reflection and I’ve forcibly restrained myself from developing other metaphors which are bubbling up from the id.
While I love a conspiracy as much as the next man, strongly suspect what we’re seeing here is emergent behaviour. Harris is such an obnoxious piece of work — and she’s female. I think it’s mainly just the Extended Coven Piling On. Standard stuff to anyone who has ever had the misfortune to work around a bunch of Empowered Wimmins.
Could Obama have bitched about Harris at his Knitting Circle. Likely yes. Did that make the school of fish change direction? Maybe.. but could have been a hundred other people, no?
Zaphod:
All you have to do to discover what I think of Obama is to read a fair number of my 1687 posts on him. Can’t stand him, and I also think that nothing about him is the least bit magical. However, he is a leftist ideologue and still has some interest in furthering those goals, plus he retains quite a bit of clout within his party. Many people have argued that he’s not all that involved or that ideological and driven, but I find their arguments extremely unconvincing.
I think Jill is more of an influence than is credited, because of all concerned, she is the controller of Joe and thus must be kept in good graces and ‘happy to be cooperative’.
I wouldn’t doubt that Obama craves access and influence, but I have seen no signs of it. I wonder if the selection of Joe and Kamala from the field of candidates was a unified effort, or one where one faction won over another, within the Party Combine.
In any case perhaps it is becoming apparent to some that Joe is not likely to make it to the stretch (i.e. the half-way mark), given his almost daily, faltering dotage in front of the cameras. Maybe the ascending faction in the Combine has decided now is the time for the Kamala acid test. Can she at least make it through some negative pressure?
What would be the pathway to a successor? How would the Combine manage to get someone as ambitious as Kamala to resign? They must have a fat dossier.
I don’t see such a maverick as Tulsi Gabbard even being considered.
No one here has mention Michelle. Why not? Just because she has said she is not interested doesn’t mean she or he is not.
Harris could do something that would force her to quit. Not sure what it would be though. Maybe Abrams could step in?
I think it’s a coincidental merging of factors. Although they’re all related to Kamala being a political trainwreck, so not that unlikely to have occurred…
As Neo mentioned yesterday or earlier, I’m sure the White House staff aligned with Biden is no stranger to her uselessness and wants it to be quite clear to stave off the inevitable need for Dementia Joe to step down as long as possible. And even here there are likely several factions coincidentally notricing the same thing – those that are just in Biden’s camp and don’t want to give up that power, Democrats not necessarily aligned with Biden who see their ability to push their agenda forward being upended by the disaster that would be a White House run by Kamala, who clearly can’t even run the pointless office of the VP.
Then there is the press that Neo also mentioned, as being offended by Kamala’s lack of respect for them. The media is made up of the most thin-skinned bunch of overblown idiots ever assembled. Their incompetence is only matched by the complete inverse relationship between their own incompetence and their own egos. Think Jim Acosta, who is an absolute buffoon that thinks his every utterance is deserving of a pulitzer.
And then you have Democrats with alliances to other potential power players in DC like Sanders and Warren and even Obama who despise the notion that an incompetent fool like Harris is in a position to assume the mantle of power if Joe steps down.
I mean, who IS on Kamala Harris’ side ? Hell, not even her own staff seems to be at this point.
And considering the breadth and depth of Kamala’s incompetence, is it any wonder that these various groups of people are voicing that opinion simultaneously ? I don’t think it is.
Interesting question about Emhoff and his invisibility in the press. The last thing I saw about him was the awful Passover tweets from Harris (neither, if one read the tweet, knew very much about the actual religious significance of the festival). His children are not Jewish, nor was his first wife.
Maybe he’s just as unlikable as his wife.
Zaphod:
As I recall, Obama has imagined himself as a world-historical figure since he was a teen. I can’t find the reference now, but certainly his speech after winning the 2008 nomination qualifies:
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I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
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This is not a man who would go back to his ranch and learn to paint in oil. And he didn’t. He has an office in DC and keeps busy.
He likes power but doesn’t like schmoozing, pedestrian stuff. This is ideal.
Then there was that big U-turn during the primaries when Kamala had flamed out and it looked like Bernie would rake in the chips, then suddenly everyone dropped out and cleared the path for Joe.
Maybe that was emergent behavior but I doubt it.
Biden’s mental state is deteriorating. Maybe those behind the throne are purposely weakening Harris so that she has to spend her political capital and energy defending herself rather than mounting a hostile takeover. The weaker Biden is the more power flows to those who guide and shield him and the more of a threat Harris becomes.
Of course, if Biden were to keel over tomorrow the entire left and obviously all the media would fall in line behind Harris in a nanosecond because they always do when push comes to shove. All of these stories would be immediately memory holed and it would all be so wonderful.
Threat of prosecution for corrupt dealings, as with Agnew, can get a VP to resign. Resign or all this will come out in court and you will be impeached, convicted, and then criminally convicted.
Replacing her? Either a nebbish caretaker who will then replace Biden or some presently, presidentially, unelectable far leftist who can be media loved and vote frauded into office in 2024.
… keel over tomorrow the entire left and obviously all the media would fall in line behind Harris in a nanosecond because they always do when push comes to shove.
Griffin:
I’m not so sure. They might put a happy face on for Harris, but I think they’ve done the math and don’t believe Harris can win in 2024, and those long knives will still be out. Democrats are about the power.
The real question is who is Plan B, which brings me back to Michelle O. but I keep getting into trouble for mentioning that. I understand MO doesn’t want the job, but like I say, Democrats are about the power. Anyone disagree on that point?
I can’t see Bloomberg, Buttigieg or Warren filling that slot. Maybe there is a dark Dem horse somewhere, but none that I see and 2024 is coming up fast. In 2008 Obama was already a name from his 2004 DNC speech.
@Huxley:
Fully agree that he’s a full blown narcissist. That’s why I can’t see him doing a whole lot of orchestrating or even coordinating, but can see him tossing lit matches toward gas stations he doesn’t own himself.
huxley,
But the left is all about power and control and they always stick together. Do you really think Pelosi likes AOC or Omar or the rest of the nutters on the far, far left? No way she does but she does what she has to do to retain power. That’s what I’m talking about.
As for 2024 I don’t know but can you really imagine the identity politics obsessed left standing for the Democrats to not nominate the sitting President, a black woman to be the nominee? No way. They are stuck with her if Biden can’t stay upright until then.
Zaphod:
Narcissism doesn’t preclude telling other people what to do.
Griffin:
That’s assuming Harris takes over from Biden. IMO the long knives are about preventing that.
Michelle Obama is a black woman and a much beloved black woman to Democrats. Harris, not so much.
Democrats are suckers for charisma. With Obama in tow Michelle can give them that thrill, at least long enough to reach the White House.
Frankly, she is the Dem candidate I would fear the most in 2024.
huxley,
My point about the Squad is that the left is all about power and they are able to put aside petty hatreds to advance their power and that is what they would do with Harris in the short term anyway.
Really for the theory that it’s Obama behind these hit pieces on Harris to make sense they need Biden to live through 2024 but not run for reelection then it would be open season for the nominee. But how can they be guaranteed of that with Biden looking like he’s about to go all the way around the bend at any moment.
Again, can you see the race obsessed left being OK with the Democrats not nominating the sitting President a black female as the nominee?
@Neo:
True. But I believe that beyond a point narcissism has real deleterious effects on person’s ability to build and coordinate loyal groupings. It’s also known to be bad for planning and strategising due to narcissists tendency to engage in magical thinking.
Obama has always seemed to me more like a Front Man cum Magical ##$#$$@@ Totem and a sniper / backstabber / Parthian Shooter (I quite like this last one, myself :P) than a charismatic leader with a band of long-time fervent disciples.
I just can’t see him as being the Big Brain Behind X for any value of X. I can see him having a self-serving bitchy take on any value of X on any given day. Said opinion if aired may provide sufficient imprimatur to get the ball rolling on a Progressive Pile-on which was pregnant with potential and ready to roll but all the progs were terrified of making the first move. So in that sense, given some potentiality, Obama could flap his gossamer fairy wings and set off a tornado, yes. But he didn’t build that.
Obviously others will differ on this.
Griffin:
In 2024 Biden will be 82 and he has already dropped hints he’s not running again.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2019-12-11/joe-biden-suggests-he-would-only-serve-one-term-if-elected-president
I’m not saying there is a well-oiled Dr. Evil plan in force, but if Harris can’t be elected in 2024, what good is she to Democrats, however race-obsessed? Democrats didn’t like her in 2020. They don’t seem to like her much now.
If Michelle were on the menu, I say Democrats would happily jump the fence for her, and Reasons Would Be Found for Harris to step aside.
@Huxley:
“This is not a man who would go back to his ranch and learn to paint in oil.”
Bush Hitler: A Life Lived in Reverse.
🙂
huxley,
Absolutely, it is unlikely that Biden will run again no matter what I just think it will be very difficult to push Harris aside if she is the president. Now if she’s still the VP and say the D’s lose the House and Senate in ’22 then it will be an open race.
But someone is really going after her with the full knowledge that she is closer than any VP since Truman to being president imminently.
Anyway can we all just agree that the Bitch has it Coming?
Drive-by rather than deep analysis is my thing, so have no idea who would get her job if she got rolled while in her present office. What’s the likely deal?
Griffin:
Interesting times. We can call it a draw.
I don’t know what will happen. Perhaps MO is truly resolute not to run no matter what happens to the Party or to her husband’s legacy.
But almost everyone has a price.
It is indeed curious that someone is coming after Harris now.
Kamala has nothing to fear, it’s just optics and bad PR. Seth Rich, Jeffrey Epstein, Ashli Babbitt were just … aaargh.
Nothing to see, nothing to see, move along. 🙂
Zaphod:
I certainly would agree that the Democrat high command is riding the tiger. No sane leader would want their current predicament.
They’ve been getting by under the cover of Covid, the media and Big Tech, but resentment is building and the economy/world situation can’t be controlled so easily. I think even Democrats know that Joe isn’t running the show.
It’s a fragile, dangerous situation. I’d rather be living in the 90s.
@Huxley:
I feel slightly sorry for Xi and Putin. They’re not necessarily the most sympathetic characters, but they are both grounded more or less in Level O Base Reality. Imagine being them and having climbed up their respective Greasy Poles only to have this terrible dawning realization that it could all blow up on a whim because of the stupid, vicious children running much of the West and certainly the USA.
I miss the 90s, too. Ignorance was bliss.
Oh… here’s something interesting. Trump finally paying some lip service to the people he ran a mile from after the going got tough on January 6.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/078/356/268/original/94123c6a8a33a8df.mp4
And this, Dear Reader, is why you need the Impolite Right ™. Trump had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward making this statement.
It took him from January 6 to July 3 to sidle up to this. Better late than never. Perhaps Jarrod and Ivanka were on their prescribed weekly Time Out when he edited the script, no? 🙂
*Jared
Different spelling, same sleazy #@$%bag son of an even more so.
Tell us how you really feel Can Do! Don’t be reticent or subtle.
@om:
So what’s your theory then on why Trump has only just now deigned to acknowledge (very briefly, I might add) the Dirt People who stuck their necks out for him and whom he then immediately panicked and ran from and betrayed in words and inactions when the going got tough?
i would love to see how little African she is from a 23 and Me
@Avi:
One Drop Rule FTW.
Speaking of which… Where do I go to claim my complimentary Aliyah Voucher?
Jokes aside… I rather prefer the quaint old Colonial Spanish system of racial classifications. John Derbyshire has a great time referring (correctly – he’s meticulous to a fault) to various individuals as Quadroons, Octoroons, etc.
Trump finally paying some lip service to the people he ran a mile from after the going got tough on January 6.
Zaphod:
I’m not that good at reading people anyway, but I find Trump flat opaque. So I mostly stopped talking about him and started watching him instead.
As I recall post-election Trump was talking too big about reversing the election, then after 1/6 blew up into a freakin’ Insurrection, Biden put up the barbed everywhere, put hundreds in jail, launched another round of impeachment plus a total censoring of all election fraud talk, I thought it was good all the way around for Trump to get out of Dodge for a while.
If Kamala is pushed out there is one person who is already more than willing to take on the job, Dr. Jill. And for those who say there are Constitutional problems, that Article II section 1 problem only applies to the voting by electors after the election.
There was no need for Trump to highlight the things the Democrats were doing to the ruination of the country after Jan. 6th. They were happy to make everyone aware of them themselves. 6 months of loud self-outing. Trump’s remaining quiet allowed them to do themselves in.
Now he can come out and, like Rush did with his show for years, be the big voice that says what we all think and know already and by doing so publicly let us all see that we are all in this together and not alone.
I am in Eva Marie’s camp on this one- the people running Biden realize he isn’t going to make it to 2024 without a public mental disaster that requires him to be removed if he won’t leave office, and they don’t want Harris in a position to force it earlier than necessary.
Can Do! is 8/10 Maroon regarding Trump, 1/6/2021, and Trump’s family; irrelevent and unknowable. Sad, Can Do!
“Then there is the press that Neo also mentioned, as being offended by Kamala’s lack of respect for them.” – deadrody
This is not lost on the narcissists of the press – from the Axios post Neo linked:
More from Axios, which might give some insight on which players are on what team, but I’m not savvy enough about the supporting roles and extras to sort them out:
Richmond’s observation is quite true, and characteristic of propaganda — which is, of course, always in the third person, their propaganda, and never in the first person, our truths. And the complaint about anonymous complaints is beyond laughable.
Klain’s comment was pure BS, because, if you take it at face value, think about what it says about his nominal boss President Biden as VP.
Not to mention the ones who actually could run rings around both him and Harris in the dark on skateboards.
Which is just about all of them in living memory, with a few exceptions.
Might be fun to do a ranked order list.
I am now of the conviction that the idea was always to get Michelle into office without her needing to run in any way, shape, or form.
Biden nominates her to replace a resigned KH, and, of course, Michelle is a black woman… who else to replace a black woman!?!?! How dare you suggest anyone else!!?
THEN Biden drops out after a month or two due to ill-health — better yet, Michelle is a resounding success “backing him up” through a couple “temporary incapacitations” of a month or two (which, of course, is assured by the Merdia’s drooling sycophancy), and now we have 2y of the Biden presidency done… and he resigns, and thus Michelle is eligible to be re-elected twice…
And after 10y of another Obama presidency, you can rest assured, there won’t BE an America after the end of her 2nd elected term. >:-/
Geoff; WRT yours of 11:56: Are you predicting a preference cascade?
Could happen w/o Trump running, or possibly his deciding not to run. Either way?
They may not want here to run for President in 2024 but it’s going to be hard when she will be the President prior to that, unless they can keep Sundowner propped up for 3 1/2 more years.
I am now of the conviction that the idea was always to get Michelle into office without her needing to run in any way, shape, or form.
People with a weird fixation on Mooch project that onto others.
Consider yourself fortunate that you can contemplate her existence with equanimity.
Everything that’s problematic with the VP was known by the voters who shunned her in the primaries. It’s odd that the media missed that overwhelming lack of support. Maybe they should get their news somewhere other than “their news”.
However, the “Kamala Problem” is easily solved… get Dianne Feinstein to resign her seat in the Senate and Harris can move back “for the good of the people of California”. Then, the new VP can be selected with great fanfare from the scrupulously honest and unbiased media. The 3-6 month approval process would be a campaign/infomercial that would take everything Biden off the news. Not that there is any real Biden news on the news…
So I’ve read neo’s take and all of the comments (Thank you all) and two people stand out as the Dems future. Obama and his spouse! He loves being the power behind the throne where he doesn’t take any heat, but still governs and Michele will take the job as a figurehead for her husband.
@ Richard Aubrey:
Yes. The rallies will amplify it whether he runs or not.
Politics is amusing as a pastime, but I think we are about 30 miles past elections.
What external event will highlight how incompetent this two idiots are.? If a dangerous military event happens will the military intervene. What is Pelosi”s role as third in line? The bench for the dems is pitiful and weak. The best path for our country is for Trump to run for the House and be elected Speaker..That would be an event that would terrorize the dems .. We cannot wait till 2024
If Biden were to keel over today and Kamala Harris becomes the prez., given her lack of intelligence and extreme stupidity, she would become more of a puppet than Joe Bidet.
Harris is totally clueless about everything and anything; she would be totally malleable and under the complete control of her (the Obama re-treads) “advisors.”
The ONLY reason some demokrat power brokers want her out is that her stupidity and incompetence are so obvious, they fear that her presence will harm re-election of demokrats.
Ironically, Joe Bidet’s near-Alzheimer’s does not bother the demokrat power brokers because and only because he retains some modicum of an acceptable presidential persona; not much mind you, but just enough.
Harris appears, 100% of the time, to just be an idiot.
It does not say much about the American electorate that Bidet / Harris got millions of votes (even before any vote cheating) in the last election.
This does not bode will for our (former) Constitutional Republic.
As for who is the real power broker behind Bidet, I will opine it’s Barry HUSSEIN Ocommie.
After all, how many of Bidet’s advisors (the folks really calling the shots) are former members of Ocommie’s administration.
Pa+cat said “ It may be nothing, but I’m curious as to why so little has been said about the Second Gentleman, i.e., Harris’ husband.”
What a Neo said about the id politics but also he’s apparently cheating on her.
Also, I kind of wonder whether Obama wants to maintain his position as the only top exec black. It goes along with the oppression narrative (we’re too darn racist to elect a black) but also serves his ego (except Mr. Amazing). Win win!
That being said, I cannot believe they’re going to haul Slow Joe’s carcass across the finish line again. But I said that last time, too.
Look for a repeat of what happened to Ron Brown. tinyurl.com/bx7t29yf
My prediction is that Harris is being pushed out. She will be forced to resign; Pelosi will want the gig, but probably won’t get it. Biden will step down for health reasons shortly after, and we will have the 2nd president who NOBODY ever voted for.
I would guess that the only sure way to get Harris out of office is to offer her a better job, like maybe a Federal Circuit judge or Secretary of State or even a member of SCOTUS. Even here, this cashiering of a VP seems very difficult, and potentially embarrassing for the Democrats and she may fight it every step of the way.
Look for a repeat of what happened to Ron Brown.
No clue why you fancy the Clintons offed the Secretary of Commerce (and in such a way as to take 30-odd people with him).
I’m watching the British “House of Cards” (accept no substitutes) and find its parallels to the current White House situation delicious.
The newly re-elected Prime Minister is too weak for the job. A power vacuum has developed and the top players are vying for position and one is secretly pulling rather nasty strings, while keeping his hands clean. Plus a Lady Macbeth angle. Highly recommended.
Leaving aside distress for the Republic, I believe we are seeing something special in terms of power politics in the White House.
What a Neo said about the id politics but also he’s apparently cheating on her.
With whom?
“Doctor Jill” is a nasty piece of work herself, according to her first husband:
In Stevenson’s account, unscrupulous from a young age. The cheating, then trying to grab a piece of Stevenson’s business in divorce proceedings. Well suited to be the consort of a sociopath. Recall also that Hunter’s paternal-side uncle has been one of his business partners for nearly 20 years (they operated a hedge fund without any relevant experience, which looks for all the world like a money-laundering operation), that one of his paternal-side cousin was pimping for him, that his brother’s widow was willing to fall into bed with him, &c. It all reads like fiction pumped out by Robert Graves.
Maybe the iron clad fist (whoever and whatever it is) may be loosing control at long last. Kamala is deeply repugnant. Joe is a joke. Maybe just maybe they are developing real fault lines.
Jeanne:
It ain’t the Dream Team, that’s for sure. It’s a disaster for them that Harris — young, black, female with the right connections — can’t be propped up. It was a good plan otherwise. Furthermore, in order to maintain power they’ve had to drop the mask on their Inner Fascist way too low.
It’s a pickle all right and things do turn around. Unfortunately, as Keynes said in another context:
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
I doubt Biden will make it four years, so this is likely to escalate in a way that will result in her replacement well before 2024. How they do that? Who knows; but one is naive to think the Party will not give it the old college try.
The scuttlebutt from the DC wing of my family is that Biden’s sr. staff and advisors are dominated by competing camps of ambitious women – what we’re seeing publicly is the fall-out from that. Misgivings about Harris wouldn’t be surfacing so readily otherwise, nor would coverage of ‘Dr. Jill’ as some sort of policy advisor and also ‘goddess’.
But keep in mind that the savvier women know not to make themselves a focus just yet – they’ll let problems converge and create a momentum for ‘change’ first. I’m thinking of Susan Rice & perhaps others from the Obama admin.
“It all reads like fiction pumped out by Robert Graves.” – Art Deco
I suspect you are referring to “I, Claudius” – however, Graves’ Romans have more class than the Bidens do.
Most of his other works are not quite as soap-opera-esque (and the book is not as much so as the filmed version). However, it was a very s-o-e time and subject.
My interest in Graves stemmed from a chance reading of his autobiography “Good-bye to All That” in the 1990s — I only discovered later that the copy I found in our Community College Library was the withdrawn edition, replaced with one that excised some of the more — not quite lurid, but problematical — portions.
When I discovered that I had read the very rare original, I went back to check it out again and copy the relevant expurgated portions, but someone had already removed it from the stacks. I hope the librarians appreciated its rarity, and didn’t just trash it.
His personal life was, to say the least, complicated.
One of the more outré aspects (and, to me, somewhat amusing) was his brief stint as an amateur “relationship adviser” to T. H. Lawrence.
However, the lost autobiography piqued my interest in his work, and I eventually read most of his poetry collections and a good part of his nonfiction & fiction, and enjoyed most (not all) of it very much.
I meant T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” – sometimes I dyslexicize him with D. H. (I actually read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” back in my college days, and was not tremendously impressed).
I hope the librarians appreciated its rarity, and didn’t just trash it.
AesopFan:
My bet is the book was stolen by someone who recognized its rarity.
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Rare first issue, with the suppressed Siegfried Sassoon poem on pages 341-343 and unexpurgated passage on page 290.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with a little soiling at cloth edges; text largely unopened. Dust jacket with small chip to front panel and a little toning to spine. An exceptionally nice copy of an extremely difficult book to find in collectible condition.
https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/983/robert-graves/goodbye-to-all-that
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No price listed because that copy was already sold. I’ve been curious to read “Goodbye.”
Graves blotted his copybook with his essay The Case for Xanthippe. But nobody’s perfect. Just delayed shell shock I guess.
I read Goodbye To All That many years ago. A great read and a precursor to Catch-22.
‘…”relationship advisor”…’
Whatever that might happen to be, they both were in dire need of one…though they both had excellent excuses given the exigencies of their respective formative years (and of course D.H.L., later on, contracted tuberculosis, which often upsets the entire game board).
In T.E.’s case, after trying out several speedboats for personal self-actualization, he ultimately opted for a “comfort” motorcycle (several, actually), with ultimately less than satisfactory results….
I thought Airman Lawrence got all his relationship advice from a stout bundle of birch twigs and Lance Corporal Wallop. Or something like that.
Another scary possibility if Kamala gets pushed out, is Pete Buttigieg. I’d say this would be extremely unlikely. Perhaps talk of Michelle and Mayor Pete are just right wing fever dreams/nightmares.
However, Transpo. Sec. Pete is talking up not only climate change and infrastructure building, but is also talking about seeing everything through an “equity lens.” Is that just Pete being Pete, or is he angling for the big power?
However, Transpo. Sec. Pete is talking up not only climate change and infrastructure building, but is also talking about seeing everything through an “equity lens.” Is that just Pete being Pete, or is he angling for the big power?
Pete’s just building his resumé, as always. Question is, when does he dump Chasten for someone not so twee? He’s on the national stage now.
Another scary possibility if Kamala gets pushed out, is Pete Buttigieg. I’d say this would be extremely unlikely. Perhaps talk of Michelle and Mayor Pete are just right wing fever dreams/nightmares.
TommyJay:
Perhaps. But then who? This is why I keep going to the well with Michelle.
It doesn’t look like the Biden administration has the juice to rig Congress, the Supreme Court and the vote to become the Forever Party they desire. So it’s crucial to win in 2024 lest a Republican take a hammer to their work with even more vengeance than Trump did.
Will the Dems leave it to chance that a Dark Horse will emerge and take charge? If so, again, who?
If not, why are they undermining Harris?
I recall people talking about that charismatic young man who gave a great speech at the Democrat convention. I completely dismissed Barack Obama then.
I consider Buttigieg to be an exceedingly dangerous politician, if he can gain enough power. The mere fact that he scored a cabinet position was worrisome to me when it happened. I just think we need to keep an eye on him, even if we think he is currently rather powerless.