KAMALA HARRIS : W. VOEGELI, SENIOR EDITOR, CLAREMONT REVIEW OF BOOKS

 KAMALA HARRIS: W. VOEGELI, SENIOR EDITOR, CLAREMONT REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 4, Fall 2020 p. 14

 

And What's the Point Spread on Which Way a Biden Presidency is Likely to Tilt Left or Center?

 

    Consider his selection of Kamala Harris, California's first-term senator, as his running mate. (If elected, Harris will be more likely, in actual terms, to inherit the presidency than any vice-president in history.) Her senate voting record in 2018 and 2019 compared favorably, in the scorecards of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, to those of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

 

    During her own presidential campaign, launched in January 2019 and scuttled last December, Harris endorsed a "mandatory buyback program," i.e., confiscation, for privately owned firearms deemed "assault weapons." Her "Medicare for All" proposal promised to abolish private health insurance, shortly before it promised not to abolish private health insurance. Her climate proposal required that by 2045 nothing but zero-emission vehicles would use the country's thoroughfares, and she was for banning all "fracking" before she was against it.

 

    Harris, vowed to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortions, and criticized Biden, when they were opponents for his history of supporting it. After being attacked for this stance by Harris and others, Biden promptly repudiated a position he had held for 40 years.

 

    The choice of Harris is a strong indication about other choices Biden will make if elected. Personnel is policy, according to the folk wisdom of Washington. What is true of every administration would be doubly true of Biden's, given his age, signs of decline, and adulthood devoted to the calculated embrace of stronger people's convictions. As THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S Joseph C. Sternberg argues, President Biden is likely to end up as Prime Minister Biden, the beleaguered supervisor of "jostling special interests," where it's "every man, woman and child for him-, her- or zerself

 

    New York magazine's Sarah Jones speaks for them when she says that Democrats' "leftward shift" is reflected in two convictions: climate change and social inequalities "require massive spending and activist government," and sincere commitment and compromise" with Republicans "useless and grotesque."....

 

George H. Kubeck

    Steve Baldwin, former Congressman, State of California. "I do remember Kamala Harris. I had just been elected to the Sate Assembly in 1994 and, at that time the ultimate "power broker" that controlled every aspect of California's state government as the speaker of the House, Willie Brown"... Now you can check out Willie's influence on Kamala Harris...