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Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris' frustrating start as vice president
CNN ^ | Nov 14, 2021 | Edward-Isaac Dovere and Jasmine Wright

Posted on 11/14/2021 5:21:26 PM PST by Jayster

(CNN)Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff -- deciding there simply isn't time to deal with them right now, especially at a moment when President Joe Biden faces quickly multiplying legislative and political concerns.

The exasperation runs both ways. Interviews with nearly three dozen former and current Harris aides, administration officials, Democratic operatives, donors and outside advisers -- who spoke extensively to CNN -- reveal a complex reality inside the White House. Many in the vice president's circle fume that she's not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. The vice president herself has told several confidants she feels constrained in what she's able to do politically. And those around her remain wary of even hinting at future political ambitions, with Biden's team highly attuned to signs of disloyalty, particularly from the vice president.

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Yes, this is from CNN.

It must really be bad if they are reporting on it.

1 posted on 11/14/2021 5:21:26 PM PST by Jayster
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This the best spin CNN could put on it? Whew.


2 posted on 11/14/2021 5:23:13 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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Hey CNN, she is the very definition of an ignorant s***.

The very definition.


3 posted on 11/14/2021 5:23:41 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Jayster

Erica is a nobody.


4 posted on 11/14/2021 5:24:35 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: proust
Camel toe has always been a frolicking child, giddy at the power of her willing vagina and tongue.

Too crude?

So is the bidet administration.

5 posted on 11/14/2021 5:25:11 PM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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Who knew that a dementia patient and an idiot couldn’t run the White House? It’s puzzling.


6 posted on 11/14/2021 5:25:24 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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This is CNN is now This is CNN?

Maybe James Earl Jones can cut some new Commercials.


7 posted on 11/14/2021 5:28:08 PM PST by UNGN
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And low character and intelligence.


8 posted on 11/14/2021 5:28:39 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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What’s her Strategery?

Lewinsky the whole CCP?


9 posted on 11/14/2021 5:29:59 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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Frustrating start?! Frustrating for whom? Anyone with two eyes can see that Harris is in way over her head. She was in way over her head as a Senator and there is a good reason for why she dropped out of the race before a single vote was cast. She has never accomplished anything - I don’t know how she even managed to get a law degree - and owes her entire career to having been Willie Brown’s paramour.


10 posted on 11/14/2021 5:32:09 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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In my best Dan Aykroyd voice: “Kamala, you ignorant slut.”


11 posted on 11/14/2021 5:32:28 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“It is natural that those of us who know her know how much more helpful she can be than she is currently being asked to be”

Fixing the Border is not enough of a workload?

This article is a pantload.


12 posted on 11/14/2021 5:36:01 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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VP Dingbat


13 posted on 11/14/2021 5:36:33 PM PST by butlerweave
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Poor baby.


14 posted on 11/14/2021 5:39:40 PM PST by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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So she is the #2 that Biden was accused of dropping!


15 posted on 11/14/2021 5:41:23 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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Many in the vice president’s circle fume that she’s not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined.


Historically, the VP’s position is to be sidelined. Attend funerals and sit around waiting for POTUS to drop dead, that’s about it.

Teddy Roosevelt was picked to be McKinley’s VP to get him out of the way politically. And VP Garner, FDR;s first VP, described the job as “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”


16 posted on 11/14/2021 5:42:24 PM PST by hanamizu
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LOL. Good one!


17 posted on 11/14/2021 5:48:07 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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This article didn’t come from the hired help. Kamalala might be in real trouble.

Maybe the Hail Mary the lizards will try is getting her to step down and be replaced by Buttplug, and then Joe can step down and let Buttplug try to salvage the term.


18 posted on 11/14/2021 5:50:10 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Being the first woman, and first woman of color, in national elected office is historic but has also come with outsized scrutiny and no forgiveness for even small errors, as she’ll often point out.


Scrutiny? From the fawning MSM? Give me a break!


19 posted on 11/14/2021 5:51:02 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Harris has emerged as a “quiet force” in the administration, Moore said, and she focuses attention on different issues sometimes just by her very presence in the room.


Now that’s funny. She is a human paperweight.


20 posted on 11/14/2021 5:53:08 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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