OPINION:
Congress is back to ponder another stimulus package, Sen. Kamala D. Harris is dialing up the coronavirus fear factor and nobody dares to ask tough questions, let alone questions that require little more than a yes-or-no answer.
There are lots of mouth almighties, though, including governors like New York’s Andrew Cuomo and Big Apple’s lefty leader Bill de Blasio. The mere fact that they can’t seem to launch themselves into the White House speaks volumes about whether their bite is more vicious than their barks at President Trump.
Their Democratic Party counterparts in Virginia can be viewed in a similar vein: Bark at New Yorker Donald Trump, and when that’s not appropriate or convenient, stack the deck with out-of-control spending. Heck, why not? Virginia’s Ralph Northam cannot succeed himself as governor, despite the fact that he’s pretended to be African American. (Wakanda forever, right?)
Yet Mr. Northam is still massaging a blue state government with appointees as his Democratic legacy to Virginia.
And the commonwealth’s two senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (alongside Clinton smoocher and ex-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe) are so very, very grateful that Republican, Democratic and conservative voters finally spun a 360 on Virginia’s rainbow dial from red to indigo to deep violet.
So, imagine what they must be jawing about this week now that we seem to be returning to some post-Labor Day semblance of daily-life normalcy with public schools reopening, commuter traffic returning and autumnal sweater weather around the bend.
It all means the presidential and vice-presidential debates are, as well, which is Ms. Harris can raise a clinched first the First Growl Award.
Haven’t heard what she said? Check this out. CNN’s Dana Bash asked Ms. Harris a sensible question about a vaccine to lick COVID-19, and Joe Biden’s running mate gave an unsurprising response: “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump, and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. I will not take his word for it.”
It’s fair to conclude she thinks President Trump is a liar. No surprise.
Ms. Harris, like a lot of lawyers, are distrusting.
Still, there’s this: For African Americans, women and the nonwealthy, it took three amendments to the Constitution — the 15th, the 19th and the 24th — to win the right to vote for president, Congress and state and local governments, which could be lost in the mail or in a box.
There’s a danger if you camp out with Ms. Harris and fail to vote your own conscience and your own wallet. Indeed, you know that you know Ms. Harris and Uncle Joe want you to help them kick Donald Trump and Mike Pence in the arse, you should be asking the Biden-Harris headliners some tough questions.
Chief among them: Do you support Americans who are urging in-person voting, like recently departed civil rights leaders C.T. Vivian and John Lewis did, or do you plan to keep barking as a distraction?
What’s the projected total COVID-19 spending for this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, and the first half of the next?
Others are who should be held accountable for the rioting that’s scarring our cities and depleting our police departments? And how do you plan to nab and that fella named “Injustice?”
And, to be clear, will Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden do the trustworthy photo op so voters can actually have proof that they, too, have faith in their states’ voting practices?
Time will surely tell. Tick tock.
• Deborah Simmons can be contacted at dsimmons@washingtontimes.com.
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