OPINION:
Hey, did you hear the one about the vice president who went to the border and promised to fix the border by making everybody forget she was the one who failed to fix the border in the first place and only said, instead, the border doesn’t need fixing?
Yeah, that vice president. Her name is Kamala Harris, and she’s the one who told Chuck Todd on NBC News in 2022 that “we have a secure border.” Now she wants to fix it.
“Kamala Harris’s Border Nonsense,” National Review wrote in a headline in 2022.
That’s as apt a characterization now as it was then.
Harris spins so much on border policy she could power 100 dreidels with a single cackle. Her campaign staffers recognize this, so they’re sending her to the border again to do damage control — which is to say they’re sending her to the border so her bootlickers in the media can snap some photos of her talking to border control agents and posing with her hands on her hips, like some sort of swaggering Marlboro Woman set to take on the cartel. Maybe they’ll even give her a cowboy hat to wear. It’ll be like Michael Dukakis with the helmet!
“Michael Dukakis: The Photo Op That Tanked,” U.S. News & World Report wrote in 2008, reminding of the time the former governor of Massachusetts set his lilliputian self atop a tank while wearing a huge helmet to show he was tough on security and defense. And we laughed, and we laughed, and we laughed. Oh, the joy Americans could have if Harris tried the same tactic with a Tough On Border costume — complete with chaps and spurs. LOL. Like Woody from Toy Story.
“Bill Clinton says we need ‘the president of joy’ Kamala Harris,” NBC wrote in a headline from the Democrats’ convention a month ago.
Indeed. Indeed we do.
From The Hill: “Vice President Harris plans to call for more resources for border patrol agents, on her visit to the U.S.-Mexico border … She is also set to describe curbing the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. a ‘top priority’ if she’s elected in November. … While there, she plans to argue that ‘American sovereignty requires setting rules at the border and enforcing them,’ [her] campaign official said.”
Wow.
She’s speaking the same language as the Donald Trump team: Control the border, stop the flow of fentanyl, enforce laws, demand order.
Cowboy hat be danged. Give that lady a MAGA cap.
But any voters out there convinced she means to actually control the border if elected to the White House — give them dunce caps. Harris had her chance to fix the border. She and President Biden did exactly the opposite. And the irony of her pledging to fix what she allowed to be broken should not be forgotten come Election Day.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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