Kamala Harris just proved why sheās President Joe Bidenās best friend in Washington.
Even liberal Americans have to be embarrassed by Bidenās seemingly limitless capacity for oddball behavior and willingness to misstate the facts about basic elements of his own program.
But as an interview Friday with the Spanish network Telemundo showed, Harris is about the only one in the administration who can make even Biden opponents hope heāll be around for two more years.
Harris was holding forth on the question of Abortion, in particular the court challenge to the use of the drug mifepristone, a prescription āmedicineā thatās used to destroy lives still in the womb.
On Friday, the Supreme Court stayed a nationwide injunction against the continued use of mifepristone that had been issued by a federal judge in Texas.
Judge Matthew Kacsmarykās order found that approval of the drug that was granted by the federal Food and Drug Administration back in 2000 used a fast-track process that was based on āplainly unsound reasoningā to reach a decision based on āpolitical pressure.ā
In his ruling, Kasmaryk wrote that the FDA had also āstonewalled judicial reviewā of its decision.
The high courtās decision Friday means mifepristone will be available for deadly use while the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reviews Kacsmarykās ruling.
In her Telemundo interview, which took place prior to the Supreme Courtās stay, Harris tried to give some of the background to the mifepristone court fight ā and in the process, referred to an entirely imaginary agency of the government.
The court fight, she said, involved an effort āto take a medication off the market which was approved 20 years ago by the federal drug administration.ā
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Most Americans who take even a casual interest in government know that the initials FDA donāt stand for āFederal Drug Administration.ā But the woman whoās second in command of the executive branch of the United States government ā a branch that the FDA, as part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a part of ā doesnāt seem to know that.
This isnāt just nit-picking. Harris is a lawyer who served as attorney general of the state of California, then a U.S. senator from California before she was affirmative-actioned into the role of running mate for Bidenās 2020 presidential campaign.
Sheās been adjacent to the powers of the presidency for more than two years. Sheās supposed to know important agencies like the FDA the way an experienced mechanic knows the makeup of a car. (Would you want a guy working under the hood who called your āalternatorā a āradiatorā?)
Even more important, those same Americans who know good and well what āFDAā stands for also know that the president is notorious for gaffes that betray an increasing decline into dotage. Even conservatives have become almost inured to his regular, embarrassing moments on the world and national stage.
An 80-year-old whoās long past his prime isnāt going to get better and the country knows it. However horrendous his mistakes, and whatever long-term damage heās doing to the country (and itās the kind that will make his name as infamous a century from now as Neville Chamberlain is in the United Kingdom today) thereās a built-in expiration date on Bidenās behavior. (That isnāt to wish anyone ill, itās simply a statement of fact.)
Harris, on the other hand, is only 58 and ā like 61-year-old former President Barack Obama (another affirmative action hire) ā is likely to be around to poison American Politics for potentially decades to come.
And the fact that sheās only one doddering Joe Biden heartbeat away from the presidency as it is had even Bidenās critics reacting to the Friday embarrassment by publicly hoping the current president sticks it out ā at least until American voters can put an end to his presidency in 2024.
āNever thought I would say this, but I hope joe doesnāt expire for at least 2 more years,ā one wrote on Twitter.
āThe Vice President of the United States doesnāt know what FDA stands for,ā wrote another. āLol. America is so done for.ā
And there were plenty more along those lines.
One user might have summed it up best in one word: āEmbarrassing.ā
Thereās no doubt that the Biden administration fan club in the establishment media will give Harris a pass on this subject ā not only because sheās a Democrat, but also because she was speaking on the topic of Abortion, a sacramental obscenity to the modern Democratic Party.
The full interview is below. The mifepristone question comes up about the 6:40 mark.
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Coverage of the interview by KXAS-TV, NBCās station in Dallas-Fort Worth, didnāt even mention the mistake, but went heavy on Harrisā theme that Abortion was the ārightā of women to āmake decisions about your own body.ā
Even in the RNC Research Twitter thread, there were responses that chalked this up to a slip of the tongue, no more.
But the fact is, Harris is the vice president of the United States. Sheās supposed to have facts like this at the tip of her fingers and the tip of her tongue. If she makes an error like that, sheās supposed to realize it and correct herself.
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The reality shows sheās either incapable of that kind of correction or simply uninterested.
Joe Biden is no prince of a president, and heās likely to be remembered as one of the biggest failures to ever hold the job of preserving, protecting and defending the Consitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
But as bad as he is, Kamala Harris would be worse.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
