Dear GOP/MAGA, What Exactly Is It You Want?
You keep whining about "the border czar" so tell me, what was Harris supposed to do, that she didn't do?
Let’s start by getting something out of the way. I know most of my readers already know this, but in case this finds its way into the hands of an actual MAGA, let me make it plain…
There is no such thing as a “border czar”
In fact, we don’t really have “czars” in the USA at all. Sometimes, if a person is tasked with a specific area of action, they might be called a “czar”, but there’s no job requirements, no list of duties that “czars” must perform, no list of punishments for a “czar” that fails. “Czar” just isn’t a thing, other than slang for “person in charge of this thing”
That all being said, let’s pretend anyway.
Let’s pretend that Joe Biden actually did appoint Harris as some kind of “czar” and tasked her with single-handedly solving the “border crisis”… That he wanted her, and her alone , to “fix it”.
What do you think she should have done that she didn’t do?
Should she have gone to the border more often for photo ops? You seemed to be very broken up by the fact that she didn’t “visit the border” often enough. So, explain to me what her showing up there for a photo op would have accomplished (other than giving you another issue to complain about, crying “she’s just doing photo ops”)?
Or perhaps she was supposed to pick up some gear like a rifle and handcuffs and go out arresting illegals herself? Would one more border patrol agent have made that much difference? And wouldn’t you have complained if she had done that too? (“What good is having her acting as a border agent going to do?” I can hear you saying.)
Or, perhaps you wanted her to grab a shovel and help “build the wall”? Again, is one small woman going to really be that much help?
No, of course you didn’t want her to do any of those things.
She certainly couldn’t just sign an executive order funding more wall or more agents or more equipment, Vice Presidents don’t have “Executive Order Powers”.
You say: “She could have convinced Biden to sign an executive order” and then what would have happened? Trump would have convinced the GOP to challenge it all the way to the supreme court to stop it, because Biden getting a “win” at the border would have hurt Trump’s re-election chances.
And don’t for one minute try to say that it wouldn’t have happened that way… it already did!
No, the only real way Kamala Harris could have had an actual impact on our border security beyond what she was actually tasked with, would have been for her to try to get Congress to pass some kind of bi-partisan bill, funding more security. And having Biden sign it.
But wait… that is exactly what happened!
With her encouragement, Republicans and Democrats put aside their differences and brought up a truly bi-partisan bill, and it was ready to be passed by both Houses, and Biden said he would sign it.
So why didn’t it pass?
Remember above when I said “it already did”? That’s what I was referring to. The bill was ready, both Houses were ready to pass it, and Biden would have signed it…
I think it’s pretty well spelled out in the Project 25 manifesto.
Damned if she did, damned if she didn’t. We can thank Agent Orange once again for being the turd in the punch bowl.