I’m so old that I remember the distant era of the 2020 Democrat primary. Back in that hazy past, long-faded by the mists of time, then-Democrat candidate for the Democrat nomination for president, then-Sen. Kamala Harris was adamantly opposed to our entire civilization, or at least to the abundant energy we consume to enjoy our way of life. She hated coal, stated she would ban all off-shore drilling, and notably, that she was against all fracking and wanted it shut down, to ban it completely.
Then she found out that she was polling poorly among Democrats, many of them in states that rely on energy production for their livelihoods.
So Harris decided that she didn’t want to ban fracking after all. Or at least that she would stop saying it out loud.
Vice President Kamala Harris no longer supports a fracking ban, in a change in her stance during the last presidential election, her campaign said on Friday, according to a report.Before she dropped her bid for president in 2019 and joined President Biden’s ticket, she said in a CNN town hall “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.””And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right?” she continued. “And then there has to be legislation, but, yes, that’s something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue and to your point we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the health and safety of communities.”Harris also cosponsored the Green New Deal as a senator in 2019, a proposal to stem climate change that includes a ban on fracking.”Climate change is real, and it poses an existential threat to us as human beings, and it is within our power to do something about it,” Harris said on the campaign trail that year before exiting the race, according to The New York Times. “I am supporting the Green New Deal.”. . . . In a statement to Fox News Digital, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella, said, “Kamala Harris is the most far-left progressive presidential nominee in history, and extreme Democrats in the Rust Belt now own every single policy she supports.”
So now she has a brand new stance on a pretty key issue, apparently based solely on polls, that will evaporate the second she wins office, just as Biden’s “moderate” Joe act quickly vanished.
Harris is notable for supporting a wide range of destructive, divisive, and unAmerican policies, only to claim that she doesn’t. Remember her enthusiastic embrace of Bernie’s “Medicare For All”? That went away when her people realized it wasn’t polling well. The idea didn’t go away, just the campaign rhetoric.
She did the same thing about abolishing private health insurance and a host of other issues.
As Andrew Sullivan astutely noted in a must-read piece, Kamala is the weakest and the wokest candidate Democrats could have put forward. And yet.
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