The rats are jumping off Kamala’’s sinking ship

[BabyBoomer50s]

With her plummeting approval ratings stinking up the White House in the wake of her failures on voting legislation, root causes of immigration, the space council, and ongoing gaffs, Kamala’s chief spokesperson says “no mas.”

When asked for comment, her rival Pete smirked and coyly replied “it’s 2021.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-symone-sanders-leave-white-house/8835084002/

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The Shits and Giggles administrtion is disintegrating before our eyes.

 

[NorthernVAM]

The Shits and Giggles administrtion is disintegrating before our eyes.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember the Carter administration, but I have to say the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are very interesting. High oil prices, stagflation, at least one foreign policy disaster, and the President blaming the people for the condition of the country. I remember watching Carter's malaise speech live and thinking to myself -- how is this going to help?

In terms of this administration, it's obvious to me that Biden's entourage has a very rigid domestic policy agenda that is disconnected from what is happening in the country, particularly in terms of inflation and unemployment. They obviously have an inflation problem, and their solution is to pour gasoline on the inflation problem by increasing deficit spending. Meanwhile, there is a worker shortage -- so they issue vaccination mandates, and believe it or not, I've seen people quit rather than take the vaccination, creating a greater worker shortage problem and again -- pouring gasoline on the inflation fire.

And in terms of foreign policy, again I think the agenda is just inflexible, and I have no clue as to why. Are Biden's advisors really that out of tune with reality? While I can appreciate the climate change issue -- in all seriousness, people will vote against that as soon as gasoline hits $4 or $5 a gallon -- and then they'll vote for the folks who will lower the gasoline prices by fracking and restoring the keystone pipeline. Let's be real .. nobody lives 100 years into the future .. so they will make decisions based upon their immediate needs.

On the Afghanistan front -- boy did that bring up memories of watching the fall of Siagon. While that disaster happened under the Ford administration, the Iranian hostage crisis was all Carter's .. and now that the terrorists have taken over Afghanistan again, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before there's another attack, only this time, I bet they'll just walk across the Mexican border rather than flying in through Canada.

Oh .. the border? What border? That's a problem that the administration is totally ignoring -- totally devoid of ideas on how to manage the refugee crisis -- and totally ignoring it as far as I can tell. As Lincoln once said in one of his speeches ... "And this too shall pass ..."

 

[Sean Renaud]

The Shits and Giggles administrtion is disintegrating before our eyes.

Biden is doing pretty well all things considered actually. I haven't looked to hard at Kamala however.

 

[rae121452]

With her plummeting approval ratings stinking up the White House in the wake of her failures on voting legislation, root causes of immigration, the space council, and ongoing gaffs, Kamala’s chief spokesperson says “no mas.”

When asked for comment, her rival Pete smirked and coyly replied “it’s 2021.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-symone-sanders-leave-white-house/8835084002/

well, at least she didn't promise 'all the best people' and then wind up with a combination circus side show and the high school year book 'grifters most unlikely to succeed'. and i haven't heard a word about any of them being indicted.

 

[YDB95]

I remember watching Carter's malaise speech live and thinking to myself -- how is this going to help?

If you remember it, then you know he never actually said "malaise", and that the initial reaction to the speech was actually very positive.

Having said that, I'd have to agree that asking all Americans to do their part to address the crisis at hand was a mistake. For all the Republicans' talk about "personal responsibility", they have won a LOT of elections by effectively advocating the exact opposite.

 

[Champakian]

Dose of reality here -- a bucket of cold water.

Working for the administration is a high-pressure, high-stress, job
that is pretty much 24/7 and puts your family on the back burner.
(I have a book about that; Dana Perino maybe, I'd have to look.)

It has always been a high turnover position no matter the administration.
In short, this is just normal background noise and the truth of the matter is that
as soon as these people leave the administration lucrative job doors open for them.

Those "rats" aren't jumping ship as much as they are upgrading their berths...

 

[Champakian]

Don't apologize for the Peanut Farmer...


It just makes you look sad and a little pathetic.

 

[YDB95]

Who's apologizing for him? We've all known for decades he was just too nice a guy to succeed in politics.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Things are better now than they were 2 years ago in almost every measurable metric for our Nation.

 

[YooserName]

I don't know if you're old enough to remember the Carter administration, but I have to say the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are very interesting. High oil prices, stagflation, at least one foreign policy disaster, and the President blaming the people for the condition of the country. I remember watching Carter's malaise speech live and thinking to myself -- how is this going to help?

In terms of this administration, it's obvious to me that Biden's entourage has a very rigid domestic policy agenda that is disconnected from what is happening in the country, particularly in terms of inflation and unemployment. They obviously have an inflation problem, and their solution is to pour gasoline on the inflation problem by increasing deficit spending. Meanwhile, there is a worker shortage -- so they issue vaccination mandates, and believe it or not, I've seen people quit rather than take the vaccination, creating a greater worker shortage problem and again -- pouring gasoline on the inflation fire.

And in terms of foreign policy, again I think the agenda is just inflexible, and I have no clue as to why. Are Biden's advisors really that out of tune with reality? While I can appreciate the climate change issue -- in all seriousness, people will vote against that as soon as gasoline hits $4 or $5 a gallon -- and then they'll vote for the folks who will lower the gasoline prices by fracking and restoring the keystone pipeline. Let's be real .. nobody lives 100 years into the future .. so they will make decisions based upon their immediate needs.

On the Afghanistan front -- boy did that bring up memories of watching the fall of Siagon. While that disaster happened under the Ford administration, the Iranian hostage crisis was all Carter's .. and now that the terrorists have taken over Afghanistan again, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before there's another attack, only this time, I bet they'll just walk across the Mexican border rather than flying in through Canada.

Oh .. the border? What border? That's a problem that the administration is totally ignoring -- totally devoid of ideas on how to manage the refugee crisis -- and totally ignoring it as far as I can tell. As Lincoln once said in one of his speeches ... "And this too shall pass ..."

Carter and his gang were incompetent, naive fools. Everything the Biden team is doing is deliberate.

 

[YooserName]

Things are better now than they were 2 years ago in almost every measurable metric for our Nation.

On which planet?

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

A new report revealed that departing staffers for Vice President Harris are leaving their White House posts in part due to concerns of being forever labeled a "Harris person."

“A growing list of Harris staffers are heading out the door amid internal chaos and disastrous poll numbers.

The concern of being labeled a "Harris person," as well as burnout and desire for greener pastures, are driving the exodus from the vice president’s office, sources familiar with the chaos in the VP's office told Axios.”

https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-apos-staffers-leaving-162234062.html

 

[LukSkyFokker]

On which planet?

The one you live on.

 

[pecksniff]

Who's apologizing for him? We've all known for decades he was just too nice a guy to succeed in politics.

Also, he just didn't get it. I read in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland that when Carter sat down to do a budget, he approached the problem like the engineer that he is, simply asking, what needs to be spent and where can the money be raised -- completely ignoring all the vested interests and gored oxen.

 

[pecksniff]

On which planet?

The one with the blue sky.

 

[GothTalk]

Things are better now than they were 2 years ago in almost every measurable metric for our Nation.

The one you live on.

Luk is fuckin' delusional and needs to put the PCP down.

We aren't better off than we were pre-covid... you're a fucking retard so drunk on (D)ipshit juice you're just making up whatever sounds good for them.

The one with the blue sky.

Peck level delusional.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Also, he just didn't get it. I read in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland that when Carter sat down to do a budget, he approached the problem like the engineer that he is, simply asking, what needs to be spent and where can the money be raised -- completely ignoring all the vested interests and gored oxen.

Just curious - why do you say Carter was an engineer?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Luk is fuckin' delusional and needs to put the PCP down.

We aren't better off than we were pre-covid... you're a fucking retard so drunk on (D)ipshit juice you're just making up whatever sounds good for them.



Peck level delusional.

Luk didn't say we are better off than pro-covid, dummy. You carried your retarded ascriptions to your new name.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Just curious - why do you say Carter was an engineer?

I believe Carter was trained as a nuclear engineer, not to be confused with a train engineer. His presidency was a train wreck.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I know he was a submarine officer, then went to training for nuclear submarines but quit before he finished. The Naval Academy didn't offer engineering degrees, so he's not, technically, an engineer and except for a couple of years in the navy, I don't think he ever had an engineering job.

It was an odd comment. But Peck always makes odd comments.

 

[pecksniff]

Just curious - why do you say Carter was an engineer?

That was his education and first career. Most pols are lawyers, but not Carter. That was his problem. Human society is not so simple as any mechanical system.

 

[JohnnySavage]

It's close, but I don't think I would give him the honor of calling him an Engineer

 

[Rightguide]

That was his education and first career. Most pols are lawyers, but not Carter. That was his problem. Human society is not so simple as any mechanical system.

He attended Georgia Southwestern College and took some undergraduate engineering courses but graduated from the Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree. I don't think he was a PE or licensed engineer in any field.

 

[pecksniff]

It's close, but I don't think I would give him the honor of calling him an Engineer

Perhaps not, in a strictly professional sense. What matters is that he took an engineer's approach to public policy -- and while that appears at first to make a whole lot of sense, it doesn't always work. Engineers deal with the kinds of systems whose constituent elements are predictable, because they have no will.