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Kamala Harris Made Joe Biden's Rough Week Even Worse
BY XANDER LANDEN ON 10/3/21


The past week was tough for President Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris didn't make it any easier.

Biden's legislative agenda, including a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and a sprawling $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, stalled after Democrats failed to reach an agreement on the larger piece of legislation, which includes funding for a variety of social programs.

Earlier in the week, lawmakers grilled military leaders over the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, and one contradicted a statement the president made last month claiming that advisers did not tell him to keep a small military presence in the country.

Polls in recent weeks have shown Biden struggling. Last month in a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, 51 percent of registered voters said Donald Trump was a better president than Biden. A survey released by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Friday showed Biden's approval dropping among Democrats.

Harris, for her part, inadvertently added to the president's problems on Tuesday with her response to a George Mason University student's comment accusing Israel of "ethnic genocide."


"You brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America," the student said, "but I see that over the summer there have been protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine. But then just a few days ago there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it's ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I'm sure you're aware of this."

In response, Harris said: "This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed, and it must be heard."

The Israeli press jumped on the story. "VP Harris to student who accused Israel of 'genocide:' Your truth must be heard," read a headline in the Jerusalem Post on September 29. "Harris praises student for expressing 'your truth' after anti-Israel rant," Israel Hayom wrote.

Republicans quickly criticized Harris for her reaction, which some took to be agreement with the student.

"Kamala Harris doesn't have time to go the border, but she apparently has plenty of time to encourage anti-Israel, anti-Semitic falsehoods," Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri tweeted Tuesday, responding to a video of the exchange posted by the Republican National Committee.

Harris's office released a statement noting that the vice president has been "unwavering in her commitment to Israel and to Israel's security," and that she "strongly disagrees with the student's characterization of Israel." Politico reported that Harris was working to mend relationships with pro-Israel Democrats; her office was also in touch with Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

"Just spoke with@VP office. Glad to hear her confirm she is proud of her record supporting #Israel, and knows claim it is committing 'ethnic genocide' is patently false. Looking fwd to a clearing of the record so there's no ambiguity that what that student said was hateful/wrong," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitter Thursday.

The White House sent Newsweek a statement from Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders on Sunday saying that "throughout her career, the Vice President has been unwavering in her commitment to Israel and to Israel's security. While visiting George Mason University to discuss voting rights, a student voiced a personal opinion during a political science class. The Vice President strongly disagrees with the student's characterization of Israel."

It wasn't the first time Harris opened the Biden administration to criticism.

Republicans went after her earlier this year with questions about why she hadn't visited the U.S.-Mexico border as part of her role in addressing the sharp rise in illegal immigration, and for laughing while being questioned about the matter during an interview with Lester Holt on NBC News.

Guatemala's president, Alejandro Giammattei, who has been in talks with Harris about the migrant crisis, this summer criticized the Biden administration's messaging around immigration. Harris was also criticized by the left for comments she made in Guatemala in June when she said "do not come" to people in the region thinking about traveling to the U.S. border.

"First, seeking asylum at any US border is a 100% legal method of arrival," Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter at the time. "Second, the US spent decades contributing to regime change and destabilization in Latin America. We can't help set someone's house on fire and then blame them for fleeing."
"Kamala Harris is still not ready for primetime (much less 2024)," said a headline in The Hill in June.

The pileup of problems explains why many Democrats were so relieved by Governor Gavin Newsom's emphatic win in California's recall election last month. Harris's difficulty in staying on message or connecting with voters (her 2020 campaign ended before Iowa because she was polling so poorly) doesn't fill Democrats with confidence. If Biden should decide not to run for re-election in 2024, Harris—the sitting vice president, a former California senator and attorney general, and a history-making woman of color—would be the obvious candidate to succeed him. But it's not clear that she would be the best. :eek2:

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Kamala Harris Made Joe Biden's Rough Week Even Worse

The VP didn't make things any easier for the administration by seeming to agree with a student who suggested Israel is engaged in "ethnic genocide."
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@Dr. Truth Here's a "change" you can believe in!!!

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Pediatricians sue Biden over transgender mandate for children

WASHINGTON (WTVO) — Over 3,000 pediatricians have filed suit against the Biden administration for a health care mandate that would require medical professionals to provide gender-related services despite medical objections.

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which broadened the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity, objections to treating children with gender-related therapies would be considered discrimination.

President Biden signed an Executive Order that required Section 1157 and Title IX be interpreted to include gender identity as a protected trait.

“The American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and an OB-GYN doctor who specializes in caring for adolescents filed suit in federal court to challenge a Biden administration mandate requiring doctors to perform gender transition procedures on any patient, including a child, if the procedure violates a doctor’s medical judgment or religious beliefs,” the Alliance Defending Freedom said in a press release.

“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reinterpreted non-discrimination on the basis of sex in the Affordable Care Act to include gender identity and thus require gender transition interventions, services, surgeries, and drugs on demand, even for children, no matter a doctor’s medical judgment, religious beliefs, or conscientious objection,” the release continued.

“Forcing doctors to prescribe transition hormones for 13-year-olds or perform life-altering surgeries on adolescents is unlawful, unethical, and dangerous,” said ADF Senior Counsel Ryan Bangert.

“Doctors should never be forced to perform a controversial and often medically dangerous procedure that goes against their best judgment, their conscience, or their religion, especially when it involves vulnerable children experiencing mental and emotional confusion,” said ADF Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake.

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Pediatricians sue Biden over transgender mandate for children

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I see the anti-Harris hate machine rolls on. There is nothing short of her saying Donald Trump was the best President ever that would please Republicans and Democratic Party haters. Her championing free speech is lost on them which in this case happened to be true. Israel IS guilty of near genocidal policies against the Palestinians and hating on Harris doesn't negate that fact. :hmm:.
 
ronmch20 said:
I see the anti-Harris hate machine rolls on. There is nothing short of her saying Donald Trump was the best President ever that would please Republicans and Democratic Party haters. Her championing free speech is lost on them which in this case happened to be true. Israel IS guilty of near genocidal policies against the Palestinians and hating on Harris doesn't negate that fact. :hmm:.
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This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed, and it must be heard.
 
VAiz4hustlaz said:
Kamala Harris Made Joe Biden's Rough Week Even Worse
BY XANDER LANDEN ON 10/3/21


The past week was tough for President Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris didn't make it any easier.

Biden's legislative agenda, including a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and a sprawling $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, stalled after Democrats failed to reach an agreement on the larger piece of legislation, which includes funding for a variety of social programs.

Earlier in the week, lawmakers grilled military leaders over the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, and one contradicted a statement the president made last month claiming that advisers did not tell him to keep a small military presence in the country.

Polls in recent weeks have shown Biden struggling. Last month in a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, 51 percent of registered voters said Donald Trump was a better president than Biden. A survey released by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Friday showed Biden's approval dropping among Democrats.

Harris, for her part, inadvertently added to the president's problems on Tuesday with her response to a George Mason University student's comment accusing Israel of "ethnic genocide."


"You brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America," the student said, "but I see that over the summer there have been protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine. But then just a few days ago there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it's ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I'm sure you're aware of this."

In response, Harris said: "This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed, and it must be heard."

The Israeli press jumped on the story. "VP Harris to student who accused Israel of 'genocide:' Your truth must be heard," read a headline in the Jerusalem Post on September 29. "Harris praises student for expressing 'your truth' after anti-Israel rant," Israel Hayom wrote.

Republicans quickly criticized Harris for her reaction, which some took to be agreement with the student.

"Kamala Harris doesn't have time to go the border, but she apparently has plenty of time to encourage anti-Israel, anti-Semitic falsehoods," Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri tweeted Tuesday, responding to a video of the exchange posted by the Republican National Committee.

Harris's office released a statement noting that the vice president has been "unwavering in her commitment to Israel and to Israel's security," and that she "strongly disagrees with the student's characterization of Israel." Politico reported that Harris was working to mend relationships with pro-Israel Democrats; her office was also in touch with Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

"Just spoke with@VP office. Glad to hear her confirm she is proud of her record supporting #Israel, and knows claim it is committing 'ethnic genocide' is patently false. Looking fwd to a clearing of the record so there's no ambiguity that what that student said was hateful/wrong," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitter Thursday.

The White House sent Newsweek a statement from Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders on Sunday saying that "throughout her career, the Vice President has been unwavering in her commitment to Israel and to Israel's security. While visiting George Mason University to discuss voting rights, a student voiced a personal opinion during a political science class. The Vice President strongly disagrees with the student's characterization of Israel."

It wasn't the first time Harris opened the Biden administration to criticism.

Republicans went after her earlier this year with questions about why she hadn't visited the U.S.-Mexico border as part of her role in addressing the sharp rise in illegal immigration, and for laughing while being questioned about the matter during an interview with Lester Holt on NBC News.

Guatemala's president, Alejandro Giammattei, who has been in talks with Harris about the migrant crisis, this summer criticized the Biden administration's messaging around immigration. Harris was also criticized by the left for comments she made in Guatemala in June when she said "do not come" to people in the region thinking about traveling to the U.S. border.

"First, seeking asylum at any US border is a 100% legal method of arrival," Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter at the time. "Second, the US spent decades contributing to regime change and destabilization in Latin America. We can't help set someone's house on fire and then blame them for fleeing."
"Kamala Harris is still not ready for primetime (much less 2024)," said a headline in The Hill in June.

The pileup of problems explains why many Democrats were so relieved by Governor Gavin Newsom's emphatic win in California's recall election last month. Harris's difficulty in staying on message or connecting with voters (her 2020 campaign ended before Iowa because she was polling so poorly) doesn't fill Democrats with confidence. If Biden should decide not to run for re-election in 2024, Harris—the sitting vice president, a former California senator and attorney general, and a history-making woman of color—would be the obvious candidate to succeed him. But it's not clear that she would be the best. :eek2:

www.newsweek.com

Kamala Harris Made Joe Biden's Rough Week Even Worse

The VP didn't make things any easier for the administration by seeming to agree with a student who suggested Israel is engaged in "ethnic genocide."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
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That just get your pink panties
soaking wet don't it?
 
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Black colleges' funding hopes dim amid federal budget battle

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Optimism for transformational funding for the nation’s historically Black colleges was running high after the Biden administration included $45 billion for the schools in its massive multitrillion dollar spending plan.

That outlook quickly soured as the funding became ensnared in Democratic infighting over the size of the economic package and what it should cover. The latest iteration of the bill includes just $2 billion that can go toward educational programs and infrastructure for Black colleges, and even that amount would be reduced to competitive grant funding rather than direct allocations.

That’s especially disappointing for many smaller, private historically Black colleges that don’t have the endowments as their larger and more well-known peers. They often struggle to upgrade their campuses and programs, hurting their ability to attract students.

The Biden administration’s original $3.5 trillion proposal called for sending at least $45 billion to Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions to update their research programs, create incubators to help students innovate and help traditionally underserved populations.

Getting a slice of that would have been a boon to Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, a private historically Black college. President Roderick L. Smothers said federal coronavirus relief money was instrumental in helping the university survive the pandemic with technology upgrades and student support, but he said Biden’s original proposal provided the kind of money that would have had a long-term impact.
“We used the funds that we received to serve the students that we have, and now we’re asking for additional funds to make sure that when we are on the other side of this global pandemic our institutions will be bigger and better and more resilient,” Smothers said.

The college increased its enrollment by 43% between 2010 and 2019, the latest data available, but saw its endowment drop 18% during the same timeframe, according to federal data analyzed by The Associated Press. Overall, enrollment at the nation’s roughly 102 Black colleges has been declining — from 326,827 in 2010 to 289,507 in 2019.

Beyond building upgrades, Smothers said Philander Smith College would have used the long-term federal funding to expand programs for its students, 81% of which are low income. That might include launching a public health school that would train students to tackle health disparities affecting racial minorities and help address the state’s nursing shortage.

Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, who leads the U.S. House education committee, said historically Black colleges have received unprecedented levels of federal funding over the past two years, more than they have in the past decade combined. That includes $1.6 billion under the Democrats’ American Rescue Plan passed earlier this year.

The money has allowed them to pursue initiatives such as cancelling student debt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scott, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the draft bill also includes $27 billion for student aid at Black colleges and other institutions serving racial minorities. Still, he acknowledged the need for more funding.

“We’d like to do as much as we can,” Scott said. “I’m not satisfied. I’m not satisfied with anything in the budget that’s within our jurisdiction.”
Scott said the Department of Education had committed to ensuring the grant program contained in the current bill would be structured so similar colleges would be competing with each other. It’s a way to prevent larger ones with robust grant-writing departments from edging out smaller schools.

That’s important to address vast differences between the colleges. The Associated Press analysis of enrollment and endowment data found wide disparities among the 102 historically Black colleges and universities, and a further divide between private and public institutions. Federal data, for example, showed that 11 HBCUs had endowments worth less than $1,000 per pupil in the 2018-19 school year while nine had endowments worth more than $50,000 per pupil.


In general, Black colleges have lacked the fundraising ability of other universities. The cumulative endowment for all historical Black colleges through 2019 was a little more than $3.9 billion, about the same as the endowment for just the University of Minnesota. Advocates said the funding struggles and the role the colleges have played historically is why long-term federal assistance is needed.

Harry L. Williams, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents public HBCUs, was surprised and disappointed by the reduced allocation for Black colleges in the latest Democratic economic plan, which likely will be trimmed to around $2 trillion. He also said they should not be lumped in with other institutions serving racial minorities, which he said can include many large state universities.

Black colleges have a unique history, needs and financial challenges, Williams said.


Kevin Cosby, president of Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville, agrees.

“To mix them with minority-serving institutions, which are are not historic institutions that do not have the legacy of historic discrimination, is not right,” he said. “Historically Black colleges and universities should be separated as a protected class of institutions because, like the Black community, our experience in the United States of America is a unique experience.”

Because of historical underfunding, Black colleges often have built up years of deferred maintenance, leaving buildings out of compliance with local codes or otherwise unable to accommodate students. Money from endowment returns is directed to annual operating costs, making it harder to invest in new programs and buildings — a “number one issue” for attracting students, Cosby said.

Last spring, Kentucky’s general assembly passed long-awaited legislation that made it possible for his school to have a certified teacher program. The initiative is especially meaningful to Simmons because of the state’s persistent teacher shortage and the school’s founding mission to train formerly enslaved Kentuckians as teachers. But Cosby said not having longer-term funding from the federal government will make it more difficult for Simmons to get the program off the ground quickly.

“We need facility space, we need infrastructure, we need capital improvements, we need resources to hire teachers,” he said. “We can only thrive as institutions to the degree that we have the resources.”
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Race Harley said:
:smh: This administration's been tripping over itself from the start. Meaanwhile, Trump's browbeating the GOP into making him their Republican candidate for 2024. :smh:
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She's terrible and has done so much dumb shit unnecessarily but if the option is her or Trump/DeSantis?

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:lol:

Biden wasn't my first choice either. There are plenty of legit critiques and criticisms you can make but the "alternatives" are always so much worse. :smh:
 
zod16 said:
She's terrible and has done so much dumb shit unnecessarily but if the option is her or Trump/DeSantis?

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Biden wasn't my first choice either. There are plenty of legit critiques and criticisms you can make but the "alternatives" are always so much worse. :smh:
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Not much worse. Both shitty in their own ways
 
Kamala made a mistake. She should have been sharper in her response. She was dull and didn't think about what was being said. She has moved very fast the past 12 years or so. Too fast...so getting to a level that is beyond her substantive experience is to be expected. Making her President in 2024 would be even worse. That said, she is entitled make a mistake.
 
RUDY RAYYY MO said:
Speaking of the bill, I see you never mention the fact that your massa Dumb Donald raised the national debt to nearly 8 Trillion.
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Supersav said:
Not much worse. Both shitty in their own ways
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It's amazing how incapable these motherfuckers are of rendering an objective analysis of Biden/Harris and the Dems! It truly is. Even when Biden is engaging in the same policies as Trump, they can't do it. They can't even have a political discussion without mentioning Trump's name. You'd think he was still in office. Meanwhile, the President, VP, and party that they told us "coons" to vote for are in power, yet they can't point to any substantive accomplishments.

"Oh, it's only been 10 months!" "What about Trump doh?"

I guess they're playing the same game of "chess" that Obama was! :rolleyes:
 

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