BY BILL JUNEAU
It seems clear that Kamala Harris is in a job which is way, way over her head, and she is a far cry from being a positive force for progress in America and in the world. Asked recently about the border crisis, which is her "baby" to resolve, she often giggles and gives responses that are inane, always talking about prioritizing the "'root causes," for the crisis --which continues, unabated.
Does she have the wits to process what is going on in America? We do know that she wants no prisons and no bail, and the legalizing of pot, but can she pick up on the horrid mess at America's southern border?
Her first big job given to her by President Biden, whose own mental grasp of America's troubles are, at best, questionable, is to assess the immigration problem on the southern border where men, women and children from Mexico and much of Central America are pouring into the United States, disregarding all efforts at legal entry.
Vice President Harris will be looking it over, said Biden, and she will resolve the commotion and find a fair and reasonable solution for everyone involved. Biden actually seems pleased to have washed his own hands of the border's rampaging lawlessness.
Biden, himself, hasn't commented about the 180,000 illegals who just last month forded the Rio Grande or slipped through the border's dusty openings to make their illegal entry onto American soil. Some women were pregnant and their babies will soon be citizens in need of American largess. Fentanyl and other drugs are rolling into the USA unchecked. Untold numbers of illegals, including small children, and the very old, are sneaked into the country by coyotes, then bussed to unknown destinations. Others are being housed and cared for in hotels and army barracks, all complements of Slow Joe Biden and Uncle Sam.
It is VP Harris' job to find a solution, but so far, after 80 unproductive days on the job, she has yet to visit the border and observe the chaos, or to even give a plausible explanation as to what precisely she is going to do to resolve the crisis. She made a trip to Guatemala and told reporters that it was a first step in determining "root causes" of why folks are exiting Guatemala and Central America. She repeats that she is "digging in," and will be visiting the southern border personally-- some time in the future.
With her election last November, Kamala has become a very prominent figure, one who will live in history books. She is not only the nation's first female vice president, but she is a woman of Asian and Black (Jamaican) heritage-- a heartbeat away from being President. To airheads in the media, her face is a probable fit as a new addition to Mount Rushmore.
Sad to say, but she is in line to become President and Commander-in-Chief if President Biden fails for any reason to complete his four year term in office. While her adulation from most liberals is unending, one Chicago Tribune columnist sees it differently. To him, she is a disaster.
In a recent column, John Kass called for "prayers" from Americans for the survival of Biden through his entire four year term. May God help us all if Biden leaves the office, for whatever reason, and the incompetent and surly Harris becomes America's 47th President, Kass wrote.
Early last year, then Sen. Harris declared herself a candidate for president. On the debate stage she lashed out at candidate Biden as a racist who, as a Delaware senator, opposed the desegregation of schools and was a close friend of southern senators who had only contempt for Blacks. But her criticism went away as Biden declared himself a true friend to blacks noting at one point that if you do not vote for Biden, well man, "you ain't black." And then he chose Harris as his running mate.
Harris never found many supporters in her candidacy for President, and was herself torpedoed by Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, for having been a two-faced California Attorney General who facilitated the imprisonment of persons for smoking pot. Later, when asked if she ever smoked pot, she giggled and said , 'Yes... and I inhaled," adding that she supports the national legalization of pot smoking.
Prior to the election, there was some muffled talk that Kamala Harris was ineligible to serve as a U.S. President or Vice president because of certain requirements set forth in the Constitution. Democrats managed to squelch such noise, and the laughing Kamala managed to skate free of such a controversy. Nevertheless, some very capable lawyers hold that opinion, although they are in the minority. The majority of lawyers reportedly believe that she was born in the United States, and though her mother was a citizen of India, and her father was a Jamaican she became a citizen in accord with the birthright citizenship provision contained in the 14th amendment-- which gives her the right to seek high offices.
Dr. John Eastman, a scholarly lawyer and former dean of the Chapman University Fowler school of law in southern California, wrote an article which was published in Newsweek magazine in August of last year that Kamala Harris could have a problem if her eligibility was challenged--but it never was, though maybe it should have been.
In the article, Eastman, who acknowledges that his opinion is challenged, raised a point which he believes disqualifies her from service in the second highest office in the country. Birthright citizenship is in accord with the 14th amendment, he wrote, but it may conflict with the mandate in Article II which sets forth that only a "natural born citizen" subject to America's jurisdiction can serve as President or Vice President. Was Harris "a natural born citizen"?
Neither of her parents were, nor was either a permanent resident of the country, subject to its jurisdiction. Their presence at the University of California at Berkeley, where they were graduate students, Eastman believes, was pursuant to mere student visas and they apparently lacked more meaningful credentials, such as green cards.
As such their allegiances belonged to India and to Jamaica, and they were not in America "subject to its jurisdiction," as mandated in the constitution, Eastman has said.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a native of India, and her father, Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican, were students. They played house together and then were wed and Kamala was born in October of 1964. They divorced and Kamala was raised by her single mother in Canada, attending high school there. Her father, with whom she reportedly has no relationship, was a Stanford university Professor of Economics for many years, and is now retired. The vice president's mother died in 2009.
The subject of her ability to serve in the high office was largely ignored by the Democratic controlled media since it had the ring of being a racial smear with similarity to the "birther" controversy which haunted Barack Obama for many years. Obama's problems were finally put to rest during his second term as President after he produced his certificate of birth from a hospital in Hawaii.
Kamala's eligibility to be vice president has never been publicly debated. Eastman has said that constitutional law is not yet settled on the question of whether being born in the United States automatically makes one a citizen. Many other scholars disagree and have established that as the standard.
Eastman concluded the authors of the constitution had two requirements: One, that the person must be born on American soil and two, that the person be subject exclusively to U.S. law. Harris falls short on the second, he pointed out in his Newsweek article.
But for better or worse, Harris is the Vice President to President Biden, and as columnist John Kass has said, let's hope that Biden makes it though his four years.
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