KAMI, KAMI, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEE? – OVERNIGHT:  William Goldman's line about Hollywood could apply to Washington today.  "Nobody knows anything."  I mean, name a subject.  Where have all the elder statesmen gone?

Take Kamala Harris...please.  (Hat tip to Henny Youngman.)  I mentioned this earlier in the week.  Where is she?  Someone said he saw her at the unemployment office.  Who's Who is panicking because they can't give her more than a two-line description.  And it's unfavorable.  Even FedEx is returning packages sent to her.  From the New York Post: 

As Vice President Kamala Harris’s poll numbers remain underwater, and well below President Biden’s, some Democrats are worried that she could become a drag on their efforts to maintain control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.

A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that 48 percent of Americans disapprove of Harris’ job performance while only 46 percent expressed approval. This is in line with a flurry of recent surveys and puts her well behind Biden, whom the Real Clear average of polls has at 51 percent approval and 43 percent disapproval.

According to Democratic strategists who talked to The Post and The Hill, the numbers have the party concerned about the midterms.

“As of right now, I think she has the potential of doing more harm than good for some of these candidates,” one strategist told The Hill, referring to Harris.

“My sense is she’ll probably raise a lot of money and maybe she’ll go to some specific districts, but they’ll have to be really strategic with her.”

An early test of just how strategic Democrats plan to be with the veep is the run-up to the Sept. 14 recall election in her home state of California, where she has vowed to campaign for embattled Gov. Gavin Newson, but has offered no set plans about doing so.

Forty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Harris’ job performance, according to an Economist/YouGov poll.

New low poll numbers on Harris’ job performance have some Democrats worried about the midterm elections.

Under normal circumstances, Harris, the first woman to be elected vice president, would be a natural fit for campaigning on both the recall race and the 2022 midterms, but staunch criticism of her handling of the border crisis as well as dysfunction in her office have potentially made her politically toxic.

In June, Harris took a trip near the US border with Mexico after pressure built for her to go for months. In that time, she snapped at reporters who asked why she hadn’t trekked to the border given that she was put in charge of the crisis there.

In one interview, she told NBC’s Lester Holt that “we’ve been to the border.” When he pointed out that she had not gone as vice president, she whipped back at him with, “And I haven’t been to Europe, And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”

Meanwhile, there have been persistent stories about issues in her office, where staffers have gone so far as to say they are treated “like s–t,” and which date back to similar concerns from campaign staff that helped derail her 2020 run for president.

COMMENT:  No wonder she's hiding.  But her wobbles cannot but concern our allies, who now have to contend with an impaired man in the presidency and and an invisible woman in the second office, and some clear psychiatric cases just below them. 

Maybe I'm being too critical.  Maybe Kami is at Wokeness School, and will come out a kinder and more sympathetic public servant.  We'll know when she sets fire to her first building, then tries to rescue the people inside.

Do you think she would?

July 29,  2021