Kamala Harris is a person who, even for a politician, is not overly troubled with consistency. And if that’s not the understatement of the year, it will do until a better one comes along.
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Bill Clinton was known for being a guy who would wet a finger to see which way the wind was blowing before making a statement, but at least his “triangulation” resulted in some genuinely bipartisan results, like a welfare reform bill that Democrats have now largely undone. Barack Obama did likewise, although his Overton Window was quite a ways to the left of Bubba Clinton’s, and he had no similar good bipartisan successes.
Kamala Harris, though, changes positions on things so quickly as to make one dizzy. During her 2019 presidential run, she was advocating for not only legalizing marijuana but also putting convicted weed dealers in charge of weed shops, as she said to Stephen Colbert on his show.
Mr. Fox, would you mind please guarding this henhouse?
Here’s the fun part: Also way back in 2019, when Kamala Harris was engaged in her ill-fated run for the Democrat nomination (before Tulsi Gabbard eviscerated her in the Democratic Party primary debate), RedState’s own Jennifer Van Laar detailed how Kamala Harris was using convicts not as potential weed-shop entrepreneurs, but as cheap labor for the state of California.
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At that time, Jennifer wrote:
Still the state (of California) was non-compliant, and in November 2014 was ordered to create and begin operating “a new parole determination process through which non-violent second strikers will be eligible for parole consideration by the Board of Parole Hearings once they have served 50 percent of their sentence,” by January 2015, as they had been ordered to do “promptly” in the February 2014 order.
What was the holdup? The L.A. Times reported that:
“Most of those prisoners now work as groundskeepers, janitors and in prison kitchens, with wages that range from 8 cents to 37 cents per hour. Lawyers for Attorney General Kamala Harris had argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.”
The AG’s office tried to play the fire safety card too, arguing in a brief that:
“Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation—a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought.”
When approached by BuzzFeed News two months later, Kamala played dumb.
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The only thing I might question here is this: Kamala may not have been playing dumb. But the main point remains: Her AG’s office argued for keeping prisoners incarcerated so the state of California could use them as cheap labor. That’s a far cry from her protestations in that same year that weed dealers should not only be released but rewarded.
What’s more, while Attorney General of California, Kamala was known for her harsh crackdowns on, you guessed it, marijuana.
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As California attorney general, Harris oversaw thousands of marijuana-related convictions. Critics argue that these convictions disproportionately affected black and brown communities and that Harris’s office fought against efforts to reduce sentences or expunge records.
Harris later came under additional fire for that prosecutorial record when she claimed she smoked weed in high school, with some branding her a hypocrite.
Some branded her a hypocrite because that’s what she is.
Look, the issue here isn’t really marijuana. We can argue for or against legalization, but that’s an argument for another time. The issue here is Kamala Harris’s hypocrisy. It’s her utter lack of any pretense at a moral principle. She argues for the legalization of weed and the rehabilitation of weed dealers to weed-shop owners, when while as AG of California, she locked up thousands of people for possession of weed — and she sees nothing wrong with her inconsistency.
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It’s a near-certainty that she would argue her views have “evolved.” Poppycock, bunkum, drivel and goo. Kamala Harris is an utterly unscrupulous opportunist who will say anything to anyone if she sees even a momentary advantage for herself.
Like so many in politics, Kamala Harris is all about principals, not principles. And we’ve had more than enough of that kind of crap from politicians. As Kamala Harris herself might say, it’s time for a different path forward.