{"id":2339045,"date":"2024-09-10T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-smears-gop-policies-because-hers-are-crazy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:41:16","slug":"harris-smears-gop-policies-because-hers-are-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-smears-gop-policies-because-hers-are-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Smears GOP Policies Because Hers Are Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-smears-gop-policies-because-hers-are-crazy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2339045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kamala Harris&#8217; recent interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash highlighted her reluctance to articulate\u2063 specific policy proposals\u2062 as she critiques her opponents, particularly in response \u200bto Project 2025\u2014a conservative\u2062 blueprint for governance. This juxtaposition reveals critical dynamics in contemporary politics. The author notes the\u2062 irony \u200cthat proposals which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-parker-why-doesnt-drowning-in-debt-bother-biden\/\" title=\"Star Parker: Biden Unfazed by Debt Crisis?\">prioritize fiscal responsibility<\/a> and seek to manage the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ending-poverty-starts-with-increasing-work-and-paychecks-not-government-budgets\/\" title=\"Ending Poverty Starts With Increasing Work And Paychecks, Not Government Budgets\">unsustainable government spending<\/a> might be deemed unpopular because they challenge \u200dcurrent spending habits. <\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s interview underscored a lack of clear policies, especially regarding contentious issues like \u200bfracking \u2062and fuel regulations, which she struggled to address. \u2063Her campaign has also shied\u2064 away from definitive policy proposals, focusing instead on personal anecdotes. Furthermore, the author\u200b references Harris&#8217;s need \u200bto distance herself from radical ideas proposed during her first presidential campaign, which adds to her campaign&#8217;s hesitance to present clear policies now. The analysis concludes that Harris&#8217;s avoidance\u200d of\u200d specific ideas and reliance on attacking others\u2064 highlights a\u200c broader \u200ctrend in political strategy that may undermine the public&#8217;s understanding of candidates&#8217; true agendas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kamala Harris&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/30\/cnn-didnt-interview-kamala-harris-it-swaddled-her-in-a-security-blanket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vapid interview<\/a> with CNN&rsquo;s Dana Bash revealed much about the presidential candidate (not to mention the sycophantic media). Perhaps the most intriguing: For someone so willing to attack others&rsquo; policy proposals, Harris seems quite unwilling to offer many of her own.<\/p>\n<p>I refer, of course, to the attacks by the Harris campaign, the Joe Biden reelection campaign before that, and the left in general on Project 2025, a policy and management blueprint issued by a coalition of conservative organizations so that the next conservative president can hit the ground running next January. Those attacks have led Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidential campaign to assert repeatedly that no outside organization can speak to what policies he would implement if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Those caveats aside, it&rsquo;s worth unpacking the dynamics of the attacks, because they reveal much about the state of our current politics &mdash; and not for the better, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Irony 1: Policies Are &lsquo;Unpopular&rsquo; Because They&rsquo;re Rational<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I will confess that while I read the Project 2025 chapter on health care in great detail, I have not done so with most of the other chapters in the 900-page book or the hundreds of policy proposals contained therein. (Side note: If a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-questions-to-determine-whether-a-friend-or-relative-is-a-liberal-or-a-leftist-2\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Questions To Determine Whether A Friend Or Relative Is A Liberal Or A Leftist\">left-wing friend<\/a>, or member of the media, starts making comments about Project 2025, ask them if they&rsquo;ve actually read the entire document itself. The number may be so infinitesimal as to approach zero.)<\/p>\n<p>Most of the attacks on Project 2025 insinuate that there is something unpopular or radical about the proposals included in the policy blueprint. To which there is one obvious response: <em>Duh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At present, our country is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/19\/trillion-dollar-deficits-explain-why-inflation-keeps-hitting-american-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">running deficits<\/a> approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/26\/with-a-2t-deficit-this-year-washingtons-fiscal-failure-is-worse-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2 trillion a year<\/a>, which are projected to remain at record-high levels as a percentage of our economy in peacetime. Project 2025 in general, and the health care chapter in particular, emphasize that the federal government cannot continue this unsustainable spending. Many of the policy proposals in the blueprint therefore attempt to right-size the federal government, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-reportedly-outlines-demands-for-democrats-climate-change-child-tax-credit-plan\/\" title=\"Manchin Reportedly Outlines Demands For Democrats\u2019 Climate Change, Child Tax Credit Plan\">health care programs<\/a> that are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/24\/two-trillion-dollar-deficits-show-washington-has-a-spending-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eating the federal budget alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Almost by definition, any plan to reduce deficits this large will become unpopular, in the same way that a parent telling a child he cannot stay up until midnight, or eat ice cream for dinner, will make the parent unpopular. That doesn&rsquo;t mean the parent shouldn&rsquo;t insist on the principled, even if unpopular, behavior &mdash; and so it is with Project 2025&rsquo;s suggestions for fiscal responsibility in Washington.<\/p>\n<h2>Irony 2: Kamala Harris Has No Policy Plans<\/h2>\n<p>The CNN interview brought this point home. Harris fumbled around for an answer on what things she would change on day one of her administration (perhaps because she&rsquo;s currently serving as vice president of the present administration). She didn&rsquo;t provide a clear answer about her position on fracking. She didn&rsquo;t outline her positions on new fuel mileage regulations that will require automakers to pump out money-losing electric cars that Americans don&rsquo;t want to buy, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago, or many other issues.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to one of the few areas where Harris has outlined a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/21\/how-kamalas-economic-plans-would-send-bidenflation-into-overdrive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">semi-specific proposal<\/a> &mdash; a federal ban on price gouging &mdash; Democrat operatives have spent the past week-plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/25\/harris-grocery-price-gouging-backlash-00176266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trying to run away from it<\/a>. They have claimed on background that it would never pass Congress even if Democrats win control of both chambers and that price gouging restrictions would only come into effect in certain limited circumstances (e.g., a natural disaster). If either or both are the case, then why did Harris even make this announcement, other than as a political stunt to try to grab attention?<\/p>\n<p>For someone who loves taking potshots at the Project 2025 proposals, Harris and her campaign have avoided specific policy ideas like the plague. No wonder the CNN interview seemingly spent more time talking about the reaction of Harris&rsquo; grandniece at the Democratic National Convention, and what Harris likes to make for Sunday breakfast, than what she would do as president.<\/p>\n<h2>Irony 3: Harris Has No Plans Because Her Ideas from Her First Presidential Campaign Are Radical&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a reason why Harris wants to run a policy-free campaign. Consider just some of the policies Harris and her campaign have tried to backpedal away from since her first presidential run five short years ago. She pledged to ban fracking. She <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/05\/kamala-harris-always-planned-to-take-away-your-health-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJhuPtIsUI0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlawing private health insurance<\/a> &mdash; and then, in a fit of &ldquo;moderation,&rdquo; pledged that people could have a private plan option &mdash; but only after they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/07\/30\/kamala-harriss-health-plan-put-balloon-mortgage-american-taxpayers-wallets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gave up the coverage they have currently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/21\/kamala-harris-wants-to-memory-hole-her-border-record-because-its-disqualifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration<\/a>. Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/kamala-harris-claps-back-at-meghan-mc-cain-on-border-security-we-cant-treat-people-like-criminals-215623428.html\">supported<\/a> decriminalizing border violations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/s4011\/BILLS-116s4011is.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wanted<\/a> to give the World Health Organization an effective veto over enforcing our immigration laws, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/s2565\/BILLS-116s2565is.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed<\/a> allowing as many as 200 million &ldquo;climate displaced persons&rdquo; into the country.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s more than a bit rich for Harris, Democrats, and the rest of the left to attack Project 2025 when Harris is trying to distance herself from practically all of the major proposals from her last presidential campaign. If the Trump campaign is smart, it will characterize those proposals as Kamala Harris&rsquo; own Project 2025, unless and until she puts out a series of detailed policy plans saying exactly what she will do if she is elected to replace Joe Biden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/game-show-judges-assess-players-on-their-unknown-knowledge\/\" title=\"Game Show Judges Assess Players on Their Unknown Knowledge\">policy consulting firm based<\/a> in Washington, and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He appeared in the 1995 &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; Teen Tournament and is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris&#8217; lackluster interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash shed light on the presidential candidate and the overly flattering media. One of the most notable points is that while Harris readily criticizes others&#8217; policy proposals, she appears hesitant to present her own. This observation relates to the criticisms directed at Project 2025\u2014a policy and management framework created by a coalition of conservative groups aimed at ensuring a smooth transition for the next conservative president. The Harris campaign, along with Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection efforts and leftist commentators, have been vocal in their opposition to this initiative, prompting Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign to assert that no external organization can dictate his potential policies if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these Disclaimers, it&#8217;s important to analyze these attacks as they reveal significant insights into our current political landscape\u2014though not in a positive way. <\/p>\n<p>**Irony 1: Policies Are &#8216;Unpopular&#8217; Because They\u2019re Rational**<br \/>\nI must admit that while I thoroughly examined Project 2025\u2019s health care chapter, I haven&#8217;t delved deeply into most other sections of its extensive 900-page document or its numerous policy suggestions. (As a side note: If you encounter someone from the left or in media discussing Project 2025, ask them if they&#8217;ve actually read it; chances are very few have.) Many critiques of Project 2025 imply that its proposals are either unpopular or extreme. The obvious response is: Of course they are.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, our nation faces annual deficits nearing $2 trillion\u2014projected to remain alarmingly high even during peacetime. Both Project 2025 as a whole and its health care chapter specifically stress that such unsustainable federal spending cannot continue indefinitely. Consequently, many recommendations aim to recalibrate government size\u2014including healthcare programs that significantly burden the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>By nature, any strategy aimed at reducing such substantial deficits will likely be unpopular\u2014similar to how parents become unpopular when denying children late bedtimes or dessert for dinner. However, just because something is unpopular doesn\u2019t mean it shouldn\u2019t be pursued; this principle applies equally to Project 2025\u2019s calls for fiscal responsibility in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>**Irony 2: Kamala Harris Lacks Policy Plans**<br \/>\nThe CNN interview underscored this reality as Harris struggled to articulate what changes she would implement on her first day in office (perhaps due to her current role as vice president). She failed to provide clear stances on fracking or new fuel efficiency regulations requiring automakers produce unprofitable electric vehicles consumers aren\u2019t interested in buying; nor did she address issues like the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In one area where she has proposed something somewhat specific\u2014a federal ban on price gouging\u2014Democratic operatives have recently distanced themselves from it. They\u2019ve suggested privately that such legislation wouldn\u2019t pass Congress even if Democrats regained control and would only apply under limited circumstances (like natural disasters). If either claim holds true, why did Harris make this announcement unless it was merely a political maneuver for attention?<\/p>\n<p>For someone who frequently criticizes Project 2025\u2019s proposals, both Harris and her campaign seem remarkably evasive about presenting concrete policy ideas themselves. It\u2019s no surprise then that much of their CNN discussion revolved around personal anecdotes rather than outlining her presidential agenda.<\/p>\n<p>**Irony 3: Lack of Plans Due To Radical Ideas From Her First Campaign**<br \/>\nHarris\u2019 avoidance of detailed policies stems from an awareness of how radical some ideas from her initial presidential run were\u2014and how far she&#8217;s tried to distance herself from them since then just five years ago. She had promised a fracking ban and supported eliminating private health insurance but later moderated by suggesting people could keep private plans only after relinquishing their existing coverage.<\/p>\n<p>On immigration matters too\u2014Harris advocated decriminalizing border violations and granting significant authority over immigration enforcement decisions to international bodies like WHO while proposing entry for up to two hundred million \u201cclimate displaced persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems disingenuous for Harris and other Democrats on the left criticize Project 2025 when she&#8217;s attempting so hard not only distance herself but also backtrack on major proposals made during her last campaign cycle. If Trump\u2019s team plays their cards right they could frame those earlier proposals as &#8220;Kamala Harris\u2019 own version&#8221; of Project 2025 until she provides clear policy outlines detailing what actions she&#8217;d take if elected president instead of Joe Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2339046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VP-Kamala-Harris-Rema.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7375,6203,4021,4600,32171],"class_list":["post-2339045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-criticism","tag-gop","tag-harris","tag-policies","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VP-Kamala-Harris-Rema.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}