Staff Reports
In a recent episode of “The View,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz faced questions about how a hypothetical Harris-Walz presidential ticket would differ from the current Biden administration. The co-host, deploying the kind of leading questions one might expect from such a venue, asked Walz if he could pinpoint any policy decisions made over the last four years that should have been approached differently. This is like asking a cat to fetch—some things just don’t happen.
Walz responded with a feeble attempt to dodge the query, celebrating the expansion of Medicare, something he claimed should have been proposed much earlier. His comments revealed the Democratic tendency to paint former President Trump as the scapegoat for all their woes. It is as if the pandemic was nothing but a popcorn flick in a movie theater of Democratic mismanagement, with Trump as the villain everyone loves to hate. Coming out of a pandemic and economic turmoil feeling this much affection for Biden’s policies must require a special kind of bipartisan rose-colored glasses.
Walz tries to separate Harris from Biden in policy differences https://t.co/DnTL5iocKE
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 22, 2024
Unsurprisingly, Walz’s running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has had her own share of verbal gymnastics on the subject. In her previous appearance, she made it abundantly clear that she was devoid of any substantial ideas on how to differentiate herself from the current administration. At a campaign rally, she claimed that vice presidents traditionally do not criticize their leadership, suggesting that loyalty in the face of obvious incompetence is somehow virtuous. Apparently, loyalty is a code of conduct in the Democratic playbook, right alongside “cover for your boss.”
Walz did attempt to defend Harris’s contributions, emphasizing her focus on “affordability on child care,” and improving healthcare availability for seniors, which sounds like fine rhetoric but lacks the substance that regular Americans actually need. While he rambled about “protecting rural hospitals” and dodging “ambulance deserts,” one must ponder why such basic concerns are suddenly coming to light now, years into the Biden administration. Is this just another classic case of Democrats discovering issues like a toddler discovers the bottom of a cereal box?
While Biden’s previous calls for expanding Medicare to lower the age to 60 were less like thoughtful policy and more like hoping for magic fairy dust, the Harris-Walz campaign appears to be surfing this familiar wave. They are not just talking about healthcare but also making an ultra-ambitious push for in-home care. Meanwhile, Biden has already attempted to placate voter concerns about childcare with his Build Back Better Act. For all the clarity this provides, it’s difficult to see how their solutions—measured against the real issues facing American families today—provide anything but another set of empty promises wrapped in a shiny, progressive bow.
In the end, while the Democrats cozy up to each other and engage in a circular firing squad of harmless banter, regular folks are left to wonder if they’re getting any fresh ideas or just the same old soup rebranded as a haute cuisine. The Harris-Walz ticket might finally get that change they’re clamoring for—if they can pull their heads out of the sand long enough to notice the actual needs of the country.
