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Rough Week: Dems in Total Disarray

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  June 11, 2021 10:45 AM

Happy Friday.  The Democrats are in disarray this week.  How so?  (1) As we discussed in detail yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris' first overseas trip was a bit of a debacle.  She butchered a simple and predictable question about visiting the border before flip-flopping, her "root causes" talking point was blown up by the leader of Guatemala, and amid criticism from within her own party -- and even inside the White House -- even the Democrat-aligned media couldn't help but notice.  But as I noted on Special Report this week, Harris literally declared it all a success, so I'm sure it's fine:


(2) The Biden administration's immigration policies are failing so badly as to be unspinnable.  US officials confirmed more than 180,000 encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border in May (setting decades-old records), more than 40,000 of whom came from nations other than the 'big four.'  As a reminder, during the current crisis, CBP has detained unlawful migrants from at least 160 countries, illustrating  the folly of the White House's 'foreign aid and diplomacy to address root causes' approach.  In the last three months alone, estimates suggest that at least 100,000 "got away" illegal immigrants have entered into US sovereign territory without being stopped -- through a border the administration insists is "secure."  The GOP is pointing out that there have already been more than half a million illegal crossings on the Biden/Harris administration's watch.  The White House refuses to call any of this a crisis:

(3) The Democrats' reckless tax-and-spend policies are holding back economic growth, fueling inflation, and contributing to underwhelming jobs numbers because they've foolishly used borrowed taxpayer money to pay a lot of workers more not to work than to seek and hold jobs.  And they want to double down with trillions in additional spending. Our economic bounce-back should have been an easy layup.  The economy was incredibly strong prior to the pandemic, but "progressive" policies are actively harming the rebound:


(4) Internal fights have broken out between Squad members and other elements of the party.  Ilhan Omar is firing back at Democratic criticism over her recent decision to compare the United States and Israel to terrorist organizations:


And she's playing the victim, of course, accusing her fellow Democrats of "Islamophobia" and "harassment."  She has revealed her bigotry on multiple occasions.  Leadership got involved. Tlaib weighed in, in typical fashion.  Omar is playing her typical rope-a-dope games.  Hypocrisy abounds.  Meanwhile, AOC seems intent on imposing an uncomfortable litmus test upon certain Senate Democrats who are likely eager to fly under the radar with both swing voters and members of their base.  I cannot imagine the NRSC is upset about this pressure campaign:

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(5) We are learning more about how the supposed party of science and education shunned science and turned their backs on education, harming millions of children over the past academic year, because it is beholden to a monied special interest group.  The map illustrates another decisive win for Florida over California:


I'll leave you with one more factoid.  Are we likely to see the president asked pointed questions, with detailed follow-ups, about any of this?  You may not want to hold your breath: