So here we are bright and early this Thursday morning of Impeachment Inquiry Week. The thing we’ve been waiting for, an end to the madness that is Trump and his enablers, an end to their sexism, racism, homophobia, graft, and corruption, their dishonoring of our nation, has finally begun.
And I jammed my thumb on my left hand.
Which doesn’t matter nearly as much as trying to find the words for why we must have Kamala in the White House. Yes, everyone is once again praising her grilling of Barr. Rightfully so.
Some are even calling her questioning of Bill Barr “prescient.”
I find the use of that word interesting. The surprise embedded in it. The implication of some kind of an otherworldly knowledge at work, as if California’s former Attorney General and District Attorney of San Francisco had never fought corruption or faced dishonesty before. Barr was being questioned by the former AG of the second largest Justice Department in the Country.
It wasn’t Cassandra grilling him. It was Kamala Harris, a woman who is very very good at her job.
A woman who even Republican colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee praise as a, “ smart colleague and a skilled questioner.”
New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat on the committee, said hearings such as the one with Sessions “give a window into how she gets to the facts, which then leads you to where you should go next in terms of policy.”
“Those public hearings are a very strong sort of one-to-one indication of how she operates all the time,” Heinrich said.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence committee said that, the things you learn in this committee — I can't think of a committee that potentially would better prepare you for a national role, because you get to see so much.”
And that is just part of her portfolio and the multifaceted excellence she would bring to the White House.
Voices are saying that we need her to be our country’s Attorney General. That’s lovely.
But again, it misses what the country is going to need to clean up the harm that this illegitimate excuse of an Administration has and is doing.
Harris: House impeachment inquiry will air Trump’s ‘corruption and misdeeds’
Harris, speaking to Nevadans during an afternoon tele-town hall, framed allegations that Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to open a corruption investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 contender, and his son as “colluding with a foreign leader” to “manipulate the outcome of our election.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally announced the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday after mounting calls to do so from House Democrats as they sought a whistle-blower complaint detailing the allegations withheld by the White House.
Harris first came out in support of impeaching the president in April following the release of special counsel Robert Muller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“As a former prosecutor, I will tell you that my entire career has been fighting for justice and Donald Trump has clearly thought of himself — as soon as he told us he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it — as someone who thinks he is above the law,” the California senator and former San Francisco district attorney said…..
Yes, she did. And that came from years of Executive and Legal experience. She has spent her entire career fighting to keep people safe from predators and abusers, whether they be financial, environmental, or personal. She knows the morally bankrupt when she sees them.
We need her in the White House to repair the damage being done, to help us heal and keep us safe. Kamala knows that down to her bones, justice must be made real to have any meaning. Whether it is taking on the Big Banks or polluters or sex traffickers or Donald Trump or William Barr, Kamala’s creative intellect connects the dots, finding the way forward that others do not. She can appoint a top notch Attorney General, just as she’s going to have to appoint the best people for every position in her Administration. Kamala is very good at picking just the right people for the job.
Kamala has been speaking out about Barr’s and Trump’s unfitness for the positions they hold for months.
Back in June, Kamala said the following -
These are not normal times. Repairing the damage done to our country demands an extraordinary individual, someone tested and true. She understands the connections and how deep the rot goes. It doesn't stop with Barr and the rest. The corruption of this Administration has tainted every aspect of government. Kamala needs to be our Justice in Chief to fix all of it.
For our country, for our people, for our children, for this beautiful blue world — Lets get it done.
A post script:
Saw this the other day and have not been able to get it out of my mind. This kind of thing happens all the time. The children find Kamala to share their fears and hurts. They know she sees them, hears them. She has always seen policy from the point of view of the victim, the vulnerable and the powerless.
For the children, for their future, we must help them put Kamala in the White House.
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Kamala will be returning to Capital Hill. She’ll ask questions as only she can. She’ll be prepared and get to the bottom of this, as only she can. As always, she’ll be doing the people’s work. It is what she has always done.