Vice President Kamala Harris recently gave an interview with Dana Bash of the CNN network. In that interview Harris made sure that Bash and the country understood that she had not banned fracking during her term as vice president nor would she ban fracking as president. Harris made it clear that she has been in charge all along. She didn’t say “we.” She didn‘t say President Biden. She didn’t say “our administration.” She said I. 

Harris should have made some other postulations during the interview. She did not reverse Roe vs. Wade. She did not lead or create a new national abortion law. She has had almost four years to slug out some kind of new national policy but she hasn’t. 

Harris didn’t secure our borders. Over eight million undocumented people have flooded into our country during the Biden/Harris reign. This is a population the size of New York City. She won’t even visit the southern border. She hasn’t done anything about our national border security crisis. Towns like Aurora, Colorado are seeing the results of gangs entering our country. Why would we be duped into thinking this will change if we promote her to president? 

Americans are becoming hungrier every day. We are spending more money at the grocery store and coming home with less food every week. In the fall of 2022 inflation was 11 percent. It has slowed recently but Americans have not caught up (prices do not go down). Seniors can’t catch up unless there is a larger Social Security increase. Teachers’ pensions and others have not caught up to the increased cost of living. This has all happened on her watch. She sits in the second highest office in the world. If she can’t be influential at that desk, she won’t be successful sitting in the Oval Office. 

Interest rates have strangled home and car buyers. Credit card debt has skyrocketed. Has Harris made life easier for Americans who need housing and a car to drive? No, most Americans cannot currently afford to buy a house and rent is a major strain.

Harris has done nothing to stop the barrage of fentanyl and other illegal drugs pouring into this country resulting in thousands of American deaths.  

What has Harris done to make the world safer? Six hostages being held by Hamas were executed in the last few days. Netanyahu and Israel’s army were moving very close to where these hostages were being held to rescue them. While this was going on President Biden was at his favorite place, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Harris was out campaigning. She has done nothing to resolve the Israel-Hamas war. She had not made any efforts to meet with Vladimir Putin to resolve the Ukraine war.

What has Harris done?

She is right. She has not banned fracking in Pennsylvania or any other state, but she hasn’t done anything else either. We are dependent on foreign oil. She has done nothing to make America energy independent. We should use everything we have, wind, solar, oil, gas and coal. Have electric cars, have gasoline cars, planes, trains, and whatever. Why can’t we have a balance and once again be energy independent? We can, but Harris isn’t out leading the charge to make this happen.

I don’t see how our country can survive four more years of what we have been through. The last 12 of the 16 years of presidency has been held by Barack Obama and the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris team. What would eight or even four more years bring is a scary thought.

—  Dr. Glenn Mollette is an author and his column is published in over 600 publications in all 50 states.