Staff Reports
Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage at a CNN town hall, attempting to dance around the ongoing controversy surrounding her flip-flopping position on fracking. This issue has consistently tripped her up, much like an uncoordinated ballerina on a slippery stage. Just when Harris thought she could tap dance her way into a more centrist light, a bold attendee challenged her on the apparent contradictions in her energy policy – a topic that makes energy workers see red faster than a Toyota Prius stuck behind a gasoline truck.
As the attendee so bravely pointed out, Harris’s current more moderate climate posture has left many voters wondering if any of it is even genuine. Harris boasts of a newfound centrist perspective, a claim that raises more eyebrows than a surprise announcement of a budget deficit during a spending spree. She tried to insist that she had been “very clear” about her fracking stance, implying that everyone else had missed the memo. Yet, her history is hard to overlook; she’s been caught with her hand in the cookie jar of radical environmentalism on more than one occasion, especially during her 2020 presidential campaign when she openly expressed a desire to ban fracking.
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When confronted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about her past pronouncements, Harris attempted to play the blame game, declaring that those statements were in reference to President Biden’s policy, not her own. However, this strategy can’t mask her prior enthusiasm for a fracking ban, a fact that should make any hardworking Pennsylvanian fume hotter than the steam rising from their morning coffee. As far as energy workers are concerned, Kamala’s assurance that she wouldn’t ban fracking is as credible as a three-dollar bill when her own climate advisor is calling for the demise of new fossil fuel drilling.
Cooper seemed genuinely baffled by her ability to twist and turn through her claims. Despite trying to give her an easy out by suggesting her views may have “evolved,” Harris turned the conversation into a self-congratulatory festival. She proudly announced her experience as Vice President, but one has to wonder if that experience includes a proper memory of her statements, which have often aligned more with the radical left than with the average American worker.
While CNN was busy fact-checking Harris’s comments on fracking, they conveniently chose to ignore some of her more glaring misstatements, such as her dubious claims regarding the events of January 6. Kamala has repeatedly asserted that “some law enforcement officers were killed,” a statement that could qualify for a golden ticket in the exaggeration lottery. In reality, the numbers paint a different picture, with only one person shot during the events—namely, Ashli Babbitt. When faced with facts, it seems Harris prefers the escapism of revisionist history rather than owning up to the reality.
In the tumultuous world of Kamala Harris’s political stances, one thing is certain: she can talk about turning over a new leaf until the cows come home, but the record speaks louder than her words. For the working class, especially in energy-rich Pennsylvania, it’s hard to trust a politician whose logic changes faster than the wind blows. And with this latest episode on CNN, she certainly hasn’t given them any reason to change their minds.
