
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The vice presidency is not a position with a job description – other than to preside over the Senate and vote in the event of a tie. ; Beyond that, it is whatever the President decides to assign to the Vice President.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The sole purpose of a Vice President is to standby and wait for the President to die in office – or at least get critically ill or declared incompetent in accordance with the 25<sup>th</sup> Amendment. Vice presidents often take the reigns of government when the boss has to go under for an operation – even marginal procedures. ; Vice President Harris was the first woman to hold the powers of the presidency – albeit briefly &#8212; while President Biden was having his butt inspected in a routine colonoscopy.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Even vice presidents succeeding the President was not clear until President William Henry Harrison died, and Vice President John Tyler declared himself to be the successor. ; There was no universal agreement on his claim and the issue had to be settled by the Supreme Court. ; Since then, it is an automatic ascension. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many vice presidents had little to do. ; Benjamin Franklin humorously proposed that the Vice President be addressed as “His Superfluous Majesty.” ; Vice President John Nance Garner said the office was not worth “a bucket of warm spit.” ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vice President Thomas Hendricks and President Grover Cleveland had a very public contempt for each other. ; Hendricks tried to have Cleveland removed from the Democrat ticket. ; And Vice President Lyndon Johnson was not highly regarded by the John Kennedy clan. President Lincoln’s Vice President Andrew Johnson was a southern Democrat – which created major problems when Lincoln was assassinated.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Many presidents proclaim that their Vice President will be an important member of the team. ; Sometimes yes, sometimes no – mostly no. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a woman and the first woman of whatever color she is, Harris is unique. ; It has made her more controversial than most. ; And the reported tension between the Oval Office and the Office of the Vice President has made the situation even more controversial.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are a lot of complaints and reports about her work habits – or lack thereof. ; Her critics say she is either incompetent or too “woke” in her statements and actions. ; Her supporters claim that she is the victim of racism and misogyny – and that Biden has either shoved her aside or has given her all the unsolvable problems to handle.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Harris has more than a far-right or far left problem. She has always come up short on the likeability scale – as seen in her short-lived presidential campaign. ; Whether it is issues of personality or not, the bottom-line fact is that she has the worst favorability rating among the general public than virtually all her predecessors  ; Her favorable rating – which has never exceeded 50 percent is currently in the low 40s or high 30s. ; She had her highest favorable rating on Inauguration Day – and it has been in constant decline ever since.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to MSNBC, Harris has had the following issues put into her portfolio – immigration, voting rights, the filibuster, climate change, increasing union membership, internet, supply chain shortages, France and Asia. ; Whew! ; That is not my list. ; That is what the folks at MSNBC report.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It makes me wonder even more what Biden has on his “to do” list. ; And if any of that list is accurate, Harris is really falling down on the job in virtually every category – especially when it comes to immigration. ; However, it does fit with the theory that Biden is giving Harris all the most difficult issues – the ones he cannot solve, and to which he pays very little discernible interest.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart believes that Harris should fight back with the victimization argument. ; The criticism is all about her being black and a woman. ; That excuse may play well with the Democrat’s far left base, but not with most Americans. ; The polling proves that. The latest Rasmussen Poll shows that Harris has fallen to 39 percent favorable – with a 57 unfavorable rating.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I am betting that IF Biden runs again, Harris will not be on the ticket. ; And if he does not, she will not be the Democrat nominee for either the presidency or the vice presidency. ; She will hobble to political oblivion in about three years unless Biden cannot fulfill his terms. ; And even then, she still will not be on the Democrat ticket in 2024 in either spot. ; Just my opinion.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ‘tis.</p>

Harris is underperforming in a job that does not require much
