By Kamala Harris has consistently avoided outlining her plans for a potential presidency, and it’s becoming increasingly clear why: she appears to lack a clear vision or strategy. Her hesitancy isn’t just political caution; it’s a glaring sign that she may not know what she would do if she ascended to the Oval Office.
This uncertainty was on full display during her recent, much-anticipated speech on economic policy. Instead of offering a compelling vision, Harris echoed the rhetoric of leftist populists like Hugo Chavez, alienating not only conservative critics but also unsettling many of her own supporters. The speech, intended to bolster confidence, ended up raising more doubts about her leadership capabilities.
Kamala’s biggest idea to fight inflation, price controls for groceries, writes The Washington Examiner, will be a disaster for everyone, but especially grocery store owners.
Rulli, who owns the Rulli Bros. Markets, based in Youngstown, Ohio, along with his brothers, spoke to the Washington Examiner about Harris’s plan Tuesday. During an interview, Rulli said Harris’s plan is “reckless” and would lead to pain for consumers, calling it “dangerous rhetoric” from the Democratic presidential nominee.
“It’s almost like Kamalaism, it’s like communism with her twist to it,” Rulli said. “She is going to turn this place into Cuba and Venezuela and every other third-world nation that you can imagine, and this is how she’s going to do it.”
Harris rolled out the price gouging plan, her first new economic policy proposal, earlier this month. The campaign announced that Harris would try to enact the “first-ever federal ban on corporate price-gouging.”
Rulli, whose grocery stores employ over 200 people and have been in the family for over 100 years, said implementation of Harris’s proposal would be disastrous for grocers and consumers. He noted that grocery stores, unlike other businesses, operate on wire-thin profit margins and said a lot of grocery stores in Ohio have already gone out of business because it’s hard to operate in such an environment.
Rulli began representing Ohio’s 6th Congressional District this year after Rep. Bill Johnson resigned to become president of Youngstown State University.
Even Democrats have acknowledged that Kamala Harris has no idea what she’s talking about, according to Politico.
“Under pressure to defend Kamala Harris’ grocery price gouging plan, some Democratic lawmakers are delivering a quiet message to anxious allies: Don’t worry about the details. It’s never going to pass Congress.
The Harris campaign’s proposal, unveiled as part of her first big economic policy speech, has become a focal point for her presidential rival, Donald Trump, and fellow Republicans, who claim she’s pushing “communist price controls.” It has also alarmed food industry officials and even some left-of-center economists, who’ve warned such policies can hurt more than they help.
While much in Harris’ price gouging plan remains vague, a central piece is simply a call for Congress to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gouging in the food and grocery sectors, which largely mirrors legislation reintroduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) earlier this year.
But such a bill has no chance of passing Congress anytime soon, even if Democrats win the White House and Congress this November, according to six Democratic lawmakers and five Democratic aides who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter candidly. These people said Democrats in Congress have privately been telling critics that this part of the Harris plan is not viable.”
The National Review called this out for what it is: a cynical ploy from the candiate that believes in nothing but her own power.
“There’s cynicism, and then there’s this kind of gourmet, artisan, handcrafted premium cynicism, offered by the Democratic Party at this moment.
Got that? Publicly, the Democratic message is that price controls are a central part of the Democratic agenda under a President Harris; as she said in that Raleigh speech, “So, believe me, as president, I will go after the bad actors. And I will work to pass the first-ever federal ban on prou– — price gauging [gouging] on food. My plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.”
But privately, the Democratic message is, don’t worry, we’ll never do this. Like I said — that’s not ordinary cynicism; that’s gourmet cynicism.
Now it’s easy to see why correspondents like Jonathan Martin shrugged, “She would be largely constrained/shaped by a GOP-controlled Senate, expect compromise or gridlock.” Will there be a GOP Senate starting in January 2025? Probably? Maybe?”
There’s a reason why Trump recently launched a new message: Harris is too risky and too incompetent to get near the levers of power.
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