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When Even Congress Deems You Too Silly for a Government Job, That’s Bad

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Ah, the curse of California.

The Golden State used to be a good place to be from when a politician was trying to take their act national. 

Now, not so much.

The state was once viewed with an aspirational awe by people from across the world for its combination of money and entrepreneurship,  great infrastructure, good jobs, tough politicians, and of course Disneyland and the beaches and the mountains and big trees and San Francisco and Hollywood.

Now, the state is losing residents and people are rightly worried they will be carjacked if they try to go to the beach in the morning and driving up to the mountains to go skiing on the same day.

California is also now producing parodies of public figures who – when faced with the outside world – come up woefully short.  Amazingly, the Californians seem to be taken aback by the outside political world, a world that may not demand, honesty and competence but does demand at least plausibility.

Ex-LA Mayor Eric Garcetti whiskered his way to India only after the vice president had a half dozen senators for a “girl’s night” about 14 hours before deliberations and on the morning of the vote the Biden administration had to heavily strongarm another half dozen Democratic senators the morning of the vote and still it was seven Republicans who inexplicably put him over the top.

Senator Alex Padilla – appointed to replace Kamala Harris when she became vice president – might as well be in witness protection for all the notice he’s garnered and Biden’s Health and Human Services appointee – Xavier Becerra – is best known for looking like a Ficus tree trying to do calculus whenever he appears in front of Congress, for Joe botching not only his name but the name of the department - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-bidens-best-teleprompter-gaffes-2020 - upon his appointment, and for his amazing disappearing act during the pandemic. 

Then of course we have Kamala herself -

Stupid or Evil?

- who is the poster girl for when diversity hires go horribly wrong.