Frontpage Mag The sad news came on Friday: after just a few months on the job, alleged Vice President Kamala Harris’ director of speechwriting, Meghan Groob, is quitting. Groob has only been on the job since April; her predecessor, Kate Childs Graham, quit in February. The strangest part of this story, however, is not the continuing revolving door in Harris’ office; it’s the fact that the notoriously tongue-tied vice president had a “director of speechwriting” in the first place. You mean somebody actually writes Harris’ famous word salads?
Harris’ public statements leave us with two unpalatable choices: either the putative vice president has an unfortunate penchant for venturing off script and into incoherence, or Groob is the most spectacularly incompetent speechwriter in the history of the known universe. Imagine being the composer of this Harris pronouncement on inflation: “Well, first of all, I acknowledge one must acknowledge, um, that prices are going up. And that people are working hard. And in many cases are worried about whether they can get through the end of the month and make it all work.” Or these pearls of wisdom about skyrocketing inflation rates: “Prices have gone up. And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.”…
