The Harris/Walz campaign was already wobbling and leaking fuel. Then Tim Walz embarrassed himself on national television. That was bad enough that the chances of Trump winning the election were increasingly rapidly. Then three things happened that made this worse, much worse.

The first was Hurricane Helene. Now neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris can be blamed for the damage done by this hurricane. But they can and will be blamed for how they respond. This started out in the worst conceivable way with Kamala Harris out of action, because she was at a Democratic fundraiser in California while Joe was out of action because he was sunning himself, again, at this vacation home in Delaware. They both showed up with too little too late other than a couple of photo ops, demonstrating zero leadership during this crisis. Kamala Harris even poised for a photo on Air Force Two pretending to talk to FEMA, without realizing she had not connected the cord on her headset to her smart phone. Not a good look. Joe said he had been in command because he had spent a couple of hours on the phone. Few believed him and those that did were not exactly impressed.

That would have been bad enough, but now Mayorkas says that FEMA doesn’t have enough money to manage this crisis. It turns out that the Biden/Harris administration has spend about $1 billion in FEMA emergency funds to pay for hand-outs to illegal immigrants. This is beyond bad and it is doubtful they can come close to explaining this one away.

Then, to make things even worse, Iran launched somewhere around two hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. It is clear that Israel is going to attack Iran. Biden even hinted that this might involve an Iranian Oil Depot which created speculation about a catastrophic rise in fuel costs. At the same time the U.S. is telling Israel to avoid letting this escalate, failing to consider the fact that Iran has already escalated this. This is the opposite of effective leadership regarding international affairs.

This would be bad enough, but there is still more. There is a major strike regarding all the ports in Texas and the East Coast. So far, this is not going well. Joe Biden says he is with the unions and will not even consider using Taft Hartley to stop this strike. In the meantime, the union workers who apparently are already earning over $100k per year want a 75% wage increase and a stop to automation. No one knows how long this strike will last, but if it doesn’t end soon and very soon, the impact on the economy will be through the roof.

All of these is a direct result of either incompetence of a lack of leadership by the Biden Harris administration. Just at a time when people are seriously considering who they can trust to be next President of the United States, Harris and Walz are putting on a case study in why it shouldn’t be them.

It is hard to imagine any of these cases working out satisfactory in time to affect the election. If anything, the problems are likely to become more severe and increasingly impossible to ignore.

In addition, blaming Trump is not exactly a good option. The problem with placing all your hopes on an impossible scheme is that mission impossible is the new reality.

TDM