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Yeah, that's fair I guess. US policy for the last four years is Biden policy; she's not gonna go out and say "actually I think we should be doing this other thing instead."
Well... I don't think a VP is really supposed to do a lot of leadership. Supposedly she was pretty involved in a lot of the behind-the-scenes discussions, and she got given some moderately important things (e.g. going to Central America to investigate the root causes of the surge in migration). What did she get blamed for / used as a dumping ground for if you want to call it that?
Yeah. I hope so. I take some hope from the fact that she skipped Netanyahu's address and met with him separately from Biden. But again it's cold comfort if you're watching month by month as your family is getting chased around in the blasted wasteland and dying, one by one.
The Central American immigration issue was the biggest dumping ground of them all. She had no ability to fix the issue, it's the right's chosen attack line, and talking tough is unpopular with Democrats. "Important" doesn't make it a beneficial issue for delegation. There was no "win" in that assignment. When Biden saddled her with that it completely blew apart my prior assumption that the plan was to to do the transitional presidency thing and prep her to run in 2024.
The other two I remember were voting rights and abortion. Again, big important issues for Democrats, but without any possibility for success. She didn't have the bully pulpit (or Biden's own support) to shame or threaten the centrists into killing the filibuster, and without that her options just amount to ineffectual talking while women die. Even the efforts the administration did take were reported as coming from Biden, not from Harris (obviously the EOs have to come from the president, but they could have made it sound like her effort). I think he also dumped gun violence on her too. Just a whole heaping pile of issues where the Democrats were incapable of making headway and the right loves to attack.
Meanwhile she was never part of the story on big win issues that just amounted to giving people and states money.