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Which Kamala Harris are we getting, if recession hits we’re screwed and other commentary

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Vice President Kamala Harris “owes it to the country to confirm, out loud, in person, and on the record,” whether she has “abandoned the positions she held when running for Senate” or in a Democratic presidential primary.
From the Right: Which Kamala Are We Getting?
Vice President Kamala Harris “owes it to the country to confirm, out loud, in person, and on the record,” whether she has “abandoned the positions she held when running for Senate” or in a Democratic presidential primary, demands the Washington Examiner’s Timothy P. Carney. For more than a decade, she’s “staked out extreme and destructive policy proposals.” Some of those positions included “socializing America’s health insurance industry,” “defunding ICE” and “banning fracking.” Essentially, “on immigration, fracking and socialized medicine, we have no idea what Harris believes.” The presumptive Democratic nominee has touted “far-left stuff when she needed to win far-left votes,” but “now her priority is winning moderate votes.” Which raises the question: “Was she lying back then, or is she lying now?”Libertarian: If Recession Hits, We’re Screwed
“A bummer of a jobs report” Friday triggered “a sharp drop in the stock market” and stoked fears of recession — “thanks to something known as the ‘Sahm Rule,’ ” flags Reason’s Eric Boehm. That rule, named for economist Claudia Sahm, says, basically, when unemployment is significantly higher than the previous year’s low-point, recession is likely to follow, based on the record for the past 50 years.

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