Sen. Kristin Gillibrand’s political acumen is such that she ran for president and ended up with just 17 seconds of speaking time at the year’s Democratic National Convention. That was less than half of the time allotted to Tik Tok comedian Sarah Cooper.
So it stands to reason that, amid a national crisis for her party that has put President Joe Biden’s entire legislative agenda on life support, the New York senator is bringing Meghan Markle to whip votes to pass a paid parental leave provision that may or may not end up in the pending House reconciliation bill.
Gillibrand told the 19th News that Markle, a lifelong resident of California aside from a brief sojourn across the pond, contacted her to “help” with the paid leave matter. Gillibrand gave the former actress the phone numbers of other women in the Senate and plans to bring her to Washington, D.C., for a bipartisan dinner with female senators, a traditional monthly dinner revived by Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I was happy to talk with her, but I’m much more interested in what the people of Maine are telling me about it,” Susan Collins told Politico of Markle’s impromptu phone call to her. “Much to my surprise, she called me on my private line, and she introduced herself as the duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic.”
From Virginia to New York City, Democrats got slaughtered at the ballot box this week, not just because of the inflation crisis wrought by ridiculous and unprecedented government spending, but also the Left’s tone deaf cultural elitism. Does Gillibrand genuinely believe that, after years of paid leave negotiations and weeks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi trying to salvage Biden’s agenda, a celebrity as out of touch as the literal wife of a prince is going to be able to do the job?
Even so, it’s probably better than whatever effort Biden and Harris are putting into it, which is evidently nothing.
