Source: Jack Davis, The Western Journal

When Vice President Kamala Harris was handed the role of “border czar,” in March, there was a lot of sizzle. But since then, there’s but nothing but fizzle, according to one House Democrat whose disgust is as high as the Rio Grande at flood-time.

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas had high hopes when it was learned that Harris was going to visit the border in June. He had his staff reach out. They never reached back, he said, according to The New York Times.

“I say this very respectfully to her: I moved on,” Cuellar said.

“She was tasked with that job, it doesn’t look like she’s very interested in this, so we are going to move on to other folks that work on this issue,” he said.

Cuellar said he would skip Harris and deal with the White House where, he said, “at least they talk to you.”

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Cuellar had said in November his patience with Harris was at an end.

“I’ve moved on from the vice president to say, ‘OK, let’s work with the ambassadors and let’s work with the State Department. Let’s work with the Homeland Secretary,’” Cuellar said then, according to the Washington Examiner.

“I think that’s the way to address it, but I know that the media has put a lot of focus on the vice president, but with all due respect, she was given that title. I don’t think she’s, with all due respect, put the effort in there.”

Cuellar is not the only one looking askance at the vice president.

As of Tuesday, a Los Angeles Times feature that tracks Harris in the polls put her support at 40 percent, while those with an unfavorable opinion were at 52 percent.

The LA Times noted that 94 percent of Republicans and 61 percent of independents view her negatively, and when parsing the nation by race, black Americans are the only ones to give her an approval rating over 40 percent.

Those defending Harris say race and gender biases are to blame for any perceived shortcomings on the part of the vice president.

“I know, and we all knew, that she would have a difficult time because anytime you’re a ‘first,’ you do,” Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California, a past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told The New York Times when it was assessing Harris. Related: BREAKING: Kamala Harris Heckled While Walking In DC, ‘When Are You Going To The Border?!’

“And to be the first woman vice president, to be the first Black, Asian woman, that’s a triple. So we knew it was going to be rough, but it has been relentless, and I think extremely unfair,” she said.

Bass said President Joe Biden shares some blame.