It is telling that Pelosi sounded as if she were getting a tooth pulled when Anderson Cooper of CNN — hardly a hostile questioner — tried to pin her down on whether Kamala Harris is the best person to be Joe Biden’s vice president and 2024 running mate …

Pelosi only mustered a lukewarm response to Cooper’s question. “She’s the vice president of the United States. So, when people say to me, ‘Well, why isn’t she doing this or that?’ I said, because she’s the vice president.” “That’s the job description. You don’t do that much. You know?”

“She must be good at the job or she wouldn’t have the job” is about the faintest praise it is possible to muster.