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2020-03-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
How Did Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden Screw This Up?
[Huffpoo] The Democratic response to the coronavirus has been a political disaster.
Joe, are you sure you parked in this lot ?
President Donald Trump has unleashed a humanitarian and economic disaster on his own people. There is no way to escape this fact.

While other places ‐ Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and others ‐ prepared for the coronavirus and took proactive measures to prevent its spread, Trump did nothing. He dismantled the White House task force responsible for pandemic responses, sat on his hands while the death toll escalated in other countries, called the virus a "hoax," repeatedly claimed it would "miraculously" go away on its own, downplayed the intensity of the virus by comparing it to the seasonal flu and insisted for months that the situation was "totally under control" while his administration failed even to procure basic tests.
"dismantled" is bullshit. It was part of the NSC reorganization and downsizing
As a result, the United States now faces a domestic crisis unseen since the Great Depression. This is the result of political malpractice, not merely biological bad luck.

But Trump does not have a monopoly on political malpractice. As the crisis has spread, Democratic Party leaders ― House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden ― have either been missing in action or short on solutions.

Incredibly, a handful of arch-conservative Republicans have been able to take public credit for advancing the popular, progressive idea of just sending every household a large check for the duration of the crisis. Pelosi explicitly rejected that very idea in early talks among House Democrats, overruling pleas from Democratic economists. With Democratic leaders thinking small, a majority of the public now actually approves of Trump’s catastrophic pandemic management, according to a new poll.

The leader of one party has caused a national calamity, while the leaders of the other have nothing much to say.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-22 03:36|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 By being born?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-22 04:17||   2020-03-22 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Altzheimer's fueled desire for power?
Posted by gorb 2020-03-22 04:55||   2020-03-22 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't it nice to see the upgrade of Republicans to 'arch-conservative'?
Posted by Raj 2020-03-22 07:05||   2020-03-22 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a collection of good stuff from Legal Insurrection: #whereisjoe
Posted by Matt 2020-03-22 08:43||   2020-03-22 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 A nice side effect of this crisis the final nail in the coffin of media credibility.

These people are beyond vile. They're now in Lord Haw-Haw territory.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-22 09:42||   2020-03-22 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, they [Pelosi, Schiff and the Dems] were pushing the phony impeachment debacle so hard they couldn't see anything else.

I don't fault Trump, he was on the job and pushing for travel restrictions and other things early on to address the coronavirus.

Pelosi and crew ought to be removed from office as they are incompetent (and crazy with TDS).
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-22 10:09||   2020-03-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 The left initially attacked Trump for the travel restrictions on China. Now they whine he didn't do enough.

Sod 'em. Pelosi should be the first to get a live virus vaccine.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-03-22 10:45||   2020-03-22 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Considering her alcohol uptake, she's immune.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-22 10:46||   2020-03-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Non-transferable to Reptiles
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-22 10:59||   2020-03-22 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Wow, Frank, that's going to get you a really nasty letter from the Reptile Anti-Defamation League.
Posted by Matt 2020-03-22 11:46||   2020-03-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I love lizards, some snakes. Two-legged variety? Not so much.

/Willing to chance it
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-22 11:51||   2020-03-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#12 A snake's belt slips because he has no hips
And he wears his necktie around his middle

/ a bit of levity
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-22 14:48||   2020-03-22 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Not so sure, Frank. I heard the bats got this virus from the snakes. Or, was it the other way around? Maybe it was the snakes who worked in the Wuhan bio lab.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-22 15:47||   2020-03-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

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