Saturday, March 14, 2020

Recaps and Records: while the Trump admin works towards solutions, the Left continues the practice of disunity

The all-encompassing talk of the nation this week has been COVID-19... well, that along with the lib media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) incessantly criticizing, blaming and attacking the President, while peddling 'policy' that wouldn't make a dime's worth of difference towards a remedy (in some cases, to the contrary). So let's cut through all the armchair quarterbacking of the week with this brief recap...


  • banning all travel from Europe for the next 30 days (UK was the exception, extended today)
  • asking Congress to provide payroll tax relief for business owners and financial relief for workers who are ill, quarantined, or taking care of others to mitigate the economic challenges the coronavirus is causing
  • ordering the SBA to provide more loans to small businesses during this crisis and ordering the IRS to defer April 15 tax payments without interest or penalties to those who are affected by the coronavirus.
  • declaring a national emergency - will give the Trump administration access to around $50 billion in disaster relief funds that they can send to states to help with their responses to the coronavirus.
  • pulling the private sector together to respond to the need for testing - will include biomedical laboratories like Labcorp and Roche who will be doing much of the testing, along with retail stores like Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and others who will make their parking lots available for a quicker ‘drive-thru’ style testing, and also noted that Google has 1,700 engineers working on a website that will link all of this coronavirus testing for the public.
  • testing itself - will encompass half a million over the next few weeks, and up to 5 million people in a month's time through this new system.
  • ordering the federal government to buy enough oil to fill up our reserves.
  • ordering his administration to suspend student loan interest on federally owned student loans.
Of particular significance was the stock market's reaction to the latter, up almost 2,000 points on Friday, taking off as soon as the President's news conference began. I'm positive that the optimism of the business leaders surrounding him went a long way. And on that same optimistic note, this was certainly the press conference the American public needed to see, providing hope for those worrying about the virus's spread.

Now... from that brief recap to a broader recollection, let's compare and contrast what the Democrats and their media lapdogs were doing while COVID-19 was spreading versus how the Trump administration was working to address the virus well before it reached our shores. This is a compilation of RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel's helpful thread and investigative journalist Joel Pollak's shocking timeline of the two developments...
  • January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in the Wuhan market.
  • January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the “solemn” occasion with a signing ceremony, using commemorative pens.
  • January 21: The first person with coronavirus arrives in the United States from China, where he had been in Wuhan.
  • January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President Trump.
  • January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to the rest of China.
  • January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president’s impeachment trial.
  • January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus continues to spread.
  • January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial.
  • January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump’s decision “hysterical xenophobia … and fear-mongering.”
  • February 2: The first death from coronavirus outside China is reported in the Philippines.
  • February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to national security.
  • February 4: President Trump talks about coronavirus in his State of the Union address; Pelosi rips up every page.
  • February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48 and 53-47.
  • February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia.
Pollak's bullet points demonstrate that for twenty days, from the day of the virus's first death, Democrats did nothing about it. They were too busy trying to impeach Trump in an election year!
To the extent that they commented on coronavirus at all, it was only to tear up the president’s remarks or to call him a racist. They told the nation that he, not coronavirus, was a threat to the national security of the United States.
Instead of pulling together, the above contrasts reveal the true cost of hyper-partisanship. Democrats and their press have used this virus to attack the president and stoke panic from Day One, while Trump and his administration have worked towards management and containment of the virus to calm the American people as professionals work towards a vaccine.
Democrats including Joe Biden have lied about Trump saying it was a hoax. Lied about saying the CDC was cut. Lied about Trump muzzling scientists. Biden even put out an ad including the lies, trying to stoke more angst.

Meanwhile folks like Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Anthony Fauci (for the administration) have been trying to put it into perspective so as not to create panic and do more harm to people.
So now you know, the left insists on never letting a crisis go to waste, not even when it's literally affecting American lives, and especially not in a presidential election year. They can't afford to allow unity. To echo McDaniel, pretty vile.

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Posted by an ebb and flow at 4:31 PM