Archives for February 2021

Friday February 5, 2021

Yesterday, Kevin McCarthy defended himself by mispronouncing Qanon and then saying he doesn’t even know what it is. This is his standard defense. “If you can’t pronounce it you don’t know what it is. Am I right?” I hear Seth Meyers’ voice.

Let’s be clear, McCarthy gets some of the best intelligence in the world. Whether he reads it is another issue. But his party is seeped in this conspiracy stuff. He certainly knows what Qanon is, or at least the effect it has had on his party.

Then we get to Ms. Green’s speech before the vote to remove her from her committees. Something McCarthy could and should have done himself. Instead he opted to have the whole house vote. Only 11 Republicans voted to have her removed. There were 199 that voted to have the woman who wants to kill some of them remain in a position of power. Her speech was not an apology but a justification for what she had done. It was filled with falsehoods, which others have shown so I won’t bother. 

In the past few days I have seen several Congresswomen get up an speak about the pain and trauma that the events of January 6^th caused them. I had not thought about, or realized that trauma is cumulative. Ms Ocasio-Cortez spoke so eloquently and painfully about that. Cori Bush spoke too, but from a different perspective. As a black woman she spoke of wondering would the police protect her or shoot at her as they had done from behind trees sometime in her past.

I hope Ms Pelosi insists that the 199 former Republicans now have a Q placed after their names instead of an R.

They deserve it.

Thursday February 4, 2021

In these screeds that I’ll post through out the day I will:

– Tell you how we end the Covid crisis now,

– Bring back our economy,

– Get rid of Satan for good,

– Time to choose Cult? Or Party? 

– The FDA – a return to science. Listen up!

– The GAO says the Trump admin’s response to Covid was worse than they thought.

    How bad? Try 87% worse at a minimum.

Thursday February 4, 2021

Let me ask you if there is a way to end the pandemic now should we do it?

The answer is – Of Course!

I know “But …”

But nothing. It’s been done. 

What?

So let’s do it you say?

Okay. I’ll tell you but here’s the thing. A while back there was a study published about a clinic in a university that was trying to get students to come to the infirmary to get flu shots. They tried articles in the student newspaper – no luck. They tried advertising – no luck. They created a handout with a map to the infirmary and the hours the infirmary was open – no luck. They even put an arrow on the map pointing to the infirmary – no luck. Then they put the hours the infirmary was open on the arrow pointing to the infirmary and BINGO! Students came in to get their flu shots.

This is such a story.

India.

They had 100,000 new cases a day.

Now?

They have 9,300 new cases a day.

What happened?

They passed a law.

It said everyone had to wear a mask in public.

So what?

If you didn’t you were fined. 

So what?

You were fined on the spot ($2.75) and you were given a mask.

Ah ha.

Cases dropped from 100,000 to 9,300.

So anyone who says, “Masks don’t work!” Should be fined and given a mask.

If they don’t put it on – no problem. The next officer will fine them again and give them a mask. 

Eventually, they will either go home, run out of money and go to jail, or they will take one of the wad of masks they have in their pocket and put it on.

Problem solved. 

Next?

Thursday February 4, 2021

There is a package in Congress to fix the economy. It’s price tag is 1.9 trillion dollars. Republicans want it to be more like 600 billion. Why? No reason. Just like the last time with Obama they wanted a smaller number. Obama gave it to them and then they didn’t vote for it. Hopefully, we’ve learned our lesson.

Paul Krugman says that 1.9 Trillion is the minimum we need. Who are you going to trust the world’s leading economist or Susan Collins/

Krugman doesn’t stop there. He says this is not a package to goose the economy. It is a package to save us. 

What do the Republicans recommend? Less. Why? They don’t know. They feel uncomfortable.

Let’s review. 

When Trump came in the economy was doing well. When he left it was a shambles.

When W came in the economy was okay. When he left it was a shambles.

Reagan inherited an economy that was on the upswing due to the valiant efforts of Paul Volker and Jimmy Carter. Reagan proceeded to put us in debt but the economy was doing okay. Yeah, he screwed over the unions and the middle class hasn’t recovered but you can argue the economy was doing okay. Same for Papa Bush but when Bill Clinton took over he had to do some major cost cutting and actually balanced the budget and left a surplus. A surplus that could have been used to put Social Security on a firm footing but instead was squandered by W.

Carter inherited the tanked economy from Ford and Nixon. Inflation had been running wild. The Republicans couldn’t stop it. Carter did.

It doesn’t matter how far back you go the lesson is the same. Republicans screw up the economy. Don’t do the basic things you need to do to fix it, and they put us deeper in debt. They claim to be conservative, but they always ALWAYS spend more than Democrats.

Lesson – If you want the economy fixed and working put a Democrat in the White House. (And give them a Democratically controlled House and Senate.)

Thursday February 4, 2021

Impeachment is looming.

The defense is “A) You can’t impeach him because he’s out of office. B) He didn’t do anything that bad. C) He won in a landslide. “

The Answers are:

A) Yes. Yes you can.

B) Yes. Yes he did.

C) No. No he didn’t.

Need I go on?