The Contrast Between Political Ass Covering By Republicans And Responsible Representation By Democrats

I don't usually listen to Donald Trump because he is a habitual and pathological liar whose every word is undependable.  And his lies are dangerous and have consequences that kill people and destroy the very basis of life and are carried dutifully by the mass media and which poison the minds of Americans.  If I had realized how easy it was for a hideous talking head on a screen to lie a quasi-democrcy into the state we've become, I might have been better prepared for what we are living through in increasingly terrible horror.  

I did listen to him and his dead voice coming from his dead, bronzed face under dyed hair, trying to read through the words on the teleprompter in front of him - sounding like some of the slower readers in my third grade class as Mrs. M had us read aloud.  I listened and it was even scarier than the press event at the CDC was.   

The second most scary thing I heard yesterday was the idiot Representative Grothman of Wisconsin repeatedly demanding that Dr. Faucci predict how many people are going to get the Covid-19 virus as he kept repeatedly telling the fathead that he couldn't give him a number that means anything, THAT WHATEVER HAPPENS WILL DEPEND ON WHAT WE DO.  His demand that they put it in terms the "average American" will understand - I think he meant in terms he could wrap his mind around - not understanding what Faucci was saying.  Demanding what he said could not be given, over and over again.  That followed from Grothman wanting to make this the equivalent of the seasonal flu - which I guess, someone like him thinks is inconsequential.  What's clear is that Grothman wants to put this in politically advantageous terms.  And that is how the Republicans in charge are responding to it.  

The following testimony and the substantial questions Representative Krishnamoorthi asked about the testing kits (especially Trumps privatization of testing last night) only added to the horror.  The contrast in the substance of the questions deserves to stand as the character of the two parties, the one out of power and the one who is destroying the common-good.   

I think we are going to find out that there was political pressure to not test, to keep the numbers down.  And a legal system that doesn't consider that a felony level attack on the American People is one that is totally inadequate to perform the most basic function of a government, to protect us.   I will bet you a hundred bucks that there is a financial motive from somewhere in the Republican-fascists close to Trump if not the Trump-Kuschner families.   I'll bet they're looking to make money out of this.