The ghoulish Democrat 'testing' meme

Patricia McCarthy:

Having essentially lost the narrative on their "blame Trump" for every death, the Democrats and their media droids have this week settled upon the lack of sufficient testing with which to castigate the president.  They would never call out the bureaucrats of the CDC, which dropped the ball throughout the Obama years, or the NIH, or the NIAID for Fauci's failures to be prepared for a pandemic.  No, they have all leapt on the bandwagon to blame Trump for every death, every perceived failure of the federal government to stop a virus unleashed on the world by the actual biggest threat to the world, China.

Nancy Pelosi was positively ghoulish on Fox News Sunday.  She denied exacerbating the virus in San Francisco, when late in February she was encouraging her constituents to join in her city's Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations.  The woman is the Wicked Witch of the West.  With her fancy kitchen appliances and her freezer full of $13-a-pint ice cream, she is enjoying her vacation.  She appears to be relishing the destruction of the economy that Trump had so successfully energized.  She is refusing to go back to D.C. and vote on an additional bill to save small businesses.  She does not give a damn about the 22 million people suddenly unemployed; she thinks this crisis can only benefit her party and her power. 

She is as senile as Biden if she thinks this ploy will work.  She is fast becoming the Joker of American politics.

Scrolling through the leftist news sites and the cable and network Sunday news programs, noting the insolent questions the not-journalists ask at the briefings, it is abundantly clear that the latest prescribed attack on the president is TESTING!  They all think they will get away with blaming Trump for a lack of testing for a virus no one knew was coming, thanks to China, so there were no tests for it at the snap of anyone's fingers, least of all Trump, who most likely believed that institutions like the WHO; the CDC; the NIH; and Fauci's crib, the NIAID, were doing their jobs with the billions of dollars doled out to them.

But they were not doing their jobs.  They had all succumbed to the whims of the social justice warriors.  Race, class, and sex topics had superseded the subjects of their research.  It is these institutions that were transformed into nothing more than campus grievance organizations during the Obama administration.  They had all neglected the primary reasons for their existence and taxpayer funding, most of which has been wasted for years and years.

The president has massively stepped up to the plate as no other president would or could have, given the circumstances.  But the Democrats, embarrassed by their own governors' failures to prepare for such a crisis, Cuomo of N.Y. being the worst offender, have obviously agreed on a single line of attack this week: the president is to blame for the lack of tests for the virus, as if he were responsible for the work of the CDC, the WHO, the NIH, and Fauci's organization.  No one with half a brain believes that the failures of those Deep State associations can be blamed on Trump.  Now they are all just trying to cover their behinds; they all know they dropped the ball.

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This is just another bad faith attack on Trump by Democrats.  It is also an illusory remedy.  While testing makes sense in some circumstances such as those dealing with vulnerable people it makes little sense in the broader context of people going back to work in other jobs.  The main problem with testing is that it gives no assurance that the person tested will not be positive for the virus the day after the test.

I think those pushing the testing meme know it is impractical and are just using it to keep the economy shut down as a means of hurting Trump politically.  It is typical of the bad faith response to the virus by Democrat politicians since the early days of the fight.