April 28-29, 2020

Apr 28 06:14 Don't trust the MSM, Ch. 3,147
Apr 28 11:47 Darren Bailey v. J.B. Pritzker
Apr 28 12:39 Do-Nothing House Democrats write new chapter is do-nothingism

Apr 29 08:59 Tim Walz vs. Ron DeSantis
Apr 29 10:56 Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris on Judge Kavanaugh
Apr 29 12:08 Scott Johnson, tireless investigator

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Don't trust the MSM, Ch. 3,147

Anyone that trusts the MSM hasn't paid attention to the COVID-19 briefings. At yesterday's COVID-19 briefing, New Yorker correspondent Olivia Nuzzi asked President Trump a question . She asked "If more Americans died in the last six weeks than the entirety of the Vietnam War, do you deserve to be re-elected?"

Rather than take the bait, President Trump responded by a) touting the decision to shut off travel with China, b) praising the work of Vice President Trump's task force and c) talking about how the US is "lapping the world" in terms of testing.

It isn't surprising that that Q & A was the last exchange of the briefing. It isn't surprising that former Bush Administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer took to Twitter to criticize Nuzzi. What's surprising is how harsh he was in criticizing her:


In a very lady-like reply (if that lady is Nancy Pelosi, AOC or Hillary), Nuzzi replied this way:


If Nuzzi was a US senator, Mazie Hirono would praise her. For those who've forgotten Sen. Hirono, here's a reminder of who she is:
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Nuzzi and Hirono give witches a bad name. They almost make Nancy Pelosi look pleasant.

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020 6:14 AM

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Darren Bailey v. J.B. Pritzker

If you've never heard of Darren Bailey before this post, you're not alone. I hadn't heard of him before this morning, either. Now that I know him, though, I'm applauding him for taking J.B. Pritzker, Illinois' idiot Democrat governor, to court over Pritzker's shelter-in-place order .

According to the article, Gov. Pritzker is upset with Rep. Bailey. Gov. Pritzker is quoted as saying "It's insulting. It's dangerous and people's safety and health have now been put at risk. There may be people who contract coronavirus as a result of what Darren Bailey has done." Folks, that's what a DDQ, aka Democrat drama queen, looks like. J.B. Pritzker isn't qualified to be anything.

What has Bailey done? Here's what he's done:

The lawmaker, state Rep. Darren Bailey, filed a motion late last week that sought to prevent the governor "from taking any action : which orders Darren Bailey to stay at home, or at his place of residence, as well as limiting his ability to travel within the state..." The motion alleged that Pritzker's stay-at-home order is "in excess of the authority granted him" under Illinois law.

Look at Pritzker's diatribe:
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Pritzker isn't likely to win the appeal if Andy McCarthy is right, which he frequently is:
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Saying that millions of people will die as a result of Bailey's lawsuit is BS. That's what a Democrat Drama Queen sounds like. Democrats aren't used to making legitimate arguments so they quickly resort to ad hominem attacks. That's what Gov. J.B. Pritzker did. Gov. Pritzker's argument didn't get better with age, either. Bailey's argument did:

Bailey, on the other hand, said in a post on his website that Pritzker's stay-at-home order oversimplified the coronavirus problem and didn't take into account the fact it spreads more slowly in places where the population isn't as dense.

"The message is clear; we are not Chicago and we already distance ourselves just by our rural lifestyles . Why should we be punished with the loss of jobs and closing our businesses when the coronavirus emergency isn't the same for us?" Bailey asked in a statement last week. "This one-size-fits-all mentality needs to be reviewed and take into account our diversity from urban to rural areas of the state."

BINGO! Treating NYC the same as Foley, MN is stupid. That's what our idiot Democrat governor is doing here in Minnesota. He's treating downtown Minneapolis the same way he's treating Marshall, which is in the heart of rural southwest Minnesota. Downtown Minneapolis and rural Marshall are about as similar as fireflies and ships.

It's time for more legislators and citizens to file lawsuits across the US. Democrat governors have overstepped their authorities by a lot. They need to be held accountable, first with lawsuits, then next when they're up for re-election.

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:47 AM

Comment 1 by Nick at 28-Apr-20 12:53 PM
There are already recall petitions going around in Michigan to get rid of Governor Whitmer. Here's a video of a MI lawyer with a weedwacker outside the Governor's mansion: https://www.redstate.com/tladuke/2020/04/23/video-protestor-violates-gov.-whitmer-order-on-landscaping-at-her-mansion-with-a-weed-wacker./

Do-Nothing House Democrats write new chapter is do-nothingism

Just when you thought that the do-nothing House Democrats couldn't do less, they prove you wrong :

The House will not come back to Washington next week, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told reporters Tuesday, reversing an announcement he made on a Democratic Caucus conference call the previous day.

The change of course comes as members expressed concern about returning to Washington while some areas in the region are developing into coronavirus hot spots. Hoyer said the decision to delay the return, which had been briefly scheduled for May 4, came after he talked with the Capitol physician, who said he recommended against taking the risk involved in members returning.

What a bunch of do-nothings. This isn't democracy in action. It's Democrat inaction. What's worst is that Pelosi and Hoyer seem intent on leaping from one crisis to the next.
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Ed has this right, too:

This is nothing more than Pelosi trying to preserve her leverage through the use of the 'unanimous consent' parliamentary maneuver to keep the House from debating the issues properly. And what about the vigorous congressional oversight Pelosi demanded in CARES I? Pelosi claimed that as her big win for delaying that relief bill by several days, and yet hasn't bothered to show up to conduct any oversight in almost a month since.

This is nothing less than an abdication of office in the face of a national emergency. If Congress needs to protect itself from the COVID-19 pandemic, they could have appropriated money to rent out a local five-star hotel for weeks on end, disinfected it, and then used it as a dorm for its members, complete with quarantine options if necessary. Meeting rooms could have been used for committee hearings or simple negotiations with all social distancing protocols observed. Capitol Hill has been closed to outsiders, so that isn't an issue, and Congress could have arranged for reserved buses to transport members back and forth between the hotel and the Capitol.

Why hasn't Adam Schiff started investigating how COVID-19 got started? Why hasn't the Oversight and Reform Committee started looking into the corruption within the FBI regarding Michael Flynn? The answer is simple. Both investigations would expose the Democrats' corruption.

The hammer just dropped:


Good for Mitch McConnell for calling out the Do-Nothing Democrats. If Democrats aren't willing to serve in times of crisis, whether in the House or Senate, they need to resign immediately. If they won't resign, then they need to be involuntarily retired this November. This isn't for the faint of heart. It's for patriots. That doesn't describe many Democrats these days.

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:39 PM

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Tim Walz vs. Ron DeSantis

When I think about the Democrat governor we have in Minnesota, then compare him to someone like Gov. DeSantis, (R-FL), it almost drives me to tears. Tim Walz, the DFL governor of Minnesota, has insisted on a one-size-fit-all plan for Minnesota. If you live in rural southwestern Minnesota, businesses (other than farms) are shut down. If you live in urban Minneapolis, everything is shut down. Hospitals are closed statewide if you want (or need ) elective surgeries.

When Gov. DeSantis talks , he says intelligent things like "We understood that the outbreak was not uniform throughout the state, and we had a tailored and measured approach that not only helped our numbers be way below what anybody predicted, but also did less damage to our state going forward." Florida was still hit hard but it hasn't been as bad as the experts predicted.

Gov. DeSantis said that his strategy was to focus on nursing homes and assisted-living facilities while keeping much of the state open for business. Here's what that translated into:

"I had less than 500 people, in a state of 22 million, on ventilators as of last night," said DeSantis. "I have 6,500 ventilators that are sitting idle, unused, throughout the state of Florida."

That's what a well-run state looks like. By comparison, Gov. Walz has looked hesitant and uncertain throughout most of the process. Minnesota is falling behind other Midwest states as a result.
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Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2020 8:59 AM

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Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris on Judge Kavanaugh

Some outrageous things were said by Democrat senators when they attempted to demolish then-Judge Kavanaugh's family. Elizabeth Warren, later a Democrat presidential candidate, made some disgusting statements regarding then-Judge Kavanaugh. In a speech from the Senate floor, Warren said "Republicans want to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and they will ignore, suppress, or shout down any inconvenient facts that might give the American people pause about this nomination. Republicans are playing politics with the Supreme Court, and they are willing to step on anyone -- including the victim of a vicious sexual assault -- in order to advance their agenda."

The biggest thing missing from Sen. Warren's diatribe was the truth. Christine Blasey-Ford's best friend, who was supposed to corroborate Dr. Ford's testimony, testified that she didn't know Kavanaugh. Dr. Ford's testimony was riddled with inconsistencies, including the misstatement that Dr. Ford doesn't fly . We found this out after-the-fact:

Senate Democrats and the legal team for Ford forced multiple delays of the hearing because Ford was allegedly unable to fly due to extreme anxiety. He pivoted to Ford's statements to Senators that she couldn't come to Washington D.C. by Monday because she's 'afraid to fly on airplanes' and that her fear is directly connected to her alleged assault by Kavanaugh.

"But wait, is this true?" Carlson asked. "Ford has relatives on the east coast. According to published accounts, she's been here recently. Did she drive back and forth to California every time she visited? We don't know. Then last week, The New York Times reported that Ford did graduate work at the University of Hawaii. That's on an island thousands of miles in the Pacific. How exactly did she get there?"

Apparently, telling the truth isn't one of Sen. Warren's priorities.

Apparently, protecting creepy old senators is one of Sen. Warren's priorities. She hasn't said a thing about VP Biden's alleged sexual assault of Tara Reade. Sen. Klobuchar provided some odd opinions of Dr. Ford, too:

2018: "She was so graceful and so dignified, went through every question you could imagine... What she was doing was basically laying out the fact that you have so well articulated during the show, is that she actually has talked about this in the past, she said it to a therapist, her husband had remembered the name Brett Kavanaugh, she has with some detail remembered the assault. And all she's asked is that the FBI figure out when Mark Judge was working at this Safeway when she saw him later because that would help her get the exact date." - Sept. 27, 2018 to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

Sen. Klobuchar pretends to be a warrior for women. Selective accountability seems more her style:

Fox News reached out to Klobuchar for comment after the "Larry King Live" video resurfaced, which occurred after the interview with NPR, but did not receive a response.

This is hilarious:


Then there's Kamala Harris's opinion:

2018: "Ours was not a search to determine whether a crime occurred. Ours was not a search to determine whether we had enough facts to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime had occurred. No, ours was an investigation to figure out enough about what happened to determine if Brett Kavanaugh is fit to serve on the highest court in our land. Is he fit to be a jurist in the place where we have said justice in our country occurs? In the house where we listen to evidence and truth and make determinations based on the veracity and truthfulness of what has occurred. That is our role when it comes to Dr. Ford's allegations , and we fell short. We fell short. We did not do her justice. We did not do the American people justice." - Oct. 5, 2018, in a floor speech opposing Kavanaugh's confirmation

Notice that Harris used the term allegations. She didn't vote to confirm Justice Kavanaugh. Harris, like the other Democrats in the Senate, voted against Justice Kavanaugh. After praising VP Biden, the Tara Reade accusations came out:

Fox News reached out to Harris for comment after the "Larry King Live" video resurfaced, which occurred after her interview with "It's All Political," but did not receive a response.

Apparently, selective accountability is the Democrats' strategy.

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2020 10:56 AM

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Scott Johnson, tireless investigator

For those of you who haven't paid attention to Scott Johnson's investigation into Gov. Walz's mishandling (my words, not Scott's) of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's time you started reading his work. This morning, Johnson published a post titled " Why the Minnesota shutdown? ". Included in Johnson's post is a reply to a question he submitted to MDH, aka Minnesota Department of Health, Commissioner Jan Malcolm.

Johnson's question said "Referring to the 286 total deaths to date, I note that every decedent under age 70 has died in long-term care or similar setting. The youngest person to die outside long-term care was in his 70's. Why is it necessary to close the schools and shut down the state to protect the at-risk population?" The reply came "from MDH media contact Doug Schultz." Here's Schultz's reply:

We have had deaths in people younger than 70 and certainly many cases in all age groups. It is necessary to take the community mitigation measures we have because all Minnesotans are at risk from COVID 19, as none of us has immunity. Some people, like those in long-term-care and those with underlying health conditions, are far more at risk than others. But if we didn't reduce transmission in the community as we have with the stay at home order, we would see far more disease circulating and many times more serious cases that would quickly overwhelm our health care system. Then, even less-vulnerable people would not be able to get the care they needed, such as intensive care, ventilators, etc., so we would see far more deaths in people outside of the very frail and elderly. That is what has happened in places like Italy and New York.

Kevin Roche, "the former UnitedHealth Group general counsel and chief executive officer of its Ingenix division", scrutinized Schultz's statement. This jumped out at me:

"If we didn't reduce transmission we would overwhelm the health system." A flat-out lie. There is absolutely nothing that suggests we couldn't provide adequate resources to treat those who need treatment.

I'm submitting these statistics to strengthen Mr. Roche's already strong case:

ICU beds in use: 936
ICU beds: Current 1,244 Available within 24 hrs. -- 795 Available within 72 hrs. -- 542

Summarization: 936 ICU beds are in use out of 2,581 available. That represents approximately 36% of Minnesota's ICU beds. In terms of ventilators in use vs. ventilators in inventory, MDH's case is far weaker:

Ventilators in use: 463; currently in stock -- 1,438; surge --1,435; on backorder 888

Summarization: 463 ventilators are in use out of a total 3,761 ventilators in stock or on backorder. That's before potentially adding the 6,500 ventilators that are in stock but aren't being used in Florida. That's before factoring in other states' ventilators not in use. FYI- 463 in use vs. 3,761 is approximately 12%.

For Mr. Schultz to say "If we didn't reduce transmission we would overwhelm the health system" is outright dishonesty. It has nothing to do with reality. If a state can run out of ventilators when 12% of a state's inventory is getting used, then someone needs to get fired.

The Mayo Clinic cut payroll for upper management by $1,600,000,000 recently because they're at 35% of capacity. Additionally, Mayo just pushed Gov. Walz into an agreement on testing. Gov. Walz said he wouldn't consider loosening restrictions until 5,000 tests per day could be performed. The next day, literally, Mayo said that they could run 10,000 per day.

Gov. Walz's administration's strategy has been to use dishonesty to frighten people into this lockdown. We can't thank citizen journalists like Scott Johnson and Kevin Roche enough for flushing out the Walz administration's fear-mongering tactics. They're doing what the MSM isn't willing to do.

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2020 12:08 PM

Comment 1 by Gretchen L Leisen at 30-Apr-20 07:03 PM
The concept that the current stay in place system is somehow helping to make health care more available to all people who need it, makes no sense. In fact, they have shut down the medical system except for outright emergencies - which they have control of as they are defining what is necessary health care. Many people would like to continue to see their physician/NP, but cannot do so. Can't have special diagnostic tests either unless you are admitted to the hospital - which means that you have reached a state of emergency.

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