Nancy Pelosi ain't got time fo' dat!
Posted on 03/31/2020 9:48:22 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky charged the Democrats’ recent impeachment coup that stretched into the beginning of February with distracting the administration from the Wuhan coronavirus threat as the outbreak worsened in China.
“It came up while we were tied down in the impeachment trial, and I think it diverted the attention of the government because everything every day was all about impeachment,” McConnell said Tuesday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”
While China was implementing large-scale lockdowns across the country at the start of the new year to contain the virus, the White House was focused on fending off a partisan impeachment effort to keep President Donald Trump in office. As January rolled around, Congress was in the midst of bitter battle over whether the Senate trial would include new witnesses who had not testified in the House prior to Democrats rubber-stamping the articles in a rushed process.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi withheld the articles from moving forward unless Senate Republicans offered concessions on how the trial would be conducted. After four weeks of keeping the nation’s legislature at a standstill, Pelosi gave in on the issue where she had no leverage and released the articles for a trial to begin in the upper chamber, all while the Wuhan virus continued to spread across Asia.
Democrats have been quick to cast the Trump administration as radically unprepared to handle the current pandemic tanking the global economy and threatening to kill hundreds of thousands with it, including those who never even come in contact with the virus but who fall victim to suicide over circumstances presented through financial devastation and social isolation.
At the same time, Democrats sought to focus the nation on its grand impeachment efforts with a Senate trial that did nothing but further polarize an already divided nation and divert the administration’s attention away from real threats abroad. Had the White House been able to more closely monitor the ongoing crisis in China rather than fending off a sham impeachment, the federal government likely would have been more prepared to confront the virus with adequate testing made more readily available and a proper advance on replenishing the Strategic National Stockpile.
Instead, the United States was caught off-guard by the pandemic, with current medical supplies in storage found both expired and in short supply. According to ABC News, government officials say the national stockpile had not been restocked with fresh supplies since the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. Meanwhile, as Trump takes fire for failing to meet New York’s request for 30,000 ventilators from the federal government, less than 20,000 were available in the national stockpile. Of the 4,000 that were shipped up to New York this week, Business Insider reported that many were found to be damaged.
A closer examination of federal supplies in anticipation of the virus arriving on U.S. shores rather than a fixation on the Democrats’ latest impeachment attempt could have saved thousands of lives.
Instead, Democrats attacked the early effective measures that the Trump administration did take to stop the virus. In January, the White House implemented a travel ban on China that provoked condemnation from woke liberals as racist. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is now the likely Democratic nominee, condemned the move as “hysterical xenophobia.”
Trump War Room ✔ @TrumpWarRoom "Joe Biden opposed the China travel restrictions wisely put in place by President Trump in January – restrictions that health experts credit with slowing the spread of coronavirus & saving lives. If Biden had been in charge, more Americans would have contracted the virus faster."
Despite U.S. failures, no nation abroad prepared much better. European leaders had not stockpiled critical supplies such as test kits and ventilators and nations across the continent were struck short on hospital beds.
The Democrats’ three-year failed impeachment effort is one of the nation’s greatest national security blunders in American history by keeping the administration focused more on staying in office than keeping a close watch on global challenges. Now the United States is confronted with a pandemic of epic proportions that has already claimed more American lives than the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
This year’s impeachment proceedings in January and February might not have prevented the Wuhan virus from spreading across the U.S., but they no doubt distracted the White House from getting a head start on adequate preparations.
Yes he is. Thanks, Mitch, for putting this out there.
What did The CDC and FDA have to do with the impeachment process?
Not only that, but Pelosi never even brought up the possibility, or attempted to have the State of the Union speech in the House Chamber, cancelled or postponed in early February.
On January 20th, Trump assembled the Corona virus Task force.
On January 20th, Nancy Pelosi was handing out impeachment pens.
Trump was already focusing on the WuFlu, it’s the MEDIA that were distracted !!!!
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that they are half way through a draft for Impeachment II.
The timeline is clear and history will bear Senator McConnell out.
The Democrats and the Monica Media were completely irresponsible, and their selfish, careless behavior has probably cost many American lives and jobs.
Pelosi is worse than just DISLOYAL. She has become anti-American in her old age...and after America has given herand her family millions in both money and property. She should be labeled a TURNCOAT of the lowest form.
But only if you donate...
This is more reflective of the democrats and the msm. But it is a mistake to be finger pointing and blaming anyone in public like they have been doing. We are all under enough stress with this lock-down, then add the msm and democrats trying to gin-up more anger. This may not end well for these people. When the lock-down first started, I expected riots in the inner cities by the end of the first week. The fact it has gone on this long without violence is probably only due to fear. Eventually, that fear is going to turn to anger against those fanning the flames. JMHO
Someone had to say it.
Way to say that long after the Dems have their stupid narrative out there.
Turtle indeed.
In other words the senate is incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.
I commented on FB that I believed the Coronavirus Pandemic was a ChiCom strategic move.
Oh, did the wokies trash me with their virtue signaling!
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