Another take on Biden’s actions
Lee Roy Lollar made several claims about the Biden administration’s accomplishments in its first six days. I await his similar analysis of the first six days of the Trump administration. In the meantime, since Lollar cherry-picked the items he chose to highlight — and then provided no evidence whatsoever to back up those claims — I’ll do the same. But without the unhelpful sarcasm. Here are three items he could have also included on his list:
1. Contracting to purchase an additional 200 million doses of vaccine, 100 million each of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines;
2. No lies; there is, as yet, no evidence of deliberately false statements made by the new President (much of Trump’s first week involved pointless debates about inauguration crowd size);
3. Lifted the Trump administration’s muzzle on Dr. Anthony Fauci who is now being interviewed widely allowing much better communication of the scientific knowledge on Covid-19.
I have limited time and those are just the first few things that came to mind. Meanwhile, yesterday, the FBI released an alert regarding the heightened likelihood of far-right instigated violence in the US. Google the name ‘Ty Garbin’ and you will get a sense of what they are learning. So much for the Oregon Republican party’s absurd — but now official (for them, anyway) — claim that the invasion of the Capitol on January 6th was a “false flag” action.
Paul Mack
Columbus
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