Despite the country hitting record numbers of daily vaccinations against COVID-19, recent polling has shown higher vaccine hesitancy among Republicans, prompting growing concerns among GOP governors amid the White House decrying the partisan divide over vaccinations to combat the pandemic. Continue reading “GOP Governors And WH Concerned With Partisan Divide On Vaccine Hesitancy”
Cuomo ‘Vaccine Czar’ Called Up County Officials To Ask About Their Loyalty To NY Governor
A longtime adviser New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who is known as the governor’s “vaccine czar,” placed calls to county officials in the past two weeks to inquire about their loyalty to the embattled governor amid an ongoing sexual harassment investigation, following a slew of allegations that have led many congressional Democrats to call for his resignation. Continue reading “Cuomo ‘Vaccine Czar’ Called Up County Officials To Ask About Their Loyalty To NY Governor”
GA Lt. Gov Decries Trump’s Influence On GOP: ‘Divisive Tone And Strategy Is Unwinnable’
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Sunday decried former President Trump’s “divisive tone and strategy” while criticizing a bill in the battleground state that would end no-excuse absentee voting. Continue reading “GA Lt. Gov Decries Trump’s Influence On GOP: ‘Divisive Tone And Strategy Is Unwinnable’”
Fauci Hopes Trump Steps In To Combat ‘Disturbing’ Vaccine Hesitancy Among Supporters
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, on Sunday said that he finds a large number of vaccine hesitancy among supporters of former President Trump to be “disturbing” and hopes that the former president will encourage his supporters to get inoculated against COVID-19. Continue reading “Fauci Hopes Trump Steps In To Combat ‘Disturbing’ Vaccine Hesitancy Among Supporters”
Alabama GOP To Give Trump Framed Resolution That Calls Him ‘One Of The Greatest’ Presidents In History
The Alabama Republican Party on Saturday is expected to present former President Donald Trump with a framed copy of a resolution that was passed by state party leaders, proclaiming him “one of the greatest and most effective” presidents in American history.
Ravnsborg Pleads Not Guilty In Initial Court Hearing On Deadly Crash
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) pleaded not guilty in an initial court hearing Friday for three misdemeanor charges he is facing for fatally striking a pedestrian with his car in September.
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Navy Contractor In Riot Was Known By Colleagues For Anti-Semitic And White Supremacist Views
A U.S. Army reservist who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was known among colleagues for expressing white supremacist and anti-Semitic views at the naval facility where he worked as a security contractor, according to a new filing by federal prosecutors on Friday.
Why Did Trump Decide Not to Have a Plan to Vaccinate the Country?
As we noted in various articles over the last two days the Trump administration (albeit mainly career civil servants) deserve some credit for Operation Warp Speed, which backstopped the risk in private pharmaceutical companies of going all out in vaccine creation and production. But on the distribution front, their record was close to catastrophic. As Josh Kovensky and Kate Riga explain here, they literally had no plan to do anything. The “plan” was not to have a plan. The military would airlift the supplies to designated airports in each state and then it was up to the states.
So why did the administration at least do the basic blocking and tackling of federal support for vaccine development and drop the ball entirely on a plan to get the country vaccinated?
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Johnson Desperately Tries To Paint BLM As Violent In Fictitious Scenario
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said in a recent interview that he “wasn’t concerned” about what ultimately amounted to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by a pro-Trump mob, but would have been concerned had those storming the Capitol been affiliated with a movement for racial justice known as Black Lives Matter.
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Your COVID Moments #15
From TPM Reader JM (this one got to me perhaps more than any other we’ve published so far) …
My COVID moment was the culmination of a year of thinking we were going to be OK, and then realizing we weren’t.
In 2019, months before the COVID crisis struck, my elderly but still brilliant mother moved from Florida to the NY exurbs to live with my family. Like anyone in their late 80s, my mother had her share of age related health issues but overall was in remarkable shape. When the crisis struck last year, we seemed to be doing all the right things: working and attending school from home, wiping down our groceries, wearing masks, etc.
However, I have teenagers, one of whom has been slowly radicalized by sociopaths on YouTube (Ben Shapiro is a favorite.). At some point, my teen decided that COVID was overblown, masks were stupid, and it would all be over on election day. (I might be a recovering conservative, but I believe in math and science like some people believe in Q or flying saucers.)