The 1,000
yard stare: What the hell am I doing here???
(Old
Marine Expression for Someone Totally Lost)
Photo added for below story: Kushner “Lost in Place”
This update supplements
the post that follows and it comes from the NY Times (via
MSN News). Here in part and is relevant to the full crisis we still face
with COVID-10:
Trump’s decision
to take a back seat to the states by leaving it to them to decide whether to
shut down public life and insisting they take the lead in addressing shortages
amounts to a remarkable deference by a president who typically makes himself
the center of the action.
It also contrasts with his own self-description as a
wartime president leading a great battle against an invisible enemy. It
underscores both pragmatic and political imperatives for Trump, reflecting a
traditional federalist approach that eschews imposing a one-size-fits-all
national standard on states.
But it also shows the president’s desire to
blame the governors rather than accept any responsibility for shortages of
ventilators, masks and other critical supplies.
Trump has
also tried in recent days to blame states for shortages of medical equipment
saying on Friday (April 3): “They should have had more ventilators.”
Then Kushner said at the Thursday (April 2) task force
briefing that the federal stockpile was not for states to rely on, adding: “The
notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not
supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”
Ironically and sadly, too, the very next day, the
description on the HHS website re: Strategic National Stockpile was
altered evidently to reflect that viewpoint.
More on that from Rolling
Stone here.
Full
story at the NY Times link and as noted in the article a very special kudos goes to: journalist
Laura Bassett who first noticed the revision.
The HHS website now clearly says: “…the role of the stockpile is to supplement
state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have
products stockpiled as well. The supplies, medicines and devices for lifesaving
care contained in the stockpile, can be used as a short-term stopgap buffer
when the immediate supply of adequate amounts of these materials may not be
immediately available.”
My 2 cents: What a sad, sad commentary for our country
to now see in full bloom this insane Trump-Kushner family wrecking the very
foundation between right and wrong, good and bad, evil and heroic –
They are
surely flushing us all down the proverbial drain – who can stop this madness
but more importantly, when? Certainly the GOP can't and worse they won't even try to hold Trump and now Kushner accountable - why is that? Obviously, they are scared to death of Trump.
The Original Post Starts Here: Don't take my word for it - take the word of a seasoned GOP official who says Kushner is in way over his head.
The highlights:
The story is here from a veteran Republican campaign official is raking Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner
over the coals for taking on a major role in the White House coronavirus task
force despite being totally unqualified for the position.
Attorney
Lloyd Green, who served as opposition research counsel to George H.W. Bush’s
1988 presidential campaign and then worked at the DOJ in the early ’90s, writes in The Guardian that Kushner’s presence on
the task force is literally putting more Americans at risk.
In
particular, Green thrashes Kushner for claiming that NY doesn’t need all the
ventilators it’s been requesting writing in part: “The princeling has helped
place American lives and bodies on the line. New York’s hospitals have become
combat zones, its morgues and funeral homes look like abattoirs. Meanwhile, the
U.S. is locked down and the administration is projecting up to a
quarter-million dead even if everything goes right. American carnage is now.”
Story
continues at
the Guardian link.
My 2 cents: As Gomer Pyle
would say…
But, who didn’t already know about Kushner … he is a totally
incompetent and inept ass about most anything he touches or takes charge of whether government operations and policy, or his own private business deals loaded with debt.
But he is a real Trump sycophant (ass-kisser) and of course fav son-in-law.
Overall, he is dismal failure just
like Trump and both are in deep debt but, remember Trump told us he would only hire the best to serve the public — apparently he meant just like himself.
How's that working out? I'd say pretty pathetic.
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