President Trump wanted to get rid of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
But he couldn’t afford to….
President Biden has made sure Dr. Anthony Fauci is ‘his’ top health advisor….
That has good and bad news for Biden and Fauci….
The doctor and his family have security details….
There have been threats…
His comments will cost Biden and Democrats some votes…
But?
His comments will also lock in some votes for Democrats and Biden….
He is a good speaker and reassuring …
But like any human being…
His words and actions sometime’s cause problems…
(His serving under Trump has had to be a course in national politics …His a tough guy no doubt))
Biden’s people seem to be cutting back Fauci’s exsposure already….
We’ll be hearing less from the good doctor, who probably has his job for as long as he wants it….
Anthony Fauci has taken GOP anger with him to a new level by stating that Republicans who criticize him are “really criticizing science because I represent science.”
The right exploded at the weekend remarks from an interview with “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, arguing that the comments underscore a scolding presence from the government’s foremost expert on infectious diseases that belittles concerns from their voters about his coronavirus advice.
“It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing,” fumed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has repeatedly feuded with Fauci at public hearings over the past several years.…
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Republicans have long seen Fauci as a useful punching bag given the public’s fatigue with the coronavirus, and his standing as a health care adviser to President Biden has made him more of a partisan figure this year.
Cotton on Tuesday said, “Tony Fauci is nothing more than a Democratic operative,” a sentiment that appears to be growing in GOP circles.
Criticism of Fauci has served as a sure-fire way to rev up the GOP’s conservative base and appeal to former President Trump, offering an incentive for GOP senators with national ambitions to take their shots. Cotton is seen as a potential presidential candidate, while Paul was defeated in the 2016 GOP primary by Trump….
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Some Republicans have long worried the attacks by their colleagues could undermine trust in public health officials and their own efforts to boost vaccination rates across the country.
“A lot of politics today is performance politics, which is saying things which excite the bases of our respective parties,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) when asked about the salvos directed at Fauci from fellow Republican senators.
“I look at Dr. Fauci as an expert in disease and viruses [and] respect his point of view. He’s not perfect; like all humans he will make mistakes. Politicizing him is just par for the course these days in our highly politicized environment, but I respect him as a scientist,” he added.
Other Senate Republicans are also distancing themselves from the attacks on Fauci….
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“He hasn’t had Fauci out much lately and the reason is because he’s got high negatives. More than half the voters are unfavorable to the guy now,” McLaughlin said, referring to Fauci’s approval numbers. “People don’t trust him anymore. Look, Democrats like him, think he’s good, but I’m telling you, the Republican base and the swing voters don’t trust him anymore. They think he’s a political hack.”
Fauci was standing next to Biden on Monday, however, when the president offered remarks about the new omicron variant that has sparked new worries about the pandemic. This suggests Biden sees more benefits than negatives to working with Fauci.
image…Fox 5 NY
If the GOP gets control of Congress look for Fauci to be called up in multiple hearings for having the audacity to promote fighting COVID with vaccine and masking indoors im certain circumstances.
But I’m sure CG will regale us with an anecdote about a hypochondriac in his family to show that “both sides” disrespect science and medicine to an equal degree.
Actually, he can just trot out current NYT bestselling author RFK Jr, now the liberal darling of the right wing who has just released an anti Fauci, anti Bill Gates book.
The irony of course is that the example CG gave us not even a good one. While I would personally not require vaccinated people to wear masks in my house, it is clearly safer for all of us if they do. Breakthrough infections and deaths happen every day, and I was told that I am over 100x more likely than the average fully vaccinated person to have a break-through infection. Others such as those on HIV or others who received an organ transplant are even more at risk than me.
My nephew’s wife is a healthy 43 year old (my best guess at her age) and was fully vaccinated and she wears a mask when indoors at public places and she still had a break-through infection, so don’t say it is anti-science to ask people to be especially safe. CG’s brother’s actions may be extreme, but they are hardly anti-science, and are not remotely comparable to choosing not to get vaccinated.
And I heard Dr.Fauci speak a lot, and he would not disagree with anything I just said.
Wearing a mask inside and in crowds is just common sense…..
For All…..
Good point Z
I don’t see that at sports events theses days though, eh?
My observation is that most football fans are NOT wearing masks, you do see masks in press boxes and in indoor stadiums. In fact, I think some teams require masks for indoor stadiums. I am not aware of any team requiring them in an outdoor stadium, but there may be one or two.
Players do not…….
Tens of thousands of fans seldom do…..
Yes,.by my saying teams are requiring them, I meant for fans, not players. Sorry for the confusion.
Some dumb son of a bitch GOP official in Michigan who objected to certifying the 2020 election results dropped dead of COVID.
I can’t even pretend to care when these unvaccinated idiots croak anymore.
When 1500 people in the USA are dying from Covid each day, it is hard to get personally involved.unless you know the person. And that is especially true if the person who died wanted to overthrow the government.