Do not take the politics out of politics!
Let’s cut Anthony Fauci some slack. The good man was wrong about a lot of things — masking, six-feet separation, closing schools, and the Wuhan lab among them. (Other than that, what’s left?) But the infectious diseases czar was a hammer and hammers see only nails. Close it down, shut it off if it prevents one incidence of Covid 19. That was his job to so advocate.
The fault, dear Brutus, lay in our elected politicians who — if all cylinders are hitting — navigate advice from all quarters before deciding, often taking some middle ground. They do not yield their authority just because progressives insist that unelected experts should rule by invoking the holy name of “science.” It’s how progressives intend to ban gas stoves and front lawns in the name of that disturbed Swedish girl. (Quit messing with Scottie Scheffler!)
A sane world would ban gun bump stocks. A madman from high above in a Las Vegas hotel used the device to kill 60 and wound 413 at a concert on the ground below in 2017. President Trump, strange as it may seem, acceded to the public furor and did ban bump stocks, only to be overturned by the Supreme Court. This morning, a good Madison progressive wrote to the Wisconsin State Journal to excoriate:
The right-wing members of the U.S. Supreme Court [for] doing the bidding of the National Rifle Association and making our streets even less safe again.
The Werkes doubts that even ProPublica will find checks exchanging hands between the NRA (having declared bankruptcy) and Justice Alito, flier of more flags than a Midwest amusement park. But that’s the zeitgeist of the day, isn’t it? Allege, don’t prove.
The Werkes disappoints its MAGA … acquaintances by demanding adherence to process over outcome. Indeed, Donald Trump was a better president (we voted him 2020) than Joe Biden is proving to be. But cheap gasoline does not beat rock, scissors, or the paper on which the Constitution is written.
Progressives like Senators Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse want to pack the court to get the outcomes they cannot achieve by legislation. Because the Roberts court insists on rulings based on the law, not the desired result. The court’s 6-3 majority in Garland v. Cargill ruled that Congress could have banned bump stocks at any point since the 1943 law banning machine guns but had not done so. National Review explains:
The statute governing ‘machine guns’ defines the term in a way that simply doesn’t describe how a bump stock functions, and, as such, the executive branch “has no authority to rewrite” the law to accommodate them. …
That didn’t change because of new scholarship or somebody suddenly noticing that everybody had been wrong all along about the language of the law [as in Roe v Wade]; it changed because of political pressure to do something.
Given their druthers, progressives would replace judicial arbiters with scientists, as does their model, Marxism. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants to go Dr. Fauci one better and declare guns themselves a public health issue. What fun a thousand would-be Dr. Faucis would have then!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: My MAGA … acquaintances are ready to drop Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn from high altitude, over water, for not awarding Wisconsin’s electoral votes to Trump. His real sin was ruling according to the law. Justice Hagedorn respected the process ( as he promised to do), not the desired outcome. Only legislatures legislate.
13 responses to “We don’t trust the science”
Funniest thing, the SCIENCY Science slobberers (with hankdog/old baldy leading the charge) have been AWOL in the wake of Dr. Fauci’s newly discovered…um…admissions.
Probably sitting at home, fully masked while poutin-n-mewlin’, and trying to figure out how Righty brilliantly…er…deep-faked all DementiaJoKe’s deeply disturbing wanderings and stumblings.
The Gotch
I disagree with your take on Hagedorn. In the ruling, he actually wrote that, yes, the challenged votes had been illegally cast, but that he could find no acceptable way to fix it.
Justice Hagedorn ruled no such thing. Essentially, he ruled that the challenges could have well have been made before the election and not after, when all concerned — candidates, election officials, and voters relied on the rules then in play. Excerpts from his majority opinion:
“A court cannot allow persons to gamble on the outcome of an election contest and then challenge it when dissatisfied with the results, especially when the same challenge could have been made before the public is put through the time and expense of the entire election process. …
“The [Trump] Campaign would like to apply its challenge to the sufficiency of [an absentee voter application form] to strike 170,140 votes in just two counties [Dane and Milwaukee] despite the form’s use in municipalities throughout the state. Waiting until after an election to challenge the sufficiency of a form application in use statewide for at least a decade is plainly unreasonable. …
“The Campaign now asks us to determine that all 17,271 absentee ballots collected during the “Democracy in the Park” events were illegally cast. Once again, when the events were announced, the Campaign could have challenged its legality. It did not. Instead, the Campaign waited until after the election — after municipal officials, the other candidates, and thousands of voters relied on the representations of their election officials that these events complied with the law.”
There you go again! Talking facts and making sense. Something is off because we know you didn’t come from a single parent family which would have which would have left you ignorant and in poverty for your entire life. Carry on Dave.
Dave, I thoroughly enjoy reading the various ways you puncture hypocrisy.
Take a look at the attached poll for positive news for parents statewide and some very interesting results in the Madison media market, right on the heels of the announcement of the referenda.
SCWA has sent the attached letter to all candidates, including Dems. I hope to live to see the day when elected officials catch up with their constituents.
Keep up the good and very amusing work. I am always passing it on to someone I know.
Susan
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Fauci may have been wrong on some things, but he was dealing with a lot of unknowns. Get your shot and wear a mask; simple until every two bit politician got into the act. I loved seeing the guys who called it all fake and then ended up in a hospital begging for help. Drink bleach, sacrifice a goat, pray, blah blah blah. All BS. Here’s a tip…if you ever get chest pains and a numb left arm put a spoonful of Vicks in some OJ. Fix you right up. No need for any of this ER crap. That’s what trump does so you know it’s true.
If Fauci and other supposed health authorities had admitted they were wrong, or at least that they didn’t have all the information needed, they could have maintained a decent level of public trust. We now know that masks are ineffective against a respiratory disease pandemic. Fauci stated this early in the pandemic but completely reversed course a short time later, likely because of “political pressure to do something “. Arrogantly suppressing the professional opinions of dissenting scientists, which they did, is the mark of an authoritarian thug. Akin to Justin Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of truckers who refused vaccination.
“Allege, don’t prove.”
Leftists love to substitute the former for the latter to turn the public against those they despise all the time, and their big media sycophants are happy to help. Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Cooper, Nicholas Sandemann, Donald Trump vs. E. Jean Carroll, Paul Skidmore, Charles Myadze, etc.
Glass half full?
SQUAD BOY’S oversized @$$ has been decidedly, and in no uncertain terms, b!tchslapped into the CHEAP SEATS!
The Gotch
“Arrogantly suppressing the professional opinions of dissenting scientists, which they did, is the mark of an authoritarian thug.”
The Gotch
MAGA minions in Texas and elsewhere sure as hell better trust the science when it comes to reproductive care. Womens’ health and lives are on the line. Competent doctors are fleeing for states where they can practice without know-nothing politicians breathing down their necks.
And MPOX.
No prob. Progressives can’t define a woman anyway.
”Womens’ health and lives are on the line.”
How many? How many use abortion as birth control?