Most of us have heard or watched some of the Congressional testimony of Dr. Fauci. It remains to be seen if he will be held responsible for the damage he did to Americans during the Covid crisis. In case you have forgotten–younger students missed a lot of social interactions that were crucial to their development, older students missed rites of passage–senior proms, graduations, families missed being with dying relatives, contagious patients were sent into nursing homes, etc. No one has been held accountable. It is very possible that no one will be held accountable. The Democrats have a playbook on handling scandals. Evidently, Dr. Fauci has read that playbook.<\/p>\n
On Friday, The Federalist<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n Back in the political Pleistocene, a slippery American president who was known as \u201cSlick Willie\u201d slogged through scandal after scandal<\/a>, often in the company of his amoral and tone-deaf grifter wife. Perpetually embroiled in controversy because of their own behavior, this shameless couple developed a set of reliable techniques for the management of uncomfortable questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel famously described<\/a> this set of techniques as \u201cThe Clinton Scandal Manual,\u201d and the steps were predictable. First you muddy the paper trail by delaying the release of documents or misplacing the records<\/a> of the scandal. This slows down the arrival of accountability, and forces your critics to engage in a long effort to untangle the threads of your poor choices.<\/strong><\/p>\n …So then comes the big finish: When critics have been talking about the same scandal for a long time, because of your delaying tactics<\/em> and the hidden paper trail, transition to the frustrated sigh: Why are we still talking about this old news<\/em>? Isn\u2019t it time to move on?<\/strong><\/p>\n Delay, delay, delay \/ dismiss the scandal as old news.<\/strong><\/p>\n I am reading Facebook posts proclaiming Fauci a hero. I half wonder if he wrote them himself, but I understand that people have short memories and if you weren’t directly impacted by his actions, his duplicity might not be an issue for you. However, understand that if you want representatives who actually follow the U.S. Constitution, you need to vote very carefully in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of us have heard or watched some of the Congressional testimony of Dr. Fauci. It remains to be seen if he will be held responsible for the damage he did to Americans during the Covid crisis. In case you … Continue reading