It Is Political Groundhog Day & Food for Thought

by Mike Huckabee: This is the day we’ve all been waiting for on pins and needles! It’s Political Groundhog Day, when Joe Biden will finally emerge from his burrow and we’ll find out if he sees his Teleprompter, which will mean five more weeks of campaigning.

The debate will air on multiple broadcast and streaming sources. And if the debate itself doesn’t provide enough excitement and entertainment for you, the crew at http://www.PJMedia.com will be live-blogging it in real-time.

I imagine that one of Biden’s big attacks on Trump will be to again accuse him of botching the COVID-19 (Chinese) coronavirus response and being personally responsible for all 200,000+ deaths from it. A few things to bear in mind:

* When Trump shut down travel from China very early on, Biden called him hysterical and xenophobic. That later turned out to be one of the most important moves at slowing infections in the US until we could better prepare.

* Yes, Trump and his team made mistakes early on, but everyone did. It was a brand new disease and it took time to learn what works (Mask? No mask? Mask again?) But Trump quickly assembled one of the most effective public-private partnerships in history to fight it. Early predictions were for deadly shortages of ventilators and hospital beds and 2.2 million deaths in the US. None of those things happened.

* While Biden claims he would have handled the pandemic much better, his own campaign health advisor admitted that with Obama/Biden’s limp response to H1N1/swine flu, it was only due to sheer dumb luck that it wasn’t more contagious and millions didn’t die.

* Comparisons of Trump’s response to those in other nations are apples and oranges because Trump doesn’t have the power to force states to do what he wants. Maybe that's why the deaths largely occurred in a handful of Democrat-run states.

* Biden blames Trump both for the economic damage caused by the lockdowns and for not locking down even more of the economy for even longer. Can’t have it both ways.

* Biden has proposed more draconian economic lockdowns which would inflict more pain on Americans than the virus.

Don’t believe that last one? Last week, the CDC released the latest numbers on COVID-19 survival rates. If you’re under age 70, you have a 0.5% chance or less of dying from the coronavirus, and that’s among the small subset of people who’ve actually caught it. Even if you’re 70 or older and catch it, you have a 94.6% chance of surviving it.

Also, for Democrats insisting that schools must stay closed, Florida reopened its schools and there has been no surge among kids age 5-to-17. In fact, cases declined through late September.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Right now, a lot of Democrats are ranting that if the Senate approves Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court (which it will), they will retaliate by “burning it all down” (I assume that means our Constitutional system of government and not just their own cities.) Once they get back in power, they will abolish the Electoral College, make DC and Puerto Rico states to pad their majority, expand the SCOTUS and pack it with leftists, impose term limits on the Justices, etc., and RULE US FOREVER MORE!!!

To help keep you from getting too worried about these threats, you should know that this is mostly a combination of childish lashing out in frustration because they know they botched the SCOTUS transition and are going to lose (they should’ve leaned on RBG to retire under Obama, but they were all so certain Hillary would win that their own arrogance tripped them up) plus a lot of election year screeching to fire up their base. But here’s some cold reality:

If they try to change the makeup of the SCOTUS, Republicans will filibuster it. The far leftists say they’ll do away with the filibuster entirely, but chances are that some of their own Senators would be smart enough to oppose that. Remember how Harry Reid did away with the filibuster on judges? That’s precisely why they can’t stop Judge Barrett’s confirmation. Mitch McConnell warned Reid that he would live to regret it, maybe sooner than later, but he didn’t listen.

Many of today’s Democrat leaders are like five-year-olds having a tantrum in Walmart because they want a candy bar and they want it RIGHT NOW! They’re really into instant gratification and don’t think far enough ahead to consider the spanking it will bring them later. But some of their members surely will, especially those who were elected from red or purple states and would like to keep their seats. Those four new seats from DC and Puerto Rico might be canceled out and then some. Imagine what would happen if those Senators from less liberal states were replaced by Republicans who had both a majority and no filibuster roadblocks to deal with.

As for all the other rewrites to the Constitution they want to make, like doing away with the Electoral College: amending the Constitution takes a 2/3rds majority vote of both Houses of Congress (which they will not have) and ratification by three-fourths of the states. Do you really think that many states would vote to give away their say over who becomes President to New York, California, Florida and Texas?

So I urge you not to take their threats to radically remake America too seriously. But take them just seriously enough to spur you to go to the polls and vote (in person) in overwhelming numbers to insure they never have the power even to try it.

Although I do kind of like their “term limits” idea. Only let’s apply it to Congress first and see how it works out.
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Mike Huckabee, Morning Edition, September 29, 2020

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