Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden's claims that he is exceeding vaccination expectations after praising Former President Donald Trump's shifting vaccine deadlines.
#CNN #News
McConnell calls out Biden’s vaccine timeline after ignoring Trump’s
Mitch the Switch is desperate to stay relevant.
Love the “Mitch the Switch”….lol…hope you don’t mind if i use it…
@Don Nwzad Did you see Biden’s recent interview with Stephenopolis? He didn’t seem demented to me.
If that’s what you want to call it. Its more like a case of, I can’t remember.
New York Times / 3/20/21:Matt Apuzzo,and Selam Gebrekidan Where Europe Went Wrong in Its Vaccine Rollout, and Why Trump Administration’s WarpSpeed won the day.’
The calls began in December, as the United States prepared to administer its first batches of Covid-19 vaccine. Even then, it was clear that the European Union was a few weeks behind, and its leaders wanted to know what they could learn from their American counterparts.
The questions were the same, from President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, and Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium.
“How did you do it?” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the Trump Administration’s vaccine czar, recalled them asking on the calls. “And what do you think we missed?”
Since then, the rollout gap between Europe and the United States has only widened, and some of the countries hardest hit early in the pandemic are facing a deadly third wave of infections. France, large parts of Italy, and other regions are back in lockdown. Roughly 20,000 Europeans die of Covid-19 each week.
Brussels, by comparison, took a conservative, budget-conscious approach that left the open market largely untouched. And it has paid for it.
In short, the answer today is the same as it was in December, said Dr. Slaoui. The bloc shopped for vaccines like a customer. The United States basically went into business with the drugmakers, spending much more heavily to accelerate vaccine development, testing and production.
“They assumed that simply contracting to acquire doses would be enough,” recalled Dr. Slaoui, whom President Donald J. Trump hired to speed the vaccine development. “In fact what was very important was to be a full, active partner in the development and the manufacturing of the vaccine. And to do so very early.”
‘Not Equipped for a Gunfight’
The European Union trailed the United States and Britain from the start.
Washington had already spent billions on clinical trials and manufacturing by the time Europe decided to pool its resources and negotiate as a bloc. In mid-June, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, announced a joint vaccine purchase with a $3.2 billion pot.
In Washington, Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine program, had a $10 billion budget. European officials say it’s unfair to compare the two figures because neither amount is a complete picture of all the money spent on vaccines. But there is no dispute that in Washington, officials had decided that money was no object if vaccines could avert the economic cost of a lockdown. Europe, on the other hand, was on a tight budget, so its negotiators chased cheaper doses.
“Pricing has been important since the beginning,” Sandra Gallina, the E.U.’s main vaccine negotiator, told lawmakers in February. “We are talking about taxpayers’ money.”
@Judy Beckner – I think it is that if you still support Trump they mean to call you idiots.
Why do they focus on nothing, but trying to tear one another down. How about focusing on what’s best for the country.
@janice mearkle Kentucky ranks 41st out of 50 states in overall ranking his own state isn’t even a priority to him.
@Ultimate Warrior
Yes, take all gun rights away from the people that will solve all problems of “domestic terrorism” in a brainwashed sheep’s eye.
It’s called “Mental Health Issues” and the government knows that is the root of the cause behind this violence and they are partial to blame.
Also concerning the border you haven’t seen s××t yet but just wait an see what’s coming then you can sit a cry like a fool.
To distract you
@n?a dumb no I am not dumb in any way if you would open up your eyes and realize that you could have been getting $25,000 to $50,000 if Congress wasn’t so interested in lining their own damn Pockets with our money I don’t qualify but I damn well want to see the money go to our people not foreign people nor foreign companies
What’s best for the country was not done everyone should have gotten 25 to $50,000 but no Congress was more interested in lining their pockets and their people not our people
Everything Mitch McConnell represents, makes me sick.
No more sick than what Joe Biden makes the rest of America
@M Hall No one with any sense voted for an old, demented, racist, cheating, womanizing person who says he would be dating his daughter if he could.
Good. Need a wet rag for your poor little head? Ask Biden. He has free healthcare 🤦🏻♂️😂
Y’all sad 😂😂😂❄️❄️
Don’t you know he is just like a flower jar, only for decorating, useless in my opinion.
He is so tense in these tapes, because he had no idea what to do with the virus. “It will just go away” (fingers crossed).
5,000 ppl dying a day after the election,while whining about losing,tdying to organize a terror attack on his own country,n golfing. Dump is such a pos criminal/ traitor
Cv
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
CNN’s Brianna Kielar is the best fake news reporter in history
@Jerry Zogler what has millions of legs but cant walk?
Jerrys kids
I find it hilarious that our pal Mitch can make something that is obviously a major positive into something that’s “a problem.” Just amazing!
It’s his life’s work
CNN’s Brianna Kielar is the best fake news reporter in history
@Jerry Zogler just because you can’t handle the truth doesn’t make news fake
So true
Who cares what Moscow Mitch says?
The denier now wants all the credit. Remember: “it’s a hoax”? Now it’s: give me credit. Trump destroyed America.
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I bet your in a state still locked down….sucker!
don’t worry, us conservatives also hate Turtle McConnelle.
You and I are the only non bots in this thread!!! Trump DeSantis 24!!!
@Camper Special hm, i don’t know about desantis, i would like tulsi gabbard though if she switched to the republican party but yeah destantis would be a good vp
I’m a Floridian so I love DeSantis. Tulsi called Trump a liar racist extc. But politics makes strange bed fellows. I don’t want DeSantis as a vp just because I want him to win after Trump. VPs have a bad track record of winning lol AL Gore!!!
CNN’s Brianna Kielar is the best fake news reporter in history
De Santis is going to jail… Trump & De Santis in jail
Mitch the McConnell: I Love Trump’s Lies but hate Biden’s Truths.
In a nut shell!
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
What truths?
@Zhjsajeje Bhu What lies has Biden said? And what truths did Trump say?
The Grim Reaper is thoroughly lost. He’s been declared deactivated & is literally sloshing around for anything to attack
Portland 2000% rise in homicides. thank you Antifa and BLM, good job
@Jerry Zogler Did you pray to your Orange lord and savior today? Your god king is very disappointed in you.
Jerry Zogler If there was a 2000% rise in homicides, I think we would have heard about it.
Good point
Dont worry turtle man not everyone moves at turtle speed like you, but I bet if they start investigating him and his wife he will start moving really fast. 🐸🛌
I was thinking the same thing, but realized Moscow Mich has probably already filled all those judge slots with his own cronies from the Federalist society.
wow lol nice one
Someone should have said to McConnell that it is reality to predict April or May unlike the predecessor who predicted it would magically disappear by
April or May .
🤣🤣🤣😁😂😂🙄👆
McConnel is not shy about being a “party over country” guy.
@Jerry Zogler she is brilliant, she makes crooks and deplorables like you come out of their holes
Somebody ask Evil Turtle: *What’s your point?* Are YOU here to help or hinder the country in tackling Covid19? You decide!!!
NB: McConnell doesnt care about vaccines for the general public! Him & his wife are billionaires…
She WAS meant to be under investigation for Corruption at Dept of Transportation… IF NOT for AG *Barr’s & Trump’s corruption* -in which certain cases against their friends & family were quashed/ or “disappeared”? (Alledgedly).
@Val Kiri the Trump administration were full of corruption and I hope New York prosecutors we’ll take the next step to put Trump to jail
I thought Mitch was leaving the government? If so then he’s just there making an A$$out of himself.
he’s not leaving he’s making to much money just like all our congressmen and women
What confuses me is that these politicians aren’t fact checked and relied to and held accountable for their vomit while they are spewing it
@Cobra Yes I know and a lot of people who do not have the intellectual capacity to differentiate between fake and reality can easily get a victim of this bullshit.
New York Times / 3/20/21:Matt Apuzzo,and Selam Gebrekidan Where Europe Went Wrong in Its Vaccine Rollout, [and Why Trump Administration’s WarpSpeed won the day.’]
The calls began in December, as the United States prepared to administer its first batches of Covid-19 vaccine. Even then, it was clear that the European Union was a few weeks behind, and its leaders wanted to know what they could learn from their American counterparts.
The questions were the same, from President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, and Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium.
“How did you do it?” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the Trump Administration’s vaccine czar, recalled them asking on the calls. “And what do you think we missed?”
Since then, the rollout gap between Europe and the United States has only widened, and some of the countries hardest hit early in the pandemic are facing a deadly third wave of infections. France, large parts of Italy, and other regions are back in lockdown. Roughly 20,000 Europeans die of Covid-19 each week.
Brussels, by comparison, took a conservative, budget-conscious approach that left the open market largely untouched. And it has paid for it.
In short, the answer today is the same as it was in December, said Dr. Slaoui. The bloc shopped for vaccines like a customer. The United States basically went into business with the drugmakers, spending much more heavily to accelerate vaccine development, testing and production.
“They assumed that simply contracting to acquire doses would be enough,” recalled Dr. Slaoui, whom President Donald J. Trump hired to speed the vaccine development. “In fact what was very important was to be a full, active partner in the development and the manufacturing of the vaccine. And to do so very early.”
‘Not Equipped for a Gunfight’
The European Union trailed the United States and Britain from the start.
Washington had already spent billions on clinical trials and manufacturing by the time Europe decided to pool its resources and negotiate as a bloc. In mid-June, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, announced a joint vaccine purchase with a $3.2 billion pot.
In Washington, Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine program, had a $10 billion budget. European officials say it’s unfair to compare the two figures because neither amount is a complete picture of all the money spent on vaccines. But there is no dispute that in Washington, officials had decided that money was no object if vaccines could avert the economic cost of a lockdown. Europe, on the other hand, was on a tight budget, so its negotiators chased cheaper doses.
“Pricing has been important since the beginning,” Sandra Gallina, the E.U.’s main vaccine negotiator, told lawmakers in February. “We are talking about taxpayers’ money.”
That’s politics for ya. No accountability because they aren’t under oath in a court of law. Which there should be a law to force them into telling the truth imo
NY Daily News-March 19, 2021 /12:45pm: “Well, he [Cuomo]clearly jeopardize lives in his nursing home decision,” NYC Mayor de Blasio said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo, of risking New Yorkers’ lives to boost his popularity — and called him “a central part” in the state’s history of corruption.
During his weekly interview on WNYC radio, de Blasio agreed when asked if he believed Cuomo would play “fast and loose with people’s lives” to improve his image.
“Well, he clearly jeopardize lives in his nursing home decision,” de Blasio said.
“Decisions were made that were dangerous to people’s health and well-being. Thousands of people were lost and the governor of the state had the audacity to cover up the information.”
The Mayor added: “So, is he capable of making decisions that are that crass and that political and about his personal needs? 110 percent.”
De Blasio also agreed when asked by host Brian Lehrer if he thought Cuomo’s actions came despite “knowing that it could be fatal for some people, because he was getting donations?”
@Dianna Monks when ever he opened his mouth. For example : “Corona virus is a democratic hoax.” Big Lie…520,000+ dead to prove that.
Come On Kentucky, vote him out. He is clearly not interested in helping anyone.
That’s what he needs, help!
Kentucky is sadly filled with a populace of easily duped people like Jerry Zogler so don’t count on them voting out their two awful senators anytime soon.
@Darth Vestius I know, he should resign.
@Jerry Zogler Russian bot!
@Jalita L I Agree With You FRAUD EX PRESIDENT. Thank God He OUT of the white House THANK You Jesus Christ 🙏🙏🙏
Turtle is the primary blockage in the drain which is holding in the swamp. Get rid of the blockage and a lot of putrid flotsam will be flushed.
To rid the blockage, death is the way. Hey, I’m sorry (not) but death is permanent.
For some SICK reason the people of Kentucky keep voting that cretin into Office. They must be mentally challenged OR they actually don’t care that he is SCREWING them over as usual.
He reminds me more of a really old Goat
you are absolutely right
Powerful closing line, Brianna, as always. The hypocrisy of the republicans knows no bound.
@Flash rex It is obviously a figure of speech and the expression only targets the Republican politicians who can be said to be mainly flip-flopping all the time – at best – or lying at worst.
When not even one of them voted for the stimulus package, we can definitely conclude that they no longer vote as individuals but as a group.
Hypocrisy is the greatest sin of Pride — God HATES you, mitch!
I bet you’re going to hate Biden once you realize with that $1.9 trillion is really going to do to you and your children have fun with that
@Aaron Drake as appose to what…just letting people die?
@Aaron Drake Yes. “Hate” him. Just how most people “hate” foot rubs after a long day.
Moscow mitch is mad because his guy failed at keeping Americans safe
@TheBanaxel it would help ? Maybe you should learn how to type in order to comment what you’re actually trying to state before you state it …….. stupid
@MMAorNada hurt much idiot
@TheBanaxel you tell me ? You’re the one who’s angry and hates your self . Man if you were face to face with me you wouldn’t say a thing . You coward
@MMAorNada idiot
Date time and place idiot
“Scorched earth” Mitch would rather gnaw his left leg off than give Biden any credit.
Give, the only thing he should give, is the Doctor a call. If he can remember.
Biden doesn’t deserve any kudos…the poor bastard doesn’t even know his own name.
Shame on his wife for allowing this! Shame on her for not speaking up for the kids at the border that Dems are trafficking!
Yeah, totally unlike anybody in the mainstream media or any Democrat in what they said about Donald Trump, huh?
What does Biden deserve credit for? The vaccines and roll out plan were handed to him on a silver platter.
Just put McConnell’s picture in the dictionary next to the word “hypocrite” already.