Republicans Fuel the Pandemic Then Blame Biden

In the past Republicans, especially at the congressional level have shown a willingness to engage in economic sabatoge and harm the economic interests of the party base in order to seek to disparage Democrat presidents - remember Mitch "Moscow Mitch" McConnell's pledge to make Obama a failed president.  Now, these same Republicans are fueling the Covid pandemic by opposing mask and vaccine mandates and are attempting to blame the pandemic's continuance on Joe Biden.  With the ongoing deaths and serious illness from Covid falling almost exclusively on the unvaccinated - the majority of whom tend to be Republicans/Trump supporters - the Republicans have moved on from economic sabatoge to literally killing members of their base in order to score points, if you will against Biden.  The hypocrisy and perversity of this agenda is mind numbing.  Amazingly, far too many members of the GOP base is too stupid to realize that their leaders and idiocy are killing them.  A piece in the New York Times looks at the GOP lies and hypocrisy and the death toll among Republicans.  Here are excepts:

Over eight hours last Thursday night and into Friday morning, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California hit on many issues as he spoke on the House floor in an unsuccessful effort to thwart House passage of President Biden’s social safety net and climate change bill. But among his most audacious assertions was that Mr. Biden was to blame for the country’s failure to quell the pandemic.

Mr. McCarthy used this line of attack even as members of his own Republican Party have spent months flouting mask ordinances and blocking the president’s vaccine mandates, and the party’s base has undermined vaccination drives while rallying around those who refuse the vaccine. Intensive care units and morgues have been strained to capacity by the unvaccinated, a demographic dominated by those who voted last year for President Donald J. Trump.

As of mid-September, 90 percent of adult Democrats had been vaccinated, compared with 58 percent of adult Republicans.

As cases surge once again in some parts of the country, Republicans have hit on a new line of attack: The president has failed on a central campaign promise, to tame the pandemic that his predecessor systematically downplayed. Democrats are incredulous, dismissing the strategy as another strand of spaghetti thrown at the wall.

White House spokesman Andrew Bates hit back hard: “If Covid-19 and inflation had lobbyists to help them kill more American jobs, Kevin McCarthy would be their favorite member of Congress,” he said. “He is actively undermining the fight against Covid, which is driving inflation.”

The partisan gap in infection and vaccination rates is only slightly narrowing. The most Republican counties have 2.78 times as many new cases than the most Democratic counties, down from three times as many a month ago, according to the Democratic health care analyst Charles Gaba, using data from Johns Hopkins University. The death rate in those Republican counties is nearly six times as high as the death rate in the Democratic counties.

To be a Republican nowadays, one needs to be both a racist and an idiot with a death wish.