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Scammer alert: Lincoln Project’s Disgrace
Last summer, donations to the Lincoln Project rolled in “by the
tens of millions,” as “the group tried to claim a higher moral
ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP,” recount Steve
Peoples and Brian Slodysko at RealClearPolitics. Yet multiple
sources now claim that harassment allegations against cofounder
John Weaver were “repeatedly raised inside the organization,
long before leaders acknowledged them publicly in late January.”
Through it all, “the group took no action against Weaver and
pressed forward with its high-profile work” — much of which
involved funneling donations to firms controlled by Lincoln
Project principals. The group denies all this. Still, the
cascading accusations “threaten the stature of not just the
Lincoln Project, but the broader coalition of establishment-
oriented Republican groups hoping to . . . excise Trump from the
party.”
Pandemic journal: Get Vaccinated ASAP
At USA Today, five members of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-
19 Advisory Board warn against waiting to be vaccinated: “Take
whatever vaccine is offered to you. Right now, all of the
vaccines are the ‘best.’?” Reports of varying effectiveness in
the different vaccines “miss the most important point”: that
they “were all 100 percent effective in the vaccine trials in
stopping hospitalizations and death.” Any variation in efficacy
rates applies only to “mild forms of COVID-19 illness,” and “we
don’t vaccinate to prevent a minor case of the sniffles.” Time
is ultimately “the most important factor” when it comes to
getting vaccinated, because every day that passes “is a day
where you have a higher risk of getting infected, becoming
seriously ill and dying.” So just get it done.
From the right: Biden Smeared Capitol Police
What stood out most in the presentation from House impeachment
managers last week was the “heroism” of the Capitol Police,
notes The Washington Post’s Marc A. Thiessen. But President
Biden’s reaction immediately following the riot was to accuse
“the heroes who saved our elected representatives of bigotry,
saying they would have treated black protesters differently.”
The evidence “clearly shows that police failed to stop the mob
not because of the color of their skin, but because the officers
were overpowered.” For Biden to suggest that “the officers who
risked and gave their lives to defend Congress failed to ‘carry
out equal justice’ is a calumny.” The president promised to
unite the country, but “at the very moment when Americans of all
political stripes were united in outrage, he sought to divide
us.” Biden must rectify his injustice: The president “owes the
Capitol Police an apology.”
Union watch: Speak Out for Schools, GOP!
President Biden “is not going to pressure teachers unions to
reopen schools and get kids back into the classrooms,” sighs
Stephen Miller at Spectator USA, notwithstanding his campaign’s
“pro-science mantras.” This has led even “Biden-friendly” media
figures like CNN’s Jake Tapper to grumble — yet sadly,
Republicans are failing to seize ground, which is both bad for
the country and a waste of a massive political opportunity:
“Every Republican should be hammering this issue right now,
everywhere, on every network TV appearance and Twitter feed.
Fighting with the media about Donald Trump will not
automatically lead to midterm victories next year. Fighting for
parents across this country might. .?.?. Republican members of
Congress should be talking about nothing else. Not Donald Trump.
Not impeachment. Not QAnon tweets. Nothing. It is clear that
President Biden has abandoned the parents of schoolchildren who
voted for him for a little peace and quiet coming from
Washington, because that is who Joe Biden is and always has
been.” But as it is, the GOP is “blowing it.”
Iconoclast: The Anti-Trump Third-Party Delusion
Never Trumpers are the most “overrepresented” faction in the
national media, gripes The Week’s Matthew Walther, and now some
are floating the idea of a Never Trump third party. Sorry:
“There aren’t enough people who broadly approve of tax cuts and
bombing the hell out of the Middle East and opposing labor
unions but don’t like mean tweets to form a new political party.”
— Compiled by Ashley Allen & Sohrab Ahmari
https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/lincoln-projects-disgrace-and-
other-commentary/
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