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• Testimony and links with such implications 

What gives Vaccuous © Typhoid Mary Cardholders® the right to go around selfishly infecting others, putting us at risk of DEATH with their get out of jail free pass to do so.  

If they get sick and need treatment they should be segregated and denied entrance until agreeing to pay totally cash out of pocket . . . why should our insurance go up in coming years for something they decided to inject into their bodies when careful smart people actually followed the science and were duly skeptical of the jab opting for prevention, cures and subsequent natural immunity.

OK, these are a bit accusatory sensational  attention grabbers but no less than what we are constantly subjected to by the dominant press and other vaccine mandators toward those who have made a decision against the current COVID “vaccines”.  The purple prose above also does not reflect what we believe should be policy, they are to challenge the Vaccuous © by making a rhetorical point.  

Friends and family have opted for the COVID vaccines, some in compelling situations but others more trusting of the bureaucracies medical and otherwise than serious risk analysis,  perhaps victims of public health and medical malpractice downplaying the effective early diagnosis and cures providing real natural immunity encompassing COVID variants. In broad rough terms the mRNA jabs may provide 95 % “immunity” * to a specific, unvaried COVID-19 but natural processes and known cures do as well to CIOVID -19 AND its variants.  But, whatever said here, as always do your own direct research or consult your physician.

This elucidating testimony on August 19 before a committee of the Michigan legislature in favor of Michigan HB4471, which would “prohibit discrimination against an employee or volunteer who declines or has not received certain vaccinations, including for COVID-19” along with the associated links we provide lends credence to the use of our retort to the tyrannical bureaucracies elected and corporate, the media and all the Karens traipsing about pushing the current batch of emergency use authorization (EUA) concoctions (one now sort of approved we are told) referred to as COVID-19 vaccines.  The 9-minute video is by Christina Parks who in her testimony states that she holds a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jktvh6k0qys

We found her testimony so succinct clear and compelling that we searched and found a YouTube posting so that we could take advantage of the transcript feature YouTube makes available. We have included that for those of us who prefer reading.  While it is very useful the feature does not provide punctuation capitalization or paragraphing.  The latter we imparted for readability based on our presumption about discrete points made.

Dr. Christina Parks Testimony on the Unscientific Foolishness of ‘Vaccine’ Mandates

hello my name is dr christina parks i receive my phd in cellular and molecular  biology right here in the state of michigan from university of michigan  medical school and so i’m very well versed in the science of both these mrna gene therapy vaccines this kind of technology as well as what a vaccine is designed to do in the body what it can do what it can’t do and the fact that this is extremely complex science that has been oversimplified in the media to basically take away our freedom of choice

what i want to address today in this limited time is the fact that vaccine requirements and mandates are based on the faulty assumption that the vaccines in question prevent transmission of the pathogen right does the vaccine for dtap prevent transmission

no

does the vaccine for flu prevent transmission

no

does do the vaccines for covid prevent transmission

no

in fact they were never designed to do that all right so you’re asking what about this 95 effectiveness they do not say that they prevent transmission they expressly say that they’re measuring whether they attenuate symptoms so they’re 95 effective based on their clinical trials at attenuating symptoms for the first variant which is essentially gone in our population right now

the predominant variant is the delta and cdc director wilinsky basic basically said that these vaccines have no ability to prevent infection by and transmission of the delta variant so our policy needs not to be built on the hope of what we think something we want it to do but what the data actually tell us

so do these viruses prevent the i mean do the vaccines prevent the virus from infecting and replicating in the nose and nasopharynx

no

they’ve only been shown to prevent that replication in the lungs they’re different the mucosa is very different than the lungs it’s very different than the blood you inject it to the blood you make antibodies in your blood the virus isn’t

infecting your blood it’s infecting your mucosa and you don’t produce any iga to neutralize it in fact recent studies have shown that the vaccinated especially with the delta variant and the unvaccinated have similar amounts of virus in their nose and throat

in barn stable massachusetts the cdc tracked an outbreak of 469 cases of covid  . . . 74 occurred and fully vaccinated and 4 out of five of those hospitalized were vaccinated  . . .  all right so maybe they are mandating this because they just didn’t know with the covid and so my main complaint is with our health agencies in the cdc who basically know better and are misleading the public

so let’s look at dtap which the scientists in the cdc have known since 2014 that the acellular pertussis vaccine does not prevent people from getting infected with the pertussis bacteria and passing it to others in fact it was never designed to do that the vaccine was designed to neutralize the pertussis toxin pertussis we know it as whooping cough it can be fatal for children under six months so neutralizing this toxin saves lives all right i’m not going to debate that but what it doesn’t do is neutralize the bacteria so what happens is fully vaccinated children go to daycare they pick up that bacteria and they come home and they give it to their newborn brother or sister they get deathly ill and they go to the hospital hopefully our medical professionals are able to save them but who do they blame now the cdc is blaming anti-vaccers for the limitations of this vaccine design i suggest that they be transparent and tell parents that although it is preventing severe disease in their children it is not preventing transmission because we have created a whole class of asymptomatic pertussis carriers who are increasing the disease

now the old dtp vaccine that many of you who are my age or older got did prevent transmission when we switched to the safer acellular version they knew that it was never designed to prevent transmission it was safer it had less adverse advance but pertussis cases have gone through the roof there’s a resurgence in pertussis because of the design of the vaccine and the vaccinologists know this they’re trying to address it and so we cannot mandate that something that does not prevent transmission

all right what about the flu vaccine well they have shown that basically it there’s no  difference there’s no statistical difference if you’re vaccinated or unvaccinated whether you get the flu or not but it’s even worse because although the first year it is somewhat effective it’s about 65 percent effective at preventing symptoms in you after that it actually has negative efficacy

and i want to address this because it’s very important vaccines are made to a specific variant and when that variant mutates the vaccine no longer recognizes it and so it’s like you’re seeing a completely new virus and because that’s so you actually get more severe symptoms when you’re vaccinated against one variant and then it mutates and then your body sees the other variant so there’s the potential and the science shows that in fact with the flu if you get vaccinated in multiple years you are more likely to get severe disease you are more likely have more viral replication and you are more likely to be hospitalized both in adults and in children we are seeing the same thing in covid with the delta variant and so we are mandating that people get a vaccine that could actually make them more sick when they’re exposed to the virus

in fact this week a paper came out and what it showed is that with this delta variant when you’re vaccinated your body makes antibodies that are supposed to neutralize the virus but they were supposed to neutralize the old variant when they see this new variant what they’re doing is they’re actually the antibodies are taking the virus and helping it infect the cells all right that science was just published this week we need to be looking at the science and we need our policy to reflect the science and we

also need it to reflect our rights okay and so as a phd who knows the science i’m in the category of the most vaccine hesitant group yes phds are the most vaccine hesitant followed by people who have less than a high school degree because they know what they don’t know and they don’t trust their government and many people

the other group that is very vaccine hesitant are african-americans 70 percent of african-americans have not taken this vaccine why because they don’t trust their government do they have reason not to trust their government well between the years of 1930 in 1970 the cdc conducted the tuskegee experiment where they took untreated males with syphilis and they refused to treat them even after antibiotics became available they still did not treat them and they did not tell them that they had syphilis they told those people that they were there to secure their health and they did not secure their health they abused them

you say well that was in the past although i don’t think 1970 was that long ago while in 2012 whistleblower william thompson came forward and said we published a study that said mmr does not cause autism but we lied in fact we shredded data that showed that when black boys are vaccinated on time they have increased rates of autism diagnosis and we shredded it and we left it out of the paper as an african-american and a phd i want to ask each of you are we going to exclude 70 percent of african-american people from the workforce and from education

all right my ancestors did not work this hard i come up from a family that worked very hard and i’m very aware that my privileges are dependent on the work of my grandmother and my great-grandmother and i have great respect for these people that put me where i am and yet you’re telling me that my son will not be able to be educated if based on the history of african americans in this country that he doesn’t want to be vaccinated

all right so i will leave you with that question who are we going to exclude from the workforce are we going to segregation in the united states of america

thank you

Links which support testimony above:

Study: People vaccinated for covid carry 251 times the normal viral load, threatening the unvaccinated 

Landmark mass study finds vaccinated people 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity

Related reading:  

The Good News—A COVID-19 Update.   Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

The Bad And The Ugly About COVID In America   Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

From a doctor bewildered at where all this COVID stuff is going
Steve Karp, MD    

Scapegoating the Unvaxxed  By Sally Zelikovsky

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They validated him as president, they have now seen the devastation to our country’s sovereignty, prestige, ethics and economy that Joseph Biden (predictably) has wrought, so Congressman Miller-Meeks and the rest of the Iowa congressional delegation should sign on to Congressman Marjorie Taylor-Greene impeachment resolution, not out of recompense, but out of their claimed fidelity to the Constitution and to protect America’s freedoms  and traditions.   Full resolution at link below:

Marjorie Taylor-Greene introduces three impeachment-resolutions.

Washington Examiner snapshot:

The three resolutions levied by the congresswoman from Georgia are “dereliction of duty” for Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan situation, another for the “border crisis,” and a third for “usurping congressional authority and ignoring judicial authority of the Supreme Court” for the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium during the coronavirus pandemic

Contact Congressman Miller-Meeks here.

My message  (slightly revised for clarity) is shown below:

To Representative Miller-Meeks —

Your colleague Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene has introduced articles of impeachment directed at Joseph Biden. I am writing to ask and believe that you have a special obligation to support them vigorously.

While carrying on famously about vote counts and election integrity as to your own election, you avoided the clear unconstitutionalities of various states improperly changing or disregarding election laws, direct testimony of extensive fraud, patterns and anomalies that demanded investigation to insure the validity of the electoral college vote totals so that people in other districts would not be disenfranchised. You seemed to do so based on the rather silly operating presumption that your hands were somehow tied because of your view that the authors of the Constitution bothered to install ministerial duties of rubber-stamping the electoral college even in the face of incredible results . . . that they did that instead of just having the electors convene and deliver their report fait accompli with no ability of the Congress to ascertain whether significant corruption was afoot prior to validating them.  This resulted in what is referred to as the Biden administration and was done without a fight on your part (which is all I and others asked).

I believe Representative Taylor-Greene’s impeachment specifications against Biden are accurate, profound and compelling. If you choose not to support them please explain why her specifications are insufficient, mere policy differences or mischaracterize Biden’s fidelity to the Constitution.

Without any validity to their charges, Democrats proceeded with impeachment of President Trump knowing that passage of the impeachment resolution was not insured, that President Pence would result, and that conviction in the Senate was unlikely. Knowing that, please spare a response of that nature as it is fidelity to the Constitution at issue not sketchy political implications.

Something like the first paragraph is sufficient for busy constituents. The same message can be sent to others in the Republican delegation – Hinson and Feenstra.  The last  paragraph was included in anticipation of the expected response of how ‘fruitless” impeachment would be. Actually it would help parlimentarily were it to succeed as (arguably) the process would take us past the 2020 election, and then if convicted, Harris becoming President (if she is not impeached as well) removes her from her Senate tie breaker status.  Her replacement as vice-president requires the approval of a hopefully reconfigured Congress.

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• Iowa needs to do a lot better to protect against mandates

Disregarding standard longevity trails, comment periods and complications and contraindications that would have mitigated against approval of actual vaccines, the FDA “approved” Pfizer Covid 19 mRNA injections moving them (and likely those produced by others) from “emergency approval”  status to “approved”.  The action may be seen as taking away an argument from people concerned about safety who have used the experimental status of mRNA manipulations as one argument against the ability of employers, schools, retailers and any entity with the mindset to require that employees or patrons have the shot, as in “no shot – no job – no service”.

While we think it still has validity medically, ethically and rhetorically — relying on the experimental status as a legal objection will now need refinement. The links and excerpts below in some cases will need to be updated to reflect what was a done deal given that the fox was guarding the chicken house, however core elements of the argument remain.

Disclaimer:  Our comments should not be construed as objecting to all vaccines, the medical and ethical appropriateness of many, nor that we consider the mRNA injections being promoted and mandated are vaccines as properly understood. The comments and advice in the links set forth below and any links and information contained therein are your responsibility to investigate. Comments or links appearing here should not be construed as legal or medical advice.  Consult your lawyers, physicians, clergy and/ or other advisers closer to your situation.

From PJ Media:

Fight Back: Here’s How People Are Legally Resisting Dystopian Diktats to Get a Covid Shot or Be Fired

From The KaiserFamily Foundation (no friend of many of our sentiments regarding health care delivery):

Key Questions About COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

The extent to which states and/or employers might adopt COVID-19 vaccine mandates remains an open question but could affect the distribution and uptake of vaccinations. This is likely to become a more prominent issue over time, as the need to vaccinate a large share of the U.S. population becomes more urgent in the face of variants and reluctance by some to get vaccinated, and if any of the vaccines which currently operate under emergency use authorization (EUA) are fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This issue brief explains the legal basis for vaccine mandates by the federal government, states, and private employers; highlights considerations for mandates while COVID-19 vaccines are subject to an EUA; and discusses mandate exemptions based on disability or religious objection. Key takeaways include the following:

• • • The federal government’s authority to institute a general vaccine mandate is unclear, and has not yet been tested in the courts, though it is likely limited at best.

• • • States’ authority to mandate vaccines to protect public health is well-established. Currently, all states require vaccines for school attendance, while state vaccine requirements for health care workers vary. More generally, though, states do not use mandates for adult vaccination and have thus far said they are not mandating COVID-19 vaccination

• • • Some private employers require influenza vaccines for employees in health care settings, unless prohibited by state law, and some employers and universities have already instituted mandates for COVID-19 vaccination for employees and/or students; at the same time, several states have sought to limit their ability to do so.

• • • More generally, however, it is unclear whether COVID-19 vaccines can be mandated while operating under an EUA, and courts have not yet ruled on this issue.

• • • When in place, under federal law, vaccine mandates may be subject to exemptions based on disability or religious objection.

As COVID-19 vaccination efforts progress, it will be important to monitor any changes in government or employer policy as well as public opinion on vaccine mandates

Situation in Iowa – a weak or unclear bill passed and is in effect that possibly prevents vaccine passports but may not prevent employer mandates regarding employees

From KCCI Updated: 10:23 PM CDT Aug 1, 202

Can Iowa employers mandate COVID-19 vaccinations?

National Law Review:

Can Employers Make COVID-19 Vaccinations Mandatory?

Des Moines Register

Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law limiting use of ‘vaccine passports’ in Iowa

Given current law and the political lay of the land states need to be in the forefront and aggressive in protecting against ineffective COVID -19 mandates that impinge on the health and conscience of patrons and workers, not to mention the economy.

Can Employers Require Workers to Get a COVID-19 Vaccination?

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said employees could be barred from the workplace if they refuse the vaccine, but workers do have some options

R Mall

This V’PAC article to be expanded

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BUT DO NOT WORRY, BIDEN KNEW HOW TO BEFRIEND THEM

MUHAMMED CORN POP NAMED NEW LEADER OF AFGHANISTAN!; WILL BE ASSISTED BY HIS PRINCIPAL AIDE, ALI NUTS GRAPE  

“We will ‘Build Afghanistan Back Better” 

Image caption: Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada is a political and religious leader who is the third Supreme Commander of the Taliban

DLH

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• “The optics were terrible”
• Believe it or not, the actual story is NOT “fake news” (It’s the Biden State Dept.)

Under pressure, State Dept. scraps plan to bill Kabul evacuees $2K for flights.

Plan to bill US citizens $2,000 or more for their evacuation flights from Kabul

In the mean time Joe continues keeping on.  The folks who put him there were the result of  a conspiracy of people either as dumb as Joe or as mendacious.

From the NY Post (not to be confused with the Post Turtle* which is explained below)

WASHINGTON — The State Department was forced to scrap a widely excoriated plan to bill US citizens $2,000 or more for their evacuation flights from Kabul. But the good news is that evacuees and refugees will receive ‘Frequent Flyer Points’ ! (it is rumored). dlh
The hefty price tag drew social media outrage Thursday after it gained public notice.
“In these unique circumstances, we have no intention of seeking any reimbursement from those fleeing Afghanistan,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement provided to The Post.

The cost was publicly posted to a State Department website on Saturday but went largely unnoticed before it was highlighted by Politico’s military-focused newsletter Thursday.
An unnamed State Department spokesman initially stood by the charge, telling Politico that “U.S. law requires that evacuation assistance to private U.S. citizens or third country nationals be provided ‘on a reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable.’”

POST TURTLE –  explains our current situation

Thanks to TN for forwarding the Post Turtle Gif

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The Lincoln Club is a fundraising entity for the Scott County Republican Party.  Senator Grassley was the featured speaker at the August 17th event held at the Outing Club in Davenport.   We have previously decried Grassley’s votes to facilitate and pass the 1.2 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill (maybe half of which actually goes to bridges, roads and physical things.

Besides the pork and enablement of a significant amount of the Dem’s agenda, it is not paid for and, besides precursor studies on how to tax people more for road use, it is not without a tax effect — government action inflating the dollar from deficit spending resulting in reduced citizen buying power, a tax on their pocketbook. The overwhelming majority of the Republican caucus including Iowa Senator Joni Ernst did not go along with Grassley’s rational of “regular order” and ~~ “bring home the bacon”~~  in spite of the lobbying pressure to do so from the gravey-train ticket holders.

Republican opponents  knew it was bad for the country especially because they promised fiscal responsibility and the infrastructure bill set up the horrendous reconciliation bill of 3.5 trillion dollars, a socialist wish list — The Great Reset with the radical Green New Deal in its DNA.   Here is 30 minutes of audio of Grassley at the  luncheon.

In the first section of the above recording Grassley speaks of the reconciliation bill as actually not 3.5 trillion but 4.2 or so. He expounds that he does not expect that one Republican will vote for the reconciliation bill (to applause).  But as we have pointed out none will have to vote for it in order for it to pass, either in the Senate or the House, thanks in part to Senator Grassley.

The Democrats had telegraphed to their constituency (dominant liberal media) what they were up to — get past the infrastructure bill and it to the House which will pass it, and as Pelosi will break arms to do, the Great Reset Reconciliation bill which does not require Republican support could be passed. Grassley voted to facilitate their little enterprise anyway.

It will make no significant difference that some House members have announced they can’t quite see their way to voting for the big bill as gargantuan as it is because what will happen is it will be  bargained down to allow them to save face to say 3.3 trillion which is hardly a win for America’s way of life as all the key resets will be retained.  If Grassley has a dependable strategy around that it has not been revealed.

Grassley is not the only one with responsibility for setting up this devastating financial fiasco and remake of America, obviously all the Democrats are but he voted with the Republican swamp rats to give them the opportunity.  It was another opportunity to defend the republic in recent months that Grassley took a walk on, in this case when he should have been with the great majority of the Republican caucus.

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“A response to a rejoinder to an assertion”

Our DLH responds to your servent’s hopes entrenched in the 2022 mid-term election  

“In short, every disaster that currently plagues Biden and his cohorts is not easily rectified. I’m open to someone proposing a scenario describing how this all works out and doesn’t lead to big Democrat losses in 2022. Really, what is the big turnaround moment that is possible here? I just don’t see it.”
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Roger’s “hope springs eternal”-optimism is heartening, and perhaps, charming. And Bonchie’s quote above is so comforting.

“American voters, in 2022, are sure to turn out in droves to ‘throw the bum Democrats out!”, they suggest.

While I share the hope, I am less confident in its coming to reality..

Just a couple of observations that contribute to my ‘characteristic pessimism’…at the risk of repeating myself:

First of all, “Bonchie” didn’t have the good fortune to read my original post on this topic in which I outlined some of my reasons that all those “big Democrat losses in 2022 probably will not come to pass.

The ‘optimists’ in our midst always swell with pride when they proclaim that the American people have always risen to the occasion…whether it was to oppose fascism and Naziism in Europe in the last century, or attempts to introduce communism into the American political system in the 50’s…”Americans always respond to preserve our nation’s values and freedoms!!”

Well, news flash! The current crop of American “idealists” are not of the same ilk as those of old. Our schools and our teachers, for at least two generations have been taught and conned into indoctrinating their young charges to NOT respect our nation’s ideals and values and history, and how America overcame the slavery, racism, suppression of thought and ideas, and how it became a beacon of liberty and freedom and a magnet for peoples all over the world to look to the USA as the model for government by and for its people.

They are now being taught that this country has never been one ’to die for’…that socialism, even communism is a far better system than the ‘capitalism’ us old yokels have always naively honored.

Our military, our justice system, our governing ideals was our pride and the world’s envy.

When you look around at today’s America, is that what you see?

If your neighbor doesn’t watch Fox News, how much does he or she even know about “all those disasters” which have befallen, and were caused by ‘Biden and his cohorts’”, to which Bonchie refers?

This is not a”commercial” for Fox News Network, but have you watched the “mainstream channels”, the Cable News, your local TV news? Have you read the AP releases dutifully reprinted by your local “news”-paper? (Who is Hunter Biden?)

Have you caught the ‘late night comedy’ shows (Fallon, Colbert, etc), with the exception of Gutfeld (coincidentally, on Fox) ?

Just how much, and, more importantly, how accurately do you think your ‘neighbor’ knows about the huge crisis at our southern border? About the serious threat to our national security that the diseases, the criminality, the terrorist intent being brought by some of those among the thousands and thousands of migrants illegally pouring in to America?

Have you noticed who American voters have installed as mayors of many of our nation’s largest cities (Bottoms, Lightfoot, Bowser, et al)? But before you jump to call “racism”, or “sexism”, because they seem to share similar physical characteristics, note that they by no means reflect the wisdom, accomplishment, and love for America of Candice Owens, Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, M. L. King, and many others who share the skin color, but not the values of the Congressional Black Caucus or the mayors of many of our largest cities. (There’s also a lot of DiBlasios as well.)

Roger has provided a column which warms our hearts and relaxes our fears.
I recommend a column a bit less sanguine but I believe more relevant to the cultural and social environment I have concerns about: By Victor Davis Hanson: An American apocalypse – why people of all classes, races are filled with fear

Ah but Roger suggests that I, and perhaps Dr. Hanson just don’t have enough confidence in that “American Spirit” that will ultimately inspire the American people to march to the polls in huge numbers to vote the ‘demon’ Democrats out of office.

Oh, how much I long to share his generally rosy outlook!

But then, back when I was an “optimist”, I was not alone in my belief in 2020 that those same Americans would ‘laugh out loud’ and cast a ballot for the most effective president in recent American history, Donald J. Trump …and against the arguably very worst presidential candidate in all of recorded history. ..a person who, even when he had all his faculties was a grim political joke.

It was said, not in jest, that the “Scranton Scrapper” was chosen as Vice President because the prospect of him ascending to the presidency was the best insurance against the America-hating Barack Obama being impeached for his efforts to destroy our country with his radical “transformational” ideas and policies.

And, yet those Americans we’re looking to restore our country’s greatness and produce those “big losses” for Democrats next year, sent a feeble, lifetime political fake to the Oval Office…because the media portrayed Joe Biden as a “decent, God-fearing” man.

If today’s ‘Americans’ can elect, legally or not, as president a proven fraud who, on the few occasions he actually campaigned in public, insulted even Democrat voters (“you’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier”) and lied openly about his “brilliance’ (“first in his law school class”), and his governmental ‘accomplishments’(a former Secretary of Defense in a Democrat administration noted that ‘Joe Biden was wrong on about every foreign policy matter throughout his near 50 year career in government’), how can we have confidence that today’s American voters will impose those “big Democrat (electoral) losses in 2022” that Bonchie predicts and Roger hopes for?

I will be happy to be proclaimed 2022’s “Biggest Pessimist who got it wrong!” if it does indeed mean a return to the ideals, values, and contributions this great nation has made to our world’s freedoms.

But, it’s going take a lot of work by a lot of good people, like our readers. We appreciate  comments regarding assertions by V’pac editors,   God bless America.
dlh

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• And not in a good way
• Grassley to appear at Scott County Republican event Tuesday, noon, The Outing Club 2109 Brady St., Davenport — he should be held to the fire
• Of note: Grassley voted with Graham for the same atrocity censured in SC  South Carolina county GOP censures Sen. Lindsey Graham after he voted for $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

• Senator Grassley, thirty Republicans opposed the 1.2 bill including Joni Ernst — how are they not as enlightened as you?
• We suspect they are just as interested in bringing home the bacon, but not by hazarding the country and its citizens’ financial well-being 
• Senator Grassley, with all due respect,  what we expect is that you stand athwart the Great Reset, at all times and everywhere, not facilitate it out of a sense of “bipartisanship” and “regular order”

Conservative dismay with Chuck Grassley over his vote in support of the Biden trillion dollar plus largely non-infrastructure “Infrastructure Bill” along with the usual suspect Republicans, accommodationists and facilitators of Democrats worst deigns, is wide and deep. And for what Senator!? To say you are bipartisan??? . . . for some questionable silver for Iowa and honest needs that can be had in other ways?

Senator Grassley,  Republicans did not nominate you to be bi-partisan in the Democrats’ evil pursuit of the Great Reset. Thirty, the great majority, of the Republican Caucus in the Senate including our own Senator Ernst did not agree with your accommodationist analysis as they saw egregious expense and tremendous dangers in what the parliamentary process portends. That the level of spending was the result of as you say “regular order” in committee is no comfort especially when the sum of the parts is outrageous and so much of it is a coordinated assault on America’s advantages and traditions while hamstringing its citizens with inefficiencies, less freedoms and more and more debt service.

Planning, pilot projects and implementation of some very bad things are intertwined in the bill which parliamentarily was a stalking horse to advance three times more costly companion legislation that a mere majority vote in the Senate passes (explained in links set forth below). Does/did  opposing the larger entitlement bill make you feel better having helped enable it?

Supposedly our nation’s debt ceiling must be increased to accommodate this outrageous spending.   The debt ceiling is no substantial backstop with such spinelessness in Washington. As the result of government action, your action, these bills engender an inflation tax increase on ordinary citizens as the printing presses roll out the dollar bills to accommodate the inevitable debt increase that you will expand, in the spirit of bipartisanship or something.

Below are links to informed mainstream conservative commentaries challenging such profligacy and hazarding of the country.  After those we have embedded a forward we received of a response from Senator Grassley to a constituents expressed concerns.  Our annotations are interspersed in red. This is a different letter than we previously commented on.

No, the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is not ‘paid for.’ The American people will be paying for it for years to come.

The Anti-White Infrastructure Bill.

Here Are The 19 Senate Republicans Who Voted For The Infrastructure Legislation.

Trump calls Dems’ $3.5T spending bill an ‘assault’ on the ‘American dream’: ‘Time to wake up!”

Republicans who voted for $1.2 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill got played.

Democrats Projected to Spike National Debt to $45 Trillion.

Levin: GOP Senators Backing Infrastructure Chose ‘Tyranny’.

Sen. Markey: ‘The Green New Deal Is in the DNA’ of Democrats’ $3.5T Reconciliation Bill

Republican RINOs Betray GOP Grassroots Once Again

Nancy Pelosi Goes Full Kool-Aid Man Over the Infrastructure Deal

17 Republican Senators Line Up to Get Screwed on Infrastructure Deal

Senate Republicans Prostrate Themselves Before Joe Biden in Pathetic Display.

Sen. Cruz Warns That Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could ‘Obliterate’ Cryptocurrency.

Senator Grassley responds to constituent unrest with misdirection

August 11, 2021
Dear Mr. ****:

Thank you for taking the time to contact me about infrastructure funding. As your senator, it is important for me to hear from you.

I appreciate hearing your concerns about the infrastructure bill recently passed by the Senate. I recognize that there are a lot of rumors about what is actually in the bill passed by the Senate as opposed to what was in President Biden’s proposal – about two-thirds of which was not real infrastructure – or the House-passed infrastructure bill. I welcome this opportunity to respond to you and am happy to clear up any confusion.

First, I want to make clear that this bill does not contain the Equality Act or any amnesty for those here illegally. It does not implement a mileage tax or raise the gas tax, and in fact has no new taxes on individuals and families. It does not contain the trillions in free college, child care, and “human infrastructure” that some on the other side of the aisle have proposed.

What BS — it plans for a mileage tax and other taxing concepts further it does impose taxes in the form of inflation resulting from deficit spending. As for the free stuff the bill advances those toward a package requiring a mere majority vote

Instead, this bill is focused on physical infrastructure. It provides $110 billion for roads and bridges; $73 billion for the electric grid; $66 billion for passenger and freight rail; $55 billion for water and wastewater infrastructure, including funds to replace lead pipes; $43 billion to expand broadband access to rural and underserved areas; $39 billion for public transportation; $25 billion for airports; $17 billion for ports; and $12 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction, such as for river navigation and flood prevention. I believe infrastructure of this kind is essential to keep the economy competitive, boost trade, and ensure high quality of living in every state. In Iowa, it is fundamental to moving our agriculture products, manufactured goods, and people. Iowa also has a large number of trucking companies, and truck traffic throughout the state is high. Investment in our core infrastructure systems helps our economy.

Really Senator, talking down to us when it is not focused predominantly on physical infrastructure certainly not bricks, mortar, steel and pavement, rather it paves the way for leftist planning boondoggles.  We all know some infrastructure was in it just not mostly.  Your job was to get the actual infrastructure without advancing a fiscal atrocity and worse.

Traditionally, there has been broad bipartisan support in Congress and across different presidential administrations for addressing these core infrastructure needs. For example, Congress has worked together in a bipartisan manner to draft and pass legislation to reauthorize surface transportation programs approximately every five years. Over the past five years there has been significant interest in passing a comprehensive infrastructure bill under both the Biden and Trump administrations.

This is exemplified by the fact that much of the compromise is made up of four preexisting bills – the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act, the Surface Transportation Investment Act, the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act, and the Energy Infrastructure Act – that all went through regular order and were passed out of their respective committees with bipartisan support.

Seeing the nature of so much of it, the regular order you speak of is hardly comforting or exculpatory

These pieces of legislation would have gone through the floor process individually. For example, surface transportation programs that are operating under a one year extension set to expire on September 30, 2021, and almost certainly would have been renewed by Congress even without this compromise bill.

So you opted for something other than regular order

To be sure, there are parts of this bill I disagree with. Like any compromise, it isn’t perfect and nobody got everything they wanted or likes everything in the bill, but this bipartisan package is a vast improvement over the House-passed infrastructure bill and a far cry from President Biden’s initial proposals.

“Parts that you disagree with”. Parts, PARTS!! How is it you don’t disagree with most of it, which is cause to oppose something and go back to the drawing board

And ah yes,  the ‘it could have been worse argument’ as a substitute for it should have been stopped

Most prominently, I remain concerned about the cost of the bill. While the bill does not contain any increase in gas taxes, no new mileage taxes, and no tax increases on individuals or families, I consistently voted for amendments to limit the cost of the bill. Thankfully – as a result of bipartisan negotiations – much of the bill is also paid for through funds originally intended as part of previous COVID-19 packages.

Except those are not actually paid for, it all involves deficit spending 

This does not cover 100% of the cost, but I believe that on the whole this compromise is worth it.

The Dems did not get anything they did not want other than they would have preferred not giving Red states any pork and they intend to get one heck of a lot more with the reconciliation bill

As a result, on August 10, 2021, I joined a majority of my colleagues

Note he did not join the great majority of Republican colleagues but Dems are just regular old colleagues.  Why does it hurt to say I joined all Democrats, and the usual Republican suspects?

 in passing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. While there are things that I would have changed in the bill, I voted for this legislation because it provides needed investments for Iowa’s infrastructure. This bipartisan bill (eech)  fixes potholes, rebuilds bridges, upgrades water systems, and brings broadband to rural corners of our state. It now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.

Which is too imply there is no way Iowa would have got a penny but for his vote and Joni Ernst was out to starve Iowans and all those other Senators were out to starve their states.

Although I voted in favor of this bill, I certainly agree with the concerns about a second proposed $3.5 trillion package. This first bipartisan bill is the result of months of compromise and is focused on actual, real-world infrastructure.

You helped advance their cause for the 3.5 trillion.  They even told you what they were up to (see link above) 

But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have also put forward a disastrous package that creates new entitlements is a purely partisan exercise. President Biden and his allies in Congress initially intended for this second package to ride along under the guise of “infrastructure.” This bipartisan infrastructure bill and the upcoming entitlement bill are separate issues and must be considered as such. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to play games by tying these two issues together, but now that we have addressed real infrastructure they will have to justify their reckless tax and spending spree to the American people on its own merits instead of calling it “infrastructure”. I fully intend to oppose and work to defeat the upcoming $3.5 trillion bill.

So your Democrat colleagues are “disaster” promulgators, they operate on a “purely partisan” basis (they needed you on the 1.2 they do not on the 3.5 because it is subject to different Senate rules) they “play games” (you are oblivious to them) “they are reckless tax and spenders” but they can be trusted on the merits of what you helped them pass.  Sheesh

Thank you again for contacting me. I hope you will continue to keep me informed of federal matters that are important to you. My offices in Iowa, as well as in Washington, D.C., are here to serve you.

Sincerely,

Chuck Grassley
United States Senator (for life)

Ed Note: So much more could be said about this. The reader who forwarded the Grassley response was more succinct, describing it as  “what bull shit”

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A “folk song” about “Regular Order Chuck Grassley” — adapted from and sung to the tune “MTA” popularized by the Kingston Trio 

These are the times that try men’s souls
In the course of our nation’s history the people of America have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened
Today a new crisis has arisen
The “Regular Order” Authority Is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of the inflationary Infrastructure Bill, a stalking horse for even worse
Citizens, hear me out, this is happening to you!

Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named ~~ Charlie
On a welcome and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family
And flew into DCA

But, did he ever retire?
No he never retired and his fate is still unlearned (what a pity)
He wants to vote forever ‘in the swamp called Washington
He’s the man who never retired

Charlie handed in his soul at the Establishment Metro Station
And he’s spending far too much
When he got there the conductor told him, “one more term”
And Charlie would not get off of that train!

But will he ever retire?
No he never retired and his fate is still unlearned (regular order Charlie)
He may vote forever in the swamp of Washington
He’s the man who never retired

Now, Charlie flies back to Iowa stations
Crying, “you really need me”
How can you get more windmills and ethanol plants
Without good old me!”

But did he ever retire
No he never retired and his fate is still unlearned (shame and scandal)
He may vote forever ‘in the swamp called Washington
He’s the man who never retired

Charlie’s wife goes down to the Waterloo Airport
Every Friday at quarter past two
And through the gates she hands Charlie a favorite sandwich
So he can keep on with the message he’s voting for you

But did he ever retire?
No he never retired and his fate is still unlearned (he may vote forever)
He may vote forever in the swamp of Washington
He’s the man who never retired

Pick it Davey

Kinda hurts my fingers

Now, you citizens of Iowa, don’t you think it’s a scandal
How the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the big spenders, fight for the Republic
Charlie needs to ‘can regular order in DCA

Or else America will never return
No we’ll never return and our heritage will be squandered
But Charlie can say he kept to regular order in the swamp of Washington
He’s the man who never retired

He’s the man who never retired
He’s the man who never retired
Et tu, Charlie?

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Original Lyrics by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes:

These are the times that try men’s souls
In the course of our nation’s history the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened
Today a new crisis has arisen
The Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the M.T.A.
Is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of a subway fare increase
Citizens, hear me out, this could happen to you!

Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA

Well, did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (what a pity)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned

Charlie handed in his dime at the Kendall Square station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain
When he got there the conductor told him, “one more nickel”
Charlie couldn’t get off of that train!

But did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (poor old Charlie)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned

Now, all night long Charlie rides through the station
Crying, “what will become of me?
How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?”

But did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (shame and scandal)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned

Charlie’s wife goes down to the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumbling through!

But did he ever return?
No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned (he may ride forever)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned
Pick it Davey

Kinda hurts my figers

Now, you citizens of Boston, don’t you think it’s a scandal
How the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase, vote for George O’Brian
Get poor Charlie off the MTA!

Or else he’ll never return
No he’ll never return and his fate is still unlearned (just like Paul Revere)
He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned

He’s the man who never returned
He’s the man who never returned
Et tu, Charlie?

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