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‘X’ Marks the Spot !


Whereas Wayne Allen Root has lately been my favorite columnist, his column this week just didn’t float my boat. Ergo I had to go to one of my two favorite Senators, either Rand Paul (R, Tennessee) or John Kennedy (R, Louisiana). 

I love watching Kennedy with his Colombo-esque style which makes liberals sweat when he questions them – often befuddling them with their own past statements. However, today I am choosing to write about Rand Paul’s questioning Health and Human Services Secretary, the X-man, Xavier Becerra during a congressional hearing over the Biden administration’s seeming refusal to recognize natural immunity against COVID-19.

As I began, I was going to try to use a sport’s metaphor to describe what basically occurred during Senator Paul’s grilling of the X-man. However, metaphorically, I was having difficulty choosing between “a no hitter in baseball,” “consecutive love-sets in tennis,” or the amazingly inept offensive performance by the Chicago Bears against the Cleveland Browns in a pro-football game last week.

From Blaze News:

“Paul began the tense exchange, which happened during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, by asking Becerra whether he was aware of an Israeli study that found natural immunity provided significantly stronger protection than the COVID-19 vaccine.”

(Now one would think that as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the X-man would have at least read the latest Covid news, or at least have some of his lackeys make up a few index cards for him to read from.)

When Becerra admitted he was “not familiar with that study,” it was like tennis pro Rand Paul just hit an unreturnable topspin down the line.

Rand Paul continued:

“I think you might want to be if you’re going to travel the country insulting the millions of Americans, including NBA star Jonathan Isaac, who had COVID, [and] recovered — look at a study with 2.5 million people, and say, ‘Well, you know what, I should make the decision,'” Paul said. “Instead, you’ve called Jonathan Isaac and others, myself included, flat-earthers. We find that very insulting, it goes against the science.”

(Another ace by Senator Paul!)

But Rand Paul wasn’t done:

“Are you a doctor or a medical doctor?” Paul pressed.

Becerra didn’t answer the question, but instead weakly responded that he has “worked over 30 years on health policy.”

(The X-man, in fact, is not a medical doctor or public health expert. He spent three decades in politics before joining President Joe Biden’s Cabinet this year. One can almost imagine the play-by-play announcer saying, “The Browns have scored again … the Bears look pitiful today!”)

Paul continued:

You’re not a medical doctor. Do you have a science degree? And yet you travel the country, calling people flat-earthers, who have had COVID, looked at studies of millions of people, and made their own personal decision that their immunity they naturally acquired is sufficient but you presume somehow to tell over 100 million Americans who survived COVID that we have no right to determine our own medical care. You alone are on high and you’ve made these decisions, a lawyer with no scientific background, no medical degree. This is an arrogance coupled with an authoritarianism that is unseemly and un-American.”

(“There it is folks. The X-man struck out again. Not just a no-hitter, but a perfect game. The X-man, was no match for Senator Paul today.”)

But Senator Paul was not about to stop:

“You, sir, are the one ignoring the science. The vast preponderance of scientific studies, dozens and dozens, show robust, long-lasting immunity after COVID infection. Even the CDC does not recommend measles vaccine if you have measles immunity. The same was true for smallpox. But you ignore history and science to shame the flat-earthers, as you call them. You should be ashamed of yourself and apologize to the American people for being dishonest about naturally acquired immunity.”

Whew! In summary, the X-man was demolished by Senator Paul! Perhaps a more apt sport’s metaphor would be … “Rand Paul knocks out the X-man in the first round, and the X-man is still on the canvas.”

10/4/21

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