Sen. Tom Cotton speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)
National Review: The Senator Who Saw the Coronavirus Coming
While others slept, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the coronavirus was coming for America.
On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus, the Arkansas senator sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar encouraging the Trump administration to consider banning travel between China and the United States and warning that the Communist regime could be covering up how dangerous the disease really was. That same day, he amplified his warnings on Twitter and in an appearance on the radio program of Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade.
At the time, the Senate impeachment trial was dominating the news cycle. The trial, which lasted from January 16 to February 5, had even blotted out coverage of the Democratic presidential primary in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses. When the first classified briefing on the virus was held in the Senate on January 24, only 14 senators reportedly showed up.
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WNU Editor: WNU's first post on this pandemic was on January 20 .... Deadly Coronavirus From China Has Global Health Officials On Alert (January 20, 2020). One regret that I have is that I first heard about this outbreak a week or two before I did my first post (on January 20) describing this outbreak. I knew then that it was an important story because the Chinese were treating it very seriously. What's my excuse. Everyone's focus (including mine) was on President Trump's impeachment trial. Upon reflection .... I felt then that impeachment was a waste of time, and after two months my feelings have only become stronger that the entire impeachment circus was a waste of time.
Sen. Tom Cotton.
ReplyDeleteRepublican from Doofus, Arkansas.
The clown car is full, my friend.
Umm I appreciate the early reporting. It was one of the primary reasons I got out of the market before it crashed. My retirement account thanks you
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ReplyDeleteYou're no where good as Tom Cotton.
Look at his schooling and professional achievements. He was not an affirmative action admission to an ivory league school and he passed the bar exam.
Unlike a loot of other politicians, he did not hide out in intel or JAG. He went infantry. He was also in Baghdad before the surge, when it was dangerous.
I'm mistaken. He was born in Goober, Arkansas.
ReplyDeleteTom Cotton could have hid in the rear with the gear.
ReplyDeleteHe could have been a REMF like Buttigieg or the Biden Boys.
You don't like him because he was not for the Iran deal or something. Maybe you are gay?
I'm gay for land wars in Asia! Those have worked out really great!
ReplyDeleteLet's fight some more! Sign me up for front line infantry and then I'll be gay as all hell!
I asked, because I reckoned there was a good chance you were gay. Many liberals will register your level of hostility to a conservative. But when it is as much over the top as yours is, then it is the type I see at places like the Joe My God blog. Like when they could not figure out, who Aaron shock's partner might be. It bugged them to no end. They were obsessed. They thought if they could get to the partner, they could out Schock and flip him. that is when they were not obsessing over his sartorial skills or the size of his package.
ReplyDeleteYour problem with Cotton is very nonspecific. What policy position of his don;t you like and why is it wrong in your estimation. So far all I hear is screeching coming from you.
The land wars went reasonably well. The Russians, Chinese and Norks did not get South Korea like they wanted. Thailand is not communist. The sooner they would have obtained their immediate objectives, the faster and harder they would have event onto other objectives like The Phillipines or Japan.
You are full of wisdom like Vizini, when you say "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." We all remember what happened to Vizini.
Anon--
ReplyDeletewhere and when did you serve? no.send others but not you