Adam Rain sent me an e-mail and links to an informative case that involves the W.H.O. It’s a study they did on second-hand smoking. When the findings didn’t support their anti-smoking bias, they buried the study. See here or here.
We can surely multiply examples of W.H.O.’s bad behavior with some searching. The fact is that members of Congress know this and do not care. It’s all politics to them. The current chorus of Pelosi and others is all fake sanctimony because this is an election year and a way to criticize Trump. They’re all hypocrites who deserve to be voted out of office and replaced by Ron Paul disciples and graduates of the Mises Institute.
The criticism of Trump’s every move in the case of COVID-19 is absolutely astounding to me. People are dying and near-dying and the Left is busy carping at every thing Trump says or does, still trying to build an impeachment case, and still calling him every name in the book. Pelosi is utterly a poisonous presence in American politics. Her narrow goal has been to turn this tragedy, marked by many missteps and much ignorance to be sure, into advantages for her progressive agenda. This is truly horrid. In the face of a great deal of travail, sorrow and death, she’s up there showing off her freezer and ice cream collection. What in the world is wrong with her?
Now, it’s a fact that Congress funds W.H.O. and Trump has to find some legal loopholes in our welter of federal law in order to stop such funding. He’s the executive who administers the dispersal of the funds and this administrative function in the usual organization includes appraisal that the funds are not being wasted or diverted to inappropriate purposes. This leaves him and the executive branch a tremendous amount of leeway to alter the automatic appropriations for W.H.O. and prevent them from reaching their destination.
Is our government so insanely constructed that there are no effective controls on how funds are handled after they are appropriated? If it isn’t the constitutional task of the Executive branch to oversee their proper uses, then it must be that of Congress. But obviously Congress fails in this critical function constantly. Its oversight committees can’t control the Pentagon, for example, and Pentagon cannot even account for the funds it receives. It seems that any president can make a strong case for impounding funds when Congress fails in its oversight, which is all the time. So what if it gets thrown into the courts? Better a divisive contest over this than letting this farce continue indefinitely.
Trump should pressure Congress, either by creating his own auditing staff or by getting the GAO or Congress to do so. If that doesn’t work, the political alternative that’s left is to throw the bums out of office. They get elected every two years in the House, where appropriation bills originate. Trump has to throw his weight behind whatever movements he can assemble to run against government spending. It’s waste anyway, waste and more waste. The barrier he faces is gaining control over his party and its nominations, which means going up against established interests, which are a broad range of organizations.
What the Democrats and too many Republicans stand for is preventing Washington from being purged of them and their associated rats. The whole idea behind NeverTrump, the Russian collusion hoax, the personal attacks on Trump, and the continual transformation of every Trump move into a political attack on him, and most of these are incredible lies, has been to prevent Trump from ever doing what needs to be done to kill these disease-bearing rats.
They’re traitors to the American public. They’re scum. They’re anti-patriots. Their goal is to prevent Trump from cleaning house until such time as they regain power and move ahead with their agenda.
9:22 pm on April 16, 2020
