Shot in the Arm: With daily deaths approaching an average of 4,000 a day, President-elect Joe Biden yesterday promised an ambitious effort to vaccinate Americans against the coronavirus. “You have my word,” he said, “we will manage the hell out of this operation.”

  The vaccination effort under the Trump administration has stumbled and even people eligible for the shots by job description, medical condition, or age cannot get them.

  “Our plan is as clear as it is bold: get more people vaccinated for free, create more places for them to get vaccinated, mobilize more medical teams to get the shots in people’s arms, increase supply and get it out the door as soon as possible,” Biden said, calling it “one of the most challenging operation efforts ever undertaken by our country.”

  Biden pledged to ramp up vaccination availability in pharmacies, build mobile clinics, and encourage states to expand vaccine eligibility to people 65 and older.

  One of the problems is that the supply of vaccines available now is targeted for people who need to get their second shot, not their first. The two companies contracted with the US government have contracts with the federal government to supply a total of 200 million doses, enough to fully vaccinate 100 million people, by the end of March.

The Threatdown: Variations of the coronavirus, particularly the one first found in Britain, threaten to accelerate the spread of the virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday.

  The British mutation in particular is more contagious than the one spreading around the world for more than a year. “It means that it is going to be harder and harder to control it. ” Dr. Gregory Armstrong, who directs the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection at CDC’s respiratory diseases division, told CNN.

  The US has already registered 23,532,604 cases of the coronavirus and 392,139 deaths.

Politically Correct: The Republican party is becoming a house divided with efforts to punish members who’ve broken with the official line.

  In the House of Representatives, some members want to unseat Wyoming’s Liz Cheney as House Republican conference chair because of her vote to impeach Donald Trump. 

  Ohio’s Jim Jordan, a soldier for Trump, told reporters, “I think she’s totally wrong.” 

  No one is sacred. The Arizona Republican Party plans to vote on a measure to censure Cindy McCain, the widow of the revered Sen. John McCain, in part because of her support for President-elect Joe Biden and same-sex marriage.

  The resolution, which also calls for throwing McCain out of the party, says, “Cindy McCain has failed to support Conservative Republican candidates such as President Trump” and “Cindy McCain has supported globalist policies and candidates, including Democrats such as Joe Biden, in direct opposition to Republican values, the interests of the American people, and the Constitution of the United States.”

Shot in the Foot: The financially struggling National Rifle Association, with the possible aim of escaping New York investigators, is declaring bankruptcy in New York with the intent of re-incorporating in the more gun-friendly Texas. The NRA was established in New York after the Civil War.

  New York attorney general Letitia James wants to dissolve the NRA and has been investigating the organization for possible corruption since 2019. “The NRA’s claimed financial status has finally met its moral status: bankrupt,” James said in a statement Friday. “While we review this filing, we will not allow the NRA to use this or any other tactic to evade accountability and my office’s oversight.”

  James and her investigators are wondering where Wayne LaPierre, the face and  chief executive of the NRA, got his designer suits and who paid for trips  to the  Bahamas, Palm Beach, Reno, and Italy’s Lake Como, said in a statement, “The NRA is pursuing reincorporating in a state that values the contributions of the NRA, celebrates our law-abiding members, and will join us as a partner in upholding constitutional freedom.” 

Natural Selection: A Texas real estate broker who flew to Washington in a private plane to take part in the January 6^th Capitol insurrection has been arrested by the Feds. She provided the evidence against herself with videos promoted online. 

  “We are going to fucking go in here. Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go,” she said on the video. “Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor,” she said. If a 6×6 concrete condo is what you’re looking for, she knows where to find one.

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