But the unanswered question is why would he want this job? Chances are that Klain is getting out because the classified documents scandal is threatening to turn what used to be a mere disaster of an Administration into a nuclear-scale catastrophe. Considering how the skids seem to be getting greased for Biden, it could even be a short-lived, dead-end job. Plus, Zients hasn’t even taken office yet, and he’s already getting blasted from both sides.
Conservative media are pointing out that he ran Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response, which was tyrannical and tragically incompetent. The “Instapundit” blog reminded readers that a year ago, Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com blasted Biden for picking Zients and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, two men with no medical background, to handle the worst pandemic in a century, and their politicizing of it destroyed the public’s trust in our health agencies. …
And in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, the leftwing site The American Prospect accused Zients of steering the COVID response to “catastrophic lows” and demanded he be fired. Other “progressive” outlets are blasting Zients for not being enough of a leftist activist, with one slamming him as “a veteran of private equity, rapacious health care providers, and Big Tech.”
[Thanks, Gov. Huckabee. I’m not sure who the choice of Zients is supposed to please, other than Biden himself. — Ed]
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