Posted on 04/28/2020 5:09:52 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
With Texas Governor Greg Abbott now moving fairly aggressively to reopen Texas and its economy (the 10th largest on earth), the differences in approach between Republican governors and Democrat governors are now becoming increasingly stark.
Abbott now joins Republican governors like Brian Kemp in Georgia, Henry McMaster in South Carolina, Ron DeSantis in Florida, Kristi Noem in South Carolina and Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma in lending a sense of urgency to getting businesses reopened and people back to work, rescinding stay-at-home orders in the process. Noem, along with Republican governors in 6 other states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming) in fact never even issued such an order for her state.
Unsurprisingly, not a single Democrat governor showed similar restraint. Democrats literally live for the chance to lord political power over common people, and the Wuhan Virus provided the best such opportunity most of them have ever had to do so. As New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told Tucker Carlson with a smile on his face recently, he “wasn’t even thinking about the Bill of Rights” when he issued his own order, and there can be little doubt that most, if not all, other Democrat governors also never gave such arcane concepts as individual freedoms a second thought. Drs. Fauci and Birx had advised governors to use their judgment in ordering their people to stay at home, and by God, the judgment of every Democrat was to knee-jerk to such an order.
Today, as Republicans are now rescinding the orders they issued, here are the actions we have seen in recent days from Democrat governors around the country:
– Virginia Governor Ralph KKK Coonman Northam – On April 15, he extended his order for the closure of “non-essential” businesses to May 8. On April 23, he extended his ban on “non-essential” surgeries for another week (there sure is a lot of “non-essential” stuff going on in Virginia, huh?). On March 31, he extended his stay-at-home order through June 10. Truly, this a man on a mission.
– Michigan’s plastic-faced Strong-Woman Gretchen Whitmer – After earlier extending her stay-at-home order through May 15, announced on Monday that she wants the legislature to step in to further extend it for another 28 days. Whitmer claims to have the power to do this herself (power she has exercised, rightly or wrongly, already on several separate occasions) but after receiving pushback from members of both parties in the legislature, she is now looking for political cover.
– California Governor Gavin Newsom – While Newsom has surprisingly performed fairly reasonably during this crisis – with notable exceptions, like getting burned when he purchased thousands of Chinese respirators that don’t work – it is important to note that his own stay-at-home order doesn’t even have a planned expiration date. In mid-April, he rolled out 6 requirements that must be met in order for him to begin rolling that order back. As of today, those requirements have not been met, and aren’t likely to be met anytime soon.
– Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf – Extended his stay-at-home order through May 8.
– New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy – On Monday announced that his own indefinite stay-at-home order would remain in place “until further notice.” At the same time, he outlined a gradual plan for reopening that hinges almost entirely on the current false media narrative about “more testing.” In other words, he’s really enjoying this exercise of authoritarian power and has no plans to give it up anytime soon.
– New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – What can you say about this guy? His feckless lack of leadership and preparation have been largely responsible for this outbreak across the United States, and the media-directed national panic that led to so many needless draconian restrictions across the country, as governors of both parties failed to realize that their states were not like New York, not at all. Cuomo still, to this day, has not shut down the petri dishes on rails that are New York City’s subway cars. To. This. DAY. He got caught short on ventilators because, in 2015, he made the decision to forego buying 15,000 of them at bargain prices, spending the money instead on nebulous “climate change” nonsense. He has utterly and completely failed to protect senior citizens living in the state’s nursing homes, which have been the centers for a huge portion of New York’s massive COVID-19 death toll.
Naturally, Cuomo’s performance in this pandemic has made him a folk hero to the corrupt news media and most Democrat voters, and he is a shoe-in to be re-elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office this November.
Holy crap.
It’s hard to be optimistic about America’s future when voters keep electing and re-electing Democrats to positions of power. Granted, Republicans aren’t a hell of a lot better, but as we have seen during this epidemic given to us by the ChiComs, they at least exhibit some level of respect for the rights of their citizens, and observe the need to take those into consideration while also taking actions necessary to protect the public.
Where the respective governors of each party are concerned, the contrasts in approach are in fact very stark and unambiguous.
Keep that in mind when you cast your votes in November.
That is all.
I despise Fail Murphy as much as anyone, but some of the lockdown orders New Jersey actually make a lot of sense. They were imposed after one of the first nice days of the spring — when New Jersey’s parks and public places were flooded with mutants from New York City and Philadelphia.
While nearly everything you said about Cuomo is correct, he is not on the ballot in November. He won his third term in office in the fall of 2018.
There is no proof that lockdowns have ever worked anywhere that I know of.
States with little to no lockdowns at all are doing far better than harsh lockdown states.
If mutants from Philly and NYC are invading NJ, use the police to stop em from coming in. After all they have already assumed dictatorial powers no?
What does that have to do with anything?
South Dakota and an up and comer for us (I hope)
That's a joke. Right?
For several years, some towns in New Jersey had been involved in a long legal dispute over keeping out-of-state residents out of their public parks. They lost that battle, and were forced to stand down. The state has had its hand tied since then — which surely would have played a big role in the governor’s decisions here.
Author doesn’t mention Colorado’ s governor, who is opening things up...or is he?
Good question. Gov Polesitter has ‘sort of opened things up. County has to have plan submitted to gov and ask pretty please to let its County residents go back to normal operations. He’s a douche anyway you look at it.
Gov. Nipple Rings is not up for re-election until 2022. No matter, he will win if he chooses tomrun again.
Gov Reynolds in Iowa is opening restaurants (not full capacity), gyms and several other business types on Friday in 77 of the 99 counties in Iowa. Most of the ones still closed are the higher populated counties and/or the ones with the meat packing plants with high per capita infections.
GOP States vs. Democrat
Democrat states broke
GOP states not
The Jersey Shore towns will be busy this summet. Murphy or not. Cape May County is very Conservative, and a cash cow for NJ.
What I’m curious to see is how fast people respond when lockdown orders are lifted. I’m hoping it will happen over night - since the lockdowns are killing businesses and are not making anyone safer.
But I see lot of stupid sheeple afraid to end social distancing until Fauci gives them the all clear - and he never will. I worry that even when Republican governors lift the orders, restaurants will still be empty.
What do you think?
Unless you are really old, you don’t really want to stay cooped in, all day for months. I am old and I still don’t want to stay in for long periods of time week after week.
Going by what’s already happening in Georgia, I think there will be a pent up need for people to rush out and do the normal stuff they used to do before the lockdowns. Like getting a haircut, going to the hair dressers, the hardware store etc.
Young people have too much energy to keep staying in some house all day for months.
This whole lockdown nonsense was not well thought through at all.
“This whole lockdown nonsense was not well thought through at all.”
That’s for sure. We build immunity by letting ourselves be exposed to everything. It worked fine for millions of years.
But Fauci says we need to social distance for this virus.
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I wish Fauci would permanently "distance" himself from the United States.
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