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Tom Cotton wants full national shutdown
Breitbart ^ | 3/16/20 | Hannah Bleau

Posted on 03/16/2020 12:20:04 PM PDT by david1292

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday called for the United States to take more drastic measures to address the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, including a national “shutdown” that would only exclude “absolutely essential work” and stipends to affected workers to assist them in paying their bills as the pandemic continues to unfold across the globe.

“The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus. What seems extreme today will seem obvious tomorrow,” Cotton, an outspoken skeptic of the House’s relief package, said on Monday.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; coronavirus; tomcotton
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To: dfwgator

I like a voice of reason.


61 posted on 03/16/2020 1:45:07 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: LouieFisk

Absolutely agree.


62 posted on 03/16/2020 1:52:07 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BenLurkin
Typical ‘Rat hack.

uhh...he's a Republican. RINOs have been some of THE WORST on this.


63 posted on 03/16/2020 1:55:26 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: david1292

There appears to be several interviews on youtube regarding the coronavirus with patients and doctors. None of them seem too concerned. Very informative.


64 posted on 03/16/2020 2:03:05 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: david1292

We are almost there now. And martial law is next. Sad day in America. May God have mercy on our souls.


65 posted on 03/16/2020 2:04:27 PM PDT by mulligan (n bbnnEeThe)
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To: chris37

Apparently not.


66 posted on 03/16/2020 2:20:15 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Parley Baer
Being a buddy of Hugh is not a point in the plus column. That is a negative.

I totally agree, which is why I said it automatically makes me dislike Cotton.

67 posted on 03/16/2020 3:08:12 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Politics is all about quid pro quos. Donate to me! Vote for me! I'll give you "free" stuff.)
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To: gibsonguy

. Closing everything down WILL crash the economy and when it does the President gets the blame.

The the press will say “ You f77Ked up...You listened to us”


68 posted on 03/16/2020 3:09:02 PM PDT by RonnG (')
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To: miss marmelstein
Yes! He seems to have lost control of the narrative which is not like him.

Bingo! He is letting Fauci drive the train at this point. If Trump does not wrest control of the train back from Fauci within the next couple of weeks, we are SCREWED!

69 posted on 03/16/2020 3:28:51 PM PDT by rhinohunter (I have nothing but disdain for liberals. Their tears fill me with delight...)
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To: david1292

Step right up folks!!! Step right up!!! Be the next kid on your block to up the ante. The Shut Down Olympics are officially underway!!!

You too can scream for more freedom to be flushed down the crapper.

A virus today.

A hurricane tomorrow.

Global warming the next.

Use this real emergency to set the precedent for the fake ones to come next.

Martial Law isn’t just a dream, its only YOUR hysterical scream away.

Step right up, step right up!!!

And remember to think: “we are all gonna die!!!”


70 posted on 03/16/2020 3:36:38 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: HonorInPa

Please tell the single mom who works as a waitress or a hair stylist that her job is non-essential and there’s no money coming in for 6 weeks.

Please tell the person who owns the building that the hair salon rents that there’s no money for rent.

Please tell the bank that loaned the money to buy the building there no money for mortgage.

These idiots who have never had to meet a payroll in their lives are destroying this country.


And tell her that Wall street is getting trillions in QE, airlines are getting $50 billion and she’s getting nothing. Yeah, that’s not happening. Especially in an election and and Dems controlling the House.

We are shutting down the economy AND running a tab that will no doubt run into the trillions. Brilliant. Our children and grandchildren will curse us for the Wu Flu Panic of 2020.


71 posted on 03/16/2020 3:37:54 PM PDT by lodi90 (flubro)
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To: david1292
Oh, get a grip, Tom.  
 
 
 
 
How are we going to get out of this madness? 
 
Who is going to have the guts to get in front of the mob and say stop? It will be as dangerous as being the first to stop applauding Stalin.
72 posted on 03/16/2020 4:10:55 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“X” has contracted covid hysteria a disease as incurable as liberalism.

I will be borrowing this and maybe massaging it some.


73 posted on 03/16/2020 4:35:44 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“X” has contracted covid hysteria a disease as incurable as liberalism.

I will be borrowing this and maybe massaging it some.


74 posted on 03/16/2020 4:37:43 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: hanamizu

You are correct. I am just trying to figure out why clear headed people like senator Cotton seem so freaked out by this.


75 posted on 03/16/2020 6:48:38 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

I am just trying to figure out why clear headed people like senator Cotton seem so freaked out by this.


I don’t know, but as I watch PDJT over the last week to 10 days, I’ve noticed a decided change in his demeanor. Over the last three years he’s had a ton of sh*t thrown at him only to have it miss. Even when he was angry there was a twinkle in his eye that told me he was enjoying himself. I think he realizes that a heavy weight has been put on his shoulders. I think he can and will handle it.

What’s going on now is a perfect example of why we shouldn’t elect people like Biden, who is clueless, bless his heart, or Hillary, who has never really accomplished anything but thinks she has all of the answers.


76 posted on 03/16/2020 7:27:42 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: carriage_hill

Literally yesterday someone on FR was saying he is the next Trump for 2024.


77 posted on 03/16/2020 7:28:52 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Rastus

Not a snowball’s chance.


78 posted on 03/16/2020 8:04:01 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: HonorInPa

Very, VERY well stated.


79 posted on 03/16/2020 8:13:51 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: HonorInPa
Well they all basically just got told. Sooooo...

....You wing it the best you can just like the businesses closing have to do....adapt and adjust to the circumstances and hopefully have family to help out.... and what I hear the banks are working things out with people. What you don't do is not contact the people you have money concerns about...or let it slide.

80 posted on 03/16/2020 8:20:03 PM PDT by caww
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