Posted on 04/29/2020 6:37:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - A week ago, President Donald Trump chastised Georgia for starting to reopen. “It’s too soon,” he said. But on Tuesday, he cheered Texas as it began resuming business. “Great job,” he said. And Florida may be next as the president welcomed its governor to the Oval Office.
White House guidelines urge states to retain coronavirus restrictions until they meet certain criteria, but Attorney General William P. Barr is now threatening to sue them if he deems those limits too strict. And even as the president talks about opening the country, he has ordered it closed to immigration, even suggesting on Tuesday that flights from Brazil be banned.
With more and more states ready to resume some semblance of normal life, the messages from Trump and his administration at times have sounded contradictory and confusing. The president is anxious to get the stalled economy running again as the election grows nearer, and he has encouraged protests against restrictions in some states even as parts of his own government counsel caution for fear of rushing into a second wave of the disease.
The contrast was on display on Tuesday even as the number of cases in the United States surpassed 1 million and the death toll of 52,000 approached the total U.S. military casualties of the Vietnam War. Trump hosted Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida at the White House to talk about reopening a state that has stirred deep concern because of its disproportionate population of retirees and the crowded public beaches that remained open long after experts recommended they be closed. The president later staged a ceremony in the East Room with small businesses to talk about getting back to work.
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Wow. Truth in the NYT!
What might be appropriate in Manhattan is not appropriate in Casper, Wyoming.
Hell, what's appropriate in Philadelphia may not be appropriate here in Westmoreland County.
Yeah, Trump is sooooo bad.
This is one of the biggest indictments of our education system. The stunning lack of awareness on how Federalism works.
I’d agree except that tweeting “cure can’t be worse than the disease” does not square with kicking Brian Kemp in the teeth.
Heh, heh. Taking a page out of the Liberal playbook, is he?
Ah. That appears to be the meme going forward. I wonder what other means of death approach the Vietnam War.
Car crashes? The flu? Abortions?
That death toll stat is crap.
Yes. And Trump hating Libturds are smearing it all over the place.
The message is not either, or.
It is if, then.
Can’t these journos read? Are they totally deaf to sound?
Absolutely true. His anger at Kemp was disgraceful.
I’d agree except that tweeting “cure can’t be worse than the disease” does not square with kicking Brian Kemp in the teeth.
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BINGO!!!!
You want contradictin and mixed messages, listen to one of Cuomo’s snoozers.
He says “He gets it” people want to work, BUT, he will follow science. So he crams people into Nursing home proven death zones, he doesn’t open upstate with 0000.1% of the deaths of the city, then he says to write him a book report and he’ll read thru a few million a day to see if he will “Bless” you with opening permission.
What a jerk.
Trump should stop yakking and merely say: “it’s up to the states.” Furthermore, he should continue to finally let his “experts” answer questions in a clinical manner.
Yes it is!
Yes, Kemp got it right! Stop dragging your feet and give us back our constitutional rights!
I guess they'll blame the Vietnam War on Nixon. In fact, I think they largely do already.
Yep, they've pretty much scrubbed LBJ's involvement in the Vietnam from the history books, it's "Nixon's War", now.
I remember when 50,000/year was the norm for car crashes.
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