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Biden’s Desperate COVID Overreach
National Review ^ | September 9, 2021 | NR Editors

Posted on 09/10/2021 6:19:22 AM PDT by karpov

President Biden has a dilemma. He was elected on a promise to “shut down the virus,” but eight months into his presidency, COVID-19 is still raging. With his approval ratings cratering, he is desperate to garner headlines for taking bold action. And so, just weeks after his deserved rebuke by the Supreme Court over his eviction moratorium, he has once again gone too far.

On Thursday, Biden announced a series of unilateral actions aimed at increasing the percentage of Americans who are vaccinated. We obviously do not dispute the idea that it would be a good thing if more people were vaccinated, as the shots have proven to be safe and highly effective at nearly eliminating the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. But the issue here is not what outcomes we may prefer, but what authority Biden has as president.

As chief executive, it is one thing for Biden to require vaccination for federal workers, or even for private companies that are hired as federal contractors. But Biden’s proposal goes way beyond that by ordering all private businesses with over 100 employees to require vaccination or weekly negative tests for all their workers, under the threat of steep fines. He says the order will affect 80 million private employees.

Currently, vaccination mandates that do exist (such as the MMR shot) are requirements imposed by states or individual school districts. There is not anything akin to a sweeping vaccine mandate for private workers at the federal level. This rule imposes a significant compliance burden on employers to not only police who is vaccinated, but also to facilitate weekly testing of workers.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; epicloser; joetato
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1 posted on 09/10/2021 6:19:22 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Delusional power hungry babbling idiot.


2 posted on 09/10/2021 6:21:29 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: karpov

Make no mistake obama is in the middle of all this.....the Afghanistan debacle also.


3 posted on 09/10/2021 6:21:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: karpov

No. Covid is Not raging.


4 posted on 09/10/2021 6:22:19 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: karpov

It’s also a first step in nationalizing businesses and the economy.

China is his model, remember.


5 posted on 09/10/2021 6:23:48 AM PDT by livius (.)
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To: karpov

Stolen elections have consequences.


6 posted on 09/10/2021 6:24:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: karpov

“ President Biden has a dilemma”

President Retard has dementia.

Fixed it.


7 posted on 09/10/2021 6:24:32 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: V_TWIN

F U B O!

F U JOE!


8 posted on 09/10/2021 6:25:11 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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9 posted on 09/10/2021 6:25:38 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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10 posted on 09/10/2021 6:25:41 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

Accurate title


11 posted on 09/10/2021 6:25:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: karpov

You would think NR would be happy as a clam regarding anything Biden does. He isn’t Trump.


12 posted on 09/10/2021 6:26:00 AM PDT by stevem
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elected on a promise to “shut down the virus,” but eight months into his presidency

Maybe elected to dogcatcher but not POTUS. Student covid cases here have doubled from 30k to 60k since the previous all time high in January after the holidays spread.

13 posted on 09/10/2021 6:26:00 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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This pig faced sob isnt gonna be removed by the 25th. Thats admitting a mistake by them.

If he doesnt die of a massive stroke, they will do to him like what happened with JFK.

That way, they can go completely Nazi with gun control.

14 posted on 09/10/2021 6:27:10 AM PDT by crz
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His directive yesterday is unconstitutional. Simple as that and it will be challenged and likely never implemented.

On Squawk today, Dr. Gottleib said that the earliest OSHA could get this rule written, deployed and implemented would be Fall of 2022 conservatively. So he said, it will do nothing to stem Delta or provide children any protection this school year.

This was for show because of Biden’s cratering poll numbers. It’s a massive overreach that is so blatantly unconstitutional that only the dumbest among us can’t see it.

And even Gottlieb said, this takes something that was tangentially political and makes it completely political.


15 posted on 09/10/2021 6:28:00 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: karpov

quaint article, sort of talking about the world as it used to be


16 posted on 09/10/2021 6:28:29 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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It isn’t BiteMe’s.

The POTATUS is just a stooge.

And the NR knows it.

But won’t say it for some reason.

Wonder why...


17 posted on 09/10/2021 6:28:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MarvinStinson

Dr Mengele killed his tens of thousands.

Dr Fauci killed his tens of millions.

in a sane world, that little chimp would be used for his own experiments.


18 posted on 09/10/2021 6:29:08 AM PDT by crz
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To: karpov

Overreach is a understatement.

Dictatorial is a better word.


19 posted on 09/10/2021 6:30:06 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden)
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To: karpov
This is federal overreach: By 1969, 17 states had added measles to their compulsory immunization laws; a decade later, all of them had.14 The final push had come from President Jimmy Carter’s administration, whose multipronged National Childhood Immunization Initiative, launched in 1977,4 funneled federal resources to states to encourage mass immunization and asked governors to ensure their immunization laws covered all recommended vaccines—a list that by then comprised polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, mumps, rubella, and measles.

This should be determined at the state level as it historically has.

20 posted on 09/10/2021 6:30:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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