old salt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:39 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:11 pm
and now his authority is total...
And now Pence doubles down on National Emergency Act ...power is total. "plenary"
nah, nothing to worry about with these guys.
After 3 mos of whining about lack of Presidential leadership & dumping everything on the Governors, all of a sudden the WH press corps are states rights advocates. .
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The WH is going to give the Governors the political cover they need by providing CDC data about which zip codes are safe to open up & when.
If there's a second wave, they can blame Trump. If not, they can take the credit.
Keep hoping that Trump will get a clue, Salty.
Nope, Trump can't order states to close or to open. He can recommend only.
Unless what, martial law? forcing people out of their homes???
He does have extraordinary powers to tell businesses to re-direct their output, but hasn't used that power to any real effect. He does have the ability to federalize production and distribution of key elements, testing, PPE, ventilators, etc...but they haven't done it.
And he does have an enormous bully pulpit. He used it to enormously ill effect.
He's going to continue to flail and flail and flail. He'll whine and whine and whine about how awful the press is for not recognizing what a Very Stable Genius he really is and he will blame absolutely anyone and everyone for his own shortcomings.
and guys like you will keep giving all that a pass...because you agree with some of his policies...