Well this is all easier said than done. Also, it allows for the classic "liberal fantasy" argument that big business is evil and that Trump is looking to protect their ability to gouge the public. But for sake of argument, take a serious look at what Cuomo is asking for or more accurately what he isn't including in his demand.
What exactly "is" the medical supply chain? How many different companies make this up and which companies is Cuomo demanding "make" gowns, masks, and gloves. Is he suggesting that the companies that normally make them are not making them? Is he demanding that other companies who make other things start making them? How would you and who would identify the companies that would need to change their business model to accommodate a switch over to medical supplies. Who exactly takes over all of these businesses? Some Administration official? Mike Pence? Trump himself?
Moreover, there appears to be a lot of question as to whether or not the President could even invoke the Defense Production Act to force companies to make products for something like this, much less order them to sell them at a reduced cost (which is what Cuomo really wants). As it is, many companies are already stepping up to make medical supplies that normally do not. Of course, a company not designed to make medical gloves cannot make them at the same cost as a company that actually "is" designed to do so. That is just simple common sense. Does Cuomo suggest that companies lose money and possibly go under to accommodate the lower prices he would like?
At the end of the day, these Governors are adults and claim to be some sort of leaders. They need to get together as a group and coordinate their efforts on this stuff. They shouldn't need Donald Trump and Mike Pence to act as their parents and oversee everything. Or at least I would certainly hope not. They are running entire states for god's sake. Or maybe with someone like Cuomo, he seriously needs the parental guidance?
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i don't think that clowns like cuomo realize that when mayors and governors start shrieking that they need the federal government to save them, then their value to me as a leader in a time of crisis is greatly diminished.
it's time to sack up and lead, andy. the photo ops and pressers achieve little. find some smart folks within NYS DOH, NYSEMO and the Wadsworth lab and do the unglamorous HARD WORK for a fucking change.
fucking preening asshole.
Hey if you are Nancy Pelosi you can go vacation for a week, talk to Schumer and get a weeks worth of negotiation tossed and apparently wants the House to start from scratch and see if it's close to what was negotiated in the Senate. The media may give them a pass but the public won't.
WTF doesn't the queen bitch not understand that this is an URGENT NATIONAL EMERGENCY and while she and Schumer can gum up the works that is NOT the peoples will.
Other than left-wing partisan fanatics who's God is power and politics.
Especially when they act like it's some sort of "sibling dispute" that requires Mommy and Daddy to intervene. The Federal Government is already footing the bill for much of the cost of this crisis and stepping up in ways too numerous to count, and rather than say thanks, Cuomo is just playing politics.
Trump Predicts Pandemic Will Be Over Soon
March 22, 2020 at 10:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 438 Comments
“As the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. soared past 400 on Sunday, President Trump reassured Americans that everything would be OK and that it would all be over soon,” Politico reports.
Said Trump: “It’s gonna be a victory that, in my opinion, will happen much sooner than originally expected.”
Coronavirus Upends Battle for the House
March 23, 2020 at 6:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 51 Comments
Politico: “The impeachment furor that consumed Washington for nearly a year has dissipated amid a far more urgent political storm: the coronavirus outbreak. Any trace of President Donald Trump’s impeachment has vanished from Capitol Hill, cable news and the campaign trail. And long gone is the pervasive sense of anxiety that once gripped vulnerable Democrats after their votes to impeach Trump, which they feared could cost them their seats and possibly control of the House.
“Instead, the battle for Congress is more likely to be redefined by a highly infectious and mysterious virus that has spread into every state, pulverized the economy and thrust lawmakers into a crisis-governing mode unseen since the Great Depression.”
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How Coronavirus Is Rewiring the Political Parties
March 23, 2020 at 6:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 16 Comments
Politico: “The 2008 financial crisis reshaped American politics, birthing a politics of outrage in the Tea Party on the right and an enduring strain of progressive populism on the left. The coronavirus is already on a similar trajectory, triggering massive prospective bailouts and other policy proposals that stand to rewire the Republican and Democratic parties for a generation — or longer.
“Last week, Republicans joined Democrats — and in some cases got in front of them — in calling for direct payments to Americans to help cope with the economic fallout from the pandemic. The Trump administration, after laboring for years to repeal Obamacare, said it was considering creating a special enrollment period for the program due to the coronavirus. When Donald Trump himself suggested the government could take equity stakes in private companies that receive federal aid, it was a Democratic governor, Colorado’s Jared Polis, who accused the president of being a socialist. MY, MY.
“The immediate effects of the pandemic on blurring the parties’ ideological distinctions have been acute — and the virus’ toll still remains far from reaching its peak.”
THOSE SOCIALIST REPUBLICANS!
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Trump Rewrites History In an Election Year
March 23, 2020 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
New York Times: “After three years of Republicans’ championing signs of financial prosperity that were to be Mr. Trump’s chief re-election argument, the president has never needed a new message to voters as he does now, not to mention luck. At this point, the president has one clear option for how to proceed politically, and is hoping that an array of factors will break his way.
“The option, which he has brazenly pushed in recent days, is to cast himself as a ‘wartime president’ who looks in charge of a nation under siege while his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is largely out of sight hunkered down in Delaware. This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history — Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on — and it’s far from clear if many voters will accept the idea of him as a wartime leader.”
Germany Bans Meetings of More than Two People
You'd better hope he's right OLD man
Israeli doctor in Italy. We no longer help those over 60
FUCK
The obsessive POS "pastor" james can't drop it for a second.
political_lire must own his soul.
and his decrypt mind.
Turds are more pleasant and useful.
Somebody said maybe they should just start copying Hannity headlines here. It would be a lot more useful if the idiot just quit. But he won't.
At least not until the Dems lose all power in November. Then he will disappear like when his boy Bloomberg layed a turd. At least for a while.
ROFLMFAO !!!
James is Nanci Polosi
Minnesota on the edge: ‘I’ve voted Democrat my whole life. It’s getting tougher.’
In a mining town in the heart of Humphrey, Mondale and Wellstone territory, Trump stakes his claim.
hehehehe
Two major Polls show Team Trump is getting 60% and 55% for doing a good + job.
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