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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP takes a potent but risky new path: Hitting Biden on Covid
House Republicans are edging toward harder hits at President Joe Biden while he struggles to contain Covid's Omicron variant. Just don't expect it to become a centerpiece of their midterm-election messaging.
That's in part because the GOP has to walk a fine line on the pandemic thanks to Donald Trump.
After Biden and Democrats campaigned on a vow to help steer a virus-weary nation back to normalcy, arguing that the GOP failed to quickly respond when Covid first descended, Republicans now say Biden has proven himself unprepared to deal with the Omicron surge. It's an argument that Republicans are eager to fling back at the White House after more than a year on the back foot, accusing Biden's party of politically weaponizing Covid against them.
"President Biden's learned a valuable lesson: Be careful who you criticize and what you criticize them for, because it may come back to you," Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-takes-a-potent-but-risky-new-path-hitting-biden-on-covid/ar-AASUiR9
Oh please proceed fuckheads. You've given us a treasure trove of stuff to use against you such as fake cures and opposition to vaccines and personal protective gear.
Lovie777
(12,392 posts)they can't legislate.
Mad_Machine76
(24,454 posts)It's like a toddler blaming adults for not cleaning up the toys they are pulling right back out flinging back on to the floor.
Hopefully, people won't buy it but somehow I just can't feel confident that too many won't.
YorkRd
(326 posts)Its the Karl Rove strategy of rather than attacking your opponents weakness, attack their strength. With a complicit media, there seems to to be no defense against massive Republican lying.
budkin
(6,726 posts)Considering his poll numbers are so low mostly due to him "failing to make COVID go away."
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,512 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)Republicans will fail.
Emile
(23,150 posts)MichMan
(12,002 posts)I think it is pretty certain we will see the Repubs run TV commercials with President Biden saying again & again, "I'm not going to shut down the economy, I'm going to shut down the virus"
Hopefully it starts to fade away by mid term time
doc03
(35,442 posts)Only one person died it will be over by April. Inject bleach. Stick an ultraviolet lamp up your arse. It's a Democrat hoax. It's no worse than the flu.....