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Does he say shit just to hear himself talk? Has he criticized mf45 at all?TheHill.com
Rand Paul calls for Cuomo to be impeached over coronavirus response
By Kaelan Deese - 07/22/20 05:18 PM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called Wednesday for the impeachment of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his handling of the state's coronavirus outbreak, saying, "the people we are lauding are actually making catastrophic decisions."
"I think Governor Cuomo should be impeached ... for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes ... virtually half his people who died were in nursing homes," Paul said on Fox News's "Rundown" morning podcast.
Earlier in the show, Paul called into question the pandemic lockdown imposed in New York in March, referencing the surge of cases across the state despite the shelter-in-place orders.
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"Under age 45, this disease we're looking at is less dangerous than the seasonal flu. Above age 45, it's more dangerous than the seasonal flu," he said.
Paul, who became the first senator to contract the novel coronavirus back in March, has been vocal about the U.S. pandemic response, repeatedly saying that a small subset of health experts should not be making the rules on their own.
The Republican senator publicly questioned leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, saying in June that the epidemiologist advising the nation's response to COVID-19 should provide "more optimism" about America's approach.
Me.
(35,454 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,752 posts)Ohiogal
(32,130 posts)He just wants the spotlight since hes so irrelevant, so he blabbers this outrageous nonsense to get his name in a headline.
Go back to raking your yard, Randy.
still_one
(92,482 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,356 posts)still_one
(92,482 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He has some "unfinished business" waiting for him.
Goodheart
(5,349 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,029 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)+626 new cases today. Only 7 new deaths.
vs. 12K new cases on April days and 1000 new deaths.
compared to Florida's +9,785 new cases today, and 140 deaths.
and what business is it to a Kentucky senator?
He's just an a-hole.
ResistantAmerican17
(3,841 posts)Shit!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,924 posts)about the governor of a state he has nothing to do with? Fuck that guy. I understand why his neighbor kicked his ass and I hope he does it again.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)yahoo's has something to say, it results in a blistering rage running through me?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I would have been tempted as well.
lastlib
(23,352 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)We'll see who emerges as the challenger.
Paul is a Libertarian. I can about guess where this is leading & where the 'more pure' challenger to Cuomo will emerge from.
But 1st comes the damage to Cuomo's reputation.
The smear, the swiftboating, the negative re-imaging of a targeted candidate. The manufactured "doubt" is the 1st step.
We'll see who follows Paul's messaging.
They'll show their face ..be sure.
Ohiogal
(32,130 posts)Rump knows more about medical issues than this idiotic windbag who claims to be a physician
diva77
(7,671 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Dumbass.
spanone
(135,914 posts)JDC
(10,137 posts)moondust
(20,018 posts)Anyone that screwed up has no business dangerously misleading the public from a position in medicine or public office.
Gov. Cuomo proposed invoking the Defense Production Act back in March. If he had been President and done that there would be thousands fewer dead, permanently damaged, and sick Americans today and in the future.
brush
(53,944 posts)swamp in the Congressional swimming pool and met with other senators?
He's nothing but a contrarian who gets attention that way. Fuck him. Cuomo handled an unknown and unprecedented quandry better than the other governors. He set the standard really and others learned from him, except for the repug, red state, trump sycophant governors.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A brief precis of DeSantis's fecklessness with lots of snark here.
But at least some right-wing dumbasses are wondering where DeSantis goes to get his apology. So Rand gives DeSantis a pass. Just because.
Midnight Writer
(21,823 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,782 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,224 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)But I can't say it here.
LiberalFighter
(51,224 posts)And if it was legal I would volunteer to do it myself. Of course, I would need to wear surgical garb and mask.