Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:39 AM click to enlarge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press event last year. The day after saying he s lifting Texas mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott took to Twitter to set up a blame-shifting narrative in case the state sees the COVID-19 surge medical experts predict will follow his policy change. In a Wednesday tweet, Abbott accused the Biden Administration of recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities. The Republican governor offered no supporting evidence for the claim.
The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Ted Cruz says leaked texts about his Cancun trip show how nasty politics has become. Cry us a river. Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:34 AM Twitter / @GeneforTexas After a rare if not entirely convincing moment of contrition for taking a tropical vacay while his constituents shivered through a days-long ice storm without electricity, Sen. Ted Cruz is back to playing the shift-the-blame game. In comments to a political podcast this week, the Texas Republican said his wife Heidi was pretty pissed that someone leaked her texts about the planning of the family s ill-timed trip to Cancún, Mexico. The senator also told the
incite violence or whatever hateful things they do, if someone is someone on either side responsible? the people responsible out of the people who break the law and take the others and their own hands, commit violence, those of the people who should be prosecuted. i don t want to talk every member of every group. what i don t like his guilt by situation. it s president trump s fault that white supremacist showed up somewhere. oh, it s the liberals fault, that sort of thing. i don t think that gets us anywhere. i think it s just political sparring, political finger-pointing, blame shifting. let s hold responsible and the police and the mayor have to do a more aggressive job of holding those responsible those who resort to violence. it s illegal. it s an attack on free speech. melissa: howard kurtz, thank you so much. the arrest of a 31-year-old man in an alleged murder of mackenzie lueck is raising new questions about what led to the
certainly. and it s actually lazy, it s the kind of thing people who don t know how to debate will say, bring up the nazis in every debate. harris: i had on a high profile rabbi on yesterday we talked about the insult and absurdity of this. this is just somebody who is willing to do whatever for attention. one thing it doesn t do is solve the problem on capitol hill. this is not solution binding. vince: not at all, it s blame shifting. you see a sitting united states congresswoman making an effort to pass blame for a crisis onto her political opponents and the reality is she has the power to compel this debate. you talk about her having a big microphone. if she actually used it to talk about closing those loopholes, to end of the asylum problems we
this would be a really good time to keep tensions down. right. and i think targets of the president is the most important thing. i mean, maxine waters, george soros, the president a week ago at a rally insinuated george soros was potentially paying the people in the caravan, which he has made a central campaign issue. so, he is riling people up about this and the what aboutism you hear from the white house and on down from republicans is typical of the sort of explanations we ve seen in other situations like this, where there is a lot of blame shifting and misdirection and saying, it s actually the media s fault. you re just not going to see anything different than that. there are not going to be many calls from republicans on the president to be actually unifying. the president himself at his rally in wisconsin last night kind of gave a wink and a nod to the crowd, aren t i being nice right now? he was basically telling them, the calls for unity, quote, being presidential, that that