Posted on 09/13/2021 5:14:46 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Joe Biden’s aggressive push to require millions of U.S. workers to vaccinate against the coronavirus is running into a wall of resistance from Republicans threatening everything from lawsuits to civil disobedience, plunging the country deeper into culture wars that have festered since the onset of the pandemic. There are even some Democrats that are speaking against Biden’s mandates.
The mandate, which requires employers with more than 100 employees to mandate either vaccination or weekly testing, will be covered under a forthcoming rule from the Labor Department and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Biden believes OSHA has the authority to enforce the rule under an emergency temporary standard, which would require OSHA to “determine that workers are in grave danger due to exposure to toxic substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or to new hazards and that an emergency standard is needed to protect them.”
Republican Governors have had enough of Biden’s Regime, and unloaded after Thursday’s dictator like speech.
Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) says he will fight “to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian.” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she is preparing a lawsuit. And J.D.
Vance, a conservative running for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, describes Biden’s move as Washington’s “attempt to bully and coerce citizens.” Vance added,”Do not comply with the mandates.” He also tweeted on Friday, “If all of us ignore this garbage they won’t be able to enforce it.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) both responded that they would oppose Biden’s call to impose vaccinations on Americans, saying the choice should be up to individuals rather than government.
DeSantis told reporters, “How could we get to the point in this country where you would want to have someone lose their job because of their choice about the vaccine or not?”
https://twitter.com/GovBillLee/status/1436110062364332038?
Abbott responded as well saying, “The Biden plan is an assault on private businesses.” He also said, “I have issued an Executive Order protecting Texans’ right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine.” Abbott also tweeted Friday, “Texas is already working to halt this power grab.”
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) also spoke up saying, “I plan to pursue every legal option available to stop this blatantly unlawful overreach by the Biden administration.”
https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1436078242574868486?
The Republican National Committee (RNC) said it would sue Biden. Noting that Biden once said he would not impose mandates, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that “now small businesses, workers, and families across the country will pay the price.”
https://twitter.com/IAGovernor/status/1436076821691486212?
Although Republican candidates and conservative activists, as well as others are planning on fighting the mandates in court and on the campaign trail, it’s very possible they are facing an uphill battle in trying to block the Biden plan. It seems almost certain to be settled in court, possibly the Supreme Court of the United States.
We’ve got to fight back now. Fauci is apparently hatching a whole slew of “mandates” to be announced fairly soon. Kill them before they hatch.
Fraudxi wants to ban air travel within the U.S. for the unvaccinated.
Might as well kill off the airline industry.
Covid doesn’t attack people who work for companies with 99 employees. It only attacks people if their company has 101 employees or more.
-Science
If I had 100 employees I would be firing one
The core of the fight is about the unconstitutional federal government power flex, not the vaccination itself. The discussion needs to be divided into those two articles and not permitted to touch each other in the discussion.
The one with the Biden/Harris sticker?
Brave rhetoric is coming from the states. But what if the Federal courts uphold OSHA’s power to enforce vaccine mandates on private companies? Who among the state governors is willing to cross the Rubicon?
Sometimes I think that’s their goal…kill off the airlines, or maybe nationalize them, and control all of the movement and travel of every citizen. Surreal.
Another thread here on FR asked this very question. The result: OSHA has a very poor track record when they hit the Federal Courts and especially the US Supreme Court.
Reason Magazine actually had a very good article on this the other day. I'd suggest reading it.
The responses are good, but this seems like a contrived attempt to shift the narrative focus away from Afghanistan etc with something that he/they can easily capitulate on later as resistance builds.
Also cover for the “ever pending” Arizona audit report...
“Although Republican candidates and conservative activists, as well as others are planning on fighting the mandates in court and on the campaign trail, it’s very possible they are facing an uphill battle in trying to block the Biden plan.”
An “uphill battle” in what way? This is the kind of throwaway line that our defeatist surrender monkeys love tossing into their weakling opinions.
You don’t even have fire one employee to go from 100 to 99.
You just need one personal services contract—easy peasy.
Notice that some adults are wearing masks and some are not.
In what parallel universe does this make any sense at all?
That’s gotta be a photoshop?
I would just sub contract to the person I release.
RESIST democrat totalitarian thugs...
Split the company into “divisions’. Keep separate books.
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