Representative Michael Waltz fired back at President Biden for calling Texas and Mississippi’s decisions to lift all mask mandates “Neanderthal thinking.” Waltz argued that the president is essentially calling his political rivals “stupid.”
After announcing that enough vaccines will be available for every American by the end of May Biden told reporters, “The last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking.”‘
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves went against warnings issued by health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and said all state regulations would be lifted starting Wednesday.
At the same time, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said pointed to lower case counts and increased availability of the vaccine as justification to reverse all coronavirus regulations starting next week.
While on “Fox & Friends” Waltz accused Biden of showing typical Washington “liberal elitism” by simply pretending to have all the right answers.
“Let me tell you what Neanderthal thinking is, Neanderthal thinking is keeping our schools closed, letting our kids fall further and further behind. Maybe Neanderthal thinking is letting restaurants put people in tents while they’re sitting outside but they can’t let them inside or not putting seniors first when it comes to our vaccines … What Neanderthal thought it was a good idea to allow infected seniors back into nursing homes when it was clearly the most exposed and vulnerable population?
So we can go down the list if he wants to, of stupid ideas. But basically what he’s doing is calling us stupid and it is a clear liberal elitism that we see coming time and time again out of Washington, D.C.
Where they pretend like they have all of the answers. And I’ve got to tell you in Florida we’re managing this coronavirus, we’re keeping the economy open, and we’re walking that fine line with common sense.”
