Marsha Blackburn: Biden needs to 'rethink' comments about 'resilient' and 'resourceful' Neanderthals

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday chided President Biden for criticism he issued the day before saying Republican governors rescinding public health measures meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus to were engaged in "Neanderthal thinking."

Biden was asked Wednesday about decisions from state executives in Texas and Mississippi to lift their mask mandates and capacity limits for local businesses.

"I hope everybody's realized by now these masks make a difference," Biden said from the Oval Office. "We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way we're able to get vaccines in people's arms."

"The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything's fine, take off your mask, forget it," he added. "It still matters."

Blackburn, a critic of so-called lockdown measures, mask ordinances and other public health mandates, suggested she and other Republicans are more than used to derogatory barbs from Democrats and media.

"We were called Neanderthals when I led the fight against imposition of a state income tax," Blackburn said during an appearance on the Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co." "I started the Neanderthal caucus. Because Neanderthals are hunters-gatherers ... they are protectors of their families. They are resilient, they are resourceful. They tend to their own."... (Read more)

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