And Yet....

• 61% disapprove of how Trump has handled reopening schools
• 67% say they don't trust information Trump is providing about the coronavirus
• 65% say they trust information provided by Anthony Fauci, whom White House officials have sought to discredithttps://t.co/2ENUQvqNd3

— Axios (@axios) July 15, 2020

There's lunacy afoot in the GOP:

The White House and Senate Republicans are developing plans to prod schools to reopen by attaching incentives or conditions to tens of billions of dollars of new aid as part of the next coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Wednesday.

The deliberations come as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) prepares to unveil legislation next week that would serve as the GOP’s opening offer for negotiations on what could be Congress’s last major coronavirus spending bill before the November elections.

Republican officials familiar with the negotiations said the bill may include somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion for elementary and secondary schools, with one person familiar with the talks saying the target was about $70 billion.

Reminds me of ol' Ezra:

See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,        
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain    
Wavering!    

See, they return, one, and by one,            
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate        
And murmur in the wind,    
            and half turn back;  
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"      
            inviolable.    

Gods of the wingèd shoe!    
With them the silver hounds,
            sniffing the trace of air!      

Haie! Haie!          
    These were the swift to harry;      
These the keen-scented;      
These were the souls of blood.        

Slow on the leash,    
            pallid the leash-men!

The GOP has really lost the thread.