The President has not removed himself - and you saying so is what is pathetic. Individual states know their current status better than the Federal government and should be making their own decisions. Their voters elected their officials to run their state - if the decisions made are not what the voters want to accept, then it is up to those voters to make needed changes. The Federal government will monitor what the states are doing, and will step in when necessary. The President has taken a lot of shit from idiots like you because he was accused of wanting to run the whole show. Now that he is stepping back and letting the individual states to make their own decisions, you are wrongly accusing him for not being responsible and accountable. You can't have it both ways. Typical lying, fact twisting liberal. If you had any sense, you would be ashamed of your stupidity.