Your Friday Afternoon Ebola Digest

Emily Latella strikes again.

http://twitchy.com/2014/10/19/orwellian-whitewash-cdc-deletes-faulty-ebola-guidelines-poster-paging-ebola-czar/

OOPS wants to ban travel to all except health care workers.  The two who have Ebola are health care workers.  OOPS!

If ever there was proof of what a political fool Obama is, we've got it now.  He's making the handling of Katina look like a perfect litany of solutions - which is mostly was. 

Obama has no experience in management, and has never run so much as a shoeshine stand -- much less a city or state. He is a political hack, who follows the protocols of the Chicago Mayor's Office and only appoints people he can control. 

Klain is a super-hack who has no experience with anything medical.  He was also a beneficiary of Solyndra's millions, was a chief of staff for Gore, and was a chief of staff for Biden.  He is utterly clueless about what needs to done to stop this nonsense. 

But, all he'll do is echo Obama and his speechwriters, and do whatever is necessary to make Obama look good -- since Obama now looks worse than any President of the United States. 

He will forever regret this appointment at the time of a public health crisis, and he widens margin favoring his impeachment and removal from office and OUR White House.

If Ezra Klein thinks he's a good choice, then that makes it a lock that he's a terrible choice.  Everything he writes is wrong.  Yesterday he wrote an article on the CA consent law that said that preponderance of the evidence was a higher standard that beyond a reasonable doubt, and that substantive due process was a lower burden than procedural due process.

In other words, he writes wildly, uncontestably wrong shit about subjects that he knows nothing about.  If he's that wrong about law, he's that wrong about Ebola too.  I'm pretty sure he's wrong about everything except how to be a pink pajama wearing mama's boy.

@bvckvs The U.S. doesn't have an Ebola problem.  There is no pandemic, such as the one in Africa, and there is not large population of infected persons, as in Africa. 

Practicing Barrier Prophylaxis, the U.S. should immediately suspend ALL travel and all Visas from the infected areas to the United States.  That, by the way, is what Ellis Island was for.

Barriers may be a thousand miles or a thousand feet, hazmat clothing, remote electronic screening, etc. etc. 

This clown selected by Obama was to protect him from criticism, and not to solve the problem.  That's treasonous behavior by a president.  

@noblefurrtexas

"And he widens margin favoring his impeachment and removal from office and OUR White House"

IDK if there were any of your ramblings that showed how you think. "OUR White House"???

Tell us, what makes an elected President turn the White House away from being everyone's White House? Hmm, let me think, why is this President different than all the others.....

@KnowledgeEqualsPower

The reason AIDS exploded was because affected communities did not heed warnings, not because of Reagan. But it's a good hate-myth among the blameless.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/01/ronald_reagan_and_aids_correcting_the_record_122806.html

@KnowledgeEqualsPower AIDS is not considered a "communicable disease" spread by proximity.  And, it took several years to develop protocols that inhibited its spread.  But, the greatest is getting to the gay population with prohibitions of irresponsible and risky sexual acts. 

Obviously, the same thing is true of the straight community. 

We know how to prevent AIDS; it's the same kind of "barrier prophylaxis" that is used in most contagious diseases.

Barrier Prophylaxis can be no contact with a known AIDS patient - especially including sex, strong condoms, flight restrictions from an AIDS infected community, HazMat suits, gloves, and face shields, etc.  These are the SAME precautions nuclear labs use handling highly radioactive materials. 

But, Obama doesn't seem to know even THAT much, and is only interested in his political skin. 

@everlastingphelps That's all we needed - another dishonest liberal nut job and political hack so over his head that he'll have no choice other than taking all of his orders and verbiage from a White House plagued by the same deficit.

Rather than setting up a cooperative response team, this clown will bully his way through this by dropping names, and threatening people -- as was his practice as a chief of staff for two Vice Presidents. 

It's also clear that he opens his mouth and inserts his foot before he does adequate research.  In a public health crisis, that will kill people!

But, at least Obama's myth of competency will be continued.

@everlastingphelps

They had to cherry-pick far and wide to find a Klain liker.

His claim to fame is he put the Prez into Solyndra.

involved in both of Bill Clinton's campaigns, oversaw Clinton's judicial nominations, and was General Counsel to Al Gore's recount committee

led the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

helped Fannie Mae overcome "regulatory issues"

In 2004, as disclosure forms indicate Klain did, involved convincing Congress and Fannie Mae's regulators that Fannie Mae wasn't doing anything dangerous, and wasn't exposing taxpayers to risk. In other words, Ron Klain got paid to help fuel the housing bubble up until a couple of years before it popped.

During the 2004 Presidential campaign, Klain worked as an adviser to Wesley Clark in the early primaries.

Klain apparently signed off on President Obama's support of a $535 million loan guarantee for now-defunct solar-panel company Solyndra, despite concerns about whether the company was viable, Klain approved an Obama visit

his wife, Monica Medina, an environmental activist and special assistant to the Secretary of Defense

Not even the MSM is going with this guy.

Even the President's most ardent supporters think the guy is radioactive just a few weeks before the mid-terms.

You have to wonder, what is the purpose of all this?

@noblefurrtexas

One administration argument against travel restrictions is the ease of entering the US illegally.

Apparently, the statement "our borders are secure" has expired.

@KnowledgeEqualsPower @noblefurrtexas Or, as an aquaintance put it, "So, just in case I'm gone

tomorrow, please know this: I voted against that incompetent, lying,flip-flopping, insincere, double-talking, radical socialist, terrorist excusing,* *bleeding heart, narcissistic,* * scientific and economic moron currently in the White House!  Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself* *castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids."

Does that make you feel better?  No?  That's a real shame, but I'm not inconsolable about it.

@KnowledgeEqualsPower @noblefurrtexas Awwww,,,,did I hurt your feelings?  Are you a big fan of the lying, incompetent, secretive, drug-bloated, lazy and shiftless, goofy, unpatriotic, delusional adolescent golfing Socialist in the White House? 

Figures. 

But, you've sure proved that the eighth grade education you got in DISD has been put to good use by combining words.  

 You'd better hurry up and respond or your reputation as a moron could be threatened - especially when the owner of that computer returns. 

@TheRuddSki "Those people" HAVE to have someone else to blame for their own immoral, irresponsible, and reckless behaviors.

I checked with a good friend who was a policy maker during the Reagan years.  He said the Flu killed a lot more people than AIDS.  And medical authorities working for Reagan WARNED homosexuals that they were playing a dangerous game having casual sex as often as possible. 

Like Ebola, AIDS came from Africa and we first learned about it under Carter - who did nothing to address the disease or the deaths occurring.  So, if you just HAVE to blame a politician, blame Carter who was our second-worst President.

But, the primary blame is on the homosexuals who ignore AIDS, who are recklessly immoral, engage in risky behavior and want to blame it on someone else, and who are frantically desperate to blame Republicans and/or conservatives.

@holmantx @everlastingphelps 

 The cut-and-paste army has been mobilized.  Google this entire phrase..

"Klain apparently signed off on President Obama's support of a $535 million loan guarantee for now-defunct solar-panel company Solyndra"

...and you get multiple pages of results. Although, unlike Holman, most of them acknowledge Wikipedia as the source.

@nd68 Top Commenter has nothing to do with quality or content of the commenter, just comment count....trust me, I know

@noblefurrtexas

The communities most impacted by AIDS early on tended to be of liberal ideology, so the instinct to rely on and blame the state is natural, even when the answers to the problem were within their own collective grasp.

@observist @holmantx @everlastingphelps I think the grander point is a political operator and washington insider was selected for the post.  I think most people would be more comfortable with someone who at least has some sort of medical background.

With his choice, President Obama appears to be more concerned with controlling the public opinion polls than with doing anything about ebola.

@observist @holmantx @everlastingphelps

it's called research

@observist @holmantx @everlastingphelps God forbid someone quote a whackjob site like Wikipedia in an attempt to be correct.

@TheRuddSki I agree.  While AIDS is basically an STD contracted from risky sexual practices or intimate contact with someone already infected, it hit in the mid-70s and there was very little information about it.  

While I wouldn't wish AIDS on anyone, fewer people have died from this disease than the Flu.  That's simply a fact.  So, if it's a matter of spending public money to find a cure or preventative, Influenza is certainly more of a priority. 

Liberal politicians were often elected in high-risk communities because they promised more money for research, and nobody was screaming about Influenza.

I want my tax dollars used where the greatest threat is, and without political correctness as an issue.  

@RTGolden1 @observist @holmantx @everlastingphelps I couldn't agree more.  This is one of the W O R S T decisions of the entire Obama Administration, and that's a high bar.

@RTGolden

Your points are valid, but you're criticizing an appointment of a politico to a political post.

The "czar" is there as an organizing post, the head of the bureaucracy. He doesn't need to be a doctor, he needs to know how to manage.

The position is an unnecessary exercise in managing public perception that they're doing something. This individual is as good at that role as anyone else.

@noblefurrtexas

Yeah, but folks who want their tax dollars directed towards statistically great threats are known as "idiotic shitheads".

@noblefurrtexas @RTGolden1 @observist @holmantx @everlastingphelps I don't really view the appointment as either a good or a bad decision.  I think the appointment reflects where the administration's concerns are focused.

We have a Surgeon General and a Secretary of Health and Human services, in addition to a director of the CDC.  That is a lot of medical credentials landing on the problem.

My point was, appointing an ebola 'czar' that knows something about ebola would have been a better political move, in my mind, than providing a cushion to land on for someone falling from grace.

@mavdog This is NOT a political post.  It's a Public Health post.  It makes as much sense to put a political hack in a job coordinating every aspects of public health, facing a deadly disease, as making someone a commanding general because they have experience mending military uniforms.

@mavdog

And where did you get that from?  Or did you think that up yourself (ha!) to look smart?

Because that appears to be one of the more blatant and moronic group-think poseur shit retorts cooked up by the kids who surround the President.  Not exactly a confidence builder, ya think?  

You are not doing yourself any intellectual favors by repeatedly chanting such crap claimed as your own.

You might as well say, "the President says . . . "

This, from a dog.

@Knowledge

The positive side of reading unattributed stuff posted anonymously on the web is you needn't acknowledge any of the facts or opinions presented.

@JFPO

Not in the blogs.  We aren't reporters. Particularly when making factual background statements. Besides it works like this.  Anyone can immediately see where anyone else gets their info.  Paint the offending verbiage, right click, search - BINGO!

Don't clutter up the prose with documentation; and for those who have no recourse but to bitch about unattributed Wiki sourcing, you already lost the debate.

What's next?

Spelling?

Grammar?

Seriously, if that's all you got as a comeback on this particular political hack, then you must otherwise agree with the actual opinion after the fact-set.

@TheRuddSki That's too kind.  :)

@noblefurrtexas 

It is a political post, the person doesn't perform any healthcare work at all. they are an administrator. a "coordinator" just as you said, although they don't deal with "every aspect of public health", just focusing on the Ebola response.

there isn't any need for the post other than the fact republicans were screaming to have a "Czar".

ironic isn't it, all those folks who were recently complaining about there being to many appointed "Czars", now demanding another "Czar". . but then consistentcy has never been their halmark.

@holmantx 

the opinion really didn't require much of any thought or "smarts" actually, it is pretty much common sense.

no wonder you didn't think of it.

@JFPO This, from a B movie actor and half-assed comedian.  Look at you friggin' icon (ha!).