Posted on 04/27/2009 2:02:39 PM PDT by FromLori
At Sunday afternoon's White House press briefing on the administration's efforts to combat and control a potential swine flu outbreak, press secretary Robert Gibbs was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, deputy national security adviser John Brennan, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Dr. Richard Besser.
Noticeably absent on stage was a fully confirmed federal health care official: There was no health and human services secretary (Kathleen Sebelius could be confirmed as early as tomorrow), no surgeon general (no new candidate has emerged since Dr. Sanjay Gupta dropped out) and no fully confirmed director of CDC (though Besser deftly handled a series of morning show interviews earlier today).
"Our response is in no way hindered or hampered by not having a permanent secretary at HHS right now," Gibbs said at today's White House Press Briefing. "Dr. Besser and thousands of people both at CDC and throughout HHS are responding to this."
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Get a couple community organizers. They can do ANYTHING.
Hmmmm. I wonder how a Republican President would be treated by the press if he’d left these spots vacant like Zero has.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
yes lol they have another article about dirty bill saying something like his start was rough but then going on to more or less praise the pig
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/04/24/VI2009042402002.html?hpid=topnews
Sebelious’ answer would be to ABORT all the victims.
I guess we can assume that DHS is now Homeland or Health. Take your pick.
Martial Law within a month, this seems like the perfect opportunity to suspend civil liberties for this cabal in charge.
It would not surprise me...
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/04/something-wicked-this-way-comes-tinfoil.html
Thats what the sick people are thinking... if ONLY the govenrment had a fully confirmed federal health care official!!!
This flu is weird though and I am mad they are not closing our borders for real!
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-white-meat-illegal-alien-swine.html
You heard about the missing vials from the government lab right?
In this article..
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-white-meat-illegal-alien-swine.html
A lot of our meats and vegetables comes form Mexico what about the foos handlers?
Yup my thoughts exactly...
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/04/other-white-meat-illegal-alien-swine.html
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