The absurd claim that only Republicans are to blame for cuts to Ebola research

Washington Post ^ | 10/15/2014 | Glenn Kessler

[SeekAndFind]

“Republican cuts kill”
– new Web ad by the Agenda Project Action Fund

This ad is simply a more extreme version of a new Democratic talking point — that GOP budget cuts have harmed the nation’s ability to handle the Ebola outbreak. It mixes statistics — the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “cut” $585 million (the ad offers no date range) — with disturbing images of the outbreak and various Republican leaders saying variations of the word “cut.”

A slightly more nuanced version of this theme was launched by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which in online advertising began to equate a congressional budget vote in 2011 with a vote for the House GOP budget in 2014 that supposedly protected special interests.

This line of attack was prompted by remarks by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, who told the Huffington Post that the agency has been working on an Ebola vaccine for more than a decade but was hampered by shrinking budgets. “Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready,” Collins said.

So what’s actually going on here?

[SeekAndFind]

BOTTOM LINE: FOUR PINOCCHIOS

[NativeSon]

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=f016bd58-8e45-45d4-951a-b6b4d1ef3e70

CDC OFF CENTER June 2007 A review of how an agency tasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds of millions of tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, international junkets, and lavish facilities, but cannot demonstrate it is controlling disease.

[FR_addict]

Another Democratic Lie… GOP Gave CDC More Money Than Obama Requested -
http://www.teaparty.org/another-democratic-lie-gop-gave-cdc-money-obama-requested-61663/#sthash.chld7Ij8.dpuf

[boycott]

” ..... we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready,” Collins said.”

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What a lying POS. How about using Obama and Collins for their clinical trials?

[Slyfox]

Wait, what?

I thought it was the Obamaesque-Republican-inspired sequestration that caused the problem.

[NativeSon]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/01/the-cdc-is-subsidizing-left-wing-activist-groups/

The CDC is subsidizing left-wing activist groups

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

“The Democrats Biological Warfare on America”:

(Unlimited Open Borders/Ebola/Enterovirus-68/TB/Polio)
and it was the RATS who invented ObamaCare without a single Repub vote !

[KosmicKitty]

You know it’s a really big lie when the compost catches it.

Some things are just too much to try to sneak past the general public.

[bgill]

Except there were no cuts.

[VanDeKoik]

So the GOP magically cut the CDC budget without controlling the White House or Senate?

[GeronL]

I don’t think there was a cut

they just spent it on fat lesbians

[ChildOfThe60s]

So the GOP magically cut the CDC budget without controlling the White House or Senate?

Since most Americans have no clue regarding the functions of our 3 branches of government, nor how laws are actually made, it's no wonder these lies work so well. As grossly stupid and illiterate as Gwyneth Paltrow is, she is far from being alone.

When I was in the 8th grade we actually had a class called civics. Oh, and (shazaam) my parents taught me things at home!!

[Parley Baer]

If they would stop spending money on gun control as a health issue they would have had enough money for Ebola.

[americas.best.days...]

The Washington Compost, forced to defend Republicans.

We must surely be in the end times.

[WayneS]

What budget?

When was the last time congress adopted a budget?

[pabianice]

It’s clear to many that Obama’s cuts in the military have killed many soldiers who needed more support.

[PATRIOT1876]

They never heard the one about glass houses?!?!?!

When you're at the starting line with a wheelbarrow that has one broken wheel, and it's square, don't tell a guy in a formula one racer how slow he is and then challenge him to a race.

One word:
“Obamacare”

[DaveyB]

I don’t think there was a cut they just spent it on fat lesbians

In their defense; fat lesbians are a blight on society and a problem that needs control and must not spread. Quarantining need to be on the table.

[GeronL]

lol