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New Republic Editor Decides Political Hack as Ebola Czar Is OK
NewsBusters ^ | October 17, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/17/2014 2:03:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

One has to give The New Republic editor Jonathan Cohn some credit. At least he was beset with some brief soul searching over the fact that the new Ebola Czar is a political hack with no medical experience. However, after checking with his fellow liberals, Cohn finally got his "mind right" and returned to the proper groupthink fold.

Although, as we shall see, Klain was front and center of the crony capitalism scandal in which the Solyndra green energy company cost the taxpayers over $500 million, all is forgiven and he is now allowed to become Ebola Czar. First we join Jonathan Cohn while he was still in a state of some doubt about the propriety of an unqualified political hack becoming Ebola Czar:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrishughes; ebolaczar; facebook; jonathancohn; newrepublic; ronklain; thenewrepublic
Ron Klain basically ran the Democrat money laundering operation known as the stimulus and is also Mr. Solyndra.
1 posted on 10/17/2014 2:03:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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He sounds like a “go to” guy.


2 posted on 10/17/2014 2:06:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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If I had known that the “Ebola czar” job was coming open, I would have applied for it. Being a conservative, I know that I would have been turned down but it would have been worth a try. There aren’t a whole lot of six figure government jobs open out there these days.


3 posted on 10/17/2014 2:07:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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Well he is just as qualified as the lapsed doctor who uis runnign the CDC right now....


4 posted on 10/17/2014 2:16:34 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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Let the SPIN BEGIN!..................

5 posted on 10/17/2014 2:29:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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6 posted on 10/17/2014 2:43:00 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts


7 posted on 10/17/2014 2:59:04 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (You can't get Ebola on a bus but if you are infected you can give Ebola to someone on a bus. WTH?)
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