Posted on 10/17/2014 2:45:18 PM PDT by maggief
California Republican Darrell Issa has a well-deserved reputation for finding ways to bring the issue of the moment into his committee’s jurisdiction.
President Barack Obama’s handling of the Ebola crisis is no exception.
On Friday afternoon, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman announced he would convene a full panel hearing in seven days, on Oct. 24, titled, “The Ebola Crisis: Coordination of a Multi-Agency Response.”
As with the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing earlier this week, Issa’s hearing will explore whether federal agencies properly handled the first known cases of the Ebola virus in the United States, according to an official description emailed to reporters.
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It’s also one of the last hearings that Issa will get to call as chairman of the committee, as his three terms as the panel’s top Republican are capped at the end of the year.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.rollcall.com ...
Has Issa actually done anything in the last two years?
Ping.
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
Yes
Oh yes, he has done a lot. Oh wait, he has never completed a single investigation. He is all talk, no action. I wish he would just shut up and go away.
What’s he done?
Yawn.
Like a bear in the fall
Lots of noise, sounds real tough, just before he caves.
Issa is very good at holding hearings. No follow-up of course.
It’s in a week? A whole week?
We are doomed.
Not that another hearing will do anything anyway.
Obama Joker laughs while the black death of O’Bola seeps into America and spreads across the land. It’s pure evil and O’Bola is willfully and gleefully expediting it.
Did he send out strongly worded letters?
” Issa is very good at holding hearings. No follow-up of course.”
Yep. no results
SNORE
LOL!
Maybe Jordan, Chaffetz ... or Gowdy will wake you up. :)
: )
Ah! Janet “the torch” Reno....
It’s now clear why he never actually DID anything. It was rope-a-dope; running out the clock until his chairmanship expired.
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