Posted on 10/23/2014 8:24:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Rabbi, is there a proper blessing for the czar?" He thinks for a moment and responds: "May God bless and keep the czar ... far away from us!" -- "Fiddler on the Roof"
Today, "czar" is a term encouraged by the media to describe one who oversees a specific government policy. According to The Atlantic.com, President Franklin Roosevelt "solidified the trend" of using the word czar to identify policy appointees. Some modern presidents appointed several czars. Ronald Reagan named just one, a drug czar. He was Carlton Turner, director of the Drug Abuse Policy Office. How well that worked can be seen in the increasing numbers of states, and the District of Columbia, that have legalized or decriminalized the use of marijuana.
To combat the Ebola virus, President Obama has named a political operative, Ron Klain, as his Ebola czar. Defenders of the appointment say Klain is an experienced political operative who can "coordinate" the U.S. response to the virus. Why do we need a coordinator? What is the secretary of Health and Human Services for? How about the surgeon general's office? Granted, we have only an acting surgeon general because Republicans opposed President Obama's choice due to his advocacy of gun control and other policies they oppose, but an acting surgeon general can still act like one.
Recall the late U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, appointed by Reagan. The left was strongly opposed to Koop, largely because of his pro-life views, but after the professional way he addressed the AIDS epidemic, many liberal senators, convinced of his integrity, supported him.
A virus doesn't discriminate. It can kill Democrats and Republicans and so should have no place in the political debate. Except President Obama seems determined to turn even Ebola into a political fight by selecting a rabid partisan and former aide to Vice President Joe Biden and Al Gore. According to the White House, Klain will report, not to President Obama, but to National Security Adviser Susan Rice and probably White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, who increasingly seems the real power behind the White House throne.
One of the problems in dealing with Ebola has been the diversity of voices and opinions coming from different places. The president says one thing, spokespeople at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas another, Dr. Thomas Frieden at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention something else and doctors at the National Institutes of Health something different again. And sometimes their diagnoses don't match, or have to be updated with circumstances that mutate into things previous statements said were unlikely to occur.
All of this adds to the perception by many Americans -- reflected in numerouspolls -- that incompetents are running our government.
On Wednesday, the CDC finally announced a program to monitor those entering the country from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa. Shouldn't we have been doing this all along? After all, we monitor fruit, vegetables and plants entering the U.S. from other countries. Should I wish to travel with a pet, in some countries it must be quarantined for days, even weeks, to make sure it is free of disease. Monitoring humans who might be infected with a potentially deadly virus should have been a no-brainer weeks ago.
Klain's only medical experience seems to be self-administering aspirin for a headache. While well connected to the Democratic Party, he lacks the standing and credibility to coordinate the anti-Ebola fight. And so, he should be kept "far away from us."
“O” just clearing off another campaign marker...
Another fat paycheck for a person who will do absolutely NOTHING
Look how well it's worked for the War On (Some) Drugs.
Redistribution. The Csar answers Mao’s question: who is our enemy, who should get Ebola. It is about as trustworthy as Cuba currently sending doctors to help in Africa as the French radio wants us to believe. Liberals have in higher esteem Fidel than they do Mandela.
that would have been a Surgeon General’s job.
But we don’t have one, I don’t think.
If we do, it somehow escaped my notice.
Looks like he may not be the best person for the job.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/is-new-ebola-czars-biggest-fear-overpopulation/
Indeed. The war on drugs requires choices for the dea, of using this cartel to destroy that cartel. Which ones are favored? Much like the ISIS game.
It is part of the militarization of civil society by “officer” communists making the rest of us the enlisted needing to die.
The ayatollah of ebola?
This is all about Obola once again.
He’s protecting his back side.
Anything that happens now, it was the Czar’s fault. Obola is exonerated at every turn.
John McCain had been around long enough to know what this results in, and yet he suggested it anyway. The man is a fool.
His Magesty the Ayatollah Obola...
With the obamists, there is the public org chart and the real one.
The job these people hold ostensibly is almost always cover for what they really do. The public job is just how they get paid. So you hire them into some government job, or you create a fake organization and make them president of it. Or whatever. It relieves you of the need to pass bags of money under the table. You can write the checks quite openly.
The Surgeon General reports to the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), who may be a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), and who serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health and scientific issues. The Surgeon General is the overall head of the Commissioned Corps, a 6,500-member cadre of health professionals who are on call 24 hours a day, and can be dispatched by the Secretary of HHS or the Assistant Secretary for Health in the event of a public health.
The current Acting Surgeon General is Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, who was named to the position following Regina Benjamin’s resignation on July 16, 2013.
HE’S DRAWING THE PAY, HE IS THE SURGEON GENERAL.
Ron Klain at least went to medical school,
served as a resident knowledgeable in infectious diseases,
and then worked in a HOT ZONE for 4 years.
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The purpose of Czars is provide cover and concealment for Obola.
At least as far as the MSM is concerned, all the Czars do their job well.
Has there been any kind of public statement from Flounder? Any press conference?
The Ebola Czar is a waste of tax money for his salary. We have an entire health & human services department that should have people who can manage this.
The Ebola czar has been given the keys to the kingdom of his guiding principle, the reduction of global population. He should now be able to fundamentally change the world.
Actually I don’t believe he is doing nothing.
Have you noticed there are very few news reports about ebola?
He’s shut them down.
So now you won’t know when you have an ebola patient in your home town.
that would have been a Surgeon General’s job.
But we don’t have one, I don’t think.
If we do, it somehow escaped my notice.
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