Van Jones: Dems Should Use Ebola As Campaign Talking Point Against GOP

MRC NewsBusters ^ | 10-5-2014 | Jeffrey Meyer

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Van Jones: Dems Should Use Ebola As Campaign Talking Point Against GOP

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 5, 2014 | 12:23 PM EDT

It appears as though former Obama official Van Jones has taken Rahm Emmanuel’s belief that you never “want a good crisis go to waste” to heart during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos.

During a panel discussion on the upcoming midterm elections, Jones suggested that Democrats should point out that the “Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.”

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After host George Stephanopoulos highlighted how “Nate Silver's team at FiveThirtyEight gives the GOP a 59% of retaking the Senate” Van Jones shamefully urged Democrats to use Ebola as a talking point in 2014:

We can't let the Republicans get away with some of the stuff they’re doing this week,  just trying to bash Obama. Hey, you know, government is always your enemy until you need a friend. This Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.

The Democrat, and host of CNN's Crossfire, continued to attack the GOP and hinted that another government shutdown could cause an Ebola epidemic in the United States:

A year ago Ted Cruz shut down America's government, shut down the CDC over shenanigans. What if that happened this year? You got to start putting the Republicans on the defensive for the fact that they believe that you can take a wrecking ball to America's government, never pay a price.

ObamaCare means that 8 million people who couldn't have gone to the doctor last year, if they feel sick today, they would if they got Obama, they can go see the doctor. The Democrats have got to start talking like that.

The entire segment focused on how Democrats are desperately tying to maintain control of the Senate and Van Jones’ attempt to exploit Ebola for political gain seems to confirm such desperation as the GOP is poised to make substantial gains in Congress.

See relevant transcript below.

ABC’s This Week w/ George Stephanopoulos

October 5, 2014

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Back now with our “Politics Buzz Board.” Topping it off, just one month from election day, ISIS invading campaign airwaves. Tough GOP ads in tight senate races from New Hampshire to Colorado like this one in North Carolina from Thom Tillis. 

UNKNOWN PERSON: While ISIS grew, Obama kept waiting and Kay Hagan kept quiet. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hagan fired back. 

KAY HAGAN: I think North Carolinians need to know his position and he is spineless in this regard. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: President Obama talking about the economy and his agenda. 

BARACK OBAMA: I'm not on the ballot this fall but make no mistake these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: But was it smart to make the midterms an Obama referendum? GOP candidates pounced and new grandmother Hillary Clinton is hitting the trail. Politico reports that she'll barnstorm key midterm states like Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire when not babysitting Charlotte. Add it all up and Nate Silver's team at FiveThirtyEight gives the GOP a 59% of retaking the Senate, down one point from last week. Back with the roundtable, Mark Halperin, Bloomberg, is Nate Silver right to move just an inch away from the Republicans?

MARK HALPERIN: I don’t know. In the world of margins of errors, I'm not sure that's much of a move. You know, right now Democrats must change the electorate and I think the reason you see President Obama injecting his economic record in and you see him attacking Fox News in that same speech is because they need to change the electorate, they need to get the coalition of the ascended, the Obama voters who don't normally vote in the midterms to vote in places like North Carolina and Iowa. Go race by race today, they’ve got three of the six in the bag. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Republicans. 

HALPERIN: Republicans do. I think right now they would get the final three. Kansas, though, is a huge problem for the Republicans. They may end up netting five, even though they win six. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Pat Roberts not closing the gap there at all. Van Jones, I have to ask you this. I understand what Mark [Halperin] is saying about energizing the Obama electorate, but it did not seem like a wise move for the president to put his agenda front and center.

VAN JONES: Well, we’ve to get our base going. The other thing too is that we can't let the Republicans get away with some of the stuff they’re doing this week,  just trying to bash Obama. Hey, you know, government is always your enemy until you need a friend. This Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in. A year ago Ted Cruz shut down America's government, shut down the CDC over shenanigans. What if that happened this year? You got to start putting the Republicans on the defensive for the fact that they believe that you can take a wrecking ball to America's government, never pay a price. ObamaCare means that 8 million people who couldn't have gone to the doctor last year, if they feel sick today, they would if they got Obama, they can go see the doctor. The Democrats have got to start talking like that.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Typical commie pig. Blame somebody else. Commies can do know wrong. FUVJ. You lowlife scumbag.

[smoothsailing]

Yes, throw it right back at them!

[Sarah Barracuda]

I had no idea that the CDC is responsible for what goes on in AFRICA..Someone should sneeze on Van Jones, what a disgrace to the human race and what kind of name is Van anyway..guess we know where the idiot was conceived

[Morpheus2009]

Newt Gingrich pretty much lost te nomination to Romney, remember. What a loser and disappointment he was.

[depressed in 06]

Jones suggested that Democrats should point out that the “Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.”

Which kind of government is that. The one that lets anyone seeking to do harm to the country in, be they pandemic carrier, seeking to dine at the taxpayer table, or terrorist. A government that only seeks punishment for for those paying the bills. That government will eat its own.

[bray]

There is nothing Van Jones believes that everyone at ABC doesn’t believe. They are all pure Marxists.

Pray America wakes

[Paladin2]

VANguard (of the Revolution) needs to be isolated, frozen and targeted as an unAmerican leftist zealot not paying his fair share to society.

[catnipman]

Unfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:

“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)

Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University

[BigEdLB]

Um... Emperor won't stop folk from coming from those countries, which he could, and it's the Republicans fault?

Van Jones? Is he the Mad Hatter or the March Hare? I ask because Jones must be living in Wonderland...

[Huskrrrr]

Yes, well said.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Not true .... only if they have met their $10,000 deductible and they could find a doctor that would accept their crappy insurance.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I have been infected with the Obola virus for almost 6 years, and it feels very bad.

[Revel]

Republicans should be speaking the truth and putting the blame on the administration that does not care about what comes over the boarder. And the Man who ignored the out break. Americans tend to blame who ever was first in blaming the other anyways.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Jones suggested that Democrats should point out that the “Ebola thing is the best argument you can make for the kind of government that we believe in.”

HUH? Obamacare has begun the destruction of our healthcare system? Doctors are leaving, hospitals are cutting staff and only hiring part timers, Doctors Offices are cutting staff and on and on. How is this type of Government good for an Ame4ica facing Ebola?

[Grams A]

“ObamaCare means that 8 million people who couldn’t have gone to the doctor last year, if they feel sick today, they would if they got Obama, they can go see the doctor.”

This is just so bizarre. To the best of my knowledge no one in the U.S. has ever been told they could not go see a doctor if they were ill. Do any of these people ever think about what they are saying, particularly the “if you feel sick (and) you would if you got Obama...”.

Jones is right about one thing though. We are suffering from Obama and all the insurance and doctors in the world cannot cure it.

[Califreak]

Why not?

It’s SOP for them

FUBAR everything and lay the blame on others

[KingNo155]

who watches ABC? or the so called “big 3” ....nobody!!!!

[Sasparilla]

This Communist briefly considered proposing the idea that the GOP created Ebola.

[ClearCase_guy]

Upon giving it some thought, I suppose you’re right.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You are exactly right. Obamacrap policies cover “well visits” to the doctor and a few tests each year or so - but if you are sick you pay until you reach the deductible. So those who are working and don’t get the insurance subsidized would be paying their monthly payments (average $800 per family) so $9600 per year, plus the $5,000 or $6000 deductible before it would pay anything. The idiot liberals think someone who is making $50K a year has 15 grand lying around for health care costs? I wish just once, someone arguing with a liberal on tv would put those numbers in their faces. There is no way they know anything about those policies.