Posted on 10/13/2014 2:40:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor raised eyebrows and invited scorn in August when he released a television ad tying his Republican opponent to the Ebola crisis. Although the spot was roundly mocked as hyperbolic and flailing, a Democratic group has decided to take Pryor's concept several steps further with a new commercial called 'Republican cuts kill.' It features, well, actual footage of Africans dying of Ebola. Just watch:
Republican Cuts Kill
Somewhere, MSNBC's Joy Reid is wondering why she didn't think of this attack first. Rebutting the new ad may not be worth my time, but it fails on several levels. First, it grossly violates the 'ick' test. Many Americans have concerns about the government's competence to contain Ebola cases inside the United States; very few will squarely, or even glancingly, blame a political party's ideology for the current scare. On a related note, there is zero nuance in this ad. It ponderously draws a straight line from Republicans' desire to rein in federal spending to people dying of Ebola. That linkage is so ridiculous on its face that I can't even summon any real indignation over it. Second, in spite of CDC and NIH officials' complaints, Jim Geraghty notes that the latter group's budget has doubled since 2000 , and Gov. Bobby Jindal questions the CDC's spending priorities:
In recent years, the CDC has received significant amounts of funding. Unfortunately, however, many of those funds have been diverted away from programs that can fight infectious diseases, and toward programs far afield from the CDC’s original purpose. Consider the Prevention and Public Health Fund, a new series of annual mandatory appropriations created by Obamacare. Over the past five years, the CDC has received just under $3 billion in transfers from the fund. Yet only 6 percent—$180 million—of that $3 billion went toward building epidemiology and laboratory capacity. Especially given the agency’s postwar roots as the Communicable Disease Center, one would think that “detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats” warrants a larger funding commitment. Instead, the Obama administration has focused the CDC on other priorities. While protecting Americans from infectious diseases received only $180 million from the Prevention Fund, the community transformation grant program received nearly three times as much money—$517.3 million over the same five-year period.
Government incompetence is always the Republicans’ fault because they refused to fund more government incompetence.— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) October 13, 2014
The Democrat desperation machine shifts into high gear.
ABC Radio News beat her to it.
The GOPe invites this kind of attack. They believe they have the election in the bag and only have to keep their mouths shut to clinch it. Their record of cowardice and lack of principles certainly does not discourage their critics.
Republicans never, by any objective standard, EVER cut the funding to CDC. The bureaucracy at CDC simply allocated the generously available funds poorly and with emphasis on entirely the wrong objectives.
In fact, poor allocation of resources is one of the major problems now vexing the territory once known as “the United States of America”.
Misspending our bounty is probably one of the lesser infractions of the Current Regime. Finding entirely new and ever more foolish ways to direct that time and treasure is surely the greater criminality in the order of things.
If it ain’t broke, why spend so much time and money “fixing” it?
Yes, but the FACTS shout out that it is the Dems and their unlimited immigration policies that actually bring in these diseases...
...and having a pResident named “Obola” - err, um, ugh, Ebama - oh, um, schitt - Obama is just purrrfect for the Republicans.
Obala, it ain’t just for Africa any more.
Obama is the one who proposed cutting the CDC
I don’t think the Republicans control the Senate
So I am not sure how anyone could logically blame this on the GOP
See: White House
Don't deny it because that is exactly what you are trying to do
So the pigs are blaming the GOP for leaving the gate open when the pig in chief is the one at fault? Full throttle loathing here.
Someone needs to tell that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave that Congress consists of two Houses: The Senate and the House of Representatives. Just because the reps are addressed as Congressmen, doesn't make them the entire congress
I am merely pointing out a fact that the Republican leadership is incompetent, unprincipled and cowardly and therefore invites these types of attacks. The sooner we dispose of them, the better.
I don’t deny my disgust for the GOPe one bit. The sooner we are rid of them and have principled and inspired leadership, the sooner we can save this republic, if it is not too late.
You know how the rest goes.
This is what the repo we needs to be:
Flashback: “CDC preparedness funds take hit in proposed 2014 [OBAMA] budget”
Apr 10, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes a hit of about $270 million in the Obama administration’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, including significant cuts to biodefense and emergency preparedness programs, officials revealed today.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, speaking at a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press conference, said the “overall program budget would come down by about $270 million” under the budget proposal, compared with spending in fiscal year 2012...
And why aren`t the Retardicans hitting back with: Obola and his DemocRats care more about the economy of West Africa and political correctness than about American lives.
Flashback: The money that could have been used went to Solyndra to develop ebola resistant solar panels and bail out Obama’s donors.
You can thank Erica Whatsherface of the Agenda Project for it.
As subtle as a flying mallet.
Commenters: "Is this double talk for real?" (other voice cuts in) "You mean their economy is more important to them than our lives!" (different voice) "Sure as hell sounds like it!" (first voice) "What the (bleep) is wrong with these Bozos!" (new voice) "You tell me!" (final voice) NO! With that attitude, you tell me why they should be in charge!" then a fade out as you hear "American lives should come first to American leaders..."
On that I agree. This stuff needs to be responded to in kind. If they don’t, the big lie will stick, like the fake War on Women.
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