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President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She?
The Federalist ^ | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 10/14/2014 10:47:50 AM PDT by 11th Commandment

... What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; czar; ebola; funding; nih
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To: 11th Commandment

Where is the US Ebola Czar, Dr. Nicole Lurie?

And what has she been up to for the last six years?


21 posted on 10/14/2014 11:39:55 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: 11th Commandment

You’d be in hiding too, if you were photographed wearing grapes for earrings.


22 posted on 10/14/2014 11:42:57 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: vpintheak

This has to be the most underhanded, incompetent bunch of people I have ever seen! I can deal with stupid, but this is beyond absurd!


They are doing exactly as planned. They are not incompetent.

They prefer that people think they’re incompetent.


23 posted on 10/14/2014 11:43:27 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: 11th Commandment

Aaaaugh my eyes! Is that a transsexual?


24 posted on 10/14/2014 11:45:17 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: 11th Commandment
Of course, between the fiscal years 2000 and 2004, NIH’s budget jumped a whopping 58 percent. HHS’s 70,000 workers will spend a total of $958 billion this year, or about $7,789 for every U.S. household. A 2012 report on federal spending including the following nuggets about how NIH spends its supposedly tight funds:

Last year there were news reports about a $509,840 grant from NIH to pay for a study that will send text messages in “gay lingo” to meth-heads. There are many other shake-your-head examples of misguided spending that are easy to find.

25 posted on 10/14/2014 11:47:49 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Black Agnes

bttt


26 posted on 10/14/2014 11:57:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 11th Commandment

Obama’s Ebola czar is probably quarantined with Ebola symptoms.


27 posted on 10/14/2014 12:00:58 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: raybbr

BFL


28 posted on 10/14/2014 12:09:45 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr

BFL


29 posted on 10/14/2014 12:09:49 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: 11th Commandment

This is beyond AFU


30 posted on 10/14/2014 12:11:48 PM PDT by onona (Please donate to FR ! However much you can, all is appreciated.)
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To: 11th Commandment

Thanks for posting this.


31 posted on 10/14/2014 12:18:10 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Not being all powerful does not excuse gross incompetence.

Interesting recurring Leftist rhetoric: when called on incompetence, objects against imputed demands for total perfection - which was, of course, NOT what was called out.

No, Leftists, it does NOT take an all-powerful government to have competence when crisis strikes. With years of planning and billions of dollars to prepare for the long-predicted outbreak of worst-case diseases like Ebola, we DO expect basic competence unto immediately isolating the exposed and decontaminating the areas involved, NOT just telling close live-in family members “don’t go out” and leaving contaminated items in place for mundane cleanup (say, with a power sprayer ... how IS that sandaled woman doing? anyone watching her symptoms?). If that can’t be done, then funding should be cut off as it’s sure not going anywhere.


32 posted on 10/14/2014 12:22:29 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Black Agnes

I looked at the pic. THAT is NOT a guy..


33 posted on 10/14/2014 12:25:54 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: 11th Commandment

LOL - it’s so typical


34 posted on 10/14/2014 12:36:50 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 11th Commandment

http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/u-s-government-set-announce-surge-help-ebola-epidemic

She gave an interview to a relatively anonymous web mag about a month ago. Her answers are vague and couched in liberal ideology, IMHO.


35 posted on 10/14/2014 12:48:57 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: 11th Commandment
http://www.hhs.gov/about/foa/osleadership/aspr.html

Phone: (202) 205-2882


36 posted on 10/14/2014 12:59:01 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Black Agnes

Well, well. Corruption in big government. I am shocked, I tell you, simply shocked.

We are soooo much better than those West Africans, with all their corrupted governments and money funneling...

Pffft.

Do I even need a < sarc > tag?

(Thanks for the PING; BA, that was an eye-opener!)


37 posted on 10/14/2014 1:08:02 PM PDT by Shelayne
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To: ViLaLuz

“Is that a transsexual?”


‘It’ looks like Mick Jagger & Steven Tyler’s love child.


38 posted on 10/14/2014 3:56:14 PM PDT by panaxanax
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To: Black Agnes

Thanks for the ping. Looks like our government might not help us much. Maybe Firestone will save us.


39 posted on 10/14/2014 4:22:38 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: 11th Commandment

Wow, what a great article!

Thank you for posting!

And thank you for introducing me to Ms. Mollie Hemingway!


40 posted on 10/14/2014 4:33:10 PM PDT by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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