Posted on 10/16/2014 7:17:31 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
MURRAY — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that concerns about the global spread of Ebola are great enough that the United States should halt flights from countries affected by the disease.
“I’m not an expert on this, but it strikes me that it would be a good idea to discontinue flights from that part of the world,” he told Pure Politics on Wednesday before he attended a meeting with leaders at the Briggs & Stratton plant in downtown Murray.
McConnell also said he agrees with President Barack Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Africa to help fight the disease and contain it.
About 1,400 U.S. troops, half of whom are based at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, are headed to Liberia this month, according to the Leaf -Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn.
McConnell said he has been briefed on the troops’ safety.
“I have been told this can be safely done. And we all know we have a huge stake in containing this disease where it is,” McConnell said.
In the last week, a man died in a Dallas hospital after contracting Ebola during a trip to Liberia. Two health care workers at the Dallas hospital have tested positive for the disease, including one nurse who recently was on a domestic flight, raising fears about spreading the disease, according to ABC News .
McConnell said he has not spoken to the White House or officials with the FAA, which would have a hand in shutting down air traffic from West Africa. McConnell, who is in the last month of his re-election campaign, noted that Congress hasn’t been in session.
He said calling back Congress to deal with Ebola would be “up to the president.”
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So turtle ‘tard, call out Rustler Reid....
WOW so we heard from the GOP who woke these f##kers up? They must be geting ready to take over the senate and reach across the isle
“I’m told this can be safely done.”
Bull hockey.
What an idiot. Banning flights to keep people from Ebola countries comming to US....but wants to send 3,000 people to an ebola country who HAVE to come home to the US.
You believe everything you hear, Mitch?
Moron.
And what happens when riots take place?
U.S. troops mow down Ebola-infected rioters?
Knowing Obama, they probably won’t get live ammunition.
Sending our men and women into certain death for some of them, then bringing more Ebola back with them. FU Mitch!
Earlier didn’t McConnell say he would go along with whatever the CDC recommended?
If Num-nuts can't open his own eyes, he should poll first, then open mouth.
That is all.............
Maybe in his dotage, McConnell remembers faintly the old adage:
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Mitch needs to be ditched.
To paraphrase George Burns, Mitch McConnell is like playing pool with a rope. He truly needs to retire and farm five acres of spaghetti squash.
How the hell is sending thousands of troops to Africa going to help contain the epidemic where it is?
This guy is a JERK! He says flights should be stopped while he is visiting an obscure Briggs & Stratton plant, but he has done NOTHING to use his leadership position in the senate.
“Earlier didn’t McConnell say he would go along with whatever the CDC recommended?”
Indeed...This weather vane just turned with the political wind per usual. (An entirely bankrupt piece of filth!)
“McConnell also said he agrees with President Barack Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Africa to help fight the disease and contain it. “
As long as it’s no one in YOUR family, right Mitch?
Where was Mitch the 2.5 billion bitch a month ago when Hussein was flying boatloads of em to DC?
As mealy-mouthed as Boehner. STOP saying pretty please and DEMAND it. For crying out loud, you are in charge. Show some gumption.
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