Posted on 10/25/2014 10:15:41 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
In a stunning interview, Senate minority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)See Full Scorecard68% took the side of Barack Obama over that of most of his caucus on the subject of managing Ebola, ignoring both the administration’s ineptitude and basic principles of epidemiology.
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)thinks the United States should heed expert advice on whether to impose flight restrictions on Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa, contrary to what some lawmakers in his party have been saying for weeks.
“I think we ought to listen to what the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] thinks they need either in terms of financing or certainly they’ll decide the procedures for travel and all the rest,” McConnell told NBC News in an interview. “I think we need to follow the advice of the experts who know how to fight scourges like this.”
The Obama administration and top health officials charged with responding to the outbreak maintain that a flight ban would impede the work of aid workers who need to be able to travel to and from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea in order to contain the virus at its root.
In this interview, McConnell manages to accurately parrot everyone of the administration’s talking points. Even the stupid ones:
“The way we’re going to reduce risk to Americans is to do the steps of protection and stop Ebola at the source in Africa,” he said. “If we do things that unintentionally make it harder to get that response in, to get supplies in,” it will “become much harder to stop the outbreak at the source.”
I suppose a big-brain guy like McConnell sees “stop[ping] Ebola at the source” as being compatible with a free-flow of travel from Africa despite the extensive travel bans put in place by other countries.
McConnell’s call to listen to the CDC on this issue makes no sense when one considers the lack of candor, utter incompetence, and shameless dishonesty the CDC has exhibited so far. In fact, at every step along the way the CDC has failed America. The travel ban, now derided by McConnell, would have prevented Michael Eric Duncan from ever bringing Ebola to the United States.
In the big scheme of things, this statement by McConnell bodes ill if he becomes Senate Majority Leader. If he throws his colleagues under the bus on something this obvious, in what can only be interpreted as a peace offering to Obama, then he will lead the Senate in a way that is indistinguishable from Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
We are long past the point where the GOP sycophants became as much the enemy as the liberals. With the exception of about 5 people in the house/senate, voting GOP is a guarantee of a knife in the back.
We can stop doing that or we are to blame for wrecking America every bit as much as the libs are. Because the RINOs and libs are the same people.
What does that even mean?
That there is no difference. Both are liberals and will act accordingly.
It means there will be no halt if ebola imputed via any avenue.
And to think this goon could be Senate Majority Leader and thereby rule what comes and what does not come for a vote on the senate floor.
Ted’s back is a 100 blade knife holder these days.
Only because we keep supplying the knives.
Mitch, you ignorant slut.
Edit: Imported
0dumbo and McConnell - Dumb and Dumber, the next installment.
Actually the GOPe RINOS are more dangerous than just the liberals, because there is NO opposition if they run things.
“As I said to the gasp of RINO defenders, I hope the Republicans take the Senate and that McConnell loses his race.”
Yeah, because with him as “Leader,” the Senate will dick around for two years, then go back to the RATS, along with HItlary. The GOPE has a big Senate problem in 2016 because they will have more seats to defend then than the RATS.
What a tool.
He might have just thrown away his chance for re-election....
“Sir, that’s real retarded.”-Rachel Jenteal
First of all as to your quandary is that it is the people of the separate states that position persons such as McConnell and Boehner. People in one state are not necessarily friends or considerate of people interests even national in another state. This pair of politicians then buy the support of likeminded elected ‘representatives’ and the scams keep going.
True. But try to get half of FR to see the fact of it without a screaming fir happening.
Of course, it’s STILL TRUE regardless of how loud they yell. But that doesn’t stop’em.
God I hope so.
Grimes runs away from Obola, while Mitch embraces him.
Only the Republicans can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They think they can just stand back and appear to be above the fray, and the voters will reward them. Their backbones are made of jelly: too scared to speak out about ebola and other diseases being brought into this country because the lamestream will call them racists.
PATHETIC.
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