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)
Any Republican is better than the Rat!
We need to hold our noses!
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” Only the Republicans can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Liberal Repulicans(RINOS)can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Look at MCain
Look at Romney.
They are liberals.
Scary thought, ain’t it?
this statement by McConnell bodes ill if he becomes Senate Majority Leader.”
If McConnell loses, John Cornyn is waiting in the wings to take his place as either majority or minority leader. Won’t be any better. So we’re screwed either way.
Unspeakably depressing, is what it is.
The epitaph for 2014.
The pubbies are great at doing this....snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
It’s just so stupid. How can we get decent leadership, ever?
Or standing on Obama with Ebola?
The thing is, though, it's not an exact quote. It's the blogger's interpretation.
McConnell may just be trying to dodge the question by punting to the supposed experts.
To be sure that's not very good leadership or what the country needs, but he's got something else on his mind right now.
Well if McConnell isn’t always standing with Obama his only other posture is kissing Obama’s butt. So it has to be one of the two. LOL
He deserves to lose.
That’s absurd, Obola has no position on ebola. I think he is against it, but, I have no proof. He lets it into the country, but, does not try to stop it.
He lets planes fly here from infected countries.
What does that even mean?
It means whoever wrote the headline has it in for Mitch.
It's not something McConnell actually said.
It's the spin the website wants to create.
I suspect he just didn't want to answer the question.
How is the Senate Majority Leader selected?
Right of passage or put to a vote?
Well then, Journalism takes another one to the nuts.
I agree with you, taking the senate means nothing if this dope is in charge..
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Miotch is Soetoro’s rubber stamp biotch.
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