Posted on 10/13/2014 11:05:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yes, the presence of a deadly disease in Texas has benefited a certain governor. What with intense and alarming media coverage of two Ebola cases in the Lone Star state, Gov. Rick Perry has risen to the opportunity and gotten decisive indeed. It has paid off. Republican attitudes toward Mr. Perry have “improved significantly,” says YouGov polling analyst Kathy Frankovic, who reports that Mr. Perry’s favorability ratings have quickly jumped 16 percentage points — rising from 51 percent in late September to 67 percent by late last week.
While President Obama has yet to appoint an Ebola “czar” to coordinate U.S. response to the disease, Mr. Perry has already launched the “Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response,” complete with an aggressive emergency plan and hands-on director Dr. Brett P. Giroir, who warns of an “interconnected world” and vows that Texas is “fully prepared for the worst-case scenario, no matter what form that may take.”
Mr. Perry’s bodacious moves could burnish his image as a 2016 presidential hopeful, and those promising polling numbers should remain stable for a while, and possibly even improve. He should ready another kind of battle plan, though. None of this has been lost on his critics.
“The only ‘spread of Ebola’ in the U.S. was caused by a private hospital in a red state,” tweeted MSNBC host Joy Reid on Sunday.
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Mary Landrieu
Well mate, “”Fantastic, we need some serious attention paid to this aspect of national defense, some real serious attention, and some concrete changes made.”” is a little more meaningful and important about NATIONAL defense than your post on “good hair”, “”And you’re expecting Governor GoodHair to make those changes? Don’t hold your breath, amigo.
There are things about Ebola and national defense and preparedness, and this “Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response” that need to be discussed by Americans nationally.
“Texas is uniquely equipped, like no other state, to handle the Ebola outbreak. The medical innovations that came from here would fill pages, including the world’s first heart transplant”
that is news to the world.
http://hearttransplant.com/history.html
Thanks.
That was probably one of the dumbest statements ever
Mine or his?
If mine, please let me know how.
I don’t disagree with your statements.
Am just trying to reduce the erroneous claims, as the South Africans may put issue to that one.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
That is an amazingly politicized twist on the facts. “The only spread of Ebola in the U.S., so far, was caused by a total lack of border protection and immigration control by a far left racist who doesn't care about white people. The detail that the bio-weapon Obama permitted into our country then attacked Texas rather than another state is minor compared with Obama's decision to let that liar into our country.
I can think of three reasons, but I forgot what they were while I was posting this.
Sounds like the same hooey we were fed in 2012, about Obama and Hurricane Sandy.
"He was there, in the vicinity of the action...looking like a leader."
what will you be voting for him?
President?
Ha!
Guardasil, Trans-Texas Corridor, and relatives hired by firms lobbying the state of Texas.
Tried for 8 years to get a spanish construction firm to build the TTC, which would have claimed imminent domain. Forced injections of STD vaccine for 12 year old schoolgirl.
What a loon
his, sorry
I like that response. I’m nearing the years when I’m going to have to keep it on file just in case I forget the snappy come-back. Then I’ll forget where I filed it
Darn!
Perry is not conservative and he will never be presidential material.
That was a typo, believe me. Basil is no fan of Perry.
No disagreement with that, just don't get too hopeful about the level of serious, effective response from Perry and his 'task force'. The man's a politician, above all else.
If he and his 'task force' are serious about stopping this thing, the first thing they'll do is stop air travelers with Hot Spot passports from disembarking in Texas. Doubt that they will, though. Perry's in lockstep agreement with Obama's open door policy.
So you don’t like Perry, you already told me that.
We only learned of the “Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response” minutes ago and you have already read it’s future and now want to share your knowledge of the task force, got it.
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