Posted on 10/17/2014 10:01:51 AM PDT by jimbo123
President Barack Obama on Friday turned to a trusted adviser to lead the nation’s Ebola response as efforts to clamp down on any possible route of infection from three Texas cases expanded, reaching a cruise ship at sea and multiple airline flights.
Facing renewed criticism of his handling of the Ebola risk, Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his point man on fighting Ebola at home and in West Africa. Klain will report to national security adviser Susan Rice and to homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, the White House said.
Klain does not have a medical or a health care background.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., slammed the decision on Twitter.
“Worst ebola epidemic in world history and Pres. Obama puts a government bureaucrat with no healthcare experience in charge. Is he serious?” Harris tweeted.
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The job of an Captain isn’t to physically steer the ship either but more than a couple ordered them into reefs and rocks.
More than one CEO tanked his company by handing out asinine instructions to his workers to carry out.
Probably best to have a competent man in charge with experience in his given endeavor than not IMO.
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