- The Center for Disease Control was forced to slow down research and development on an Ebola vaccine when their budget was cut by over a billion dollars after the GOP forced a government shutdown. A spokesman for the CDC told media that the budget cut had a huge effect on the work they were doing against Ebola.
- Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is calling for the President to appoint an Ebola czar--a position that would logically be filled by our Surgeon General. But, a year after President Obama named a nominee, that office is still unfilled because Senate Republicans refuse to allow a vote on the appointment of Dr. Murth--who they admit is highly qualified for the job--after he had the temerity to say that guns can kill people. This instantly made him a leper in the eyes of the NRA; and we all know how the GOP loves that NRA $$$.
- Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) who joins his fellow Republicans in blaming the President for not doing more to stop the spread of Ebola, has urged his colleagues to vote against the President's request for funds to fight the spread because, as he explained, "it focuses on Africa."
And, somehow, the entire Ebola crisis is the President's fault.
I give you the modern GOP, star pupil at the Ostrich School of Responsibility.
I sit here and read this stuff and just find it so hard to believe that we actually don't have anyone with intelligence as a choice to vote for. Are they this stupid when they run or do they get that way after they join the lazy boys club up on the hill? Do people NOT understand that its NOT the president that has slowed this country to a halt? I certainly hope that the American public sees through the stupidity of the Republicans and all they try to do to stop progress and throw them the hell out so we can move forward and get this country back on track.
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