EBOLA IN THE USA

[swchandler]

"Under Obama median income has fallen, and average household income fallen, mostly due to open borders, free trade, and poor economic policies. You can characterize the looney right as being at fault, but this next election should tell the whole story."


Bard, you're really tripping out. Hate is getting the better of you, and you're slipping into nonsense.

However, let's say the Republicans get lucky and win the majority in the Senate in November. What do you think will happen? If the Republicans should happen to get anything significant through the Senate, it will be readily vetoed by the president that they hate so much. The payback will be so sweet. Do you think that the Democrats will offer a helping hand? Dream on.

[MalibuGuru]

SWC, you deny median household income has fallen over the last 6 years under Obama? You better check your facts man. GDP may be up but per capita GDP has also fallen.

If he veto's any bills, he will then be the obstructionist. He will have denied the American people what they voted for....at his peril.

[swchandler]

Republicans have been denying the American people since President Obama was elected, and you could care less. What goes around comes around. Bad Republican karma will catch up with them.

[isobars]

[swchandler]

Examples of how select facts and statistics can be manipulated to tell the story you want. The contrived telltales seems to point to President Obama being the fault for any and all negative trends, yet are the conclusions true? Not really, but I guess that if your prejudices want that outcome, that's what you walk away with.

[keycocker]

The recession will always provide examples of things getting worse at some point ever since Bushes last two years.
It also has provided many examples of things getting better as the recession is easing.
You just pick out the events you prefer and pretend they prove something whether you are a lib or GOP.
This is esp.true for things which require a compromise. In those cases you can find bad things to say even amid large successes.

[pueno]

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After Blocking Surgeon General Nominee, Republican Blames Obama For Surgeon General Vacancy

by Adam Peck

It has been nearly a year since Vivek Murthy was nominated by President Obama to serve as the next Surgeon General, but thanks in large part to the gun lobby and their Republican allies in the Senate, there has yet to be any movement on his confirmation.

That vacancy has become a central focus in the last week as government officials and medical professionals try to calm the public about the spread of Ebola.

On Sunday, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) about the NRA’s role in blocking Murthy’s confirmation, but the Republican senator dismissed the question outright.

Blunt blamed the vacancy on President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who has yet to put Murthy’s nomination to a full vote, and dismissed questions about the National Rifle Association’s efforts to block the nominee.

“The NRA said they were going to score the vote and suddenly everybody froze him,” said Chuck Todd. “That seems a little petty in hindsight, does it not?”

“Well, the president really ought to nominate people that can be confirmed to these jobs, and frankly then we should confirm them, there’s no question about that,” replied Blunt.

Earlier this year, the NRA launched a campaign to derail Murthy’s nomination because he voiced support for expanding background checks for gun purchases. His comments that gun violence was a public health concern raised the ire of the gun lobby and conservative lawmakers despite the fact that every major medical association — and several former Surgeons General under Republican presidents — shared the same view.

Todd questioned the wisdom of giving the NRA any kind of influence over the country’s top public health position, but Blunt rejected the notion that the NRA played any role in Murthy’s confirmation. “I’m not sure that’s why, you’d have to ask Senator Reid why he hasn’t move that to the top of his list to be confirmed.”

After the NRA began publicly opposing Murthy’s nomination, several of Blunt’s Republican colleagues including Rand Paul, John Cornyn and John Barrasso said they too would move to block Murthy’s nomination, and Paul placed a hold on the nomination.

Lawmakers and health experts have expressed concern over the lack of a Surgeon General to craft a unified response to the ebola diagnoses, leading to confusion that has helped fuel public fear of the virus, fear that is largely unfounded.

Blunt told Todd that he thinks we need a surgeon general. But asked if he would vote for Murthy’s confirmation, Blunt again refused to answer the question and blamed the administration.

“Until this came up, frankly I’ve heard very little discussion about the Surgeon General,” he said.

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[keycocker]

Congress has lost interest in doing its job.
The Blame Obama Movement provides them with cover. We are going to reelect most of them shortly, including those who are preventing us from having a Surgeon General so they could Stop Obama!!!

Leaving our country without judges or infra to fight Ebola is OK if it keeps you from having your background checked for mental illness before you buy an Uzi.

Voters who think they are patriots are making this happen, putting party before country every time.

[nw30]

[MalibuGuru]