Conservatives love to talk about how the government can do nothing right. But ask them about the administration of capital punishment and they suddenly claim the government is infallible.
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Itâs unsurprising that a health-care screw-up in Republican-dominated Texas is somehow an opportunity for Republicans for freak out and blame Obama. Maybe if Texas had accepted the expanded Medicare and set up a state health care exchange, the guy would have been admitted instead of being sent home the first time.
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These people are truly shameless Snake oil salesmen
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While I certainly would support Texas doing that, in this case the Ebola victim was a Liberian visitor and wouldnât have been eligible for either Medicaid or the exchanges. Even under universal health care systems, visiting tourists are not covered.
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Iâll let John Cleese speak for me, with best one minute definition of Fox News ever!
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Donât worry, five days after they scare people into voting for them, this whole terrible national emergency will suddenly recede in importance into to a just a thing thatâs happening.
And then, next year, after the issue has vanished as a result of whatâs arleady being done, theyâll take credit for it and then theyâll cut funding for it.
The important part is that you need to be afraid right now and vote for the party that proposes grandiose schemes involving violence, large amounts of money spent on purely symbolic gestures, a disdain for detail and actual policy as the work of the Devil, and just a dash of overt racism to make you be not afraid. And thatâs what our MSM wants because all this calm and competence is boring and unserious and hard to turn into exciting content to fill up the time between commercials.
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Who says itâs not a case of GOP-bola?
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Fuck the rightwing loonies. They are going to do what they are going to do. And conservatives are so ignorant that they are gonna believe no matter what.
Iâm much more concerned about the terrible, sensationalized reporting by mainstream media. One would think they would rise to the occasion, but no. With a very few exceptions, they are running with this as a political issue when it is a public health issue full stop. Maddow has really stepped up and provided some astoundingly well-informed, excellently crafted reporting. Unfortunately, she isnât widely enough viewed to help much. And Washington Post, interestingly enough, has really done an exemplary job.
My friends here at TPM should know what their government is doing RIGHT NOW to control the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, around the world, and to prevent any outbreaks here in the US.
Please, inform yourself by reading this fact sheet. The whole-government approach to tackling this problem should be widely reported, but isnât. It wonât guarantee that there will nevereverever be a case of Ebola domestically. But rest assured this response will go a long way in controlling the epidemic in Africa, and utilizing the very strong public health infrastructure domestically to prevent an outbreak domestically.
Please read.
FACT SHEET: The U.S. Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Africa
Itâs a damn pity that the mainstream media is so invested in GOP Obama-bashing that it canât find itâs way to do some responsible reporting. But itâs their world, and we just live in it.
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These are the same people who act like conservatives say nothing but compassionate things. And some random guy, doctor or not, in a hazmat suit yelling crazy is not a source at all.There are a small number of MDs that have some crazy beliefs (deny germs cause disease, anti-vacc and so on).
As for Rush, how do you go about isolating a country? the logistics would be staggering and it would be an act of war and immorality. Shutting our own borders from one case would be irresponsible.
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True, but with Medicaid expansion Texas hospitals would be in considerably better financial shape than they are today, so itâs not inconceivable that things might have worked out differently even for an uncovered foreign national.
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And the commercials that the fearful conservatives get to watch are for Viagra, Depends and guns. Their brains are going, thatâs the first thing, now their manhood is useless and that scares the crap out of them. So they are pissed off at life, mad at everything and afraid that they arenât aware of what they should be afraid of.
Throw in irresponsibility and youâve got neo-conservatives aging rapidly and scared constantly.
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Huckabee: â⌠if they repeatedly lie to me I just donât believe them anymore.â
Why does anybody watch Fox News?
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When you donât understand science, refuse to believe scientists are people of good will, think they are liars just like you, and mostly, if your business model is spreading fear then you wonât believe anything the scientific community tells you.
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Is it already Wednesday, thatâs midweek freak-out day. Can anyone imagine the conservative (haha) response? Letâs just say that it wouldnât be anywhere near conservative.
This too shall pass.
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So much racist stupid coming at us all at once.
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It was not President Obama who cut the budgets for CDC and NIH.
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It use to be that if you cried fire in a crowded theater they arrested you, Faux News is doing that along with many other so called conservative talking heads and nothing is being said. They spread fear that could end up killing thousands if a real threat, like the one killing our children, got loose in this country. The right spends so much time trying to pin it on the left with false claims that the bug would could spread. Panic is the last thing we actually need. As American we already are on the edge when it comes to fear, it seems that weâre afraid of everything.
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Rush should know crap when he sees/smells it.
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Oh I see: if it were California, it would be Godâs will. But since itâs Tejas, well, they donât know how a lovingly cruel god could punish them since they try to ape It so much.
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Letâs hope this âObama as Boogeymanâ meme is starting to wear thin.
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