Democrats are beginning to sound more like Republicans when they talk about Ebola. And Republicans are moving into overdrive with their criticism of the government's handling of the deadly virus. The Stoopid Party gets a clue?
The sharpened rhetoric, strategists say, suggests Democrats fear President Obama's response to Ebola in the United States could become a political liability in the midterm election and Republicans see an opportunity to tie increasing concerns about the disease to the public's broader worries about Obama's leadership. If the shoe fits...
"This is feeding into the Republican narrative that Democrats don't know how to govern and government is too large," said Jim Manley, a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). Democrats, Manley said, "are desperate to try to demonstrate that they have tough ideas to respond to the crisis." But they have no response to the idea that they can't govern, or that government has grown too big.
Democrats from across the political spectrum have suddenly embraced the idea of a temporary travel ban from West African Countries battling Ebola, even as the Obama administration has resisted the plan and health officials have warned it could make things worse. Would you mind explaining again how the travel ban would make it worse for U.S. citizens, please?
Meanwhile, Republicans are increasingly claiming Obama's response to Ebola illustrates his inability to deal with crisis, with recent polls showing a high level of concern about the president's policies on several fronts. They are trying to level that attack against Democratic candidates by tethering them to the president. The only crisis Champ can deal with is hitting into the rough.
Even Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), a liberal Democrat who is not in any danger of losing reelection, called on Obama to "immediately suspend commercial flights from the West African nations into the United States, as well as suspend visas for their passport holders, until we can ensure that our health facilities are adequately prepared." Another difference between the (D) and me - I'd enforce the travel ban until the virus was controlled there, not until we were ready to import it here.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that shows 67 percent of Americans would support restricting entry to the United States from countries fighting dealing with an Ebola crisis. And that was a poll prepared by the MSM, well-known for their political "neutrality".
The Post-ABC poll showed Obama's approval rating has fallen to 40 percent, the lowest of his presidency. It also showed just 35 percent approve of the way Obama has addressed the threat of the Islamic State. On immigration, his approval rating is a lowly 29 percent. The WaPo-ABC people said "lowly", with respect to Champ's approval.
Democrats, meanwhile, have accused Republicans of hypocrisy in slamming the government's response to Ebola.
"I think [voters] are going to be considering the contrast in priorities. And so one of the things I believe will be on their minds is why would Republicans choose to preside over and choose specifically to reduce funding for the CDC and the NIH," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) told reporters on Wednesday. Because, Steve, they can't make proper use of what they do get.
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"Dems Worried Ebola Will Benefit Pubs"
Not specifically; They're worried about (A) Anybody else benefitting and (B) Republicans benefitting at all from anything.
Beyond that, they actually couldn't care less what happens out in peon land.
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The only crisis Champ can deal with is hitting into the rough.
Yep. He has the SS kick the ball back into the fairway if that happens.
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It's really going to be interesting -- in the Chinese proverb sense of that word-- to see what information comes to light on November 5, or, worse, on the evening of Friday November 7.
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Dems Worried Ebola incompetency will benefit Pubs
FIFY. Appoint a bunch of Chicago style political hacks and ward healers rather than competent people in key place gets you what you deserve. self-inflicted-wound
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Coast Guard picks up Dallas health worker's blood sample from cruise ship
GALVESTON — A blood sample taken from a Dallas health care worker who is aboard a cruise ship and being monitored for signs of Ebola was retrieved by the Coast Guard, officials said early Sunday.
Petty Officer Andy Kendrick told The Associated Press that a Coast Guard crew flew in a helicopter Saturday to meet the Carnival Magic and lowered a basket of supplies. The woman provided a blood sample, which was taken to a state lab in Austin for processing.
Kendrick had no further details about how the sample was taken. He said the decision to take the sample was made in coordination with the federal, state and local health authorities.
A spokeswoman for the cruise line, Jennifer De La Cruz, said that when the Magic made a port call in Belize, other passengers were allowed to disembark with the exception of the health care worker and her spouse.
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Some perspective. With air travel in it's infancy, at the end of WWII, many soldiers, their new families, and displaced civilians returned or traveled to the United States for the first time aboard ships. These were obviously long voyages and more than a small infants and elderly did not survive the trip.
[IsraelTimes] A prosecutor handling the criminal investigation of Greece's Nazi-inspired, far-right Golden Dawn party on Thursday sought to have 70 party members, including the locked away Please don't kill me! party leader and all 17 of its other elected members of parliament, stand trial on charges ranging from running a criminal organization to murder and weapons offenses.
In a 700-page document, prosecutor Isidoros Doyiakos describes Golden Dawn as a strictly hierarchical criminal organization that aimed "to propagate and impose its political beliefs and theories through violence."
Doyiakos added that the party sought to "violently confront foreigners, dissidents and anybody else it considered as a serious ideological opponent."
Once marginal, the unabashedly nationalistic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic Golden Dawn erupted onto Greece's political scene in recent years targeting voters disaffected by the country's acute financial crisis and a wave of uncontrolled illegal immigration.
It won 18 of Parliament's 300 seats in 2012, and is currently polling fourth, amid political uncertainty generated by the prospect that Greece may be forced to hold early elections in March.
A three-member panel of judges is expected to issue final indictments within weeks. If it upholds Doyiakos' recommendations, Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and the party's 15 other politicians, as well as two more that have left the party, face a maximum 20-year prison sentence should they be convicted.
Michaloliakos and another eight party politicians are in pre-trial detention. All the suspects have denied any wrongdoing.
Doyiakos also recommended that another 13 initial suspects should be cleared of any charges.
The crackdown on Golden Dawn followed the 2013 fatal stabbing of a left-wing musician, over which Golden Dawn supporter Giorgos Roupakias has been charged and is included in the proposed indictment.
Roupakias has denied the charges, and claimed he had little connection with Golden Dawn, which has also greatly distanced itself from him.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) brought her populist message Saturday to this small college town to rev up the final weeks of Sen. Al Franken's reelection campaign.
Speaking before more than 400 people at Carleton College, Warren repeatedly invoked the spirit of the late Paul Wellstone. Wellstone remains a revered figure in Minnesota politics, and his brand of populism is now mainstream among leading liberal activists. Warren has become the most prominent public face of that movement.
"The game is rigged, and the Republicans rigged it," Warren said to loud cheers. Whatever that means. I didn't edit out the part that explains the context, it just wasn't there.
Palermo and her friends said they want Warren to run for president, but a St. Olaf senior noted it would be "counterproductive" for Warren to run against Hillary Rodham Clinton. They settled on them running together as a ticket, but it's uncertain whether they prefer Warren or Clinton atop such a ticket. To the St. Olaf seniors of the world, it probably doesn't matter anyway.
She talked about her legislation, co-sponsored by Franken, that would allow borrowers to refinance their education loans, an issue that drew huge applause on a campus where tuition, room and board is close to $60,000. You only have to keep your promises if their remain convenient!
Banks have fought the bill, which was filibustered by Republicans in the Senate, and Warren pledged to take the fight against banks on the issue early next year.
"We're coming after them," she said. Bad banks! They can't get away with making you repay their money!
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A reminder - Sen. Warren made $700,000 per year at Harvard teaching one freaking course, but somehow that's not the problem. Banks are the problem. All righty then!
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Democrats are beginning to sound more like Republicans when they talk about Ebola. And Republicans are moving into overdrive with their criticism of the government's handling of the deadly virus.
