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2014-10-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

The Agenda Project: Pubs are to blame for cuts to Ebola research

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Insty already had it covered -

OP ~~MEN~~ WOMEN: President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She? “What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.”

Culture of corruption

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Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-16 00:09|| 2014-10-16 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 From the Hill -

ASHLAND, Va. — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took aim Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health for blaming the agency's slow response to the Ebola outbreak on budget cuts.

"We have people who go blithely on TV and say we don't have enough money to study Ebola. Have you seen what the NIH spends money on?" Paul, a prospective 2016 presidential candidate, said at a campaign rally for Republican congressional candidates Dave Brat and Ed Gillespie.

"Nine-hundred thirty-nine thousand dollars spent to discover whether or not male fruit flies would like to consort with younger female fruit flies," the senator said to laughter. "One hundred seventeen thousand dollars spent to determine if most monkeys are right handed and like to throw poop with their right hands.”

And the NIH spent $2.4 million for an "Origami condom," said Paul, who said he spared folks in the room an explanation because it was a family audience.

Paul appeared to be referring to a project to "radically" redesign the condom for the 21st century, according to the Origami website, in part to reduce HIV transmission.

The NIH, Paul said, now spends about $30 billion a year, up from $17 billion in 2000.

"When they say they don't have enough money with their big cuts, look at the bottom line," Paul said. "No money has been cut in Washington, but it's about time we do cut money in Washington."

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-16 09:16|| 2014-10-16 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Twitchy:
Glenn Kessler in today’s Washington Post has a must-read fact check where he awards 4 Pinocchios to Dems and their ads claiming “that only Republicans are to blame for cuts to Ebola research.” Here’s his conclusion:

"On many levels, this line of attack is absurd.

Obama’s Republican predecessor oversaw big increases in public-health sector spending, and both Democrats and Republicans in recent years have broadly supported efforts to rein in federal spending. Sequestration resulted from a bipartisan agreement. In some years, Congress has allocated more money for NIH and CDC than the Obama administration requested. Meanwhile, contrary to the suggestion of the DCCC ad, there never was a specific vote on funding to prevent Ebola.

There’s no doubt that spending has been cut, or at least failed to keep pace with inflation, but the fingerprints of both parties are on the knives. This blame game earns Four Pinocchios".

Posted by Frank G 2014-10-16 09:37|| 2014-10-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Obamas Ebola czar diverted funds to Democrats.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-16 11:23|| 2014-10-16 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 And she has no medical experience

Posted by mossomo 2014-10-16 16:41|| 2014-10-16 16:41|| Front Page Top

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