Republicans are Dangerous ...
Perhaps even more so than the Reality, that the sky is not falling, which they choose to ignore.
The GOP's Dangerous Demagoguery on Ebola
by Erik Ose, huffingtonpost.com -- 10/17/2014
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All three GOP leaders are parroting Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump's call for the United States to fight Ebola by banning incoming flights from West Africa. This ill-thought out, half-baked idea would encourage people who might be infected with the deadly disease to circumvent the ban by traveling to other countries first. Just as Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., traveled from Liberia to Belgium before flying into Dallas two weeks prior to his death.
Potentially infected travelers could then enter the United States without being properly screened or quarantined at domestic airports. Which in turn could exponentially increase the number of U.S. Ebola cases.
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Unless travel was banned to the U.S. from every country that has not itself banned travel from Ebola-affected countries, a West African travel ban would encourage people who are potentially infected with Ebola and trying to reach the U.S. to do so via connecting flights.
Unfortunately, public health officials haven't stressed this point enough.
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Republicans are Dangerous ...
Perhaps even more so than diseases, the cures for which, they austerely refuse to fund.
Dem ad blames GOP for CDC budget cuts
by Cristina Marcos, thehill.com -- October 13, 2014
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"Republicans voted to cut CDC's budget to fight Ebola," the paid online ads state, citing a 2011 budget vote that included cuts to the agency's spending. At the same time, the ads point to the most recent House GOP budget resolution and argue that "Republicans protect tax breaks for special interests."
In an interview with The Huffington Post published Sunday, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said that a vaccine for Ebola could have been developed by now if not for budget cuts in recent years.
"Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready," Collins said.
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"House Republicans’ priorities aren’t just out-of-touch, they’re dangerous, and in their fervor to protect special interests’ tax breaks, Republicans even used their first budget vote to cut funding for the CDC that protects us from epidemics like Ebola,” Israel [Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)] said.
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Republicans are Dangerous ...
Perhaps even more so than the everyday threats, that Americans must commonly face.
Threats like:
-- Armed assaults on our Schools.
-- Bureaucratic assaults on our Votes.
-- Corporate assaults on our Contraceptives.
-- Dogmatic assaults on our Wages.
Republicans are Dangerous ... because they endorse these assaults, instead of preventing them.
Republicans are Dangerous ... because they choose to ignore reality and common sense.
... despite the damage they might do, in the process; in their [intentional] blissful ignorance.
PS. I'm just running with a theme I formed earlier this week. It seems I have finally found its "root cause." That being the Danger-dousers known as Republican-Littles ...
Lightning is Dangerous.
Don't you know ever year people get killed by Lightning?
Look over there, another person was just hit by Lightning;
And they might Die, even.
SO I want to know what the President is going to do about it,
about this deadly scourge called being struck by Lightning?
Automobiles are Dangerous.
Don't you know ever year people get killed by Automobiles?
Look over there, another person was just hit by an Automobile;
And they might Die, even.
SO I want to know what the President is going to do about it,
about this deadly scourge called Driving Cars?
Influenza is Dangerous.
Don't you know ever year people are killed by Influenza?
Look over there, another person has just caught the Flu;
And if they are old enough, they might Die, even.
SO I want to know what the President is going to do about it,
about this deadly scourge called Virus Infections?
Living is Dangerous.
Don't you know ever year people are killed by the end of Living?
Look over there, another person has just caught their possible demise;
And if they are unlucky enough, they might Die, even.
SO I want to know what the President is going to do about it,
about this deadly scourge called Living in Fear?
Huh? Huh!? WHY in the world doesn't he Stop these Scourges -- stop 'em dead in their tracks?
Huh!? Isn't that what we elected him for?