The notorious sex tourist and drug addict Rush Limbaugh has been preemptively crying about mean ole Democrats criticizing Republicans in relation to the Ebola outbreak.
“Have you ever heard of AIDS?” Limbaugh asked. “You think that wasn’t political? One of the most intense efforts to undermine support for Ronald Reagan was hatched through AIDS.”
“I mean, the left politicizes everything. They look at everything within the realm of whether or not it can move their agenda forward.”
http://www.rawstory.com/...
To this end, our friends at Raw Story provide us an example of the what the terrible Democrats did to Reagan with AIDS.
After Reagan’s death in 2004, reporter Alan White wrote in 2004 that “[h]istory may ultimately judge his presidency by the thousands who have and will die of AIDS.”
Yes that's true. He is judged by that from my experience. Valid argument whether you're a dem or repub.
"Debate is a method of interactive and representational argument," according to Wikipedia. So if your arguments suck, well then, your arguments suck. Anyhow, I digress.
To my point about Ebola, of course Republicans are worried that Democrats will rightly criticize them for their attacks on the National Institute of Health. They are worried scientists will "blame" lack of funding. That must be "politicizing" it, like this mean ole researcher did:
As the Ebola virus outbreak continues to rage in West Africa, the pressure is on to fast-track drug research that could potentially stop or slow its spread.
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Geisbert, who received a $26 million grant from the NIH for Ebola vaccination research, said lack of funding is a large factor for why little progress has been made.
"Because there's really not been that many cases globally, there's a small global market," Geisbert told CBS News. "There's not a lot interest from pharmaceutical companies. There's no incentive for the private sector so you have to rely on the government."
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
This researcher doesn't care whether funding is private or public. They just want to do their research.
Rush knows that Republicans destroyed funding for the National Institute of Health. He knows they slowed critical research and cost lives.
And he knows they did it because of the science of climate change, because 99% of scientists didn't follow their lead and deny the science. Or maybe because scientists don't agree with them on the faux-science of "Creationism."
Republicans slowed critically important research on Ebola that could have saved thousands of lives.
Because they hate government... and they're worried... again... that they will be judged "by the thousands who have and will die of [Ebola]."
The good news per that CBS article: this vaccine (or rather "non-replicating viral vector"?) shows a lot of promise.
Despite Republicans.