It’s great that this genius is the head of the Whig Republican party. I mean, thinking ahead? Totally for losers.
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April 28th, 2009
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Whadda yutz….
The point of allocating dollars to things like pandemic preparedness is one of the reasons the CDC and FEMA exist: to be prepared for the unplanned and unthinkable.
Steele’s thinking yielded NOLA, and the Gulf Coast post-Katrina/Rita.
I’m glad you crossed out the Whig reference. Today’s Republicans have a lot more in common with the Know-Nothings than the Whig party. Via Wikipedia, “the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the executive branch and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism.” Doesn’t sound too much like the party of the unitary executive, free trade, laissez faire, and stop-shouting-whilst-athwart-history-standing.
…and Sen. Coryn says that the new goal for the GOP is to “regain status as a national party.” HA!
So they laugh about volcano monitoring, and Mt. Redoubt erupts. Then they mock funding flu pandemic perparation, and boom! Swine Flu. If the Republicans start bitching about funding NASA, I’m heading for the hills on account of the damn asteroid that will inevitably follow.
I couldn’t help but notice all this talk about going the way of the Whigs in conjunction with the GOP. You may not be aware, but some veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan refounded the Whigs last year as the Modern Whig Party.
Since then, they have attracted members from the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian parties. The movement currently has nearly 30,000 members. They try to be practical about politics and are generally open on social issues and prudent on fiscal issues.
Wait, didn’t Dem. Chuck Schumer also vote against flu spending? And wait, didn’t former Rep. President Bush push for more flu spending under his administration? Yeah, they did: http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2009/04/28/swine-flu-frenzy-has-washington-fighting-over-pork.html
Amazing what simple research can do for ya sometimes when you put aside the partisan BS.
MrGreyGhost
One democrat vs. the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Plus Bush pushed more flue spending during a potential flu pandemic. The moment that threat goes away Republicans assume we’ll never have another flu threat again!
Anybody have info on less recent pandemic spending (whether it was presented and blocked or passed and when)? Just curious if the CDC has been using half their bulbs lately.
Michael Over Here–
To be a Republican you have to believe that one is a bigger number than forty. And once you believe that, everything they tell you starts to make sense.
Is there any indication that if this $900,000,000 had been approved, that it would have mattered one bit to this outbreak? There isn’t a shortage of flu medication. There wasn’t a lack of ability to identify the people infected. If it had been approved would any of it have been able to be spent productivly in a way which would have lessened the effect of this flu? It seems that the CDC and state health officials have managed to handle this about as well as possible.
Is there any indication that if this $900,000,000 had been approved, that it would have mattered one bit to this outbreak?
None.
But that’s not the point folks are making when they bring this up. During debates over the “porkulus” bill, some folks said spending on flu was wasteful. Likewise, nobody has claimed that the volcano monitoring money in the bill made in difference in the recent volcanic eruption.
The point is this: too many politicians picked out the items they thought sounded funny and called them wasteful without bothering to find out whether the program was any good or not.
Methinks Steele will be looking for a new job very, very soon…
Um, what Rheinhard said, w/r/t the Whigs.
Randy Brown: “Methinks Steele will be looking for a new job very, very soon…”
The only thing saving his ass is the total lack of potential replacements.
CSS, the racist Katon Dawson, whom Steele barely defeated for the job, is waiting in the wings. He’d be perfect, as the GOP isn’t making any effort to hide its hate agenda.
‘Amazing what simple research can do for ya sometimes when you put aside the partisan BS.’
Wow; one Dem voted against the pandemic portion of the stimulus bill, and FORMER President Bush called for more funding, but did nothing.
Great research there.
Randy Brown: “CSS, the racist Katon Dawson, whom Steele barely defeated for the job, is waiting in the wings. He’d be perfect, as the GOP isn’t making any effort to hide its hate agenda.”
That would be awesome. That would be pure, 100%, unadulterated awesome.
Hell, if that happened, even the right-wing ‘tards that come to this site would have to admit the Southern Strategy is alive and well in the GOP.
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