Posted on 12/03/2014 7:11:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
President Obama on Tuesday urged the lame-duck Congress to approve roughly $6 billion in emergency funding to fight the deadly Ebola virus, saying “we cannot beat” the disease without a greater financial investment from lawmakers.
“The urgency remains. If we are actually going to solve this problem for ourselves, we have to solve it in West Africa as well,” he said after a tour of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
“Let's get it done,” Obama added. “This can't get caught up in normal politics.”
Obama's visit to the National Institutes of Health was meant to promote the completion of phase one clinical trials for a potential Ebola vaccine. But the broader message was aimed at ensuring lawmakers don't leave town without passing the Ebola funding before the end of the year.
Ebola has faded from the limelight in the wake of a pair of Dallas nurses beating the virus. However, Obama was quick to remind the public that future, unknown threats could emerge and that the U.S. could not afford to be unprepared for such developments.
“This is important now, but it's also important for our future,” Obama said of the $6 billion funding request.
The Ebola funding is one of the few areas where there appears to be bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill. Even Obama's most vocal GOP critics have called for emergency spending to combat Ebola in West Africa.
The remaining question is how much lawmakers are willing to spend. Some have balked at roughly $1.5 billion in contingency funds, for example.
However, Obama insisted Tuesday that such money could be used for development of an Ebola vaccine, which he argued would save potentially billions of dollars.
“No potential Ebola vaccine has ever made it this far,” he said. “This is exciting news.”
Why can’t he just write an executive order? /s
Yep, they totally did. And yes, they totally lied. Yes, pretending to be certain about something when you really are not is a lie.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
But what about the West Africans running elsewhere, such as Europe and the U.S., even willing to get themselves smuggled in? That’s the key here: Obama, if he isn’t a dolt, wants to turn Africa into a new pool of immigrants like Mexico, to guarantee a monopoly on the American voters.
He’’s as desperate as they come.
Desperate people...in the end always seem to be undone by their own desperation.
Thanks for the ping!
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