28 Replies to “Obama: We have everything under control … [Darleen Click]”

1. Shermlaw says:

   October 17, 2014 at 7:51 pm

   Let’s assume for purposes of argument, the agencies listed in the cartoon have always been screwed up. If that’s the case, then the Lightbringer kept at least one promise: The Most Transparent Administration Ever (TM) has shown us how well and truly hosed we are.

2. newrouter says:

   October 17, 2014 at 8:12 pm

   how about the armadillo baracky?

3. Ernst Schreiber says:

   October 17, 2014 at 9:15 pm

   Question for all y’all: If you wanted to appear like you were working to prevent an Ebola outbreak, while in fact doing nothing substantive to prevent that outbreak because you privately wanted that outbreak and the political “crisis” which it would bring, would you be doing anything differently than the regime is presently doing?

4. newrouter says:

   October 17, 2014 at 9:22 pm

   no

   next ? – “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”

   9ther

5. Ernst Schreiber says:

   October 17, 2014 at 9:31 pm

   The legal positivists are in charge. Casuistry and Moral Relativism are the order of the day.

   Unfortuanately, Ebola is rather like Honey Badger.

6. Ernst Schreiber says:

   October 17, 2014 at 9:48 pm

   Good Michael Walsh piece:

   What this appointment — made only under duress, and purely for political reasons, since there is absolutely nothing Ron Klain personally can do to stop the spread of the Ebola virus now that the barn doors at our borders and airports have been left wide open for ideological reasons — tells us is this:

   1. If a retread party hack like Klain is the best Obama can do, then the Democrat talent pool is incredibly shallow. Naturally, though, Obama wouldn’t think of going outside it.

   2. The President considers Ebola a political/messaging problem, not a medical problem. Klain is an an insider process guy, not an expert in the field.

   3. The fact that we need a “Czar” to cut across federal agency red-tape and make things happen expeditiously is an indictment of the federal agencies themselves, although no Democrat would ever dare to suggest such a thing. The choice signals that, as Ronald Reagan said, government itself is the problem, not the solution.

   4. The reason they won’t dare is that the federal agencies — unelected hives of beetling bureaucrats, scurrying beneath the media surface — are the sources of their power. You don’t alienate or fire your most ardent union voters and financial supporters.

   5. This is a government devoted to process, not results. Its most deeply held belief — a by-product of its quasi-Marxist belief in the “labor theory of value” — is that putting in hours and hitting “metrics” is the job itself, not whatever it ostensibly happens to be about; hey, even if you die, they get paid. In this sense, bureaucrats are similar to to the education majors who teach our children in the public schools, with no particular expertise in anything but theory. And the results speak for themselves.

   6. With theory ascendant over common sense, the government’s adamant refusal so far to ban travel to and from West Africa and its affected nations proves conclusively that Leftists are perfectly willing to have you die for their ideological beliefs.

   7. The longer this goes on, the more the panic will spread [“In the Midst of Chaos There is also Opportunity.” – Sun Tzu.]— look what happened at the Pentagon earlier today, or on this cruise ship. If you haven’t started to panic yet, then read this.

   8. Regarding the open borders and open airports, a larger issue: why is the Left so adamantly opposed to the people’s right to defend themselves? [Because they know you and I aren’t as willing to die for their beliefs as they are to sacrifice us for the same.] There is nothing “racist” about closing the country to travelers from certain countries in west Africa — heck, the Africans have already done it themselves.

   9. In twice electing Barack Obama president Americans made a choice: professional politicians over men of integrity. Symbolism over substance (hello, Nobel Peace Prize). Potential over accomplishment. Guilt over responsibility. [Walsh forgot hope over experience. Also, they chose poorly.]

   10. If the naked malevolence of the Leftist project for America isn’t visible to you now, then you’re beyond help.] [Kind of like somebody bleeding out of every orofice because of the Ebola.

7. steph says:

   October 17, 2014 at 10:41 pm

   Ernst, point 3’needs to be repeated over and over and over again

8. geoffb says:

   October 17, 2014 at 10:43 pm

   There are four strains of the Ebola virus that have caused outbreaks in human populations. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the current outbreak (known as Guinean EBOV, because it originated in Meliandou, Guinea, in late November 2013) is a separate clade “in a sister relationship with other known EBOV strains.” Meaning that this Ebola is related to, but genetically distinct from, previous known strains, and thus may have distinct mechanisms of transmission.
   […]
   In August, Science magazine published a survey conducted by 58 medical professionals working in African epidemiology. They traced the origin and spread of the virus with remarkable precision—for instance, they discovered that it crossed the border from Guinea into Sierra Leone at the funeral of a “traditional healer” who had treated Ebola victims. In just the first six months of tracking the virus, the team identified more than 100 mutated forms of it.

   Yet what’s really scary is how robust the already-established transmission mechanisms are. Have you ever wondered why Ebola protocols call for washing down infected surfaces with chlorine? Because the virus can survive for up to three weeks on a dry surface.

   How robust is transmission? Look at the health care workers who have contracted it. When Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who was part of the team caring for Liberian national Thomas Duncan, contracted Ebola, the CDC quickly blamed her for “breaching protocol.” But to the extent that we have effective protocols for shielding people from Ebola, they’re so complex that even trained professionals, who are keenly aware that their lives are on the line, can make mistakes.

   By the by, that Science article written by 58 medical professionals tracing the emergence of Ebola—5 of them died from Ebola before it was published.

9. Ernst Schreiber says:

   October 17, 2014 at 11:00 pm

   My guess –asspull that it is– would be that the chlorine washdown is were things went wrong for the Dallas nurses.

   Assuming that they didn’t get it in the first couple of days when, it’s alleged, there wasn’t any hazmat-type gear in use.

   And 3, 5 and 6 are the points from Walsh which I would emphasize. Government is fat, lazy stupid, self-satisfied, and hungry for your braaaaiiinzzzz.

10. BigBangHunter says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    – Klain will report to Rice.

    – I assume that means whatever is going on we will never know about it until the maximum damage is done.

    – You have to just keep hoping the next two years will fly by. The moron in the WH is turning out to be every ones worst nightmare times 10.

11. Bob Belvedere says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:16 pm

    Ebola’s Hammer?

12. Ernst Schreiber says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    Geoff left off the meatiest portion of Last’s essay:

    At a deeper level, the Ebola outbreak is a crisis not for Obama and his administration, but for elite institutions. Because once more they have been exposed as either corrupt, incompetent, or both. On September 16, as he was trying to downplay the threat posed by Ebola, President Obama insisted that “the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.” Less then two weeks later, there was an Ebola outbreak in the United States.

    The CDC’s Frieden—who is an Obama appointee—has been almost comically oafish. On September 30, -Frieden declared, “We’re stopping it in its tracks in this country.” On October 13, he said, “We’re concerned, and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional cases.” The next day he admitted that the CDC hadn’t taken the first infection seriously enough: “I wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the patient, the first patient, was diagnosed,” he said. “That might have prevented this infection. But we will do that from today onward with any case, anywhere in the U.S. .??.??. We could have sent a more robust hospital infection-control team and been more hands-on with the hospital from Day One.”

    The day after that [emph orig.] Frieden was asked during a press conference if you could contract Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus—a question prompted by a statement from President Obama the week before, when he declared that you can’t get Ebola “through casual contact, like sitting next to someone on a bus.”

    Frieden answered: “I think there are two different parts of that equation. The first is, if you’re a member of the traveling public and are healthy, should you be worried that you might have gotten it by sitting next to someone? And the answer is no. Second, if you are sick and you may have Ebola, should you get on a bus? And the answer to that is also no. You might become ill, you might have a problem that exposes someone around you.”

    Go ahead and read that again.

    We have arrived at a moment with our elite institutions where it is impossible to distinguish incompetence from willful misdirection. This can only compound an already dangerous situation.

13. BigBangHunter says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:29 pm

    – Reading this I’m reminded of the events which usually usually befall on any leader of a group who, in the face of much adversity, shows a profound weakness and continues to flounder for too long a time. That’s what I see going on with Bumblefuck, but in this case it’s more that he’s both incompetent and tired of the job and really just wants all the problems to go away. He simply cannot rise to the task and that could have horrible results with this Ebola thing and the fight with ISIS and Russia, as well as Iran.

    – I don’t think he was ever anymore than simply a good Orator that has no real talents for leadership whatsoever.

    – As I said the other day, I give him 2 in 10 odds that he will even finish his second term if any of these things really blow up.

14. Ernst Schreiber says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:34 pm

    The moron in the WH is turning out to be every ones worst nightmare times 10.

    You sure? Because I imagine Putin does his best General Colt impression whenever whatever it is that passes for his politburo discusses Obama

15. Ernst Schreiber says:

    October 17, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    – As I said the other day, I give him 2 in 10 odds that he will even finish his second term if any of these things really blow up.

    Well, at least Joe Biden is tanned, rested and ready –so we’ve got that going for us.

16. BigBangHunter says:

    October 18, 2014 at 12:11 am

    Yeah, and knowing that, as Darlene said, I feel sooooo much better…..

17. Bob Belvedere says:

    October 18, 2014 at 12:41 am

    Don’t get me started on the Biden Family…oh, wait…I already di.

18. Bob Belvedere says:

    October 18, 2014 at 1:09 am

    ‘did’

19. BigBangHunter says:

    October 18, 2014 at 5:08 am

    …..In local news:

    – My secondary Alma mater, San Diego state U has become ground zero in a freshman student death from meningitis. Some 400 people are under observation from contact with her.

    – Be interesting to se how one of the nations leading biotech universities handles a situation versus the Ebola mess with Bumbledick and the CDC.

20. BigBangHunter says:

    October 18, 2014 at 5:10 am

    – Ok, someone accidentally set the moderation flag again. :(

21. geoffb says:

    October 18, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Zampolit!

22. McGehee says:

    October 18, 2014 at 9:20 am

    ‘Tweren’t me. There has been, however, a torrent of pingback spam this morning, which would explain the switch being thrown.

23. serr8d says:

    October 18, 2014 at 9:46 am

    I’m thinking pw might be behind a couple WordPress updates, or is this spam happening everywhere else?

    Perhaps a new commenting account needs have it’s email address verified by an admin before comment posting is permitted. That would stop it in it’s tracks forever.

24. McGehee says:

    October 18, 2014 at 10:43 am

    PW’s WordPress dashboard usually has an alert about the latest version being available. I can’t actually remember not seeing it there.

25. geoffb says:

    October 18, 2014 at 3:34 pm

    Bobby Jindal gives boot to ass.

26. Bob Belvedere says:

    October 18, 2014 at 4:47 pm

    My free Word Press site has been experiencing an uptick in spam [from 100-200 per day to 350-500] over the past two-plus months.

27. newrouter says:

    October 18, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    ebola response team

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