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GOP Stripped Flu Pandemic Preparedness From Stimulus [UPDATED]
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04/27/09 05:08 PM
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[UPDATED, below]

[with reporting from Ryan Grim]

Remember way back in the day, President Obama delivered his Not Really The State Of The Union address, and the GOP trotted out Future Of The Republican Party Supra-Genius Bobbly Jindal t

The GOP doesn't have the power to strip anything from any bill, and only three of the most liberal GOP members voted for the bill. On the other hand, guess who said this:

"All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they're all out."

Canned talking point response?


And who wrote the Op-ed that got the ball running?

It's from NY Post article written Feb. 8. It's Schumer bragging about NY getting more than it's fair share and how some of that porky stuff got cut out.

http://bit.ly/ruXv8

"We're already doing passive surveillance at the border," Napolitano said. "You would close the border if you thought you could contain the spread of disease, but the disease already is in a number of states within the United States."

"passive surveillance"...that says it all. "...the disease already is in a number of states...". Yes. That's how the current US policy works. Now that it's happened, let's get all worked up.

Who controls the Congress and the Presidency?? Collins a "moderate Republican"? You're kidding, right? We're begging her to leave.

Do you know what would happen if you try to close the border?

And besides this is not a pandemic nor is the terrestrial border the only way this disease could get in the U.S. (ships and airplanes and not only from Mexico).

Now that it happened we need people to deal with it.

Comment pop for n2 for exposing the hypocrisy.