Let Obama and Frieden Do Their Jobs
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 16th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Let Obama and Frieden Do Their Jobs
Joe Conason, RealClearPolitics
If the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then even the possibility of infection with Ebola should do the same — for all of us. Instead, we seem easily distracted by attempts to blame President Barack Obama and to scapegoat the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Republican politicians and media loudmouths have even demanded the resignation of Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC’s director, because he’s refused to endorse a West African travel ban. They’re all dead wrong. First, Obama is following precisely the correct approach in addressing the outbreak with his order to dispatch…
The Equal Pay Delusion
Mona Charen, RealClearPolitics
Voters are souring on the Democratic Party. Apparently, all it takes are six years of economic torpor; the disastrous debut of the biggest new federal program in two generations; record levels of federal debt; revelations of scandals and malfeasance at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service, the Secret Service and the Justice Department; Russian revanchism on the march; a rampaging army of (literal) cutthroats gobbling up territory in the Middle East; and the feeble and patronizing government response to a modern plague. Truly, it says something about the reputation…