{"id":9196,"date":"2009-04-27T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:13:00","slug":"gop-know-nothings-fought-pandemic-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/04\/27\/gop-know-nothings-fought-pandemic-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If anyone dies in this country from the swine flu, you can blame the GOP<\/a>. They cut the last bit of funding for pandemic supplies that Bush had originally ordered from Obama’s stimulus bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no surprise that Karl Rove was at the head of the “let’s screw the safety of our nation” crowd<\/a>. It is only slightly more surprisingly to find Maine’s Senator Gail Collins in the same boat. Indeed, to earn her vote for the stimulus, killing pandemic preparedness funding<\/a> was one of her conditions. And one she is truly proud of<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here<\/a> are some sensible items concerning the flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, I do not think we’ll see much dire consequences of the swine flu, but it is good to know we have a government that is trying to be prepared and trying to inform the public without starting a riot. And if it weren’t for the backstabbing Fifth Columnists, we might even be more ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in jackass conspiracy lands, Glenn Beck thinks this is all made up<\/a> instead of a government being responsible. I kind of get his point as he’s never seen a Republican administration that isn’t playing games with people’s lives or has any ethical moral fiber to actually care for American citizens. This whole concept confuses him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anyone dies in this country from the swine flu, you can blame the GOP. They cut the last bit of funding for pandemic supplies that Bush had originally ordered from Obama’s stimulus bill. It is no surprise that Karl Rove was at the head of the “let’s screw the safety of our nation” crowd. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemics","category-rethug-morons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}