Saturday, October 18, 2014

Obama 'Angry' Over Ebola Response

by JASmius



Uh-huh.  This is approximately the same early stage in....well, pretty much every Obama scandal that his infernal majesty marches before the cameras and microphones and does his Howard Beale impression:



OCTOBER 21, 2013 (healthcare.gov faceplant): Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the website isn't workin'.

MAY 16, 2013 (IRSgate): The minute I found out about it, then my main focus is making sure that we get the thing fixed.

MAY 15, 2013 (IRSgate): It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.

MAY 15, 2013 (IRSgate): We're going to hold the responsible parties accountable.

MAY 13, 2013 (IRSgate):  I've got no patience with it, I will not tolerate it, and we'll make sure that, uh, we find out exactly what happened.

APRIL 15, 2012 (Cartagena-gate): If it turns out some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course I'll be angry.

OCTOBER 18, 2011 (Fast & Furious): It's very upsetting to me that somebody showed such bad judgment, that they would allow something like that to happen.

OBAMA JUNE 3, 2010 (Deepwater Horizon oil spill): I am furious at this entire situation. I would love to just spend a lot of my time venting and yellin' at people.

OBAMA MARCH 18, 2009 (Wall Street bonuses): I think people are right to be angry.  I'm angry!

Same thing with the VA scandal.  He's mad, he's more angry than we are, he's frustrated, "Why is the president always the last to know?", etc.  You'd think if he were really that peeved about this recurring pattern of bumbling he would take steps to alleviate his Regime's managerial deficiencies in order to get ahead of these problems and solve them before they can get started.  That is part of a Chief Executive's job description, no?

Evidently, after almost six years, he still hasn't received that particular memo:

On the surface, even in his weekly address Saturday, President Barack Obama is urging calm when it comes to the Ebola crisis, but people behind the scenes say that he is becoming more frustrated and even angry with how his administration has been handling the United States' response.

For example, during his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, people briefed on the event said he was angry about medical information that was turning out to be wrong, including how to categorize Ebola patients, reports the New York Times.

Obama reportedly complained that the response, particularly from the Centers for Disease Control, was "not tight."

Translation: "Why hasn't the 'GOP is the party of ebola' meme gained any traction?  You people are making me look like such a boob that people keeping checking the top of my head for a nipple!  Good me, do I have to do everything myself?!?"

In the weeks since Duncan arrived, the White House has pushed to insist the news media was overstating the crisis while showing the president was taking action.

But Obama's national security staff is stretched thin. In addition to the Ebola crisis, officials are in the midst of the military campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS), and has had to deal with Russia's escalation of hostilities against Ukraine, among other issues.

Self-inflicted Cloward-Pivenization.

Government officials still kept bickering, though, over what that response would be. For example, the CDC had opposed screening for Ebola at airports, but Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson worked out the process, and the screening process began at selected airports.

Probably in inverse proportion to the number of flights from West Africa.  Kind of like how the TSA gives body cavity searches in inverse proportion to the swarthiness of each airline passenger.

The crisis reached a new height with the news that Vinson had traveled on a Frontier Airlines flight even though she had a fever, said senior officials.

"This Frontier thing took it out of the abstract thing and to this level where people could identify with and made them scared,” a senior official told the Times.

After that, Obama canceled his fundraising trips and officials scheduled days of meetings, shelving all other subjects publicly, including the fight against ISIS. [emphasis added]

That's what's got The One pissed, ladies and gentlemen.  If they cancel his golf regimen, they'll find him in the Warren G. Harding William J. Clinton Memorial Whoopie Nook curled up in the fetal position with both thumbs corked in his mouth.  To do what is supposed to be his job with no guarantee or even better than 50-50 chance of gaining (further) political advantage from it - Barack Obama's nightmare come true.

A "god's" life is a tough one, isn't it?

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