Four Pinocchios by the Washington Post - The absurd claim that only Republicans are to blame for cuts to Ebola research (Congress, global warming)

[Kibby]

Have you seen the new Democratic ads that blame Republicans for Ebola? Catchy slogan and I'm already reading several posters here playing the "blame Republicans!" - advertising pays.
This is a particularly heinous Political ad - it includes pictures of dead/dying Africans in the dirt with blood running from their mouths.

“Republican cuts kill” – new Web ad by the Agenda Project Action Fund

The Washington Post Fact Checker says .....

The absurd claim that only Republicans are to blame for cuts to Ebola research | Washington Post - 10/15/14

Obama’s Republican predecessor oversaw big increases in public-health sector spending, and both Democrats and Republicans in recent years have broadly supported efforts to rein in federal spending. Sequestration resulted from a bipartisan agreement. In some years, Congress has allocated more money for NIH and CDC than the Obama administration requested. Meanwhile, contrary to the suggestion of the DCCC ad, there never was a specific vote on funding to prevent Ebola.

There’s no doubt that spending has been cut, or at least failed to keep pace with inflation, but the fingerprints of both parties are on the knives. This blame game earns Four Pinocchios.

The "cut" were bipartisan - Obama's own 2015 Budget "cut" the NIH & CDC funding. The Sequester (driven by Obama to try and force Tax Hikes) certainly played a part, but funding has been increased by both Bush and the GOP lead House. It's partly a matter of inflation that they can manipulate numbers to try and paint the Republicans as "Killers". It's also worth noting that the NIH/CDC gets about $6.5 BILLION from Congressional Appropriations AND they get $4 BILLION from Mandatory spending by Law.

A better issue is to take a good, strong look at what they are spending the money on. I'm betting they are spending buckets of money on dumb stuff like the sex habits of shrimp and all types of Green Energy and Global Warming.

[chucksnee]

If you tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth....

[sxrckr]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

If you tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth....

Yep.
And the lies become larger and more frequent with desperation, right before an election. 2012, now 2014.

[Volobjectitarian]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

If you tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth....

It's the basis of almost all our governance and politics at this point. Repeating lies often.

[Frank DeForrest]

Wow who even thinks the government should be relied upon to find the cure for anything...well except wealth.

[thecoalman]

Perhaps the money spent trying to inject themselves into the gun control debate would of been better spent on things like Ebola.... just saying.

[Kibby]

There is HUGE Crisis of Confidence in this Administration .... AND in our Government in General.

It's one LIE after another - every day. Today is going to be a very bad day for Team Obama. News on Ebola, News on the LIE's of Benghazi and LIE's on ISIS and Turkey.

[uggabugga]

no surprise. this is the same lot that shrieked about republicans 'trying to kill grandma.'

[Casper in Dallas]

Originally Posted by sxrckr

Yep.
And the lies become larger and more frequent with desperation, right before an election. 2012, now 2014.

Not to mention the ones before elections.

[HappyTexan]

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Rahm Emanuel