foundingbloggers.com - 4/26/2009
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…then your outrage, if genuine, should be approaching a steady simmer on the way to a full boil for the government’s slow response to the Swine Flu.
“U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country ...
google.com - 4/26/2009
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google.com —
1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) The White House
plans a briefing Sunday afternoon to discuss swine flu
and the government's response. The officials who will discuss the situation include Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the acting director ...
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The Associated Press: White House to detail govt ...
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Wizbang —
... largely in the dark about what's happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized. Asked at a news conference yesterday whether the number of swine flu cases found daily in Mexico is increasing -- a key determinant in understanding whether an epidemic is spreading -- Anne Schuchat, an interim deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "I do not know the answer to those questions." Let's hope the answers we get today are more informed. Founding Bloggers asks: If a bunch of Americans die because of a slow response by the Obama ...
Right-wing crazies claim that Obama's reponse to swine flu worse than Bush's to NOLA...
At-Largely —
I kid you not, read this and tell me if this person (not sure which of the two founding lunatics penned this) appears to be heavily medicated (and for a good reason) :How deranged do you have to be to write that idiocy? Can anyone really compare Bush going on vacation after a direct briefing that the levees would not hold and that NOLA would be underwater and his staying on vacation despite the rising death toll, with the swift response (to 20 cases and NO fatalities) of Obama to the current situation? Even after dead floating bodies were shown all over the TV, for days after ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
SWINE FLU: IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT!!!1!1!! Yup -- the right-wingers known as the Founding Bloggers already know who's to blame: If You Were Outraged By The Government's Response To Katrina... ...then your outrage, if genuine, should be approaching a steady simmer on the way to a full boil for the government’s slow response to the Swine Flu. U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures... It ...
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