White House Has No Interest In Travel Ban Despite Calls From Congress

Nearly 100 lawmakers favor placing travel restrictions on persons infected with Ebola in order to decrease the odds of entering the U.S.

At least 80 members of the House and 20 members of the Senate have said they favor banning flights that could carry passengers coming out of West Africa or temporarily rescind the visas of residents of Ebola stricken nations.

Nearly every African nation has instituted travel bans on West African countries with significant outbreaks but The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer won’t budge.

HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN FAVOR OF TRAVEL BAN

Alabama:  Bradley Byrne

Arizona:  Paul Gosar, Matt Salmon,

California:  Ed Royce, Gary Miller

Colorado:  Mike Coffman, Doug Lamborn,

Florida:  Curt Clawson, David Jolly, Bill Posey, Dennis Ross, Steve Southerland, Ted Yoho

Georgia: Paul Broun, Lynn Westmoreland

Idaho:  Raul Labrador

Illinois:  Rodney Davis, Peter Roskam

Indiana:  Susan Brooks, Jackie Walorski

Kansas:  Lynn Jenkins

Kentucky:  Andy Barr, Thomas Massie

Louisiana:  Charles Boustany, Steve Scalise

Maryland:  Andy Harris

Michigan:  Candice Miller

Mississippi:  Gregg Harper, Steven Palazzo

Missouri:  Ann Wagner 

Montana:  Steve Daines

Nebraska:  Adrian Smith, Lee Terry

New Jersey:  Scott Garrett, 

New York:  Michael Grimm, Pete King

North Carolina:  Richard Hudson, Mark Meadows, Robert Pittenger

Ohio:  John Boehner, Bob Gibbs, David Joyce, Steve Stivers

Oklahoma:  Tom Cole

Oregon:  Greg Walden 

Pennsylvania:  Lou Barletta, Mike Kelly, Tom Marino, Tim Murphy, Bill Shuster

South Carolina:  Jeff Duncan

Tennessee:  John Duncan, Stephen Fincher

Texas:  Joe Barton,  Kevin Brady, Michael Burgess, John Carter, John Culberson, Blake Farenthold, Louie Gohmert, Sam Johnson, Kenny Marchant, Michael McCaul, Randy Neugebaugher, Pete Olson, Pete Sessions, Lamar Smith, Steve Stockman, Roger Williams

Virginia:  Randy Forbes

HOUSE DEMOCRATS IN FAVOR OF TRAVEL BAN

Arizona:  Kyrsten Sinema

California:  Scott Peters

Florida:  Alan Grayson

Georgia:  John Barrow, David Scott

Iowa:  Dave Loebsack 

Minnesota:  Collin Peterson

West Virginia:  Nick Rahall

SENATE REPUBLICANS IN FAVOR OF TRAVEL BAN

Alabama:  Jeff Sessions 

Arkansas:  John Boozeman

Florida:  Marco Rubio

Georgia:  Saxby Chambliss, Johnny Isakson

Iowa:  Chuck Grassley

Kansas:  Pat Roberts

Kentucky:  Mitch McConnell

Louisiana:  David Vitter 

Missouri:  Roy Blunt 

Nebraska:  Mike Johanns

Ohio:  Rop Portman

Oklahoma:  James Inhofe

South Carolina:  Lindsey Graham 

South Dakota:  John Thune

Texas:  John Cornyn, Ted Cruz

Utah:  Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee

SENATE DEMOCRATS IN FAVOR OF TRAVEL BAN

Florida:  Bill Nelson

North Carolina:  Kay Hagan

14 States For Which No Elected Official Expressed Concern

Alaska

Connecticut

Delaware

Hawaii

Maine

Massachusetts

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

North Dakota

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

This past Friday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said new “Ebola Czar” Ron Klain will report to former UN ambassador and current National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

As a reminder, Susan Rice is the woman who went on five Sunday talk shows to lie about a YouTube™ video being responsible for the 9/11 attack in Benghazi. She is also the same person who said alleged Army deserter and Taliban sympathizer Bowe Bergdahl served with honor and distinction.

Trust Us. Remain Calm. Whatever You Do Don’t Panic.

Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus, a Missouri doctor named Gil Mobley showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in Tyvek™ protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

After being checked in and cleared through airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”, the microbiologist and emergency trauma physician said, “If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent.” Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.

“For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call,” he said.

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

Are they lying?

Consider this:  We have been told ad nauseum by the CDC and people who play doctors on TV that Ebola is not airborne and therefore cannot be transmitted through the air we breathe.  Why then, when you read Version 9 of the CDC’s Ebola Virus Disease Pre-Departure/Exit Screening at Points of Departure in Affected Countries, Section 3:  Exposures and Risk Factors there appears this question:  Have you spent time in the same room as any person with Ebola?  Did you ever fail to wear waterproof gloves, gown, facemask and goggles?  If no, were you always at least one meter away from the person with Ebola?

One meter is a little more than three feet, or about 39.37 inches. 

Several news outlets have shared a copy obtained by The Associated Press of Patient Zero’s falsified Passenger Screening Departure form.  What they’ve shared is Page 1 only.  The question I cited above appears on Page 2.  That has not been shared.

So the question is:  If we are to remain three feet from a suspected victim are we doing so to avoid projectile vomit or explosive diarrhea or is there the slightest chance of it being airborne?

The White House said Wednesday it will not impose travel restrictions or introduce new airport screenings to prevent additional cases of Ebola from entering the United States…current anti-Ebola measures, which include screenings in West African airports and observation of passengers in the United States, will be sufficient to prevent the “wide spread” of the virus.

Beheadings, caliphates, shit-borne death plagues. We've passed fall of Rome straight to the Dark Ages.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 2, 2014

This is my last posting until I return from my vacation.  Co-blogger Proof will put up a few posts in my absence "whenever his Muse strikes" so long as it is not on strike.