http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/20/1337891/-Republicans-who-blocked-surgeon-general-nominee-blame-Obama-for-surgeon-general-nbsp-vacancy?detail=email
Almost one year ago, President Obama nominated Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as surgeon general, and the NRA went insane because Dr. Murthy, being a reality-based person, had once talked about the reality of gun violence being a public health issue. Which, of course, resulted in a flurry of vows from Republicans to block his nomination. Now that a particularly scary virus has come the U.S. (and affected approximately one-gazillionith of the population compared to gunshot wounds), people are noticing that it would be really nice to have the position filled. And, of course, Republicans are all saying it's President Obama's fault that we don't have one.
On "Meet the Press" yesterday, for example, Chuck Todd asked Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) about the vacancy in the Surgeon General’s office. "This seems to be politics," the host noted. "The NRA said they were going to score the vote, and suddenly everybody’s frozen. That seems a little petty in hindsight, does it not?"
Blunt replied, "Well, you know, if the president really ought to nominate people that can be confirmed to these jobs, and frankly, then we should confirm them."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went even further during an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley.
CROWLEY: Do you think it would have helped … had there been a surgeon general in place to kind of calm what has become the fear of Ebola? CRUZ: Look – look, of course we should have a surgeon general in place. And we don’t have one because President Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist.
To hear the Texas Republican tell it, Dr. Vivek Murthy isn’t even a "health professional," which is the exact opposite of reality.
in case you might not know NRA "SCORING THE VOTE" is a threat to anyone not walking their line and they will unleash the might of the NRA to make sure they don't get elected, you know the same way the tea party controlled the spineless republicans or are they not willing to relinquish the perks of office, big payday, no work necessary, and very, vey short work year.
now the Pres. needs to select people that can be confirmed??? they know they have no intention of confirming any of his nominee's, and they should approve them, isn't that their job he's saying the ought to do? for those who oppose and are complicit with blaming Pres. for everything they pledged not to let happen you can only lie to yourself for a minute then that old sub conscious kicks in and the reality of that misleading come clear you've been concentrated on.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on". hard to admit being punked. they have only been at the job 28 days this year,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/how-many-days-has-congress-actually-worked-in-2014
