Rove mocked spending on flu preparedness

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Raw Story

Bush’s Brain doesn’t appear to be quite so prescient in the face of a potential global flu epidemic.

Writing in a column in the Wall Street Journal in February, Rove attacked Democrats for what he dubbed as reckless spending — stimulus money being doled out to industries “that added jobs last year.”

Among them? Education and healthcare.

What nefarious programs were Democrats trying to insert? Among other things, Rove cited $900 million for “pandemic flu preparations.”

“There’s also $4 billion for health programs like obesity control and smoking cessation, $2 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $462 million for the Centers for Disease Control, and $900 million for pandemic flu preparations,” Rove wrote.

“It is not surprising that the stimulus package is laden with new spending programs,” the former Deputy White House chief of staff continued. “Much of it is spending Democrats couldn’t get approved in the normal course of affairs… Putting budgets of political allies above the budgets of struggling families is apparently the new Democratic trickle-down economics.”


Read more: http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/rove-mocked-spending-on-flu-preparedness/

[hedgehog]

1. From now on I'm calling it Karl's flu.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. I think "Swine Flu" continues to cover it...

;-)

[saigon68]

14. La Grippe Porcine

[No Elephants]

33. Good one!

[YOY]

2. In Max Brooks bestselling World War Z.

A Carl Rove Character is confronted for his cutting of spending that causes the US to be nearly wiped out.

He makes excuses after excuses but at the end of the day is still confined to shoveling shit in a cowfield...because the current adminsitration finds that where he can best serve his country.

[underpants]

3. WOW

but he probably thought that swine flu treatment would effect him

[Mrs. Overall]

4. What the GOP considers silly: Pandemics, Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Bridge Repairs, etc...

[SpiralHawk]

22. What the GOP considers ESSENTIAL: diaper sex with hookers

freaking republicon borrow-and-spend debt FAIL artistes

[No Elephants]

34. Isn't that what private donations are for? [sarcasm]

[Gator_Matt]

5. Republicans = party of willful ignorance

Is there anything the neocons get right? Their incompetence is staggering.

[Sandrine for you]

10. exactly !

[No Elephants]

35. Look at the stats of Halliburton in 2000 and again in 2007.

[arbusto_baboso]

6. I think Rove and some like him may WANT a pandemic.

After all, it will kill off some of the "surplus population", which will invariably be poorer people (or so they believe).

[abq e streeter]

13. self delete, too early in the AM to try to be clever and/or coherent

[Jennicut]

38. I think you are correct. Let the poor suffer, typical Rethug.

[kitkatrose]

39. ...

Yeah, but if the poor people die, who will be left to work for shit wages in substandard conditions for them?

[TheCoxwain]

7. I hope someone flings some fresh horse shit on this 'excuse for a human being' on LIVE TV

nt

[beac]

9. Fresh horse shit is too good for KKKarl.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a kettle of freshly soiled diapers... or perhaps a bucket of effluvia from the victims of swine flu.

[benld74]

8. To quote my father, "DUMBASS!"

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Swine Flu Preparedness is PORK, says GOP Piggie

When will headline writers get it right?

:rofl:

[JayMusgrove]

18. What a great one!!!!

[No Elephants]

36. LOL!

[Overseas]

15. K&R -- yes he did !

And he sprinkled in some of Newt's new buzz words-- he's updating his famous GOPAC memo for these more populist times-- "putting budgets of political allies above the budgets of struggling families" -- New Newt.

Here's a link to the 1996 Newt Memo "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm


And fulfilled his other duty as a revisionist historian-- "the new Democratic trickle-down economics"! Democratic Trickle Down? Only if the GOP is honest enough to call their relentless "supply side economics" by its true name-- Trickle Up Economics. Their continual tax cutting for the top income brackets and union busting and "free trade" to keep workers' wages low.

[No Elephants]

37. I call it "Trickle down, tsunami up," but I take your point.

[BonnieJW]

16. I sent the article to Keith Olbermann

He's great at "renaming" (Fixed Noise) all kinds of things.

[Doctor_J]

17. Good thing Olbermann's on the air, or it would be spiked by Big Media

:thumbsup:

[Kingofalldems]

19. He'll claim what he really meant was--900 million was not enough

And that he is concerned about Obama's priorities.

[Algorem]

20. if he hadn't just engineered 50 years of Republican rule,he might seem like a pathetic assclown

[SpiralHawk]

21. Typical republicon homelander chickenhawk

Rove, like almost all Republicon Homelander Chickenhawks, does a heckuva job in the FAIL department.

[PinkyisBlue]

31. Karl could benefit from some of the money earmarked for obesity control--

at least his chin(s) could.

What ever happened to those subpoenas where he was supposed to testify before Congress? How come he and other members of the previous administration don't have to follow the laws that everyone else does?

[FudaFuda]

23. Timing bad for Rove (heh), but it does belong under general budget, not "stimulus"

I'm not gonna feel one bit sorry for Karl Rove over any shit that may rain on his head over this, but just trying to be an objective taxpaying citizen - $900 million for pandemic flu preparedness sounds like a general budget item (and a good one, obviously) rather than something that belongs in an emergency economic stimulus package.

just sayin.

[bobthedrummer]

24. Donald Rumsfeld and his Gilead Sciences pals are raking in orders for Tamiflu as I post this.

"Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu" (CNN 10-31-2005)
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/

[Varner911]

25. Rove doesn't care...

Don't tell me he's compassionate. What a joke.

[noiretextatique]

26. this pig belongs in an orange jumpsuit

who care what he thinks?

[DCKit]

27. Well, he was right about tobacco.

Instead of spending money on getting U.S. to quit, all they had to do was tax it beyond our means. How can anyone, especially anyone with kids to feed, justify spending $8/day on cigarettes?

On the other hand, the black market for tobacco products is going to grow by leaps and bounds and it ain't going to be pretty. The Fed and state governments just made that illegal trade far more lucrative.

[Cha]

28. Freak fuck looks even

like even less of a "genius" than usual. Glad it's all there in print to be thrown back in his smarmy face.

[yellowcanine]

29. Flu preparedness is helping Democratic allies, Rove? How so?

Since when is the budget of the CDC a partisan issue? Rove is mighty confused.

[Canuckistanian]

30. Karls idea of a disaster is when he can't find pants his size

Everything else is the fault of Democrats.

[No Elephants]

32. Notice how he tries to associate "trickle down economics" with Democrats, now that it is a laughing

stock.

The one and only thing Dummya got right? His nickname for Rove. Nothing, but nothing, I've heard fits Rove better than Turd Blossom.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/turd_blossom/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turd%20blossom (especially definition # 3)