From ABC News.com (Oct. 17):
Amid mounting pressure to name someone to spearhead the administration's response to the Ebola crisis, President Obama announced today that he plans to appoint Ron Klain, Vice President Joe Biden's former chief-of staff, as his Ebola czar, ABC News has confirmed.
Klain, who also served as Chief of Staff for Vice President Al Gore, now works as general counsel at Revolution LLC.
The White House had previously already assigned Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, a lawyer with a background in federal law enforcement, criminal prosecution and crisis response, to work with the CDC and other government agencies responsible for addressing an outbreak on American soil. [read more]
If you read the five things to know about Klain you will find no medical accreditations of any kind. All he did was work for big shot Dems. And he was a law clerk too. So, why was this guy picked at all? In a word: Politics. That’s my guess anyway. This appointment smacks of cronyism.
Obama didn’t even include the new czar in his gov’t Ebola response meeting for some reason. I guess the new czar had more important plans.
America needs another czar like we need another contagious person on a plane or a contagious person walking across our porous border. But isn’t the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Dr. Nicole Lurie, kind of like a czar anyway? Plus she has a medical degree. According to the HHS website her mission is: “to lead the nation in preventing, responding to and recovering from the adverse health effects of public health emergencies.” Hmmm. I don’t know, but sounds like what an Ebola czar would do anyway. More stupid bureaucratic duplications.
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