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McCain Calls for Ground Troops in Syria and an Ebola Czar; Secret Friends

Courtesy of Mish.

I am seriously starting to wonder if Senator John McCain has lost his mind.

In 2009, the Senator complained “Obama has more czars than the Romanovs.” Today, John McCain, Czar Hater, Calls For Ebola Czar.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) believes President Barack Obama should appoint a “czar” to lead America’s response to Ebola.

“From spending time here in Arizona, my constituents are not comforted. There has to be more reassurance given to them. I would say that we don’t know exactly who’s in charge. There has to be some kind of czar,” McCain said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Other Republicans have also seemingly changed their minds on the issue. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who once introduced the “Czar Accountability and Reform Act” to cut off funding for czars, said earlier this month that Obama needed to appoint such an official to help unify the government’s response to Ebola.

Why Don’t We Have an Ebola Czar?

The correct answer should be “We don’t have an ebola czar because we do not need one. If created, the position would never go away once created, and we have too many czars already“.

Instead, let’s assume ebola control belongs in the hands of the surgeon general. With that assumption, we do not have an ebola czar because the NRA put the kibosh on Obama’s Surgeon Gen. nominee, Regina Benjamin.

I am not here to debate the merits or lack thereof of Regina Benjamin. I do not know her medical qualifications. I will say that her 2012 tweet calling guns “a health care issue” seems quite reasonable. And for that tweet, her appointment has been blocked.

Ebola vs. Firearm Homicides

The Center for Disease Control reports there were 11,068 firearm homicides in 2011. In 2014 there has been 1 ebola death.

Regardless of one’s position on handgun control, here’s a simple question: what’s the bigger health-care issue?

Yet, instead of a Surgeon General, McCain wants an ebola Czar, even though he whined Obama has too many czars….

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