If many politicians would rid the CDC altogether, then why do they criticize the President for inadequate Ebola response

Rid the CDC of what?

we need 100% rectal cavity searches at ALL American airports starting today.

Politicians don't want to get rid of the CDC. Many do want it to stop massaging hamsters or checking on the love lives of overweight lesbians so they can focus on their core mission, prevention of infectious diseases.

That, unfortunately, is boring to overreaching bureaucrats when they can browbeat citizens into the politically accepted thoughts and behaviors.

And here we have an excellent example of what Jon Stewart was criticizing when he went on Crossfire: both sides of the debate arguing against a straw man in fealty to their political orientation's talking points. Eliminating the CDC specifically is not a mainstream Republican view (unless it was Rick Perry's third agency, replaced by "oops"). The examples of Long Running Fool are also grabbed out of thin air, and I haven't seen evidence that the NSF or another branch of government funds research with no important applications.

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Politicians don't want to get rid of the CDC. Many do want it to stop massaging hamsters or checking on the love lives of overweight lesbians so they can focus on their core mission, prevention of infectious diseases.

That, unfortunately, is boring to overreaching bureaucrats when they can browbeat citizens into the politically accepted thoughts and behaviors.

No but doctors and nurses who arrive in the US from Ebola hotzones need to be put into mandatory quarantine until it is clear they have not been infected. We have the knowledge to do things better, but we don't act to help ourselves.

Both major Parties will be scrambling over the next ten days before the election owing to the outbreak of well publicized madness we're seeing, better to toss the 'other candidate' (or party) under the bus...amazing how people change once the start working inside the Beltway in DC or in any of the other State Capitols from sea to shining sea.

I've turned my phone answering machine off until after the election.

Come to think of it that's a pretty sensible practice whether it's election season or not.

Please define the important application of the study on overweight lesbians as I don't see a reason for it, given the general population obesity concerns.

Also, why did the CDC give money to fund a transgender beauty pageant? Again, it does not seem to fit the core mission of controlling disease, especially infectious ones.

Why is the President requesting 22 million dollars for the CDC to research gun violence? Is gun violence a communicable disease? If so, why is it highest in places like Chicago and New York, rather than were the guns actually are, like Idaho?

Since heart disease is a major killer in this country, why does the CDC and NIH not actively promote moderate drinking (moderate defined by the studies as 2-6 drinks per day) when the available evidence shows a sharp improvement in health outcomes?

I can document each example, so they are hardly drawn from thin air.

You have a phone answering machine?

close the borders