What Ron Johnson sees as a ‘real and present danger’

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/what-ron-johnson-sees-real-and-present-danger

The Weekly Standard, a prominent conservative magazine, has a piece in its new issue with a headline no doubt intended to get readers’ attention: “Six Reasons to Panic.” Take a wild guess what the article is about.

Reason #3, in particular, is quite a scenario: “What’s to stop a jihadist from going to Liberia, getting himself infected (with Ebola), and then flying to New York and riding the subway until he keels over? This is just the biological warfare version of a suicide bomb. Can you imagine the consequences if someone with Ebola vomited in a New York City subway car?” It leads the Weekly Standard to suggest “drastic precautions,” though the piece wasn’t specific as to what those might be....

Did I mention that Ron Johnson is a member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee? Because he is....

This, of course, is the same far-right senator who believes affordable contraception is easily distributed over the Internet, thinks “sunspot activity” is responsible for global warming, believes the Great Recession ended before President Obama took office; and sees public investment in alternative energy as roughly the same thing as “the Soviet Union.”

[muntrv]

1. Forget that the flu is airborne and Ebola is not,

Ebola is hell on earth!

[Scuba]

2. That boy's dumber than a bag of hammers. A "successful businessman" who married the boss's daughter.

[hifiguy]

3. Bag of hair, sack of hammers, box of rocks, a stump,

there's not really any appropriate simile when teh stoopid hits this kind of critical density.