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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepubs Helped Cause the Ebola Crisis. Time to Cure our Government: Vote Them Out.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/repubs-helped-cause-the-ebola-crisis-time-to-cure-our-government-vote-them-out/Contrary to the screeches of the Panic Platoon, Ebola has not been the plague depicted in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (admit it: you thought of the end sequence when you first heard about the recent outbreaks in West Africa). Not even close. Everywhere that has the needed resources and good solid best practices were followed, the disease was brought under control quickly and competently.
The only countries that have not yet brought the virus under control are desperately poor nations that have been deliberately f***ed over by republicans and their counterparts elsewhere. The disease COULD have been controlled in Liberia, too, but some GOP senator might have wound up with fewer millions in his illegal offshore bank account had America shown some common decency and a wee bit of smarts. But NOOOOOOOooooo, the GOPee stole from the poor and gave to themselves, as is their wont.
So while the Chicken Littles and Admiral Akbar Brigade join their brethren in the Panic Platoon and generally freak out about Ebola in fine hair-on-fire fashion, let us focus instead on a real existential threat: the thieving Repub rat-bastards who caused the f***ing outbreak in the first f***ing place. There, friends, is a SERIOUS problem that needs solving.
And we can solve it. Get to the polls, and take your friends, enemies, frenemies. neighbors, church members, bowling buddies, bandmates, and everybody else you know with you. Vote against every single rotten, stinking son-of-a-bitch GOP candidate and show the lot of them to the door. You dont have to like Dems: you just have to hate the Repubs for killing so many innocents in the name of fattening their own wallets.
Beating any disease requires an accurate diagnosis and a solid treatment plan. We have done it for Ebola, now we need to eradicate modern Republicanitis before it kills the lot of us.
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Repubs Helped Cause the Ebola Crisis. Time to Cure our Government: Vote Them Out. (Original Post)
riqster
Oct 2014
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(44,998 posts)1. Cause Ebola ? They are Ebola !
The Republican Party is a friggin' hemorrhagic
disease plaguing the very decency of this nation.
Pour some bleach on that mess.
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Ballots ARE the bleach we need to decontaminate democracy.
GOTV like your life depends on it