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Pelosi daughter hails Obama’s Ebola response in spite of ‘GOP funding cuts’

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http://twitter.com/#!/CaptYonah/status/523481323949006848 Blaming “GOP funding cuts” for the lack of an Ebola vaccine has been a strategy employed by the NIH director, Paul Begala, Henry Waxman and many others. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, can now be added to the list of those pushing the false narrative: President #Obama mounts robust response to #Ebola http://t.co/RqrnNqVaOw despite GOP's #CDC funding cuts (h/t @mmfa): http://t.co/sNGAbDtHPJ — sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) October 18, 2014 The Media Matters story Pelosi linked says “conservative media” are denying that “lack of funding” harms research on diseases like […]

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More mixed signals: Should we be worried about Ebola or not?

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http://twitter.com/#!/RosieGray/status/497537920979718144 The State Department is reportedly ordering the departure of eligible U.S. citizens from Liberia due to the Ebola outbreak despite CDC assurances like this one: http://twitter.com/#!/CustosDivini/status/497566376538947584 http://twitter.com/#!/ZekeJMiller/status/497537645552357376 http://twitter.com/#!/APDiploWriter/status/497544450026266625 http://twitter.com/#!/AwesomeCapital/status/497499858945593346 The U.S. is evacuating personnel, Liberia and Sierra Leone are putting up blockades and extreme  measures of containment are being taken for transporting the infected. http://twitter.com/#!/WSJ/status/497550856980811776 All this, despite CDC assurances that Ebola is difficult to contract. Jim Geraghty may be on to something. http://twitter.com/#!/jparton1/status/496697761635794944 Remain cautious and skeptical. Editor’s note: The capitalization of “Ebola” has been corrected […]

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