{"id":21555,"date":"2014-10-17T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21555"},"modified":"2014-10-20T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T22:36:52","slug":"facts-about-obamas-new-ebola-czar-ron-klain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21555","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Obama’s New Ebola Czar Ron Klain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama has finally twigged to the seriousness of the Ebola crisis and nominated Ron Klain, a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases and taught at Johns Hopkins, as “Ebola Czar.”<\/p>\n

Ha, just kidding! He’s a lawyer and longtime Democratic political operative<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A few more facts about Klain: <\/p>\n

  • He helped approve the loan to Solyndra<\/a>.\n
  • He met his environmental activist wife while both were undergraduates at Georgetown<\/a>.\n
  • Kevin Spacey (who looks nothing like him) played him in a movie about the Florida recount<\/a>.\n
  • He used to be a columnist for Bloomberg View.<\/a> Really, what screams “I’m an Ebola expert” more than “Keeping Working-Class Voters for Obama” or “How Democrats Can Make Their Case for Raising Revenue”?\n
  • He has a Twitter feed<\/a>. You have to go back to October 2 to find a mention of Ebola: a retweet.\n<\/li>\n

    Did George W. Bush ever attempt such a tone-deaf nomination? Once, when he tried to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Except: 1. He quickly withdrew it, and 2. Miers was at least a lawyer. This is like Bush nominating Miers to be Surgeon General.<\/p>\n

    As Instapundit is wont to say<\/a>, “the country is in the very best of hands.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Obama has finally twigged to the seriousness of the Ebola crisis and nominated Ron Klain, a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases and taught at Johns Hopkins, as “Ebola Czar.” Ha, just kidding! He’s a lawyer and longtime Democratic political operative. A few more facts about Klain: He helped approve the loan to Solyndra. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1335],"tags":[2864,2483,64,2880,2502],"class_list":["post-21555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-obama-scandals","tag-democrats","tag-ebola","tag-obama","tag-obama-scandals","tag-ron-klain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}