The American public doesn't seem to be
all that worked up over Ebola, with 70 percent confident the federal government can prevent an outbreak and a majority—54 percent—saying the government is doing a good job now. Well, Republicans just can't have that. So it's
off to Fox News to whip up some hysteria.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) told The Kelly File last night that there was "increasing evidence" that the government was planning to import ebola patients, (presumably for treatment and/or research?) though he did not elaborate on that evidence.
Kilmeade's not having it with this imaginary plan. "Unless we come up with a cure, which they are working on, I don’t see any way there is a single lawmaker that would support the president bringing a single infected person from West Africa back to the United States," he said Tuesday morning. "We can bring people with a contagious deadly disease with a 50 percent mortality rate to our shores? That makes the GITMO thing seem reasonable!"
Goodlatte, of course, failed to produce any of that "increasing evidence." The "GITMO thing," by the way, is another
GOP diversion into fearmongering over President Obama's promise—now six years stale—to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay during his term in office. According to a
new ad from the RNC, it's all tied in with Ebola. Somehow.
"ISIS gaining ground. Terrorists committing mass murder. Ebola inside the U.S. Americans alarmed about national security. What’s President Obama doing? Making plans to bring terrorists from Guantanamo to our country…. November 4th, Obama’s policies are on the ballot. Vote to keep terrorists off U.S. soil. Vote Republican."
It's a little confusing—is Obama bringing the terrorists or the Ebola people into the U.S.? Both? Or is it the Ebola-laden terrorist on our porous borders we're supposed to be panicking over? All of the above, apparently, as far as the GOP and Fox News are concerned.
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Republicans—and Fox News—sure do know what motivates their base. All they have to do is string together the words Obama, Ebola, ISIS, and terrorists. It doesn't have to make sense. It just has to scare.