Top 15 Health Jobs Remain Open As Untested Pandemic Response Plan Implemented

Washington Post:

As they confront the growing swine flu crisis, President Obama's administration is attempting to implement a never-before-tested pandemic response plan while dozens of key public health and emergency response jobs in the administration remain vacant.

The president has yet to fill 15 top positions at the health department or name a full-time director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and five more nominations -- including that of former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be HHS Secretary -- are waiting to be confirmed by the Senate, officials at the department said.

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Comments

[IndependentPAVoter]

Wow Lex, Blue is really handing it to you today!!!! LOL in your defense your just on the wrong side in more then two-thirds of the arguments.

Conservative = Greed, God, Guns. All can be beneficial in small amounts but when there the platform for you politics its a losing situation!!!

[LEX MOSHER]

British intel says Iraq is trying to buy yellowcake from Niger
USA wants to investigate claim
CIA needs to send WMD Expert to Niger
CIA doesn’t send Valarie Plame to Niger
Therefore, Valarie Plame is not a WMD Expert.

[BlueStateMan]

CONJECTURE.

HYPERBOLE.

No PROOF.

You're PATHETIC.

[monicaangela]

No, they don't send her that's true... they allow her to send someone who has been an ambassador to the area and knows the ins and outs of the politics of the area, who better than her husband to take on that job for her, less obvious and infinitely less dangerous than sending her to try to uncover proof.

[Tkevan]

"...they allow her to send someone who has been an ambassador to the area and knows the ins and outs of the politics of the area,..."

But who wouldn't know UF6 if it jumped up and bit him on the Arse. Really good choice.

[evekendall]

"List of Fallacious Arguments"
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html

[TheLearnedEnglishDog]

Wow you are exceptionally stupid. Bravo

[mattwin]

Only humans have developed brains. Your brains are not developed.
Therefore you are not human.

[BlueStateMan]

It appears that GaianRetribution has scurried away... corkscrew tail between it's legs...

LexMosher is acting the diehard kamikase but he KNOWS that he's been BEATEN...AGAIIN..

BOTH of them... cowards...

HEY GUYS!!!!

Lemme guess... you have a little helmets that you wear when on the computer..little armbands too... ones that your mommies made for you.

You still sleep in the same beds you did when you went to grade school... wallpaper in your rooms with Cowboys & Indians on it... tattered pennants from the colleges that you HOPED you had been able to go to but never even got close... trophies for 5th place in some intramural sports event from 20 years ago (one that they give EVERY kid so as not to feel left out).. a "Certificate of Achievement" for passing the 6th grade in the lower 2% of your classes.

Milk & cookies by your sides... & a dogeared copy of "Mein Kampf" on your nightstands... nestled on the souvenir handkerchiefs that you got when your daddies took you to visit Howard Johnsons.

You earn a living by stuffing envelopes for direct-mail promoters... looking forward to the BONANZA season when you get to work for Publishers Clearinghouse.

Your favorite food is mac & cheesewhiz with a side of tater-tots washed down with an entire 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew.

Now..

BACK to your SANDBOXES.

SCOOT!!!

[LEX MOSHER]

Sorry, fatty coward, ya lose agn.

Hubba, hubba.

eat crow!

[LEX MOSHER]

So much space for nothing, agn.

[BlueStateMan]

You ARE nothing.

You HAVE nothing.

I'm THROUGH beatting the schidt out of you.

You BORE me, little one.

Prattle on...

I've better things to do than ABUSE you further.

[nicole473]

you have that right. YOU are nothing.

[nicole473]

BWAHAHAHA.............................:)

[nicole473]

Lex Luther..........aw, the poor baby tr0ll can't handle the truth and ran to mommy. pathetic l.oser.

[LEX MOSHER]

You will never be the man your mother is, child.

[BlueStateMan]

reduced to schoolyard insults.

[nicole473]

and u r still the LAMEST tr0ll on this site.

[slinkymom]

Per CNN - consumer confidence went up significantly this month. More indication that our president is on the right track.

[hortonhearsawho2]

give um a sec, the troils are hitting the aol search ...

[monicaangela]

LOL !!

[BlueStateMan]

SEE?

Typical neoconservative COWARDS.

When presented with FACTS.. they stick their little, lollypop coated TONGUES out.. but have ZERO ability to rebut my assertion.

I give them a CHANCE to PROVE their mettle... & the RUN AWAY... like the invertebrates that they are.

LISTEN UP, CHILDREN...

I'll give you ONE MORE CHANCE to provide an ADULT response...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/corn

PROOF that Valerie Plame was an EXPERT on WMD.

ow..

photo

DISPUTE it.

Don't just expose your childishness...

Here's your BIG chance to come up with some FACTS to PROVE otherwise, kiddies.

NO conjecture or hyperbole...

NO talking points or bumper-sticker slogans...

NO more of your usual INFANTILE EVASIONS.

Just EVIDENCE... expository & DOCUMENTED.

C'MON, cowards... step up to the PLATE & SHOW US ALL what you're REALLY made of.

I DARE you.

[hortonhearsawho2]

gee, blue, they're all gonna run away...then again.

[BlueStateMan]

Amazing, isn't it?

When push comes to shove.. they are nothing but a bunch pansyassed, little children pissing themselves.

[NoMoEarmarks]

Sebelius is still a tax che.at.

[hortonhearsawho2]

levi loves bristol, always and forever...

[NatteringNabob]

So are John McCain and Sarah Palin.

What's your point?

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

TroIIs don't understand the difference between opinions and facts.

[hortonhearsawho2]

rather ficticious little bassturhds they are...

[TheLearnedEnglishDog]

They also don't seem to understand that they aren't calling th eshots anymore. You see guys, first you have top win an election. Keep praying for a terrorist attacks, traitors

[LEX MOSHER]

Why didn't the CIA send her to NIGER, fatty coward???

[NatteringNabob]

Thanks for proving Blue's point!

[BlueStateMan]

NICE TRY AT AN EVASION... BUT YOU HAVE NOTHING.. COWARD.

[hortonhearsawho2]

WTF RU, the nanny nanny boo hoo hooo troil

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

That's not an argument, that doesn't prove ANYTHING and it doesn't dispute the facts.

The CIA sent Ambassador Wilson to Niger because he had WORKED IN NIGER AND IRAQ. He had the contacts in both nations.

[Dialogue]

Obviously, the conservative budget deficit estimates of the conservative Bush Administration were not worth the paper they were written on, how sad.

[Dialogue]

The former Bush Administration's last budget deficit was approximately 450 Billion Dollars, and in December 2008, the former Administration conservatively estimated a 1,2 Trillion Dollar budget deficit for 2009 (which runs from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009). The 1.2 Trillion Dollar budget deficit was conservatively estimated, who knows, the deficit projection could have been understated by many hundreds of billions of dollars, which could easily translate into a 1.5 Trillion, 1.6 Trillion or 1.7 Trillion Dollar budget deficit.

[rampage]

OK, I have a client to train.
The tr0lls here are as desperate as ever.
Life is good.
The republican party is toast.
Party on!

[nicole473]

Have a great day!

[hortonhearsawho2]

and remember, there are no red clents or blue clients, just clients...

[NoMoEarmarks]

What's a clent.

[OurKoan]

Do they draw straws on which thread to "choke"? (They are masters of "choking" in all its various permutations you know).

[LEX MOSHER]

Good luck with the bed pans.

[hortonhearsawho2]

good luck with ur parole board hearing...whether ur step sister forgives u, well....anyway. and back child support payments and also there and too...

[GaianRetribution]

Are you pushing or pulling today?

[hortonhearsawho2]

running on empty ...

[jazzybo]

When are people finally going to get enough of these Republican obstructionists?The world is falling apart and they want to play politics.The violinist plays while Rome burns.Very frustrating.

[GaianRetribution]

Squawk, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, the NYT editorial page said so, SQUAWK!!!

[BlueStateMan]

Why are you running away from me, COWARD?

[BlueStateMan]

Are you AFRAID to try & go on the RECORD, coward?

[Dynamohum]

You are NO representative of Mother Earth Gaian. Maybe Mother Afterbirth.

[LEX MOSHER]

Sorry, pops, your guy is in charge.

[BlueStateMan]

Coward.

[hortonhearsawho2]

and ur brown shirt is worn out and dated, so hit the road...

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Valerie Plame was no clerk.

She was an expert on WMDs. Read it and weep troIIs.

What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/corn

[GaianRetribution]

The nation????

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!

[KewlJoJo]

You? Bwaaaaaaahhahahahahahaha!

[BlueStateMan]

DISPUTE it.

Don't just expose your childishness...

Here's your BIG chance to come up with some FACTS to PROVE otherwise, kid.

NO conjecture or hyperbole...

NO talking points or bumper-sticker slogans...

NO more of your usual INFANTILE EVASIONS.

Just EVIDENCE... expository & DOCUMENTED.

C'MON, coward... step up to the PLATE & SHOW US ALL how big a "man" you are.

[AngieMom57]

U r a cute little piggy.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Plume Swine troil...

[nicole473]

repetitive. you need new tps, tr0//.

[LEX MOSHER]

"The Nation???'

Now that is funny!

[BlueStateMan]

DISPUTE it.

Don't just expose your childishness...

Here's your BIG chance to come up with some FACTS to PROVE otherwise, kid.

NO conjecture or hyperbole...

NO talking points or bumper-sticker slogans...

NO more of your usual INFANTILE EVASIONS.

Just EVIDENCE... expository & DOCUMENTED.

C'MON, coward... step up to the PLATE & SHOW US ALL how big a "man" you are.

[hortonhearsawho2]

ur more of a Birth of a nation kinda kla.nner aren't u, sport...

[AngieMom57]

And I like your icon, what are you so stuck on Valerie Plane about, agreed, she was sacrificed, ok, done, now we should move on and not learn a darn thing from it? Not, we got it, lesson learned, or do you think not? Is contrition what you want, me too!

There are fifteen top health jobs to fill and I want my physician in the running...what do you think about that as moving forward with an exciting solution...or a stimulating solution :-)

[LEX MOSHER]

If she were an expert on WMD, why did they send her m0ron husband to Niger??

Swing and a big miss!!!

[BlueStateMan]

why are you running away. COWARD?

[Jeff1958]

HWBush liked her husband enough to make him ambassador. You don't even know how to plan the game. [It's called facts. Look 'em up.]

[KewlJoJo]

GaianRetribution See Profile I'm a Fan of GaianRetribution I'm a fan of this user permalink Ummmm.......

oh nevermind

Oh, I never did.

[BlueStateMan]

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/corn

I DARE any of the tr0lls to DISPUTE any of these FACTS.
.

[GaianRetribution]

The nation???

Facts?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[breakingnews]

Soweeeee, here pi.g.

Wallow in the slop with the GOP.

[BlueStateMan]

DISPUTE it.

Don't just expose your childishness...

Here's your BIG chance to come up with some FACTS to PROVE otherwise, kid.

NO conjecture or hyperbole...

NO talking points or bumper-sticker slogans...

NO more of your usual INFANTILE EVASIONS.

Just EVIDENCE... expository & DOCUMENTED.

C'MON, coward... step up to the PLATE & SHOW US ALL how big a "man" you are.

[nicole473]

running out of material, p.ig-boy?

[hortonhearsawho2]

read the posts below, ur obviously an idio.t...get informed meathead!

[Demo4Life]

I am obviously a Democrat and I see these posts making it seem as if everything is the Republicans fault even though we have control of the government and we make the hypicritical statements of its all Bush's fault(which it is by the way) for the things during his terms, but now its Obama's and everyone treats him like he is Mr. Perfect. Lets start taking action and actually try to run the GOP into the ground, especially without our widely credited liberal media.

[hortonhearsawho2]

ur obviously an idio.t...

[LEX MOSHER]

Horton, that looks like a self-portrait.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

You are no Democrat.

You are obviously a Republican. I can tell by your lousy spelling and grammar.

[Demo4Life]

I am not a Democrat because I take responsibility for my actions, stand up against one man out of the whole party, and because I think for myself. Before all of you make these accusations with out any good proof go out and get some knowledge.

[KewlJoJo]

Yer a Dem like I'm a Palin supporter.

[nicole473]

Yeah, sure you are a dem. L.os.er

[Declassified Memos]

Who sent you?

[rampage]

GaianRetribution See Profile I'm a Fan of GaianRetribution permalink

She was a clerk
---------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>
So it's your contention that it's OK to out someone in the CIA for political retribution?

[Rumplestiltskin]

Unless you are a Senator from Vermont?
Long live "leaky" Leahy!