According to his tweets, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne spent the afternoon in the MSNBC studios with Al Sharpton, so who can say what might have happened to his higher cognitive skills in that environment. He also appeared on NPR’s “Week in Politics,” where he repeated a desperate anti-GOP claim that most liberals dropped like a hot rock early this week: if the GOP hadn’t allowed the NRA to block the president’s surgeon general nominee, we wouldn’t be in the market for an Ebola czar.
What we do have now is an acting surgeon general who’s nowhere to be found and an Ebola czar with no medical training whatsoever.
https://twitter.com/BrettAdams12/status/523286191626391552
https://twitter.com/PhillipCMcGuire/status/523286595823501312
@EJDionne Why do you try and make it sound like we don't have a surgeon general.
Rear Admiral (RADM) Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H.— Brett Adams (@BrettAdams12) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne @NormOrnstein You really thing a SG would have prevented the problems we've had? Respect your opinion, but that's quite a stretch
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) October 18, 2014
@ron_fournier @EJDionne Prevented? No. Helped a lot to coordinate efforts, provided a respected voice focused on public health, you bet.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2014
@t67336525 @EJDionne @NormOrnstein Competence calms. Words, hollow. Surgeon general wouldn't make system work. Figurehead. Klain might.
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) October 18, 2014
.@t67336525 @EJDionne @NormOrnstein Best thing we can do for the WH is to stop making excuses 4 them. Stop enabling failure & they may grow
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) October 18, 2014
@ron_fournier @t67336525 @EJDionne it wouldn't hurt to acknowledge that blocking nominees for political purposes has consequences
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2014
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https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/523319009094406144
Now you’ve made Instapundit laugh.
@instapundit @EJDionne Classic.
— Aleister (@AmericanGlob) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne @instapundit Two words EJ. BORIS LUSHNIAK. Google him. Or you can try google Acting Surgeon General.
— Zaggs (@Zaggs) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne @instapundit Silly assertion. There is an acting Surgeon General.
— Sherman Frederick (@shermfrederick) October 18, 2014
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@EJDionne POTUS would have a Surgeon General if he didn't nominate incompetent extremists. @instapundit
— Charles Flemming (@ChasFlemming) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne @instapundit Don't we have an acting SG with the same powers? #Strawman
— Sen. Frank Niceley (@SenFrankNiceley) October 18, 2014
What’s the acting Surgeon General doing? Nothing? https://t.co/XbpKyD4b9L @EJDionne
— RBe (@RBPundit) October 18, 2014
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@EJDionne You might want to catch up on the news – Reid killed the filibuster. Dems can approve any nominee with NO Republican votes.
— Paul Levitt (@Dipsys_pal) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne @instapundit Lushniak is not only a Doctor, but a Rear Admiral as well.Medical and executive experience.2 things Klain is missing.
— Zaggs (@Zaggs) October 18, 2014
Hi EJ, you don’t know what the Surgeon General does, huh? @EJDionne
— RBe (@RBPundit) October 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/523321116325314561
@EJDionne Jesus, E.J. that's a clown statement, bro.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2014
@hboulware @instapundit I don't expect intellectual honesty, self awareness or class out of leftists, ESPECIALLY the "smart" ones @EJDionne
— Zanshi 惨死 (D – Jar Kitteh) (@zanshi1) October 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/michi83/status/523321614197587968
Am ebola czar who ignores ebola and focuses solely on gun control is not an ebola czar. But you already knew that. @EJDionne @instapundit
— Antonio Martinez (@djtechchicago) October 18, 2014
@hboulware @instapundit Maybe @EJDionne thinks we should put a Surgeon General's Warning on flights from #Ebola hot zones.
— Sen. Frank Niceley (@SenFrankNiceley) October 18, 2014
.@NormOrnstein @EJDionne So GOP Senators are to blame for their obstinance, while the NRA is to blame for Dem Sens' obstinance? @orrinknox
— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/523322095112314880
@EJDionne Even the WH is calling bullshit on your straw man..http://t.co/CEYMdcKnhg Back to the chalk board.
— The Bull (@sdonabedian7) October 18, 2014
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@EJDionne There wouldn't need to be an Ebola czar if Obama said NO flights to/from Africa or connecting flights from EU. Derp @AaronWorthing
— Zanshi 惨死 (D – Jar Kitteh) (@zanshi1) October 18, 2014
@kerpen Dems control the Senate & WH yet the GOP is responsible for everything the government does wrong. @NormOrnstein @EJDionne
— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 18, 2014
@EJDionne what a bunch of malarkey. His SG is all about pushing junk science to change behavior. Obama is afraid of competence below him.
— Pouncing Coder Brad (@bradcundiff) October 18, 2014
BREAKING: Old ass Washington journalists have no idea what the Surgeon General does. Or that we have one. Currently. @NormOrnstein @EJDionne
— RBe (@RBPundit) October 18, 2014
You know that the Surgeon General would get laughed out of the room if he tried to run the Ebola response, right? @NormOrnstein @EJDionne
— RBe (@RBPundit) October 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/bvaynman/status/523324420413083648
@NoSilentConsent @instapundit Luckily, @EJDionne gets to hang on to his douche canoe award with this comment. He's a serial idiot.
— I'm Triggered (@StopThisMadnes1) October 18, 2014
@epobirs @instapundit @EJDionne Its just the Ebola fever talking.
— Zaggs (@Zaggs) October 18, 2014