Conservative priorities
by digby
Here’s a good example of what they really care about:
Crowley asked how the sequester hurt funding for the Centers for Disease Control and how the National Rifle Association’s opposition to President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, also hurt the American response.
“We haven’t had a Surgeon General — who is the nation’s leading public health official, at least the voice of it — for a year. Some Democrats and some Republicans had opposed the particular surgeon general the president had nominated. Do you think it would have helped A. If NIH and CDC had had a little more money and B. Had there been a surgeon general to kind of calm what has been the fear of Ebola?” Crowley asked on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Of course we should have a surgeon general in place,” Cruz responded. “And we don’t have one because President Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist.”
“And a doctor,” Crowley jumped in.
Cruz conceded that Murthy is a doctor, but he then called him a “crusader against second amendment rights.”
He isn’t a “crusader” against second amendment rights. He’s a public health official who believes in science. And that means he believes that the epidemic of gun deaths in this country is a public health issue.
And frankly, right now, it’s a bigger public health issue than Ebola which has killed exactly on person inside the US so far.
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