Obama will name Ron Klain as Ebola Czar
Saying it doesn't make it so.
He is just another establishment lawyer with zero medical or public health credentials.
He will not report directly to the president but to not one but two White House advisers who do, Lisa Monaco for Homeland Security and Susan Rice for National Security.
Ms. Monaco, also a lawyer and a prosecutor with zero medical or public health credentials, was as close as the White House wanted to get to having an Ebola Czar yesterday (they were calling her the "White House Ebola Coordinator"), and by George it looks like she still is.
Susan Rice, an historian by training and an establishment figure for some decades, is at any rate not another lawyer, praise be to God.
She is well known to favor altruistic American and Western interventions in Africa, and did so in the Clinton White House where she urged intervention in the Rwanda genocidal conflict.
On foreign policy generally she is well aligned with O and is a staunch globalist.
So how long will the press be going along with the pretense that Mr. Klain is the real thing?
Did the people who called for an Ebola Czar over the past week want just another political stooge, just another White House lawyer, for God's sake?
One who will be reporting to two White House advisers with no knowledge of or experience with medical or public health issues?
Where the hell is C. Everett Koop when you need him?
And could the White House possibly make it any clearer that it does not take seriously its own rhetoric about how serious a challenge Ebola is?
The bumbling, the refusal of travel restrictions, the refusal of a Czar, the small military mission to Africa, the tiny budget.
Maybe it all adds up to the Administration just not being all that concerned.
I think that's a mistake.
But it could be where they're at.
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