Empty Posts: “No Problem” - Then There’s Janet
White House: No HHS secretary not problem
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Sunday brushed off questions about whether a lack of top health officials was making more difficult President Barack Obama’s response to a swine flu outbreak.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration’s response was competent even though the Senate has yet to confirm a secretary of human services, a surgeon general or a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The absence of those officials left Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and an acting CDC chief to brief reporters on the swine flu outbreak.
“We are doing fine,” Gibbs said.
Obama’s first pick to run the Health and Human Services Department, Tom Daschle, withdrew amid tax problems. The second pick, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, has faced delays in her Senate confirmation because of her support for abortion rights.
White House officials say they expect Sebelius to be confirmed shortly, given the urgency of the flu outbreak that started in Mexico and spread to the United States. They also say work at the departments is being done even though the top jobs have gone unfilled.
Obama’s team tried to recruit CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the surgeon general, the nation’s top public health spokesman. Gupta took himself out of the running for the post, and Obama hasn’t settled on a second choice.
Dr. Richard Besser, the acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led the administration’s public discussion of the flu outbreak. Besser spoke with reporters at the White House along with John Brennan, the homeland security adviser who is coordinating efforts for the president.
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I’m sure Nazi-tano is just as competent in regards to epidemic diseases as she is to man-made disasters.
If Janet was Catholic, she’d be a nun. She’s got that look.
We’ve got Geithner facing a financial meltdown with no staff. So why not have a potentially apocalyptic flu-bug , with no Surgeon General and no head of Health and Human Services. WTF.
well we better nuke Canada to take care of this swine flu.
That dude needs a shave.
Gets Interesting in Washington
At least one news source has that “Obama is throwing Murtha UNDER BUS.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/us/politics/26murtha.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Could this be why is Media anti-aviation all of a sudden on Mutha Airport?
This is a place for the best updates…
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-update-do-not-take-swine-flu.html#links
Harold has connections all over the world. This is wider spread that in being reported.
B.O. will temporarily let an actual doctor fill the position of secretary of HEALTH and human services because the congressman he chose was a taxcheat and the current nominee is an abortion activist. I heard Osama Bin Laden is being cosidered for Surgeon General.
All these vacancies, and those under Geithner mean no witnesses. The Government should have been full staffed by now.
Obama and the democrats are insane and are destroying freedom in the entire world.
It doesn’t get any better when vacancies get filled.
It gets worse.
Smaller gov’t because no one wants the job works too.