Memo From Middle America | Ebola “Gives Rick Perry A Second Chance”—Which He’s Blowing, Like The First Chance
Liberian Stanley Gaye of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth—despite the lack of a cowboy hat, Mr. Gaye is a “Texas Man”
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It’s an ill epidemic, apparently, that blows nobody any good: How the Ebola case gives Rick Perry a second chance to make a first impression, by Chris Cillizza, Washington Post, October 2, 2014. This might be a problem—VDARE.com has pointed out that the Texas governor and possible boob bait presidential candidate is stillall hat, no cattle on immigration despite his grandstanding symbolic deployment of the Texas National Guard on the border—but in fact Perry’s comments on Ebola show his fatal trademark combination of big talk, Establishment conventional wisdom and immigration ignorance.
Thus Perry said on Wednesday:“Rest assured that our system is working as it should. Professionals on every level on the chain of command know what to do to minimize this potential risk to the people of Texas and of this country.”
But a day later, it materializes that Possible Ebola contacts now up to 80 [By Bill Hanna, Star-Telegram.com, October 02, 2014] and the New York Times reports: Delay in Dallas Ebola Cleanup as Workers Balk at Task [by Kevin Sack and Marc Santora, Oct. 2, 2014).
Still, with Rick Perry and the Obama Administration on top of things, what could possibly go wrong? ...