BREAKING; President Obama to appoint Ron Klain as federal Ebola 'czar'

[mystery-ak]

Barack Obama
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President Obama to appoint Ron Klain, former White House adviser, as federal Ebola 'czar' to coordinate response, administration officials say - @jaketapper, @ChrisJansing

[ABX]

Bio from Wikipedia....

Ronald A. "Ron" Klain is an American lawyer and political operative best known for serving as Chief of Staff to two Vice Presidents - Al Gore (1995–1999) and Joseph Biden (2009–2011).[1][2] He is an influential Democratic Party insider. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron White during the Court's 1987 and 1988 Terms and worked on Capitol Hill, where he was Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination....

Nope, not a lick of medical training or experience. His job is political spin. I think this shows how Ebola will be treated.

I doubt Ebola would have become a real crisis, but by god, the government will fix the problem until it does.

[mystery-ak]

Shit....not even qualified in the medical field..another political appointment...God Help Us!

[mystery-ak]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/

First on CNN: Obama will name Ron Klain as Ebola Czar
By Jake Tapper, Chief Washington Correspondent
updated 10:33 AM EDT, Fri October 17, 2014

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain his "Ebola czar," knowledgeable sources tell CNN.

The president on Thursday signaled his openness to the idea to have one individual coordinating the entire federal response to any threat of an outbreak in the United States.

"It may make sense for us to have one person ... so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process just to make sure that we're crossing all the T's and dotting all the I's going forward," Obama said.

The administration has been criticized for its response to the incidents of Ebola in the United States, in terms of how prepared hospitals have been for potential Ebola patients and also how prepared healthcare workers were in terms of their personal protective gear. Some lawmakers have called for a travel ban on individuals coming from West Africa where the outbreak is most serious but the administration has so far not embraced that idea.

Klain is highly regarded at the White House as a good manager with excellent relationships both in the administration and on Capitol Hill. His supervision of the allocation of funds in the stimulus act -- at the time and incredible and complicated government undertaking -- is respected in Washington. He does not have any extensive background in health care but the job is regarded as a managerial challenge.

He will report to both White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and National Security Advisor Susan Rice, according to a White House official.

A former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and also to then-Vice President Al Gore, Klain is currently President of Case Holdings and General Counsel of Revolution, an investment group. He has clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and headed up Gore's effort during the 2000 Florida recount. He could not be reached for comment on Friday.

[mystery-ak]

This frees Obama to get back on the golf course...his response from now on will be *go ask Klain*..who is just another political operative.

[Scottftlc]

As always known, this is all about the election and nothing else.  Millions could die, but if they hang on in the election, they'd be happy as clams.  A lawyer, campaign operative and fundraiser...that's the guy to head up efforts to beat the plague.

[flowers]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-17/meet-americas-new-ebola-czar

This should fix it and calm the panic:

    *OBAMA SAID TO APPOINT RON KLAIN AS EBOLA CZAR, CNN TWEETS

Forget medical experience, what the USA needs to combat the worst Ebola pandemic ever is "an American lawyer and political operative best known for serving as Chief of Staff to two Vice Presidents - Al Gore (1995–1999) and Joseph Biden (2009–2011)." Gotta wonder how Tom Frieden feels about this...

 

    Obama will appoint Ron Klain as his Ebola czar, knowledgeable sources tell CNN’s Jake Tapper. http://t.co/ZHWaaMNlv4 pic.twitter.com/yKNLbUinIm

    — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) October 17, 2014

Via Wikipedia,

Ronald A. "Ron" Klain is an American lawyer and political operative best known for serving as Chief of Staff to two Vice Presidents - Al Gore (1995–1999) and Joseph Biden (2009–2011). He is an influential Democratic Party insider. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron White during the Court's 1987 and 1988 Terms and worked on Capitol Hill, where he was Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. He was portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the HBO film Recount depicting the tumult of the 2000 presidential election.

Early life
Klain was born on August 8, 1961 in Indianapolis and grew up in a Jewish home. He graduated from North Central High School[4] in 1979 and was on the school's Brain Game team, which finished as season runner-up.[citation needed] He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University in 1983. In 1987, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School,[4] where he won the Sears Prize for the highest grade point average in 1984-85 and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Career

Capitol Hill career
Klain's early experience on Capitol Hill included serving as Legislative Director for U.S. Representative Ed Markey. From 1989 to 1992, he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, overseeing the legal staff's work on matters of constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust law, and Supreme Court nominations. In 1995, Senator Tom Daschle appointed him the Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee.

Clinton administration
Klain joined the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992. He ultimately was involved in both of Bill Clinton's campaigns, oversaw Clinton's judicial nominations, and was General Counsel to Al Gore's recount committee in the 2000 election aftermath. Some published reports have given him credit for Clinton's "100,000 cops" proposal during the 1992 campaign; at a minimum, he worked closely with Clinton aide Bruce Reed in formulating it. In the White House, he was Associate Counsel to the President, directing judicial selection efforts, and led the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Klain left the judicial selection role in 1994 to become Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno. In 1995, he became Assistant to the President, and Chief of Staff and Counselor to Al Gore.

Gore campaign
During Klain's tenure as Gore's Chief of Staff, Gore consolidated his position as the likely Democratic nominee in 2000. Still, Klain was seen as too loyal to Clinton by some longtime Gore advisors. Feuding broke out between Clinton and Gore loyalists in the White House in 1999, and Klain was ousted by Gore campaign chairman Tony Coelho in August of that year. In October 1999, he joined the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. A year later, Klain returned to the Gore campaign, once Coelho was replaced by William M. Daley. Daley hired Klain for a senior position in the Gore campaign and then named him General Counsel of Gore's Recount Committee.

Legal career
In 1994, Time named Klain one of the "50 most promising leaders in America" under the age of 40. In 1999, Washingtonian magazine named him the top lawyer in Washington under the age of 40, and the American Bar Association’s Barrister magazine named him one of the top 20 young lawyers nationwide. The National Law Journal named him one of its Lawyers of the Year for 2000.

Lobbying
Klain helped Fannie Mae overcome "regulatory issues".

2004-2008
During the 2004 Presidential campaign, Klain worked as an adviser to Wesley Clark in the early primaries. Later, during the General Election, Klain was heavily involved behind the scenes in John Kerry's campaign and is widely credited for his role in preparing Senator Kerry for a strong performance in the debates against President George W. Bush, which gave Kerry a significant boost in the polls.[6] He then acted as an informal adviser to Evan Bayh, who is from Klain's home state of Indiana. Klain has also commented on matters of law and policy on televised programs such as the Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, Capital Report, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Crossfire.

In 2005, Klain left his partnership at O'Melveny & Myers to serve as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of a new investment firm, Revolution LLC, launched by AOL co-founder Steve Case.

Obama administration
On November 12, 2008, Roll Call announced that Klain had been chosen to serve as Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden, the same role he served for Gore. Klain had worked with Biden previously, having served as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary while Biden chaired that committee and assisted Biden's speechwriting team during the 1988 presidential campaign.

Klain was mentioned as a possible replacement for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, but opted to leave the White House for a position in the private sector in January 2011.

Klain apparently signed off on President Obama's support of a $535 million loan guarantee for now-defunct solar-panel company Solyndra. Despite concerns about whether the company was viable, Klain approved an Obama visit, stating, "The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few will be belly-up by election day 2012."

[flowers]

horrible.

[Cyber Liberty]

Bring on the Washington insiders!  I feel safer already!

[mountaineer]

Just what the heck does Nicole Lurie - the one who should have been spearheading the ebola response - do all day at HHS?

[Cyber Liberty]

Just what the heck does Nicole Lurie - the one who should have been spearheading the ebola response - do all day at HHS?

[massadvj]

President Ebola has appointed a political hack to be in charge of a possible public health crisis.  Everything the founders feared about big government is confirmed.

[Bigun]

President Ebola has appointed a political hack to be in charge of a possible public health crisis.  Everything the founders feared about big government is confirmed.

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[massadvj]

[truth_seeker]

Obama's policies should be on every ballot, including ranking this a political problem, not a medical problem.

The GOP can use that, to advantage.

[Relic]

Obama's policies should be on every ballot, including ranking this a political problem, not a medical problem.

The GOP can use that, to advantage.

That would be entirely too mean.
The GOP will sit quietly, and reap the benefits of not being Democrats.
The real question is, what will they do, once they have the House and the Senate. Because unless something incredible happens in the next 3 weeks, the Republicans are going to win big.

[mystery-ak]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-defends-ebola-czars-lack-of-medical-experience/article/2554951

White House defends Ebola czar's lack of medical experience
By Brian Hughes | October 17, 2014 | 1:58 pm



The White House hit back at Republican suggestions Friday that President Obama should have appointed an Ebola czar with more medical experience, calling Democratic insider Ron Klain the right person to navigate Washington’s bureaucratic maze.

Though the White House admitted that the former chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore is not an “Ebola expert,” they said he was an “implementation expert.”

“This is much broader than just a medical response," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest, calling Ebola efforts a “whole-government” response.

The White House even refused to call Klain a czar, the term used by most in Washington, instead labeling him an “Ebola response coordinator."

Republicans widely mocked the Obama appointment Friday, saying the president should have picked somebody with experience responding to infectious diseases. And they say Obama could have picked a less partisan figure.


By choosing Klain, Obama essentially signaled that the greatest hindrance to the Ebola response, in his opinion, is organizational issues, not medical capabilities.

Despite listening to GOP demands to appoint a czar, Obama still remains opposed to a travel ban on passengers from West Africa.

Earnest on Friday suggested that such a ban would cause passengers to lie about their travel histories, making the U.S. more susceptible to an Ebola outbreak.

[Relic]

To be fair, it's a legitimate point. If Klain surrounds himself with medical experts, it could be an effective combination.
But, knowing how dysfunctional, and hyperpolitical the Obama community organization syndicate is, I doubt it will work that way.

[GourmetDan]

...calling Ebola efforts a “whole-government” response.

I hope that's not code for something martial law or something...

[mystery-ak]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/17/white-house-ebola-czar-was-key-player-in-solyndra-scandal/?print=1

White House Ebola Czar Was ‘Key Player’ In Solyndra Scandal
Posted By Alex Griswold On 2:50 PM 10/17/2014

Ron Klain, the newly appointed White House Ebola response coordinator, was one of the senior White House officials who advised that President Obama should visit solar power company Solyndra in 2011, despite an auditor raising red flags about the company’s finances.

According to The Washington Post, Klain was one of the “key players” in the scandal while he worked for Vice President Joe Biden: “Ron Klain, then Biden’s chief of staff, dismissed auditor’s concerns about Solyndra’s solvency, reasoning that all innovative companies come with risk.”

Another Solyndra email, reported by Fox News, indicated that Biden’s office were all fans of Solyndra, and that the staff “about had an orgasm” at the prospect of an Energy Department loan.

Klain, a Democratic operative who also served as chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore, had a hand in pushing for President Obama’s visit to a Solyndra factory in California during the 2010 midterms. ”Sounds like there are some risk factors here — but that’s true of any innovative company that POTUS would visit,” Klain wrote in an email the day before. “It looks like it is OK to me, but if you feel otherwise, let me know.”

In another email to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, he again stood up for Solyndra. “The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few will be belly-up by election day 2012.”

According to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Klain will report to National Security Advisor Susan Rice and homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco.

[Machiavelli]

[mystery-ak]

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/10/17/white-house-new-ebola-czar-will-report-to-susan-rice-n1906621

White House: New Ebola Czar Will Report to Susan Rice
Katie Pavlich | Oct 17, 2014

Speaking from the White House Friday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said new Ebola Czar Ron Klain will report to former U.N. ambassador and current National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

"Mr. Klain will ultimately however report to Ms. Monoco [Homeland Security] and to National Security Advisor Susan Rice in this effort," Earnest said.

As a reminder, Susan Rice is the woman who went on five Sunday talk shows to lie about a YouTube video being responsible for the 9/11 attack in Benghazi. She is also the same person who said alleged Army deserter and Taliban sympathizer Bowe Bergdahl served with honor and distinction.

[mystery-ak]

You can't make this crap up...

[SPQR]

President Ebola has appointed a political hack to be in charge of a possible public health crisis.  Everything the founders feared about big government is confirmed.

The person should be a epidemiologist not a bureaucrat.Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans. They seek to reduce the risk and occurrence of negative health outcomes through research, community education, and health policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology

[andy58-in-nh]

Hmmm. Let's see: Klain is a Harvard lawyer with no real world experience and exquisite political connections.

It would appear that Obama has essentially appointed himself as Ebola Czar.

After six years, do you really have to ask why?