Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took a break from
lampooning the ISIS campaign yesterday to demand
an Ebola czar for the crisis that
kinda sorta isn’t:
From spending time in Arizona, my constituents are not
comforted. There has to be more reassurance given to them. I would
say that we don’t know exactly who’s in charge. There has to be
some kind of czar.
Does McCain suffer from amnesia, myopia, or just good
old-fashioned hypocrisy? Once upon a time, he was less enthusiastic
about the Obama administration’s habit of appointing czars. In 2009
he tweeted that
“Obama has more czars than the Romanovs—who ruled Russia for 3
centuries. Romanovs 18, cyberczar makes 20.”
But perhaps because he thinks—incorrectly—that
the world is now “more
dangerous and more unstable” under the Obama administration,
McCain is far more sanguine about appointing officials to handle
everything under the Sun Czar.
He isn’t alone in his blustering. Other Republicans, such as
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), have also
come out in favor of putting an unelected appointee in charge
of the crisis.
McCain has
never seen a war he didn’t like. He also hasn’t seen an issue
that couldn’t be construed as a national security threat.
Seriously, where’s the risk
assessment czar when you need one?
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