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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Staffer: "Before Obamacare, there had never been a confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S."
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-staffer-tweets-deletes-ebola-obamacare-connection/Nick Muzin, a senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Senator Ted Cruz, is getting lots of attention on social media tonight for this tweet he sent out connecting Obamacare and Ebola:
Hekate
(90,708 posts)I'm going to end up hating Ted Cruz as much as Dubya if this keeps up.
Wella
(1,827 posts)So?
Johonny
(20,851 posts)cause meet effect Ted Cruz style.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)That has to be one of the stupidest statements about Ebola that I have heard so far.
pnwmom
(108,979 posts)It could cause millions of Cruz's idiot fans to blame Obamacare for Ebola.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)claiming Obamacare caused Ebola.
Just when I think they couldn't possibly get more ridiculous...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Also before Obamacare Texas did not have a prick named Ted Cruz as a senator.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)Martin Eden
(12,869 posts)I'm pretty sure that also proves that Cruz caused Benghazi.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)What are the qualifications to get hired by Teddy Boy? "Stand strong." Even if you're wrong. "STAND STRONG." PS. Don't blink either.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Something about "birds of a feather"??
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)With his head. Did I say that?
ashling
(25,771 posts)bowling on the internet with Ted head?
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Nothing has to make any sense when you consider the idiots he is sending this out to.
Journeyman
(15,035 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)msongs
(67,413 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Since its passage, no more had been sent there.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Clearly, Ted Cruz is responsible for internet porn.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)There also wasn't ebola in the US before the new iPhone. We should totally get rid of all new iPhones.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Nitram
(22,803 posts)There had never been a catastrophic terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
Nitram
(22,803 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)There had never been a terrorist attack on the Canadian Parliament. Just what has he been plotting for this country now that he has been forced to renounce his Canadian citizenship?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)There had never been a case of ebola in Texas, either.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)ACA also. Texas and some other states have sent us some of the dumbest congress people that have ever existed in our country before now. I am from MN and that includes our district that sent Bachmann. Just part of the dumbing down of America.
still_one
(92,204 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)See? I can play this game too.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)The Orioles never played the Royals in the post season.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Tweet deleted.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)Obamacare clearly must have caused an operating system upgrade.
When you don't "believe" in science, anything is possible.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)niyad
(113,323 posts)sammy750
(165 posts)This nation was safe before Senator Cruz moved to the USA from Canada. He ran away from his past coming to the USA. Many Republicans move around so the voters don't know the real past of Republicans. We have the felon, Gov. Scott of FL, moved from TX to FL to win. We have a 2 times rapist that move from OH to FL to Idaho and won as state senator there. Now we have Brown in NH, moved to try to win there. They all are running from their past, not wanting the voters to know the real individual.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)US Senator?....or the true head of ISIL?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)3,000 people had never died in a single terrorist attack on American soil.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)And before the advent of airplanes there were no airplane crashes... before the automobile was invented, there were zero automobile fatalities. Here is how to counter this tweet.... After Obamacare started, poor people can now get healthcare... After Obamacare started pre-existing patients can now get healthcare, After Obamacare started, health kids check-up are free.......and on and on...
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Draw your own conclusions.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Discovery
AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States.[25] The initial cases were a cluster of injecting drug users and homosexual men with no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare opportunistic infection that was known to occur in people with very compromised immune systems.[186] Soon thereafter, an unexpected number of gay men developed a previously rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).[187][188] Many more cases of PCP and KS emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak.
In the early days, the CDC did not have an official name for the disease, often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus.[190][191] They also used Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981.[192] At one point, the CDC coined the phrase "the 4H disease", since the syndrome seemed to affect Haitians, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users.[193] In the general press, the term "GRID", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined.[194] However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community,[192] it was realized that the term GRID was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.[195] By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS.[196]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Discovery
Keep talking, Nick... the Democrats will thank you for it.
Marr
(20,317 posts)Welcome back to Causal Connection Theater!
logosoco
(3,208 posts)Obamacare is insurance. Insurance companies are trying to kill people with things like ebola so they won't have to provide health care coverage.
But wait.....if they don't have a living subscriber, they won't be able to collect premiums.
So, yeah this train of thought is a true train wreck no matter how you travel it.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)Jacoby365
(451 posts)Pro-lifers Ted Cruz and Nick Muzin think that is a BAD thing.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)that's the difference
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)there were no auto accidents.
The English language lacks words for this kind of idiocy.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)ignorant, or willfully ignorant as the pathetic fools who support these cretins. They insult my intelligence every single day. Well, asshole, there was never a case of Ebola in Texas before Cruz was elected, so there.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Before Obamacare, whooping cough wasn't occurring as frequently in California. (Anti-vaccination fears have led to a shocking increase in the number of pertussis cases in California.)
Before Obamacare, no gunman had ever shot up the Canadian Parliament. And Obamacare has never apologized to the Canadian government or people.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Textbook case, ladies and gentleman.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)The United States of America actually had a surgeon General.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)Louis Gohmert. And in order to get such a job you have to be stupid and prove it.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)The proof of his total jack-assedness is hiring such a stupid staffer who would make such a ludicrous, half-witted statement.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)What's his point?
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)we haven't had a single problem with hippopotamuses in our back yard!
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)aliens have stopped abducting Americans and inserting flying saucers in their rectums.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)But if so, this just proves Repukes also suck at humor.
progree
(10,908 posts)"he" being Alaska's lone U.S. House representative, Don Young (R)
Source: Young apologizes at AFN for pain caused by suicide comments, Alaska Dispatch News
http://www.adn.com/article/20141024/young-apologizes-afn-pain-caused-suicide-comments
Anyway, another one to add to the list of "before X, there wasn't Y" statements. Sadly this one is a real statement, I couldn't make it up even if I ingested some funny mushrooms.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)But what do I know?
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)we failed to make Sarah Palin Veep.