They need to replace this talking heaD at the cdc first....Why are so many of Obamas " appointees " so inept....It's really astounding

@redneck royWhy did Obama ever nominate someone who is so young that he has not had time to build a distinguished medical career? Surgeon general appointments are for great doctors, not those who show promise of one day becoming great. It appears that the only reason Murthy was considered is his political support for Obama and left-wing causes. In 2008 he founded the group “Doctors for Obama” to help elect the president. After Obama’s election, Murthy renamed the group “Doctors for America” and supported massively expanding the federal government’s role in healthcare, and what eventually became the Affordable Care Act.

if he is a bad selection - then he should have his hearing and be refused; bu to refuse to go through the process and pass up an opportunity to show why he is not qualified is actually more telling on congress than it is on him.

All of obamas appointees have been political favors .... Hence why so many have been failures...
CDC
Va
Healthcare.gov
IRSDo I need to go on

@macdaddy: Please note the following failed nomination by GWB to place Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court. You will see both Democrats and Republicans opposed her. Additionally she had little practical experience in litigation and just about zero knowledge of constitutional law to have justified such a nomination.www.nbcnews.com/id/9 837151/ns/us_news-th e_changing_court/t/m iers-withdraws-
You know MD I don't go tit for tat on politics anymore. But some of the statements you make are astounding. You make it sound like President Obama is acting in a way no other president has done in history. The wonder is you continue to make these absolute statements without benefit of any research backing it up. The fact of the matter is the majority of nominations of ANY president is tied to politics one way or another. Another case in point, GWB selection of former FEMA director Michael Brown. During the hurricane Katrina crisis, it was revealed Brown had very little practical experience in disaster management. So why was he there? Politics.

And yet you Libs somehow want to tie EVERYTHIBG back to GWB....Spin..... Spin spinLet him go..... And when this nightmare called Obama is gone I will let him go.....My God man, why is EVERY failure of Obama compared to failures of GWB....Can you not agree that the above appointees have been disasters ???

@macdaddy: I only mention GWB because he is the most recent former president. I could have gone back to George Washington.*Edit*Secondly one of the many reasons some don't respond to political post anymore is because of labeling. How do you know I'm a "lib"?

Yeah ok

I just love Redneck Roy & rocket !!!!!!! Thanks you 2 for being smart & for the fact finding you do .I would love MD to explain the definition of LIB

@bbk: Thanks for the kind words bbk.

@bbk: i dont respond to you any more...take my advice from last week..... pleaseRocket....you're a lib and I am a repub.......what else is there to say

@redneck roy: Why didnt the Dems do that with Obamacare in the first place...No they changed the Senate rules for simple majority vote, because they could not reach the needed votes.All Politics.

@macdaddy: I don't know about letting him go...We have been given just reasons to bring his sorry excuse for a President up again and again to make excuses for just about any mistake the next President will make.

That is true......The damage will last years unfortunately

@macdaddy: Hmmmm...If you are a "Repub", that should make Rocket a "Dem" to you, right?So, if you label Rocket a "Lib", that would make you a "Con", no?