On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced advertisements claiming House Republicans cut funding for Ebola research while "protecting tax breaks for special interests." But there's only one problem, as the National Review's Jim Geraghty observed. In January, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill that gave the CDC a whopping 8.2 percent budget increase for fiscal year 2014.
But according to Democrats, mean, evil Republicans cut the CDC's funding. Geraghty notes those evil, miserly Republicans barely passed the measure by a 376-5 vote. And as we reported earlier today, the NIH announced the trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine based on a chimpanzee “cold” virus in August.
As it turns out, it was the Senate -- controlled by Democrats -- who refused to consider a House bill to fund the NIH during the partial government shutdown last year. That shutdown took place when Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Republicans it would be his way or the highway on Obamacare spending. Reid lashed out when asked by CNN's Dana Bash why he wouldn't fund a measure to help children with cancer.
"Why would we want to do that?" Reid asked in response. "I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. To have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless."
Now Democrats are running ads attempting to rewrite history in a desperate attempt to politicize the Ebola crisis. Worse yet, Townhall political editor Guy Benson said the ad claiming that GOP cuts "kill" Americans "features footage of Africans dying of Ebola."
"Just when you think the Dems can't get any lower, here they come," one person said. "They have no morals at all."
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