THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Ebola Strikes NYC We have a new case of Ebola in America, this time in New York City.  Are we doing enough to make sure that Ebola doesn't come to the United States and doesn't spread among the population?  Clearly not. The government has been wrong time and time again when it comes to Ebola. Obama initially promised that we were working with African countries to make sure that someone with the virus couldn't make it to the United States.  Clearly that didn't work, as Thomas Eric Duncan made his way into the United States from Liberia with the virus. CDC Director Tom Frieden said we didn't need special hospital rooms to treat Ebola patients.  Now we know that's not the case, seeing as two nurses in Dallas were infected while treating an Ebola patient. Now Ebola finds itself in New York City. In the 4th confirmed case of Ebola in the United States, a doctor who was caring for Ebola patients in West Africa returned to New York City and has now tested positive for the virus. Craig Spencer is a 33-year-old New York City physician who had recently returned from Guinea working with Doctors Without Borders.  He returned to the United States a week ago, traveling through Europe (Brussels) after spending a few days.  He made his way back into the United States through JFK, which is one of the airports with the enhanced Ebola screening.  Spencer passed all of the layers of screening. Since returning to the United States on October 17th, Spencer had close contact with four people – his fiancee, two friends and a cabdriver.  The fiancee and friends are now in quarantine, though showing no signs of symptoms.  He began showing symptoms of a fever and gastrointestinal problems on Thursday morning.  After quarantining himself in his Manhattan apartment, he was taken in an exposure suit to Bellevue Hospital Center where he tested positive for the virus.  A team of CDC specialists from Atlanta has been deployed to the hospital. But alarming the public even further is the fact that the night before Spencer tested positive for the virus, he used the NYC subway system to go to a bowling alley and then took a cab home.  City officials are now using his MetroCard to trace when and where he traveled on public transportation to determine if anyone else is at risk of contracting the virus.  The bowling alley is closed today. The difficulty is that it's hard to trust the government in knowing how long the public may be at risk.  We were told the incubation period for Ebola was 21 days, but the World Health Organization recently changed it to 42 days.  The death rate has also risen from 50% to 70% for this recent outbreak.  The fact that things keep changing makes people nervous. Where is the administration's new Ebola czar to calm our nerves?  Apparently that's not his role.  He's been described as, “Klain is not Obama’s Ebola communicator, but rather a fixer, working to leave his footprints inside the bureaucracy and not in the public consciousness.”  It's amazing that the administration still refuses to entertain the idea of a travel ban on West Africa.  If anything, Spencer and others returning from the region should be quarantined upon returning home to the United States until the incubation period has passed. Pointing Fingers The election is less than two weeks away, but Democrats are already starting to point fingers.  This is because the GOP still has a chance of taking the Senate, sending the Democrats into the minority in both the House and Senate. The preemptive finger pointing is taking place between leadership, candidates and liberal organizations. But no one has received as much direct fire as the White House. Bloomberg reports that the White House is being accused of “near-political malpractice,” making basic missteps in this campaign.  As a result, it is easy for vulnerable Democrats to use the White House as a scapegoat, should they fail on November 4th. From Ebola, to ISIS, to the border crisis, to the Secret Service scandal, Obama's incompetence over the last few months alone is enough for Americans to believe that it's time for things to change in Washington. Source: Bloomberg