Obama's Disastrous Ebola Czar - Center for Security Policy

The missteps and dissembling of the Obama administration in contending with the Ebola epidemic is sharply eroding whatever confidence the public still reposes in the President.

Now, as Andrew McCarthy notes at National Review Online, Mr. Obama has tapped Ron Klain as his Ebola “czar” – even though Klain is certain to mismanage it and lie about the consequences.

After all, Klain brought us the ultimate example of crony capitalism: a black hole for taxpayers called Solyndra. First, he got a half-a-billion dollar government investment in an Obama contributor’s failing solar panel business, then repeatedly obscured its incipient bankruptcy through the 2012 election.

Ebola is not just another political crisis for Team Obama and the President’s party. Given the immense stakes, we require, and deserve, competent crisis management – and the truth.