First off, we have David Vitter, congressimbecile from Louisiana.  Vitter is asking members of congress to “block any additional funding to combat Ebola until the Obama administration more clearly details its plans to stop the deadly outbreak.”

The reason that Vitter wants a a detailed plan?

“Instead of using powers given to him, the President is requesting $1 billion for a plan that has not been presented to members of Congress, focuses on Africa, and largely ignores our own borders,” he wrote.

Okay, but when the President tries to use his powers, y’all call for his impeachment so, you know, this kinda looks like a trap to me.

And Vitter opposes fighting Ebola at the source.  It would be much smarter to wait until we’re fighting it in Baton Rouge.  Or freekin Dallas!

And then we have Erick Erickson, the conservative commentator who says that the fault for the spread of Ebola lies not with Republicans in congress who cut funds for research but at the true source — fat lesbians.

Yep – not a typo – fat lesbians.

Erickson pooh-poohs the budget cuts to agencies like the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control. All the evidence you need that the agencies have plenty of cash, he argues, is in some of the research items they’ve funded.

Erickson’s post, titled “Fat Lesbians Got All the Ebola Dollars, But Blame the GOP,” cites an NIH-funded study examining why lesbians confront higher rates of obesity; the research is in line with other demographic studies examining public health challenges, but Erickson seized on the study to wage a demagogic attack on the agency for frivolously “studying the propensity of lesbians to be fat.” He also attacked CDC research on gun violence and smoking cessation.

Congratulations, Erick!  You keep the “crazy homophobe with severely limited IQ points” title.  And that, my friend, is quite an accomplishment considering the conservative competition.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up!