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The Democrats are trying to tie Ebola to the Republicans.

This is a political season, so this is not surprising.

The theory goes that because Republicans want to cut spending, they have cut critical resources that could have gone to pay for an Ebola vaccine.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) director even directly said that if it werent for budget cuts, we wouldnt be having this Ebola problem.

Democrats, more broadly, have been blaming the sequester on Republicans, and they are making the point that if there had been no sequester, there would have been ample resources to combat Ebola.

There are several problems with this theory.

First, the sequester was Obamas idea. He pushed it because he didnt want to make entitlement cuts.

Second, the president never asked directly for an Ebola supplemental or anything close to it. Had he said: I need $2 billion to deal with Ebola, he would have some ground to stand on.

But he could never quite tear himself away from the golf course to spend any time worrying about Ebola. He never requested a supplemental to pay for Ebola spending. He never asked Congress for any help on Ebola.

Third, the Republicans wanted to cut spending because the president, when the Democrats controlled the Congress, went on a spending binge, which squandered a trillion dollars of taxpayer money. Remember Solyndra?

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How Democrats are playing politics with Ebola