This deceitful, ignorant editorial in today's New York Times is remarkable not only because they have the facts wrong about the GOP cutting monies from the stimulus bill for flu preparedness, but also because the person and party responsible for removing the measure was none other than New York's senior Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer!Here's Schumer talking about flu money in the stim bill: "All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they're all out," Schumer said. Here's the accusation: The scramble to keep up with the new flu strain has underscored how wrong some Republicans were to eliminate $870 million for pandemic flu preparedness from the stimulus package on the grounds that it was not relevant to creating jobs or stimulating the economy. President Obama was wise to come back with a request for $1.5 billion to supplement medication stockpiles, develop a vaccine,...(Read Full Post)