On CNN, host Candy Crowley on Sunday interviewed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and asked about how the sequester hurt funding for the Centers for Disease Control and how the National Rifle Association’s opposition to President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, also hurt the response to the Ebola virus.
Republicans in the Senate had blocked the appointment of Dr. Vivek Murthy and Cruz still points to President Obama as the problem.
“We haven’t had a Surgeon General — who is the nation’s leading public health official, at least the voice of it — for a year. Some Democrats and some Republicans had opposed the particular surgeon general the president had nominated. Do you think it would have helped,” Crowley remarked.
“Of course we should have a surgeon general in place,” Cruz said.. “And we don’t have one because President Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist.”
“And a doctor,” Crowley said.
Cruz said that while it’s true Murphy is a doctor, he’s also a “crusader against second amendment rights.”
The NRA, the nation’s largest gun rights lobby, has continually refused to allow any measures to implement gun sense laws even to the point of leaving this country without a surgeon general — but it’s Obama’s fault somehow.
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