Answer: Just another ‘Bam scandal.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has officially called on the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general to investigate a suspicious $433 million no-bid contract for a dubious smallpox vaccine.
Frankly, just about everything connected with this one smells.
The contract was awarded to Siga Technologies, a New York-based company whose principal investor is megabillionaire — and key Democratic moneyman — Ron Perelman.
Its board includes another key Democratic figure: Andy Stern, former head of the powerful SEIU union — who, it’s been reported, was given stock options that would dramatically increase in value if Siga won the contract.
No wonder Stern likes the Chinese model so much. It’s just another form of crony fascism.
Siga has been hired to provide 1.7 million doses of its smallpox vaccine for the Strategic National Stockpile.
The vaccine is more expensive than the one currently in use and has never been tested on humans. But that’s fine with the Obama regime.
Then there’s the way Siga actually got the contract: It won a competitive bid, even though the winner was required to be a small business — unlike Siga.
When another bidder, a legitimate small business, complained, HHS reopened the process — but barred any company but Siga from bidding.
Eventually, the bid was canceled, and Siga was simply asked to submit a proposal, which was accepted.
Bada boom, bada bing, a Democrat donor and a Big Labor boss get a big payoff, and you, dear taxpayer, get screwed.
But wait — didn’t this president just, today, deliver a speech decrying how unfair today’s America is? Hm, I guess he was right.
How a story like this falls on deaf ears is astounding.
Did you hear Albert Pujols is considering going to the Marlins?
The amount of misinformation going on regarding this contract is astounding. First of Siga’s St-246 is not a vaccine, it is an antiviral. There is a major difference. If you are infected with smallpox, become symptomatic, and try to treat with vaccine, you are dead meat. If you use St-246 in time, you will live…. IT IS A REVOLUTIONARY DRUG AND A CURE FOR SMALLPOX (VARIOLA) and all other orthopox infections. Secondly, while the disease was eradicated from in the 1980’s by the World Health Organization, it IS still a threat because of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, is not science fiction. Do the research and you’ll see for yourself that the genome for variola (smallpox) is readily available in the public domain and can be created in a laboratory setting. This threat is real as well as Siga’s drug. It is a shame to see the facts getting lost in the political rhetoric. PS, I am not an Obama supporter, in fact I would love to see him replaced in the next election.