SWINE FLU: IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT!!!1!1!!

Yup -- the right-wingers known as the Founding Bloggers already know who's to blame:

If You Were Outraged By The Government's Response To Katrina...

...then your outrage, if genuine, should be approaching a steady simmer on the way to a full boil for the government’s slow response to the Swine Flu.

U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures...

It gets worse than that. Read the rest of the quote here.

That link goes to Instapundit. Here's the quote:

"U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn't learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until after Canadian officials did.... U.S. public health officials are still largely in the dark about what's happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized."

Of course, you should note that the Founding Bloggers want you to read "the rest of the quote," not the rest of the article it's quoted from. That article is from The Washington Post; it contains this explanation for why Canada's response was faster than that of the United States:

In recent years, Mexico has done extensive pandemic planning with Canada and developed a close relationship with the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. Tests on virus samples from the Mexican patients suggested the strain was different from this year's flu. So on Monday, Mexican officials sent lung and throat swabs to Canada to be characterized.

Gee, who was president of the United States "in recent years"? On whose watch did Mexico establish a faster information pipeline with Canada than with the U.S.?