You might not know this, but before being appointed as head of the Centers for Disease Control Tom Frieden was chief health officer for Mike Bloomberg in New York City. Some of his greatest hits there were crusades against trans-fats and salt in restaurants.

Little surprise, then, that a nanny-state socialist bent on protecting you from eating junk food is out of his depth when it comes to actual health crises.

Here’s Rep. Steve Scalise asking a whole lot of questions most of us would feel better having answers to, and Frieden offering a series of pablum responses.