When Sen. Bill Cassidy voted to confirm RFK, he did so with the expectation that he and other serious people would be able to contain the worst impulses of the anti-vaccine activist.…That illusion —to the extent that it still existed —was fully shattered Weds. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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We as a society really needs the Kennedy curse to kick in
Congress has been grossly negligent in protecting the American public. They all need to be voted out.
Bill Cassidy is a coward so nothing to be done.
So he FA, and now he's FO.
Cassidy's a fool.
Anyone who thought RFK Jr was being honest in his confirmation hearings was an idiot.
As is anyone who thinks this is still about politics. What Trump/RFK are doing to public health is immoral!
I agree. A normal DOJ would be prosecuting him for perjury.
I hate that so many of us are smarter than most people in congress.
That would be swell if Senator Cassidy (as a doctor, I really can’t use his medical title without throwing up in my mouth) was a serious person,but his support for Trump and his duck-and-cover approach to questions about voting for RFK Jr convinces me that he is not.Just another mouth at the trough.
I find that odd as every single other Prominent Kennedy has been silenced in one form or another. How is this the one that we have left?
Cassidy will have the deaths of innocents on his hands and I hope the family carries the shame for generations
We’re so over the whole “they thought they could contain” and “adults in the room” and all that crap. Everyone who bets on that loses. How easily people forget the house always wins, and the evil doers are the house.
Like Nazi germany- many business and political people thought they could contain the crazy - didn’t work
Well, then, Cassidy should force Kennedy to resign. It’s the only way. Kennedy must not supervise anything more important than the seals on the Aleutian Islands.
Cmon now, don't put Kennedy in charge of those, he'll kill one and strap it to his car
Very likely. Although the availability of roads on the Aleutian Islands might pose a problem for him to show off his prize.
Cassidy went against his own instincts and believed the BS Kennedy Jr was spewing. And why? Because he was afraid of Trump and MAGA.
You don't confirm a complete deranged fuck up like RFK, in hopes that someone else will do his job better than him! That's just fucking stupid. Bill Cassidy took an oath to FIRST DO NO HARM. His "party first" confirmation of RFK will KILL people. That, I believe, is the definition of HARM!
it amazes me how dems were so hoodwinked. Out here in the real world we knew they were all lying, that they would fuck us all over.
No dem voted to confirm RFJ jr.
you're right! I meant republicans
Conservatives in 1930s Germany thought they could keep Hitler in check until they found they couldn't. I know it's slightly different in that it's one department of government, but the principle abides. Fascists will not endure control, except from other Fascists with authority over them.
The man is a demon from hell, so no, he cannot be contained.
He's nothing but a grifter who profits from his antivaxxer bs. Of all the 4 Horseman Trump put in charge of our institutions, I'd say that this lying grifting idiot is going to endanger the most people.
This is wider than RFK, this is full-blown Trumpism GOP leaders have betrayed their oath of office Former Republican Veteran
virtually all nominees have already told us who they are and what they believe in their writings and public statements during their career up to that point. Anything they say contrary to that in a confirmation hearing is a lie.
The fault in the logic of people like Cassidy and Collin’s is they’re too cowardly and lazy to follow through with checking their crazy ass schemes.
We've turned out solid foundation into sand. National security, economy, emergency response, disease mitigation - we are one catastrophe away from anarchy.
RFK JR is the ghoulish face out front, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is being enacted in real time, chapter by chapter, page by page! They’re thrilled the distraction is working!
I’d conclude that and all the stupid bill shit he’s done, adds up to a big FU to Senator Cassidy. And if he had any balls, he haul his ass back in and begin the process to kick his ass to the curb for lying to Congress under 18 U.S.C. § 1001!! He falsely said tons of shit, to get confirmed.
Wish we could edit, or at least have a spell check that knew when I wanted to swear and wasn’t so damn PG rated!!
I’m so effing sick of these Congress people doing and voting for things they know are wrong, expecting they will never will be the last line of defense. It’s a trend we see over and over again - Republicans do and say horrible things with the expectation that someone else will fix it.
Kennedy is mentally ill. Perhaps the most irrational and biased person on the planet.
He must be living on another planet if he ever truly believed that. What leverage did he think he could exercise once he confirmed the man? Did he think he could have a reasoned conversation with a man who believes in conspiracy theories? He capitulated and persuaded his colleagues to do the same.
No one should be dumb enough to believe Cassidy and the rest of the Republicans didn't know or understand what they were doing. Fealty to Trump trumped every other consideration.
Screw everyone who voted yes
The idiocy of these old men in not recognizing liars and nutcases.
SEN BILL CASSIDY IS A GOD DAMN MORON! The man IS a brain worm. Also, him getting this position is the REAL reason Curb Your Enthusiasm ended. Larry David couldn’t STAND Cheryl Hines knowing she was married to him (just a hypothesis)
Cassidy is an idiot. Kennedy's plans were obvious.
Cassidy is not an idiot, he is a cowardly opportunist who put his career over the safety of the American public. He voted to confirm because he was afraid of being primaried by some MAGA nutcase...which is probably gonna happen anyway now that he is half-assedly trying to do damage control.
I agree that Cassidy is a cowardly opportunist, but given his training and responsibilities, his actions make him an idiot in my book. I sure would not want him as my doctor.
He was not making a decision based on his medical training and responsibilities. He was lying when he said he trusted RFK. He did what he perceived to be his best shot at reelection in a deep red state. He is far worse than an idiot, he knowingly put us in danger to save his job which is evil.
Senator Bill Cassidy MD (massive dickwad) thinking his self imposed greatness was more important than countless Americans being allowed to be healthy. How many will die? Those deaths are on him. History will remember.
there is no more American public health
He not only voted for them knowing he had to be contained. Several Senators now taking heat for their votes suggest they voted based on assurances from Cassidy
The egg sucking dog owner thought he could tell the dog to stop sucking eggs, and it would listen.
Ostensibly “normal” Republicans’ faith that they control Trump and not vice versa is leading the country to ruin. Enabled by Democrats’ leadership believing the same.
Seems to be a pattern among the Rs….
I'm just a 70 year old retiree who can read and understand English. That's all the more qualified a person needs to be to know from the get go that RFK Jr was a complete nutter totally detached from reality and nothing like a medical expert. The GOP could care less about competence or governing.
They thought they could control the first monster they built in 2016. Now, in the sequel, they’ve given him playmates from the lab — thinking appeasement equals control. Soon, some will learn they’ve been cast as “enemies of the people” by MAGA’s own Cassandra.
If he was a serious person, he wouldn't have voted to confirm. He is a spineless coward
Sen Cassidy and his friends who voted for this idiot are all opportunistic cowards scared of the 🤡 shadow.
How naive, it’s like he didn’t listen to the words they were saying
