Kennedy worship in 2025 is an embarrassment that could get children killed
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It’s absolutely dismaying to see a generally good senator seriously considering voting for a child-killing lunatic to head the Health and Human Services because of family connections:
Wanted to share some information on the RFK Jr. nomination before the Senate.
It probably won’t surprise you that RFK Jr., along with Tulsi Gabbard, are among the few Trump nominees who might actually not get confirmed. But I’m told that one senator who Democratic senators and health care advocates have real concerns about is none other than Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). To be clear, Whitehouse isn’t confirmed as voting for Kennedy. But he appears to be actively considering it. (Ed Note: WTF?)
Why? I’m told that there appear to be two reasons: One is that Whitehouse and Kennedy are personal friends. They were law school roommates at UVA and that seems to have been the beginning of a lifelong friendship. There are also specific issues with Rhode Island’s health care system that apparently need regulatory flexibility from HHS. That seems to be a real issue. But it hasn’t been enough of an issue to shift the state’s senior senator, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), who remains firmly opposed to Kennedy’s nomination.
Whitehouse isn’t the only Democratic senator not firmly locked down. There are also concerns about John Fetterman (D-PA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). But observers seem fairly confident that both will oppose Kennedy.
Whitehouse is the question mark.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? Cabinet positions are not a vehicle to do favors for your old college chums. Take him out for scrod the next time he’s in the area or send him some HGH with a card or something.
I have never understood Kennedy worship, but to see multiple Democratic senators play footise with this guy is a long overdue sign that it needs to end:
Top advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are battling over how aggressively to target vaccines during his first days as the nation’s health secretary, amid fears of a political backlash that could quickly swamp his agenda and derail his relationship with President Donald Trump.
The internal debate has pitted Kennedy’s closest and most strident anti-vaccine allies against a separate faction of advisers and Trump officials, slowing efforts to finalize his policy plans, according to five people with knowledge of the deliberations who were granted anonymity because the discussions are private.
“The people he really trusts are people that obviously are trying to execute a plan to totally take away vaccines,” said one of the people with knowledge of the discussions. “The risk of overreach, I don’t think is zero.”
Within Kennedy’s orbit, there’s little question that he will alter the federal government’s posture toward vaccines — a shift public health experts warn will undermine Americans’ confidence in the shots and open the door to a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. Before Trump named him to lead the government’s health agencies, Kennedy chaired a group that questioned the safety of widely accepted vaccines.
You vote to confirm this guy, every kid who gets sick or dies because of him hangs 100% on you, and I don’t want to hear about how his platitudes about public health establishment reminds you of some random grievance he’s not actually going to address anyway. And LBJ was the 60s president who mattered, JFK Jr. gave some nice-sounding speeches and slept with a lot of 19-year-olds.