THE DAY AFTER

Theater Of The Absurd aka Senate Democrats

I really do try to not disparage others but when others disparage themselves — well it ain’t my fault.

Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee held the first hearing on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Kennedy was brilliant, well versed, and experienced in his command of the many functions of DHHS. For the Democrat’s attempting to keep him out of that office which resides in one of the ugliest buildings in Washington, D.C. , it was a tour de force performance in bad manners, lack of wisdom, and a basic lack of understanding about every topic that they introduced.

While the majority of the Democrat committee members who attempted to find a crack in the armor of RFK Jr. were just inept, two stood out as the clear reason for why some people should never hold positions of responsibility. Elizabeth Warren (D) MA and Bernie Sanders (I) VT also demonstrated why the mental health profession is grossly undervalued. This does not let their colleagues off the hook.

Here is how all of the hearing for nominees deemed “controversial” have gone. While the Republican members generally present clearly biased support for those candidates they do get their facts right. At the same time the democrat members present behavior that is somewhere on the spectrum from openly insulting to hysterical screams of manufactured faults and failures in response to absurd hypotheticals such as: ‘Mr. Kennedy, do you promise not to gut Medicaid if you are confirmed? Yes or NO?!’ When Mr. Kennedy tried to explain that it was Congresses prerogative to fund or not fund any agency and not the prerogative of the Secretary the screaming to prevent that answer from being heard became louder and more hysterical.

Perhaps the poster child for all of this Democrat party hysteria was Elizabeth Warren who demanded “loudly” that Kennedy never take any money in ‘any way, shape or form from the pharmaceutical industry while you are in office or for four years after you leave office.’ It was an almost reasonable question with the exception that it would prevent him from doing what he has earned a reputation doing — SUING pharmaceutical companies. Why is that so important to Elizabeth Warren? Read on.

The issue of taking money from those you regulate is a serious one. In simple terms as all such transactions should be described — it’s a bribe. Money given to political candidates or government office holders always has an expectation attached. However, winning a settlement from a lawsuit is not the same as taking a campaign contribution. And therein lies the difference between Robert Kennedy Jr. and Elizabeth Warren. Kennedy earned money from suing members of the pharmaceutical industry while Elizabeth Warren AND Bernie Sanders both took money from the members of the pharmaceutical industry in the form of campaign contributions as reported by Opensecrets.org in 2020.

I wonder, what those donors expected to receive in return.

To be sure both democrats and Republicans have taken money from the members of the Pharmaceutical industry and so they fake outage which wraps around the false narrative that the pharmaceutical industry was giving money to to RFK Jr. It is a wee, tad bit, silly ploy.

In that same exchange Warren read a litany of horrible things that RFK Jr. would be able to do as Sec. DHHS that would be to his financial benefit while or after he was in office. Things like, adding vaccines to or removing them from the childhood vaccine schedule, unduly influencing the Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices, deciding which drugs can receive approvals and which cannot, yada, yada, yada, yada. In point of fact this is what we have come to realize is the standard democrat tactic of fear mongering by accusing your political opponent of wanting to do what they have already done. Each one of things that Warren warned us that Kennedy would do as Sec. DHHS had already been done by Xavier Becera’s CDC and FDA during the Biden years. The same years in which OpenSecrets reported more than $2M was received by Sanders and Warren from the pharmaceutical industry.

The fear that Warren and Sanders showed at the thought of losing all their power and unseemly campaign contributions remind me of this Toiken character:

These hearings are a self-serving sham and an embarrassment to the Nation.

But more importantly, I wonder how the voters of Massachusetts and Vermont are not so embarrassed by the antics of their Senior Senators that they can no longer look themselves in the mirror without experiencing deep shame. It is a mystery.

I don’t agree with RFK Jr. on everything at all but I would stand side by side with him when it comes to the health of the nation and most importantly our children.

We need to chose wisely and demand better of the people we choose to represent us. In my view we have chosen wisely in selecting Donald J. Trump to lead the nation and he has chosen wisely in asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Make America Healthy Again. Our job is stop accepting the status quo from what can be be described at least up until November 5, 2024 as a one sided political class.


Union, Kentucky

30 January 2025