The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.
I begrudgingly respect Mitch McConnell for being the only dissenter, both here and with Tulsi Gabbard.
He’s still a piece of shit and I’d happily piss on his grave but he’s doing better than the rest of them in the face of the coup.
Good chance he wouldn’t have dissented if Trump’s picks weren’t going to pass without his vote.
Oh I have ZERO doubt
He’s always been a fuckin worm who’s sold out my mountains and the people who worked them.
They ARE the coup.
Nah, he’s just at the end of his career and is no longer concerned with reelection while also 100% confident in the vote passing without his vote. He has the seniority to be allowed to have a “conscience vote” that the other members can’t have.
I can believe that about Gabbard, but McConnell had polio himself. It’s always different for Republicans if it’s about them.
Solid point. It is always the same story: the only moral abortion is mine, gay marriage is evil until my son/daughter comes out, get rid of all government programs except the one that benefits me, don’t vote against the party unless you have a personal reason not to.
I always think of Cheney suddenly not being a homophobe after his daughter came out.