Posted on 01/29/2025 5:53:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was thought to be open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, now says the nominee is in serious trouble after his rocky confirmation hearing.
“I don’t think it went well for him today. I don’t think that was a good one,” he said after Kennedy sparred with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee over his past statements and stance on vaccines.
Fetterman said after the bruising hearing that he thinks Kennedy’s nomination may be “moot.”
“It’s moot,” he said when asked if he’s still open to voting for Kennedy. “I’m not really sure how much support’s going to emerge after that.”
The Pennsylvania Democrat noted that he’s met with Kennedy twice already.
“I think we can all agree that was really a difficult performance,” he said. “I’m not sure he’ll even make it out of the committee.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), one of the Democrats who grilled Kennedy at his hearing Wednesday, asked him pointedly about his comments on a podcast that exposure to pesticides could be causing more children to identify as transgender.
Kennedy acknowledged under Bennet’s cross-examination that he “probably did say” that Lyme Disease was a militarily-engineered bioweapon.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), meanwhile, tried to pin down Kennedy on his past views and statements on vaccines in a combative back-and-forth.
“You have a history of trying to take vaccines away from people,” Wyden told him.
RFJ, Jr.’s nomination will be voted on by the Senate Finance Committee, but before that happens, he will appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for a second round of questioning Thursday.
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Yes, was it not Hussein who started all this “czar” stuff?
Lyme disease is a militarily engineered bio weapon. 🙄
...the supercilious warbling witch!
They always “make it out of committee” - but it could be with a positive recommendation (majority in favor), neutral recommendation (tie vote), or negative recommendation (majority against) to the full Senate.
Yup, I don’t care what side of the Uniparty aisle they’re on, either.
He may be part of the problem.Remember,Noone becomes senate majority leader that is not controlled
...”In the final days, people will indifferent to their salvation” - St. Spyridon of Trimythous
Adjourn Congress. Make the recess appointments.
Uniparty is all democrats plus most of the “republican leadership”
The only ones that don’t want him are the ones who are in bed with big pharma
you are correct
“republican leadership” is an oxymoron.
like demons being exorcised
You’re right. Assuming RFK Jr stays in his lane, he might produce some good policies that allows Americans to maintain their health through knowledge and not pharmaceuticals, which is infinitely more valuable.
But that’s not good for the bottom line.
It actually looks like it was the flaming Socialist Democrat FDR.
| President | Party | In office | Number of czar titles | Number of appointees | Appointees not confirmed by Senate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 1933–1945 | 11 | 19 | 18 |
| Harry S. Truman | 1945–1953 | 6 | 5 | ||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | 1953–1961 | 1 | 0 | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Democratic | 1963–1969 | 3 | 1 | |
| Richard Nixon | Republican | 1969–1974 | 3 | 5 | |
| Gerald Ford | 1974–1977 | 2 | |||
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 1977–1981 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Ronald Reagan | Republican | 1981–1989 | 1 | ||
| George H. W. Bush | 1989–1993 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Bill Clinton | Democratic | 1993–2001 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| George W. Bush | Republican | 2001–2009 | 33 | 49 | 28 |
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 2009–2017 | 38 | 50 | 39 |
| Donald Trump | Republican | 2017–2021; 2025–present | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Joe Biden | Democratic | 2021–2025 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
Fake Fetterman pushes fake news, don’t be deceived by his political maneuvering.
He doesn’t need to get confirmed. Just give him a West Wing office with a compliant secretary and the same work will get done.
Some could have concerns over things like this:
RFK Jr praised China’s ‘organ harvesting’ threats to meet climate goals https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236805/posts
RFK, Jr.: Climate Skeptics ‘Should Be at the Hague with All the Other War Criminals’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206882/posts
RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211190/posts
RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants To Jail His Political Opponents https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206573/posts
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509601/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr. Blames Reagan For 9/11 [for rolling back CAFE standards in 1986] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855875/posts
RFK Jr. spreads blame for environmental woes in New Bedford speech https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913559/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2479527/posts
RFK, Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243628/posts
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187998/posts
Watch RFK, Jr. lose it at climate change march when confronted about his hypocrisy https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206578/posts
Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120692/posts
RFK Jr. Slams “Right-Wing Control of American Media” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967445/posts
RFK Jr: Right-Wing Controls American Media, Fox News Has Divided US to a Point not Seen Since Civil War https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967311/posts
RFK jr: Sen. Inhofe is a “Call Girl” for Big Oil (But it’s OK to say it, he’s a Democrat after all) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855976/posts
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808401/posts
RFK Jr. Claims Air America Was More Popular Than Conservative Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740193/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party (Video) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606809/posts
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446226/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr.: right-wing hosts spread hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271218/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Innocent ACORN Defrauded by ACORN Workers https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109548/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘There Is No Liberal Media’(video barf!) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021728/posts
Kennedy Calls Skeptical Politicians ‘Traitors’ and ‘Corporate Toadies’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864440/posts
RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864945/posts
Video: Stossel Takes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On For Traitor Remark https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864510/posts
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863207/posts
RFK (Robberbaron F. Kennedy) Jr. vs. Mike Gallagher on Energy Independence https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033812/posts
The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644744/posts
RFK Jr.: Bush, Barbour to Blame for Katrina https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473838/posts
RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655920/posts
Flashback - Palin’s Big Oil infatuation [End of snow forever in DC] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387273/posts
RFK Jr says Donald Trump has ‘discredited the American experiment’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903551/Robert-Kennedy-Jr-says-Donald-Trump-discredited-American-experiment.html
By the way, here’s what you said about him yourself, and I doubt you are “in bed with big pharma”: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4247157/replies?c=6
Sorry, I didn’t strip the dead links.
He did fine. He should be able to cruise to approval with only Republicans. He was one of reasons Trump won. He Rotten SOBs.
At the moment Kamala was anointed and made the candidate, and all of the talk was that Kamala was gaining support everywhere, he stepped up, suspended his campaign, endorsed Trump and then worked as hard as he could on the campaign trail.
He brought in a huge number of first time Repub voters.
And the GOP Senate is poised to reject him, flip the finger to all of those people who voted Trump because of him. Then they will install some pharma shill.
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