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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They may think they can beat Trump on this one but FAFO very much applies.
The nice way: let Trump have RFKJ by a party line vote.
The other way: Trump uses a recess appointment to put Bobby in despite them, and Elon and Nicole Shanahan create a PAC that will spend however much it takes to defeat them in their next re-election. They can make it very expensive, very intense, and very painful and in the end they will likely lose their seat. Even the dumbest Senator will be able to grasp the financial risk a NO vote on RFKJ will have.
I think Trump will use every option for RFJK, Kash, and Tulsi.
McConnell and Graham are the ringleaders that will tank Gabbard, RFK Jr, and Patel.
Prick is an apt descriptor for them.
:)
He is a little bit wackadoodle.
I said Festerman the slug was full of crap. He hasn’t voted for any of Trump’s picks when his vote mattered. All the people buying his bullshit is idiotic. Guy votes how Schumer tells him to.
“..Guy is human garbage....”
Always has beem, is and will always be until hell freezes over....
Republicans are done after Trump. They think they made in roads into a bunch of communities but Trump did and that’s it. The fact that they haven’t already confirmed all of Trumps “controversial” nominees is proof positive that they do not understand the MAGA movement.
Graham is a coward and up for reelection. He’ll be on board with everything, they’ll do vote swaps but this coward won’t stick his neck out.
Thanks.
Do you know when it’s supposed to happen?
Tomorrow?
The irony is that whyden is doing our work for us.
RFK Jr talks out of both sides of his mouth on 2A. That’s all we need to know. POTUS can pick someone better.
https://x.com/DLoesch/status/1884663735169503515
If that’s not enough, he’s also anti-Conservative & pro-’climate change’
“Kennedy suggested that a state attorney general “with the will, resolve and to stand to up to the dangerous and duplicitous corporate propagandists” could not only annul the corporate charters of businesses that dispute climate change, but also nonprofit conservative groups, including the Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).”
Yeah, I like some of his positions, but those above just cancel any positives whatsoever.
Great idea. I like the way you think.
LOL!! Perfect.
Arrogant Senators passing judgement on a brilliant, well researched health expert.
Unlike ANY of these BigPharma owned creeps.
With the exception of Sen Cassidy, NONE are medical docs/scientists...affording them to call his research/beliefs “junk science”.
He’s not going to make it. Too many Senators bought and paid for.
Treasonous Bastards!
I’m afraid you are likely correct. The party is already organizing against Trump. Things should already be smooth sailing since we have the house AND senate.
Republican voters: RINOs, Trump haters, Haters of America.
Idiot voters: Idiot voters love to vote for and elect Democrats in spite of knowing how evil they are. Why they do it is beyond my powers of comprehension.
Just as the Republican voters of South Carolina will vote for and return to Office Lindsey Graham long after Hell has frozen over. No sane and logical explanation for it.
“Once again and more to come the problem is not the dems per se, it is the RINOs/GOPe/uniparty that control the votes.”
I agree.
The Democrats are the opposition party (the minority party). They are doing exactly what they’re supposed to do. I wish the Republicans would oppose the Democrats more when they’re in the minority.
If RFK Jr is not confirmed, it will be because of the Republicans, not the Democrats.
They already nixed Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and almost blocked Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary. They’re not done. Not by a long shot.
This is what Republican voters get for reelecting RINOs. They should be happy.
[I said Festerman the slug was full of crap. He hasn’t voted for any of Trump’s picks when his vote mattered. All the people buying his bullshit is idiotic. Guy votes how Schumer tells him to.]
“a ‘sex worker’ for the Pharma Industry.”
Most excellent and very polite phrasing. LOL
BTW, my very smart Md did not think I needed a vax and laughed his tush off when I told him that the CEO of Pfizer had covid.
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