Posted on 03/13/2025 7:42:10 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Twelve hours before my scheduled confirmation hearing in The Senate, I received a phone call from an assistant at the White House informing me that my nomination to be Director of CDC was being withdrawn because there were not enough votes to get me confirmed. I then spoke to HHS Secretary Bobbie Kennedy who was very upset. He was told the same thing and that he had been looking forward to working with me at CDC. He said I was the perfect person for the job.
Bobbie told me that earlier that morning he had breakfast with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine who said she now had reservations about my nomination and was considering voting no. I had a very pleasant meeting with her 2 weeks prior where she expressed no reservation, but at my meeting with her staff on March 11 they were suddenly very hostile-a bad sign. They repeatedly accusing me of being “antivax”, even though I reminded them that I actually give hundreds of vaccines every year in my medical practice. More than Twenty years ago, while in congress I raised some concerns about childhood vaccine safety, and for some reason Collins staff suddenly couldn't get over that no matter what I said back.
... I can assume that the White House staff had my nomination withdrawn also because the Republican Chairman Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was also voting no. Ironically, he is also an internist like me and I have known him for years and I thought we were friends. But he too was also throwing around the claim that I was "antivax " or that I believed that vaccines cause autism which I have never said...
(Excerpt) Read more at static01.nyt.com ...
He needs to be primaried.
Yes, this reeks of Big Pharma.
f****** RINO/Leftist Karen strikes again.....
Bobbie??
All one has to do is watch anything on tv to realize it’s all funded by Big Pharma. And the people paying their cable bills.
The money is so vast, what bureaucracy, agency, branch of government has not whored themselves out to it?
Male diminutives are usually spelled BOBBY for the diminutive.
Cassidy voted to impeach President Trump in 2021.
Between the corrupt judges and the corrupted congress people being either threatened or paid off, there's nothing left to defend. What--shed blood for illegal alien entitlement programs?
And yeah, who is he to be calling Robert F Kennedy, Jr. "Bobbie"?
Maybe an AI system misspelled it.
Used phonetics, and got the wrong ending for Bobby.
Weldon was my congressman for a while when I lived in Florida, and he was my Primary Care Physician after he left congress. I’ve always like him.
So, does RFK Jr have the latitude to appoint Weldon to a position that effectively functions as the Director - but without the title? I.e., an end run around the Big Pharma weasels that are blocking his appointment.
Why would NY Slines publish this?
Yikes! RFK Jr just nominated a Deep Pharma/Global/State actor to lead the CDC!
She was a Covid jab-for-kids pusher in 2021:
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Dr. Susan Monarez
@CDCDirector
Our children are our future, & protecting their health & safety is top priority. Data show #COVID19 cases, emergency room visits, & hospitalizations are much lower among kids in communities w/ higher vaccination rates. Vaccination works. Get vaccinated: http://vaccines.gov
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CDC
@CDCgov
Sep 3, 2021
New @CDCMMWR finds no increase in length of hospital stay or percentage of hospitalized kids & teens w/COVID-19 admitted to the ICU, but cases are increasing in areas w/low vaccination rates. #Vaccination of eligible people is critical to prevent #COVID19: http://bit.ly/MMWR9321“
https://x.com/CDCDirector/status/1433884002474242050
Nope. I take that back. She’s got all the Deep State/Pharma background (e.g., on the NSC, BARDA as part of her portfolio), but she posted this on her X account:
“Acting Director,
@CDCgov
Note: Posts prior to 1/20/25 were from former CDC directors. Privacy policy: http://bit.ly/2MhQ6Hp #publichealth #science #government”
Yeah this is crushing and while I am certainly glad Kamala Harris is not President, it’s the kind of thing that makes me check out of the movement. Trump obviously sees too much to lose in ruffling Big Pharma too much.
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