Posted on 01/15/2025 12:37:06 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Former Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as an establishment mouthpiece to attack President-elect Donald J. Trump and his agenda, is urging the U.S. Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Pence’s political organization, Advancing American Freedom, is whipping Republican senators against Kennedy’s nomination over his past support for abortion access.
In a letter to Republican members of the Senate, Advancing American Freedom encourages lawmakers to press Kennedy with five questions addressing his abortion stance. The Pence group letter assets the HHS nominee has previously supported late-term abortions, claiming Kennedy has stated the government should not be involved in a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy “even if [the baby] is full term.”
Advancing American Freedom President Tim Chapman and Chairman of the Board Marc Short assert Kennedy’s abortion stance is “completely out of step with the strong, pro-life record of the first Trump Administration.”
The Pence allies continue: “While RFK Jr. has made certain overtures to pro-life leaders that he would be mindful of their concerns at HHS, there is little reason for confidence at this time.”
Despite the claims by Pence’s Advancing American Freedom, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)—who spoke with Kennedy in December—says the HHS nominee is committed to reimplementing Trump’s pro-life directives at the department, including the Mexico City Policy and barring the taxpayer funding of abortion in the U.S.
The National Pulse previously reported that Pence’s staff oversaw Operation Warp Speed and aligned public health policy with Big Pharma’s interests. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pence formed the task force that elevated Alex Azar, Anthony Fauci, and Deborah Birx.
Kennedy has pledged to investigate Fauci and Birx’s decisions during the pandemic.
REMEMBER: it was Mike Pence and his staff that chaired Operation Warp Speed and brought all the Pharma people in, as I walk through in this article. No one else seems to report it. Why? https://t.co/bEheAs0eSj
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) January 15, 2025
Pence is a low-life scumbag!
Is it Pence’s opposition to abortion that people find distasteful, or his opposition to RFK?
Because RFK has been up front about his pro abortion stances.
I would suggest that people would find any comments by Pence to be distasteful to a lot of folks.
IMHO, like wearing his religiosity on his sleeve as a shield, Pence is using the abortion issue as a way to blunt any inroads to reining in Big Pharma.
Pence is right on RKF Jr.
RFK Jr. is a leftist.
RFK Jr. should not get HHS, only FDA or NIH.
I think he just can’t abide RFK getting some attention that he wishes he still got. Fact is, since the overturning of Roe, it doesn’t matter what the HHS guys think about abortion, it’s in the laps of the states.
On this Pence is right! It doesn’t take five minutes of research to find statement after statement by RFK Jr that (If he believes them!*) put him to the left of Biden if not Zero. I still think he’s a dangerous appointment. One where the risk isn’t worth the possible gain. Keeping him and his ambitions on the team will be quite a PR challenge. If Trump fires him the MSM will give him an enthusiastic bull horn to smear Trump as a big meany thwarting his noble deeds and who hates children (or something similar that will resonate!).
* If he didn’t believe it. He’s a hypocrite which I guess doesn’t matter since he’s a magical mystical divine Kennedy.
That was my thought as well. It would be so easy to brush off any “concerned” Senators. Unless they think RFK will actually be performing the abortions. (Sarcasm.)
Pence’s decision to back the fraudulent election of Biden marked the beginning of authoritarianism in America. We’ve been living in the aftermath ever since. I am deeply skeptical about whatever Pence has to say in the name of Christianity.
My opinion: nothing and the purpose of this is the same as when Lindsay Graham came out right before the supposed red wave election and declared that the GOP was going to ban abortions nationwide - sabotage.
“Kennedy has pledged to investigate Fauci and Birx’s decisions during the pandemic.
REMEMBER: it was Mike Pence and his staff that chaired Operation Warp Speed”
This is what immediately came to mind. Pence and Warp Speed is as toxic to Pence as Pence and January 6th.
This white headed bobble head is a stain in the shorts of conservatives.
Its in the hands of the states.
And that is where it belongs.
We had one pig that absolutely destroyed what was to be a conservative landslide in 22 and now we got this jackass He and Graham need to be removed from the party.
End of story.
You got there first. Lol.
Mike Pence described Deborah Birx as his ‘right arm’.
Mike Pence is in bed with Steve Schmidt.
He's not the only one concerned with RFK. Depends who he's gonna be working with.
Pence is a traitorous snake.
30 pence lacks the remorse of his predecessors in betrayal.
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