Wikipedia ludicrously describes Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy as a “moderate,” which no doubt will comfort the regretful parents of dead children who were killed by the insanity that he voted to confirm, which he could have stopped.
Watching a doctor and a senator play MAGA games with the lives of America’s children and the rest of us is sickening! He should have never voted to confirm the obvious psychosis of RFK and he should immediately call for resignation and do everything possible to get that psychiatric patient out of Government. One orange psychopath is enough.
I watched an excerpt from Lawrence O'Donnell's "Last Word." What he said about the Senate questioning of RFKJr. should have been headlines throughout the nation. First, for obvious reasons, Kennedy was not required to take an oath to the tell the truth. Kennedy has called the Covid vaccine a "crime against humanity." Yet, he thinks Trump should be awarded a Nobel prize in science for its development, though that award is granted to the work done by scientists.
Kennedy dodged questions, outright lied, and came across as the incompetent man he is. Senator Warnock did not hold back. He told Kennedy children have died of measles because of him and that he should resign or if he refuses, be fired (not likely) by Trump.
He said he did not know about Epstein's victims calling for the release of the Epstein files, which happened, publicly in D.C., the day before his lying testimony, which under oath would have led to several indisputable charges of perjury. Incredibly, in Maxwell's friendly talk with assistant AG Todd Blanche, she claimed she had never seen Kennedy or any other man abuse any girls or women. Of course Blanche did not ask her why she thinks all the young women testifying that she participated in their abuse were lying.
Kennedy was one of the participants in Epstein's scandalous trafficking of underage girls. There is no doubt. This former heroin addict would be a big fat nothing if he didn't carry the Kennedy moniker. What a disgrace.
Can't really expect anything better from a steroid addled junkie. He has never properly addressed his addiction issues; much like TFG who has been a slave to Adderall for decades.
Mitch McConnell did more to produce a Donald Trump as a Supreme Court enabled Fascist dictator than anyone else in the country. He should be hung by the neck until dead. Fuck Mitch McConnell and his benefactors and voters. Death is the only thing that can set those assholes free from themselves. It can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned.
I hate people who say, "we have been through tough times before and the country survived", you know, things like Dred Scott. The same nonsense was said when Trump was elected the first time. "It is only 4 years, how much damage can he do." Turns out worse than thought. The reason I hate that reasoning is that it is one thing to read it in a history book and another to live through the bullshit like we are now. I now hate that the rest of my life will be unable to see the promise of America that I grew up believing. Mitch McConnell and Grassley, on their way to purgatory or worse, could have done so much to stop this nonsense but just can't seem to overcome their loyalty to a morally bankrupt political party, and worse, person, and are leaving us a legacy of destruction. I was amused to read your comment on pissing on McConnell's grave bc I have declared for a long time now my intentions to do just that when the opportunity arises. Thanks for letting me know where he will be. I don't think any grass will be growing there.
I think a new level of Hell should be devoted to all of these Republican psychopaths.
They are the most morally corrupt people who ever lived. The list of sycophants who have worshiped at the Trump altar is long. Graham, Collins, (she thought he would learn). I can't think of one Repubican in Congress now that could escape the wrath of Satan. The quasi- decent ones have been booted or voted out.
I live in a Blue state that has aready promised that we will have vaccines. Regardless of RFK. Ironically, he was probably innoculated with all the usual childhood vaccines.
We'll have to find a strain of something that they don't have a vaccine for!
Hopefully, as an Iowan, I'll live long enough to pi$$ on Grassley's grave. His time here on earth is severely limited now and age will get him soon. However, I have heard the rumor going around here that he is seriously considering another senate run in 2028. That would make him 95 years old at election time and 101 at the end of that term. He already filed papers for a 9th term in Nov. 2022. Good Lord..
Heather Cox Richardson, I believe in her Sept 2 article, actually compares our current state to the state of things in the late 1890's and early 1900's. During the robber baron days things were like right niw. She tells specific ways we can come out of this. I recommend her article, I enjoyed it.
I could not possibly agree more with your sentiments. It will take us generations to undo the damage that's currently being done to our republic, and unfortunately, I will never love to see that day, if it ever comes.
I got a letter from Senator Cassidy after I had called his office outraged by what RFK stated his plans for removing vaccines for the American people. His letter tried to assure me that he had met with RFK and he had assured him that he would not stand in anyway that vaccines would be withheld from the people of the USA. That was the reason he confirmed him. As a physician he should have known that you don’t appoint a non medical person to run such a vital agency. Now see the mess we are in. At the hearing with RFK he denied that he never gave Cassidy any such assurance. A total lie. RFK was lying then and he is lying now. You cannot go to a pharmacy now and get a Covid vaccine. The rot has already started. Soon all childhood vaccines plus adult vaccines to prevent a number of illnesses that could and do kill adults who are not vaccinated. I am a physician and appalled that these childhood diseases could come back and kill children and adults. This has to be stopped and now. He has to resign or be kicked out. His lies will continue and American are going to die if we let this madman stay in his positions Steve you are exactly right. We are facing a huge peril.
I'm in AZ, and yet I called Cassidy's office literally 18 times since RFK2 was confirmed, and Cassidy was the deciding vote. Cassidy promised to "oversee" RFK2 and act as a "mentor". What shit. I never received any acknowledgment or return call or email. Cassidy is a terrible person, and has no right to call himself a doctor. Steve is exactly right. His legacy will be that he foisted death upon the American public in the persona of RFK2 and his callous insanity.
Let us hope that those treasonous miscreants will be judged by more than just history/historians. A Nuremburg style tribunal should be planned, with a dock just like the one used in 1946. The prospect of Trump and his traitorous MAGA henchmen sitting there like Goering, Ribbentrop, etc.,humiliated and small, may be enough to get us through the next 3 years.
Does anyone remember that RFK jr approached Kamala first about a cabinet position in exchange for an endorsement? She rejected him. It surprised me when the current WH occupant was willing to play second fiddle. These people are all disgusting beyond description and belief. American exceptionalism indeed!
any illusion that America is "special" in any way is out the fucking window. Trump only wants Kennedy because of the cache of the last name. Who cares how many people may die? He gets to rub elbows with a real blueblood. Yeah, right😏
I have long lain the blame for the last twenty years of degradation at the feet of Mitch McConnell. Now he is just a cowardly old man, doomed to always look like he just sucked on a lemon. And he did, that sour tit of undeserved power.
Yeah, ol' Mitch's legacy will be stopping a president from appointing a Supreme Court justice on made-up grounds and not calling the senate back in for the second impeachment hearing. We were three votes short from a conviction, right? He should have been whipping those votes, then we wouldn't have the shit show we have now. It's gonna take years to repair the damage done in eight months.
For those sterling examples of medical wisdom, Bill Cassidy, Rodger Marshall, and that nut-case Joseph Lapado in Florida, the M.D. portion of their name tags should be broken off, and never again should they be allowed to trumpet their “credentials” as physicians. The old saying that when science and politics meet, science inevitably looses is clearly evident here. They are a disgrace to the profession, and should be dealt with harshly when this Trump nightmare is over, if not before. They know better than to believe the lies of RFK,Jr.
I concur with all of this well written piece. However, if a deployable plan crafted by a coalition of the men and women described in my posted comments here in recent days does not take shape now in real time, and we stumble to Nov ‘26 we will surely lose the Republic. All that is happening is being allowed, there must be actions taken to stop this madness!
So well said, Steve! Mitch McConnell knows very well what his real legacy is in this moment. So does his wife, who at least had the decency to resign from her cabinet position after January 6, each time she looks at him with complete disgust. I’m happy that McConnell’s last years on this earth are enjoying the front row seat to the madness he created.
Watching a doctor and a senator play MAGA games with the lives of America’s children and the rest of us is sickening! He should have never voted to confirm the obvious psychosis of RFK and he should immediately call for resignation and do everything possible to get that psychiatric patient out of Government. One orange psychopath is enough.
I watched an excerpt from Lawrence O'Donnell's "Last Word." What he said about the Senate questioning of RFKJr. should have been headlines throughout the nation. First, for obvious reasons, Kennedy was not required to take an oath to the tell the truth. Kennedy has called the Covid vaccine a "crime against humanity." Yet, he thinks Trump should be awarded a Nobel prize in science for its development, though that award is granted to the work done by scientists.
Kennedy dodged questions, outright lied, and came across as the incompetent man he is. Senator Warnock did not hold back. He told Kennedy children have died of measles because of him and that he should resign or if he refuses, be fired (not likely) by Trump.
He said he did not know about Epstein's victims calling for the release of the Epstein files, which happened, publicly in D.C., the day before his lying testimony, which under oath would have led to several indisputable charges of perjury. Incredibly, in Maxwell's friendly talk with assistant AG Todd Blanche, she claimed she had never seen Kennedy or any other man abuse any girls or women. Of course Blanche did not ask her why she thinks all the young women testifying that she participated in their abuse were lying.
Kennedy was one of the participants in Epstein's scandalous trafficking of underage girls. There is no doubt. This former heroin addict would be a big fat nothing if he didn't carry the Kennedy moniker. What a disgrace.
RFK thinks Trump's system of wiping out Covid was great! Like injecting bleach?
and then called the Covid vaccine a "crime against humanity".
Well, if it wasn't for the vaccine and all the special medications that were given to Trump
when he had a severe case of Covid, he wouldn't be here.
So which is it? Damned if he knows. !
Republicans don't want anyone sworn in because they can't do anything but lie.
Can't really expect anything better from a steroid addled junkie. He has never properly addressed his addiction issues; much like TFG who has been a slave to Adderall for decades.
Mitch McConnell did more to produce a Donald Trump as a Supreme Court enabled Fascist dictator than anyone else in the country. He should be hung by the neck until dead. Fuck Mitch McConnell and his benefactors and voters. Death is the only thing that can set those assholes free from themselves. It can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned.
I hate people who say, "we have been through tough times before and the country survived", you know, things like Dred Scott. The same nonsense was said when Trump was elected the first time. "It is only 4 years, how much damage can he do." Turns out worse than thought. The reason I hate that reasoning is that it is one thing to read it in a history book and another to live through the bullshit like we are now. I now hate that the rest of my life will be unable to see the promise of America that I grew up believing. Mitch McConnell and Grassley, on their way to purgatory or worse, could have done so much to stop this nonsense but just can't seem to overcome their loyalty to a morally bankrupt political party, and worse, person, and are leaving us a legacy of destruction. I was amused to read your comment on pissing on McConnell's grave bc I have declared for a long time now my intentions to do just that when the opportunity arises. Thanks for letting me know where he will be. I don't think any grass will be growing there.
McConnell and Grassley wil bypass purgatory and go straight into the flames.
I think a new level of Hell should be devoted to all of these Republican psychopaths.
They are the most morally corrupt people who ever lived. The list of sycophants who have worshiped at the Trump altar is long. Graham, Collins, (she thought he would learn). I can't think of one Repubican in Congress now that could escape the wrath of Satan. The quasi- decent ones have been booted or voted out.
I live in a Blue state that has aready promised that we will have vaccines. Regardless of RFK. Ironically, he was probably innoculated with all the usual childhood vaccines.
We'll have to find a strain of something that they don't have a vaccine for!
Too bad he got rid of all the mRNA scientists.
how to cull this diseased cult?
They say a half an ounce of lead cures it...just sayin'...
1500 short tons sound about right?
Hopefully, as an Iowan, I'll live long enough to pi$$ on Grassley's grave. His time here on earth is severely limited now and age will get him soon. However, I have heard the rumor going around here that he is seriously considering another senate run in 2028. That would make him 95 years old at election time and 101 at the end of that term. He already filed papers for a 9th term in Nov. 2022. Good Lord..
Yet the ancient moron keeps getting elected. So sad
.
Heather Cox Richardson, I believe in her Sept 2 article, actually compares our current state to the state of things in the late 1890's and early 1900's. During the robber baron days things were like right niw. She tells specific ways we can come out of this. I recommend her article, I enjoyed it.
I don’t believe we need to hold our bladders till he’s dead.
Purgatory? You’re much too kind.
I could not possibly agree more with your sentiments. It will take us generations to undo the damage that's currently being done to our republic, and unfortunately, I will never love to see that day, if it ever comes.
You won't be alone
I got a letter from Senator Cassidy after I had called his office outraged by what RFK stated his plans for removing vaccines for the American people. His letter tried to assure me that he had met with RFK and he had assured him that he would not stand in anyway that vaccines would be withheld from the people of the USA. That was the reason he confirmed him. As a physician he should have known that you don’t appoint a non medical person to run such a vital agency. Now see the mess we are in. At the hearing with RFK he denied that he never gave Cassidy any such assurance. A total lie. RFK was lying then and he is lying now. You cannot go to a pharmacy now and get a Covid vaccine. The rot has already started. Soon all childhood vaccines plus adult vaccines to prevent a number of illnesses that could and do kill adults who are not vaccinated. I am a physician and appalled that these childhood diseases could come back and kill children and adults. This has to be stopped and now. He has to resign or be kicked out. His lies will continue and American are going to die if we let this madman stay in his positions Steve you are exactly right. We are facing a huge peril.
I'm in AZ, and yet I called Cassidy's office literally 18 times since RFK2 was confirmed, and Cassidy was the deciding vote. Cassidy promised to "oversee" RFK2 and act as a "mentor". What shit. I never received any acknowledgment or return call or email. Cassidy is a terrible person, and has no right to call himself a doctor. Steve is exactly right. His legacy will be that he foisted death upon the American public in the persona of RFK2 and his callous insanity.
That is quite a skewering: McConnell, Cassidy, and Kennedy wrapped up with a bow.
Exactly my goal!
FOLLOW YOUR OATH
NOT THE OAF!
Let us hope that those treasonous miscreants will be judged by more than just history/historians. A Nuremburg style tribunal should be planned, with a dock just like the one used in 1946. The prospect of Trump and his traitorous MAGA henchmen sitting there like Goering, Ribbentrop, etc.,humiliated and small, may be enough to get us through the next 3 years.
Lordy, i hope you are right Steve. Im a boomer, so I won’t live to see that day but i hope you do. America deserves a second chance!
Mitch McConnell’s epitaph:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Does anyone remember that RFK jr approached Kamala first about a cabinet position in exchange for an endorsement? She rejected him. It surprised me when the current WH occupant was willing to play second fiddle. These people are all disgusting beyond description and belief. American exceptionalism indeed!
She actually refused to even meet with him, she held him in such contempt and knew what he was after.
any illusion that America is "special" in any way is out the fucking window. Trump only wants Kennedy because of the cache of the last name. Who cares how many people may die? He gets to rub elbows with a real blueblood. Yeah, right😏
I have long lain the blame for the last twenty years of degradation at the feet of Mitch McConnell. Now he is just a cowardly old man, doomed to always look like he just sucked on a lemon. And he did, that sour tit of undeserved power.
Yeah, ol' Mitch's legacy will be stopping a president from appointing a Supreme Court justice on made-up grounds and not calling the senate back in for the second impeachment hearing. We were three votes short from a conviction, right? He should have been whipping those votes, then we wouldn't have the shit show we have now. It's gonna take years to repair the damage done in eight months.
For those sterling examples of medical wisdom, Bill Cassidy, Rodger Marshall, and that nut-case Joseph Lapado in Florida, the M.D. portion of their name tags should be broken off, and never again should they be allowed to trumpet their “credentials” as physicians. The old saying that when science and politics meet, science inevitably looses is clearly evident here. They are a disgrace to the profession, and should be dealt with harshly when this Trump nightmare is over, if not before. They know better than to believe the lies of RFK,Jr.
I concur with all of this well written piece. However, if a deployable plan crafted by a coalition of the men and women described in my posted comments here in recent days does not take shape now in real time, and we stumble to Nov ‘26 we will surely lose the Republic. All that is happening is being allowed, there must be actions taken to stop this madness!
So well said, Steve! Mitch McConnell knows very well what his real legacy is in this moment. So does his wife, who at least had the decency to resign from her cabinet position after January 6, each time she looks at him with complete disgust. I’m happy that McConnell’s last years on this earth are enjoying the front row seat to the madness he created.
I can never figure out who I hate more McConnell or Trump. They're both Satan. A pox on both their houses.