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Robert Kennedy Confirmation Hearing

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 11:15:51 AM EST
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Republicans are throwing easy questions at Robert Kennedy. I am watching the hearing. I guess I've never heard him speak before. He has a condition called spasmodic dysphona.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are putting him on the spot as to whether he'll forego taking a cut of lawsuits suing over vaccines, whether he believes medical care is a human right, whether he supports a right to choose.

Caroline Kennedy and another relative of Kennedy's wrote scathing letters to Congress urging he not be confirmed.

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    Robert Kennedy, Jr., (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by KeysDan on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 03:22:55 PM EST
    may be the most dangerous of the Cabinet nominees or those confirmed, so far.  A low bar, of course, but Kennedy's malevolence may irreversibly affect each and every American.  The confirmation hearings today demonstrated an alarming range of ignorance and mendaciousness.  The only Republican senator who seemed, at least, uneasy, with Kennedy was Bill Cassidy of Louisiana--who is a gastroenterologist.  What has the American electorate done to this country?

    Does anybody understand (none / 0) (#1)
    by Peter G on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 01:43:10 PM EST
    why RFKjr claims it is illogical to blame him for the measles deaths in Samoa?

    I only heard a little of that part of his hearing, (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jack E Lope on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 02:17:13 PM EST
    ...but, no, I don't think anybody understands unless they are predisposed to do so.

    I was not paying much attention, but I kept hearing him being questioned about past statements - some spoken, some written - and denying that he said those things.

    I get the idea that he is quite misunderstood, since so many people who have heard or read his words think he said something that he now denies having said.

    I'm not so sure we want someone in a cabinet position who is so lacking the ability to communicate what he really means to the public.

    This is (none / 0) (#7)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Jan 30, 2025 at 12:57:09 PM EST
    what he has been doing for a while now. Someone plays of a clip of him saying no vaccines are safe and then he sits there and flatly denies it. It's insane and the first outbreak he will be blamed for rightly.

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    Haven't seen any of it (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 06:27:36 PM EST
    Couldn't watch that.

    I read someplace Jr wants to ban the advertising of prescription drugs.  

    Signed,
    Glass half full guy

    Well, there's something I think I agree with (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Peter G on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 06:54:09 PM EST
    I would also ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. By no means a sufficient reason to support this nutjob for HHS secretary, of course.

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    No (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 07:22:49 PM EST


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