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Fetterman: RFK Jr.’s nomination in trouble after rocky hearing
“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.
… 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.
… RFJ[sic], 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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NY POST (opinion):
“… And, as you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies. …”
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Politico (opinion):
“… There was another aspect of Kennedy’s mindset that was painfully absent in the testimony of his son: his sincerity.
At his confirmation hearing Wednesday, again and again, the younger Kennedy simply would not accept the many on-the-record comments from his past: full endorsement of abortion rights (“Every abortion is a tragedy,” he repeatedly recited by rote), constant warnings about the deleterious impact of vaccines (“News reports have claimed that I’m anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither.”), and even comparing the CDC to Nazi death camps (“I don’t believe that I ever compared the CDC to Nazi death camps. I support the CDC,” he said.).
… The contrast between his full-throated previous support for abortion rights as solely a woman’s choice and the position of his potential boss, Donald Trump, is so stark that the only answer would have been for Kennedy to say something like: “I want to run the Department of Health and Human Services and turn my health care views into policy, so I will completely put aside my views on abortion and follow the views of the president.” That would have had the virtue of honesty, but it was apparently a bridge too far. …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggles to answer questions on Medicare and Medicaid at confirmation hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggles to answer questions on Medicare and Medicaid at confirmation hearing
If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.
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'Dems look unhinged': Conservatives rally around RFK Jr's 'masterclass' confirmation hearing performance
No Republicans appeared to oppose Kennedy's confirmation in Wednesday's hearing
'Dems look unhinged': Conservatives rally around RFK Jr's 'masterclass' confirmation hearing performance | Fox News
No Republicans appeared to oppose Kennedy's confirmation in Wednesday's hearing
NY POST (opinion):
Charlatan RFK Jr. lies his way through senate hearing
“… And, as you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies. …”
Charlatan RFK Jr. lies his way through senate hearing
As you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies.
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Politico (opinion):
Watching RFK Jr. in the Senate Was Personally Painful
I worked for his father. He never would have been so slippery.“… There was another aspect of Kennedy’s mindset that was painfully absent in the testimony of his son: his sincerity.
At his confirmation hearing Wednesday, again and again, the younger Kennedy simply would not accept the many on-the-record comments from his past: full endorsement of abortion rights (“Every abortion is a tragedy,” he repeatedly recited by rote), constant warnings about the deleterious impact of vaccines (“News reports have claimed that I’m anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither.”), and even comparing the CDC to Nazi death camps (“I don’t believe that I ever compared the CDC to Nazi death camps. I support the CDC,” he said.).
… The contrast between his full-throated previous support for abortion rights as solely a woman’s choice and the position of his potential boss, Donald Trump, is so stark that the only answer would have been for Kennedy to say something like: “I want to run the Department of Health and Human Services and turn my health care views into policy, so I will completely put aside my views on abortion and follow the views of the president.” That would have had the virtue of honesty, but it was apparently a bridge too far. …
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Two man landing party, including unidentified Musk rep, arrive at FBI ahead of nominee Patel
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“… Tom Ferguson, a former agent and aide to Rep. Jim Jordan, has reportedly returned to the agency. He said he was “just going back home to help.” Jordan (R-OH) often claimed that the FBI was a corrupt Joe Biden tool. He famously led a 2023 subcommittee on the apparent “weaponization” of the agency against conservatives and even suggested moving the agency from Washington, D.C., to Alabama to shield against what he saw as liberal politics.
NBC stated that the other new arrival, an individual with links to Trump’s “first buddy” Elon Musk, has not been previously reported and is still currently unidentified. And while it is unclear who actually paved the way for the pair to bag the new gigs, or even what their exact areas of focus will be, the news still adds to fears of an eroding of the FBI’s non-political, non-partisan heritage.
… One former agent, Rob D’Amico, told the publication that the new hires are there to oversee reform. This will include sending headquarters staffers into the field. “That’s absolutely needed,” he said. “Things have gotten too headquarters-centric, and when headquarters is in D.C., the natural thing that happens in D.C. is that things get political.”
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D’Amico conceded, however, that it is not the usual modus operandi to have people with ties to partisan figures in such areas. “This will have to be done very carefully,” D’Amico said. “How does that chain of command work? You have to be very careful that it doesn’t become like the Russian political officer on a Russian nuclear sub, enforcing party discipline.”
Another shared fears of the agency “infusing a one-sided ideology and purging the people who don’t share that viewpoint.” …”
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Musk and Trump have their own landing party reps, which is what I had read would happen at a lot of agencies, with the DOGE Commissar being a temporary hire to dodge any Congressional oversight…
Since it hasn’t started yet, we don’t know for sure it’s a purge by reassignment, but that’s what it sounds like.
Now Elon Musk’s SpaceX Buddy Is Going to Help Run the FBI
One former official shared fears of the agency “infusing a one-sided ideology and purging the people who don’t share that viewpoint.”
“… Tom Ferguson, a former agent and aide to Rep. Jim Jordan, has reportedly returned to the agency. He said he was “just going back home to help.” Jordan (R-OH) often claimed that the FBI was a corrupt Joe Biden tool. He famously led a 2023 subcommittee on the apparent “weaponization” of the agency against conservatives and even suggested moving the agency from Washington, D.C., to Alabama to shield against what he saw as liberal politics.
NBC stated that the other new arrival, an individual with links to Trump’s “first buddy” Elon Musk, has not been previously reported and is still currently unidentified. And while it is unclear who actually paved the way for the pair to bag the new gigs, or even what their exact areas of focus will be, the news still adds to fears of an eroding of the FBI’s non-political, non-partisan heritage.
… One former agent, Rob D’Amico, told the publication that the new hires are there to oversee reform. This will include sending headquarters staffers into the field. “That’s absolutely needed,” he said. “Things have gotten too headquarters-centric, and when headquarters is in D.C., the natural thing that happens in D.C. is that things get political.”
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D’Amico conceded, however, that it is not the usual modus operandi to have people with ties to partisan figures in such areas. “This will have to be done very carefully,” D’Amico said. “How does that chain of command work? You have to be very careful that it doesn’t become like the Russian political officer on a Russian nuclear sub, enforcing party discipline.”
Another shared fears of the agency “infusing a one-sided ideology and purging the people who don’t share that viewpoint.” …”
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Musk and Trump have their own landing party reps, which is what I had read would happen at a lot of agencies, with the DOGE Commissar being a temporary hire to dodge any Congressional oversight…
Since it hasn’t started yet, we don’t know for sure it’s a purge by reassignment, but that’s what it sounds like.
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Happy Tulsi Gabbard day
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Was Tulsi Gabbard In A Cult That Eats Its Leader's Toenails? Is She Still?
To be fair they could have been talking about fingernail clippings.
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