Is Senator Cassidy (R-LA) FINALLY coming around to take responsibility for screwing Americans and leading the push to confirm Kennedy as HHS Lead???
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE Cassidy—you sold out your duties to your constituents & and as a physician when you led the charge to confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as the Head of HHS! You sold out to tRUMP fully knowing Kennedy is unfit, unqualified, mentally unstable, and a pathological liar.
You MUST RESIGN because you sold out to tRUMP and betrayed your constituents. You allowed—indeed facilitated—preventable child deaths and exposed them to Kennedy’s incompetence.
RESIGN. If you wish, after you have left office and hopefully apologized to your constituents, join the fight from the sidelines to remove Kennedy and tRUMP!
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I'm not sure Cassidy resigning would be a good thing. He's about to lose re-election anyway to one of several more loyal Trumpists, precisely because he hestitated before voting Kennedy in.
Plus, as bad as a replacement chosen by Louisiana voters might be, if there's any chance Governor Landry could appoint someone, they'd almost certainly be worse.
The problem is, Trump can't tolerate professionals or ethics, and is actively purging folks with those attributes from every position in the executive branch.
I'm not saying Cassidy's a saint, and I blame him for voting to confirm Kennedy, but on the remote chance that, as a lame duck, he might pull a Liz Cheney and show some spine, I'd rather he not self-purge.
@MistyCee I get your very real concern and valid point. But a physician who betrays their oath, professional ethics, and (in this case) constituents cannot be allowed to continue. The proper and ethical thing for Cassidy to do would be renounce Kennedy and resign.
The consequences are just too great. Cassidy contributed to vaccine preventable deaths by leading the charge that go Kennedy’s approved. Enough other Republican senators were set to vote against Kennedy, but (reportedly) changed their minds when Cassidy announced he would vote to approve.
Cassidy only did that because he had previously angered tRUMP by not supporting his entire platform.
This is why Trump burns through lawyers and why eventually, everyone in the executive branch has to choose between loyalty to the Constitution and the man.
I'm all for Cassidy renouncing Kennedy, but resigning afterwards I'm not so sure about. He does NOT serve at Trump's pleasure, and I doubt the Hippocratic Oath demands that once he hurt his patient, he should walk out of the operating room and let the guy bleed out.
@KunsanVeteran It's different because it's abandoning the public as opposed to one patient?
I'm not a physician, but I am a Louisiana voter, and I have zero confidence that the Governor would appoint anyone that would offend Trump and not much more confidence that anyone better suited to the office than Cassidy would be elected by Louisiana voters.
