.@SenatorCollins voted to confirm Justice Kavanaugh.
She helped take away the right to choose.
And unlike this interview, that’s a record she can’t walk away from.
NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:
“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."
https://t.co/QTZtLMUmUl
The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."
Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."
The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.
The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."
This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding potential Social Security cuts.
The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display.
Yk at first you do the 6-7 ironically to relate to the kids...then you get addicted to it. Every time someone says those numbers in that order your arms can't help themselves. They just do it. Pope Bob is not immune to this.
New reporting reveals Republican nominee for Iowa Governor Zach Lahn lives full time in Kansas.
Lahn says he plans to move to Iowa only if he is elected.
Todd Gilbert, the former Republican Speaker of the Virginia House, took a U.S. Attorney job from Trump and quit 37 days later. His only public comment was a "boy, that escalated quickly" meme.
Today, we learned why. He wouldn't manufacture the charges. Genuine courage, and rarer in his party than it should be.
Hillary Clinton conceded the election immediately. Al Gore challenged Florida's recounting process but accepted SCOTUS' ruling. Neither alleged election fraud. Republicans desperately want you to be as stupid and forgetful as they are.
I think the Pratt thing is a bad sign for the GOP.
They ran a reality TV ex-celebrity who ran on a platform of "homeless people rape dogs" and he lost. They're convinced he should have won. They're moving past the point where they learn rational lessons from election defeat.