Whiny Baby Mitch McConnell Might Not Vote for a Man Who Tried to Cripple Him
Talk about holding a grudge!
The Washington Post is reporting that Mitch McConnell might have a unique reason for being skeptical about RFK Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. From the article:
Stricken with polio in 1944, 2-year-old Mitch McConnell spent his days confined to bed or undergoing a strict physical therapy regimen to rehabilitate his left leg at an age when most toddlers cannot sit still.
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The Kentucky Republican’s childhood bout with the once-deadly disease that ravaged America has informed his ardent support for vaccines…
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But McConnell’s life-altering experience is on a collision course with efforts to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the founder of a prominent anti-vaccine group, to lead the nation’s health department in President Donald Trump’s second administration.
Oh I see: McConnell is making it personal. It’s not supposed to be about you, Mitch! Confirmation hearings are about whether the person is qualified, not about whether — if they had their druthers — you might have been left wheelchair bound for life! You need to put your memories of watching untold scores of children be maimed and killed by one of history’s great plagues out of your mind and focus on the here-and-now!
Kennedy’s statements about vaccines have been the main focus of two days of hearings. He was asked about his claim that the Covid vaccine was approved “without any scientific basis”, his anti-vaccine statements on podcasts, and his musings about a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. He was asked about baby onesies sold by a group he founded that say “No vax, no problem” and sell for the ludicrous price of $26 even though they don’t even contain a licensable character like Buzz Lightyear or Dora the Explorer. And there was this exchange with Senator Michael Bennet:
BENNET: Did you say that lyme disease is a highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon?
KENNEDY: I probably did say that.
“Look man: I say all sorts of shit. I can’t keep track of it — you could tell me that ten minutes ago I said that I co-wrote “Funky Cold Medina” with Seabiscuit and I’d have to just believe you. I’ve surely done weirder things than you’ve said — you heard about the bear carcass, right? — and craziness flows from my mouth like water over Niagara Falls. So pick any combination of words in the English language, and, yeah: I have probably spoken those words.”