No, it's called accountability, but that's something no Republican believes in, Senator Cassidy.
Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm both Todd Blanche as Attorney General and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary -- even though he knew better than to allow either of them anywhere near a position of power -- made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union, and after blasting Trump for his executive order changing the childhood vaccine schedule, and calling it "crazy and stupid," host Jake Tapper pressed Cassidy about his vote for confirm RFK Jr.:
TAPPER: Last week, when you were asked if you regret your vote to confirm Secretary Kennedy to HHS, you noted that you couldn't see into the future at the time. You couldn't see that he was not going to honor his promises to you to get your vote.
How do you respond to the criticism that you didn't need to look to the future, you just needed to look to the past, because Secretary Kennedy, RFK Jr., has been spreading disinformation about vaccines for 22 years?
CASSIDY: Yes, again, people always want to bring that up.
And all I can say is, you have to you have to live life living forward. And, in fact, I think actually people bringing this up now distract from actually what we should be speaking about. We should have positive -- in fact, you're playing into this.
Yes, we should have positive policy to improve the health of the American people. We should be really about making America healthy again, and that means that we should be working to increase immunization rates, not to decrease them.
And the policy that the president just put forward is going to decrease immunization rates, aside from being less convenient and costing families more. And, frankly, that should be -- that is where the focus should be.
Since the past also tells us that Republicans do not believe in doing any oversight of the executive branch as long as a Republican is president, that means we'll be looking "forward" to them doing absolutely nothing about this either.
