Dems Run their Mouths into Oblivion at Kennedy Hearing

 by Roger Simon

Watching, to the degree I could bear it, the Senate Finance Committee hearings with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was more like a “new edition of the Spanish Inquisition” (for Kennedy) than it was any kind of remotely enlightening experience.

And this Inquisition failed miserably in its intention, if it was to discredit HHS secretary in some way..

The junior league Torquemada’s—almost exclusively Democrats--display of uncontrolled anger was particularly a head scratcher since most Americans agree our healthcare system has serious problems that need fixing. That Kennedy—a former Democrat himself—is trying to do just that either eludes or outrages them, often both.

The bottom line on our healthcare failure is the rather well known fact that our life expectancy lags at least four years behind a host of peer nations including, among others, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, the UK, Netherlands and, of course, Japan ( where female life expectancy is six years longer than ours) while we spend the most of any nation on that same healthcare. That’s disgraceful

Other issues abound like the still ongoing debate about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and why many third world countries did better than we did with off-the-shelf medicines, the prices of Big Pharma drugs in general and why they cost more in the US, the astonishing growth of autism that cannot only be ascribed to increased diagnosis, the ubiquitous prescribing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the slightest depression that might cause more harm than good, the epidemic of overweight children amplified by food additives and sugary foods, the escalating number of vaccines, useful and not, given babies. The list is endless, much of it contributing to the initial point that our longevity is shorter.

You would think improving the health of the American people would not be an extreme partisan issue but to the Democrats on the committee it was virtually blood sport. You would also think as professional politicians they would realize this behavior does not play well with the public, but this did not stop them at all.

Worst of an atrocious lot were the tandem of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders who treated RFK Jr as if he were the second-coming of Attila only to have thrown back in their hypocritical faces that both were recipients of lavish contributions from the very Big Pharma they always claimed was so corrupting.

It was almost funny—only it wasn’t. You had to wonder who the people are who repeatedly elect these obviously phony blowhards and what was wrong with those voters.

Kennedy himself was much the same man that I had interviewed for The Epoch Times well over a year ago now when he was running for president. It was clear to me then he was that rarity in politicians, someone who actually thinks about things at some depth beyond getting elected. I had read his book on Fauci at the time and was impressed with the scholarship. He also had a sense of humor, something that stood him in good stead during these hearings.

It will be interesting if these particular hearings have ramifications beyond the usual meaningless disappearance into the ether after a maximum of twenty-four hours. Maybe, because I am, like RFK Jr, an ex-Dem, I am more sympathetic to him than I should be and maybe that makes me more optimistic than I should be. We shall see.

I do not enjoy spending my time excoriating the likes of Warren and Sanders. They do a sufficient job of inadvertent self-excoriation. It also goes against the message of positivity I hope to convey both on this Substack and in the novel I am near completing.

Trump 47 is an extraordinary moment in American, probably world, history. You have a leader who has surrounded himself with the most superb of allies (Rubio, Vance, Tennant, RFK Jr , among others), trying to do good close to 24 hours a day for the citizens of this country and the people of the world. Recently, that has included finally cleaning up our crime, garbage and homeless-ridden big cities (red state cities as well like New Orleans where the governor welcomes him and one can only hope the dreadful Memphis in my home state) and, with the border effectively shut, stepping up the fight to eliminate the drug cartels and human traffickers, both in our country and on the high seas.

The Democrats don’t like that. They don’t like much of anything. They are almost always, not just at these hearings, mighty angry.

Why, I’m not entirely sure. They call themselves “liberals” and “progressives,” words that I once identified with and make absolutely no sense to me now. The word that does make sense in describing these people is “reactionaries,” one they themselves frequently employed in the old days, largely to keep ideological miscreants in line. It connoted “locked in the past,” which is what they are.

One of Mao’s famous slogans was “breaking with old ideas”. The problem is the Dems are out of them now that woke has made its last trip over the falls in a Cracker Barrel.

Okay, not that funny, but something more significant is going on here. As the Kennedy hearing made clear, this is a war that has nothing to do with the facts or the public good, but only with power. It’s happening in healthcare (where it obviously shouldn’t) and in a variety of other areas.

Complicating matters, it’s not always clear who is on what side in this war. Clarity on that question, with some surprises, can be found at Lee Smith’s compelling new piece at Tablet — The Choice: Trump or Obama.

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