GET ME REWRITE: It appears that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is willing to trash public health vaccine system just to get re-elected

 

Headline:  NOTUS, 6/20/2025

Torrence Banks, Emily Kennard, and Margaret Manto report:

Cassidy, a doctor and chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, was one of several Republicans to express skepticism over Kennedy’s appointment, and said he only agreed to confirm him after several “intense conversations.” But he is also facing what is likely to be a difficult reelection campaign next year, and pressure continues to build to his right. 

“He’s trying to split the baby on this. Naturally, he wants to be a little bit more aggressive against RFK Jr. and some of the things that he’s talking about,” a Republican strategist told NOTUS. “I wouldn’t say Republican voters are saying, like, ‘We love RFK Jr.’ But he is seen as an emissary of the president — that the president chose to run HHS for a reason. So there’s some residual support there.”

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Chapter 5.  (3/12)

Chapter 6.  (3/12)

Chapter 7.  (3/13)

Chapter 8.  (3/14)

Chapter 9.  (3/14)

Chapter 10.  (3/14)

Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)

Chapter 13.  (3/15)

Chapter 14.  (3/18)

Chapter 15.  (3/19)

Chapter 16.  (3/19)

Chapter 17.  (3/21)

Chapter 18.  (3/22)

Chapter 19.  (3/26)

Chapter 20.  (3/28)

Chapter 21.  (3/29)

Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025

Chapter 23.  (4/1/)

Chapter 24.  (4/2)

Is Bill Cassidy finally growing a spine or is this just another smokescreen.  (4/6)

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy does the chicken dance while Robert Kennedy Jr. upends bird flu testing efforts.  (4/6)

What happens when Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy unleashes an anti-vaxxer on our health care system.  (4/7)

Measles and whooping cough outbreaks:  If only Bill Cassidy had found his spine 57 days ago.  (4/11)

Robert Kennedy Jr. continues to toy with and humiliate Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D.  (4/26)

May 2025

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. visits Fantasyland.  (5/16)

Still getting snookered by RFKjr.  (5/16)

Louisiana U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. got snookered by Robert F. Kennedy and all he can do it smile about it.  (5/28)

Spineless behavior of Bill Cassidy M.D. unleashes more damage to United States health care system.  (5/29)

June 2025

You can thank spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. for the makeover @HHS. (6/2)

Spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. abets Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the war on science @HHS.  (6/7)

Once again we have spineless Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to thank for this travesty.  (6/10)

It's clear that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. hasn't learned his lesson from January.  (6/11)

CNN analyst assumes that Louisiana GOP U.S  Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. had principles to abandon.  (6/11)

Finding himself in a tight squeeze, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. chooses loyalty to Trump over commitment to medicine.  (6/12)

Leading candidate for Sap of the Year?  Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is a good bet.  (6/14)

State's largest newspaper takes spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to task for his vaccine dithering.  (6/16)

Now in its 5th month!!  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. playing spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M. D. for a fool.  (6/17)

You can place the blame on "the massive disruption of the public health vaccine system" at the cold feet of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D.  (6/19)

Spineless Louisiana U.S. GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. earns an unflattering profile in The Nation. (6/20)