Afraid to cross Trump, Republican U.S. Senators have rubber stamped even his most horrifically unqualified Cabinet picks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Had United States Senators been allowed to vote by secret ballot, in the words of Senator Angus King, I‑Maine, Robert F. Kennedy, Junior would have received only twenty votes to be confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human services.

Such is the fear factor of Republican senators.

Donald Trump is the Godzilla of American politics. Whereas another Maine senator, Margaret Chase Smith, galvanized Republican opposition to Joe McCarthy, only a single Republican — polio survivor Mitch McConnell — dared to vote Nay.

“They actually do know better: they are looking the other way,” Senator Patty Murray, D‑Washington, astutely observed. All four Democratic senators from Washington and Oregon were on the losing end of a 52–48 vote, with Idaho, Montana, and Alaska’s six Republican senators providing the votes needed to confirm Kennedy.

We now have an anti-vaxxer in charge of national health policy.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/02/afraid-to-cross-trump-republican-u-s-senators-have-rubber-stamped-even-his-most-horrifically-unqualified-cabinet-picks.html

[Walleye]

1. I can only conclude that they are deliberately trying to destroy the United States as a world power

Cui Bono. Who benefits? Putin