Selling out the lives of children for nothing
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Bill Cassidy could have saved the country from having a crackpot anti-vax failson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and after his term was over returned to his lucrative and respected career as a physician who would be in demand on the lecture circuit as a Respected Man of Principle. Instead, he chose to unleash death on he American system of public health, and…will be returning to private practice next January anyway:
On Saturday, we’ll get some data on how yet another Trump Tragedy will end. Recent polls put Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, in third place heading into the first round of the Republican primary here. It’s his first competitive race in a dozen years and the culmination of a zigzag of events that had him standing up to President Trump, kissing up to Mr. Trump, being tossed aside by Mr. Trump, gaining no political advantage in any direction along the way, and undermining not just his positions as a politician but also — in what makes this tragedy more raw than most — his greatest accomplishments as a physician.
Mr. Cassidy may advance to a runoff in June, but few give him any chance of winning it. As James Carville summed up the events to me: “Bill Cassidy sold his soul to the devil, and he didn’t get anything for it.”
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But then the Louisiana Republican Party changed the rules such that only Republican (or “no party”) voters could vote in its Senate primary. And, of course, Mr. Trump did not disappear from public life. So Mr. Cassidy joined the long line of former Trump antagonists led by Marco Rubio and JD Vance in trying to ingratiate himself with Mr. Trump — most famously, with his vote last year to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services.
As recently as last November, Mr. Cassidy told the press, “It’s been communicated the president’s staying neutral” in his race. And then Mr. Trump did what Mr. Trump does and endorsed one of Mr. Cassidy’s challengers: Julia Letlow, who represents the Fifth Congressional District. (A third candidate, John Fleming, Louisiana’s conservative treasurer, has proved a surprisingly competitive dark horse).
The dry run for this was when Cassidy spent a lot of time during Trump’s first term explaining why every Republican proposal to repeal the ACA were bad on the merits, and then not only voted for all of them but then was central to a doomed effort to revive them after McCain killed them off. His entire political career was casting votes he knew to be morally wrong, and it got him nothing in the end. C’est audieu, pas au revoir.