F%$# Me, I Agree with a WSJ Editorial (I miss "Say F%$# January)

To be fair, they lauded Elizabeth Warren's take-down of RFK, Jr., so I do not feel bad about being on the same side of the issue.

Still, it is a, "Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!" moment:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday to root out corruption between industry and government. Yet the man who wants to be the nation’s Secretary of Health and Human Services refused to rule out personally making money from lawsuits against drug makers. This ought to be disqualifying. 

“You just said that you want the American people to know you can’t be bought, your decisions won’t depend on how much money you could make in the future, you won’t go to work for a drug company after you leave HHS,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said. “But you and I both know there’s another way to make money.” Ah, yes. A fellow friend of trial lawyers, Ms. Warren knows their playbook.

Yeah, they gotta make a swipe at, "Trial Lawyers," because rat-f%$#ers gotta rat-f%$#. ((I REALLY miss "Say F%$# January)

Mr. Kennedy’s disclosures show that he has received more than $2.5 million from law firms that have sued drug and vaccine makers. He also has a financial stake in a pending lawsuit against human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine maker Merck. Mr. Kennedy’s trial-lawyer ties and financial interests in litigation against drug makers pose a clear conflict of interest.

Ms. Warren asked RFK Jr. to commit to not “suing the drug companies, and taking your rake out of that, while you are Secretary and for four years after.” He refused. “You’re asking me to not sue drug companies, and I am not going to agree to that,” he said. Why not?

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We never thought we’d hear [I think that they mean, "say," not, "here".] this, but Ms. Warren has an excellent point that Mr. Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, could have the ability to “kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it.” This ought to trouble Republican Senators who profess to care about good government and public health.

We live in strange times.

Also, RFK, Jr. is a corrupt con man whose anti-vaccine crusade has been about enriching RFJ, Jr. more than anything else.