Alexander Breaks With Paul: Fauci ‘Isn’t Holding Himself Up As An Omniscient Person’

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, pushed back Wednesday against Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) assessment of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also serves on the White House’s COVID-19 task force.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1309011

“That’s what you get for trying to infect me, you dumb motherfucker.”

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Aqua Buddah is right: nobody is omniscient.

That´s why my cardiologist is actually an interior designer. What´s the difference?

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He said on Fox, but HE said of Fox, but look what the orange foam in the White House said on Fox, but look what they said on Fox, and hear what Rep (what-the-fuck-ever) said on Fox, but OMG look what a Fox reporter tweeted, and look what Fox said of Fox.

Really TPM, if I’d wanted to read what anyone says on Fox all the time I’D FUCKING READ FOX! Half the stories here seem to be what someone said on Fox!

/rant

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“Whoa” is “whoa!!” in Tennessee or Texas

(or so my Texan wife sez)

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I feel the same way, but do these Rethugs ever talk to anyone not on faux views.
I remember months ago TPM putting countless tweets from tRump. Drove me nuts. If I wanted to read his tweets I find them elsewhere. Geesh.

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We are Canada’s carvans.

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Rand Paul is a t**d.

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Interesting to see the fault lines opening in the Greed Over People party. Those who kinda sorta believe in science are finally kinda sorta sitting up and making tepid statements about how scientists might kinda sorta have some experience in this stuff. The young flat earthers are doubling down on their willful ignorance. As I said yesterday, are any of those people willing to take responsibility when this thing flares up and starts killing their constituents at appalling rates?

Anyone heard from Tom Cotton lately?

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Such a profile in courage. We wait with baited breath for Alexander to check the poll numbers to hear where he comes down on motherhood and apple pie.

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Libertarians like Rand Paul (R, NRA/BigCorpInc) wish to defend your Right to Die due to preferred Govt. Inaction.

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1 / He is busy planning his takeover of the post-Trump GOP. Guarantee it.
2 / He is also looking for a surgeon who might give him a Charisma Transplant.
3 / He wants to get some WalMart & Koch money, too, and that takes time.

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Oh. Will Trump Toadies sue?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/abbott-fast-test-missed-many-covid-cases-unreviewed-study-says?sref=jFvCme3g

Abbott Virus Test Used at White House Faces Accuracy Questions

By

Michelle Fay Cortez

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Robert Langreth

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Kristen V Brown

May 13, 2020, 8:23 AM MST Updated on May 13, 2020, 10:45 AM MST

  • Device missed 48% of positives in one test, NYU study says

  • Findings of study have yet to be reviewed by other scientists

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is the smell of flop sweat starting to rise from the Republican ranks? Lamar must be watching the statistics and seeing the growth spurts in Republican areas.

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I shall patiently await many breathless “GOP in disarray” articles.

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/4 Getting a tracheal shave and neck reduction surgery.

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He, OJ, and Dump’s P.I. are in Wuhan trying to find the real killers source of the virus.

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You think? I thought you just needed to have a “-R” after your name and use the word “y’all” a lot?

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Rand Paul should join the “Real Death Panel”
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/05/carlson-hannity-ingraham-bash-dr-fauci

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