What was someone saying…?
Oh Yeah ELECTIONS MATTER.
The dismantling continues and I fear we are on a path where they are going to break Democracy and it can never be fixed
Former CMS Administrator Tom Scully, who served with Azar for three years at HHS under the George W. Bush administration, says Azar is far from the hardline crusader his Democratic critics make him out to be.
“I found him to be an incredibly reasonable guy. He’s fairly conservative, and, I would assume, fairly pro-life, but I think he’s not a zealot in any direction,” Scully told TPM. “He’s a great listener. He’ll be very engaged and open-minded, not really doctrinaire or divisive.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of several Democrats pledging to vote for Azar, told TPM on Tuesday that even if he holds conservative views on contraception and abortion access, he believes it won’t heavily influence his work.
“I think we can move him on that,” Manchin said. “Trust me, I have enough faith that the good women who work at HHS can bring some common sense to him in his thought process.”
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Among Big Pharma lobbyists, Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly has always been among the most plugged in of the gang, famously punching well above its weight. For example the “Donut Hole” three-ring cluster fork involving Ways & Means Chair Bill Thomas, Mitch Daniels (later Indiana governor and hole-fixer) and lobbyist Deborah Steelman who went back to a job in Lilly’s corporate communications after her three-year affair with Thomas writing US laws in bed was revealed. Now Lilly is installing the president of Lilly USA, which represents about half their $22 billion a year pill business, as HHS guy. I’m not sure how this goes down, but certainly some screwing is involved.
As previously noted, Azar clerked for Scalia and then worked for Ken Starr on the Whitewater “investigation.”
Off topic: Is there a way to block a commenter?
“The good women who used to work at HHS”
FIFY Joe.
“There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.”
— Dr. Uncle Ben Carson, August 2015
My how things have changed.
That’s another thing about this article, while I’m somewhat sure that one or two lady Democratic senators will vote for this dude, I didn’t see one formally endorse him.
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OMG, did Carson actually say this!? I want to retch. Lunacy and misogyny grotesquely encapsulated in a single, horrific sentence.
“Regulate banks, not vaginas.”
Just the look of this guy’s sick smile creeps me out.
The punchable quotient is very high.
Right up there with Martin Shkreli and James O’Keefe
'Nuff said.
Republicans can see that the end game has begun. Now they’re just trying to ram as much right wing bullshit through as they can while they still hold power.
Great finds. When you hear someone, almost always a D, saying things like “I think we can move him on that,” you know they are lying, lying, lying. When the pros sound like Pollyanna, check for your wallet.
There are abundant medical specialties within which no doctor, nurse, pharmacist, ultrasound tech, medical assistant or any other health care worker would ever be called upon to perform an abortion or assisted suicide. The question should be: how seriously should the rest of the world take anyone’s purported convictions, when they can’t even trouble themselves to find a practice in harmony with their beliefs?
It turning the other cheek is your highest credo and calling, nobody wants to force you to be a boxer.
“It is critical that we balance individuals’ access to healthcare with the protection of conscience of those with contrary moral or religious beliefs,” he said.
You may need medical services but what is that compared to my belief in a flying spaghetti monster?