Gabbard and Kennedy's Confirmations Kills the Old GOP

This Tuesday, two of President Trump’s most controversial – and necessary – appointees took their first step toward assuming office. Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., his nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, both passed their committee votes, despite worrying initial warning signs that Senators such as Todd Young (R-IN), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) might defect. However, those warning signs, thanks in no small part to unprecedented pressure from the Republican grassroots base, turned out to be false alarms.

We, at least, are very relieved. To be sure, this is partially because Gabbard and RFK represent long overdue corrections to Washingtonian institutions. Gabbard will serve as a corrective to an intelligence bureaucracy which has grown arrogant, insular, and clannish and which, despite a string of failures, still fancies themselves as infallible protectors of America. Kennedy, meanwhile, is the worst nightmare of the unholy alliance between America’s healthcare regulators and the pharmaceutical industry. If you want evidence of that, just look at the fact that his clearing the committee transformed Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren into a shrieking Karen. Warren, who has received over $5 million from the health industry, has a right to be worried; that’s one gravy train that potentially just ran dry. But her funders have even more reason to be worried, given that Kennedy cheerfully committed – under her questioning -- to not taking their money, and seems bent on suing them for any improprieties he discovers.

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