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Congressional Republicans are eagerly floating investigations into Anthony Fauci and the Biden administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic if they win back control of the House or Senate in the midterm elections.
One way or another, if we are in the majority, we will subpoena his records and he will testify in the Senate under oath, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who is in line to become the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee if Republicans win the majority with the panels current ranking member, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), retiring.
Republicans have not been shy about launching probes into the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on the origins of the virus and whether the federal government and by extension, Fauci helped fund controversial research that might have played a role in its creation.
While Republicans have been in the minority, those investigations have not gained much momentum. But with the majority, the GOP would have the authority to lob subpoenas at the administration to force it to hand over documents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-plots-fauci-probe-after-midterms/ar-AAZVJPK
So are they going to accuse Fauci of not doing enough to fight what many of them said was a hoax?
dchill
(38,464 posts)Wax on; wax off.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)The unlikely, unholy alliance between Rand Paul and Donald Trump, one a libertarian iconoclast, the other the cancerous center of the Republican party, has cemented itself in golf games and frequent phone calls.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/rand-paul-donald-trump-perfect-russia-stooge
Rand goes to Russia:
Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his "counterparts." These included the chairman of the council's foreign policy panel, Konstantin Kosachev, who happens to be under official U.S. sanction for his government's actions against our government.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/636982295/is-it-springtime-for-putin-and-republicans
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,815 posts)proclaiming the GQP will win are piss poor journalism at best and propaganda at worst.
Those fuckers ain't going to win shit, no matter how much the bothsider MSM tries to make it happen or the GQP tries to skew the results.
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,667 posts)They think Fauci is an easy target.
I would bet on a man who spent his career fighting disease
Walleye
(30,997 posts)maxsolomon
(33,279 posts)They flood the zone with shit.
erronis
(15,218 posts)At least I think this is the originating article. After it gets masticated by MSN, DU, and many other aggregating and comment-collecting sites, it's hard to tell who the author really is.
panader0
(25,816 posts)These idiots are insane.