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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,860 posts)
Mon Jul 25, 2022, 01:30 PM Jul 2022

GOP plots Fauci probe after midterms

Congressional Republicans are eagerly floating investigations into Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration’s 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 panel’s 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?

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GOP plots Fauci probe after midterms (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
How many hoaxes fit on the head of a pin? dchill Jul 2022 #1
Senator Random Piles would better serve Kentucky as a parking meter. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2022 #2
Rand Paul is a "Russian Stooge" Vanity Fair, NPR Baked Potato Jul 2022 #3
+1 2naSalit Jul 2022 #11
All of these stories/polls, etc... IrishAfricanAmerican Jul 2022 #4
And how much did the GOP do to fight Covid? Oh yeah! NOTHING! sakabatou Jul 2022 #5
This will backfire RANDYWILDMAN Jul 2022 #6
They think we are afraid just because they are, honest people aren't afraid of investigations Walleye Jul 2022 #7
I expect nothing less. maxsolomon Jul 2022 #8
Link to original TheHill article. erronis Jul 2022 #9
I heard that Fauci was born in Benghazi. Guilty as sin at birth! panader0 Jul 2022 #10

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
3. Rand Paul is a "Russian Stooge" Vanity Fair, NPR
Mon Jul 25, 2022, 02:07 PM
Jul 2022

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)
4. All of these stories/polls, etc...
Mon Jul 25, 2022, 02:08 PM
Jul 2022

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.


RANDYWILDMAN

(2,667 posts)
6. This will backfire
Mon Jul 25, 2022, 02:15 PM
Jul 2022

They think Fauci is an easy target.

I would bet on a man who spent his career fighting disease

erronis

(15,218 posts)
9. Link to original TheHill article.
Mon Jul 25, 2022, 03:56 PM
Jul 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3571232-gop-plots-fauci-probe-after-midterms/

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.
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