The Patriot Post® · The Dems' Theater of the Absurd

We’ll say this about Senate Democrats: They can memorize their lines.

Yesterday, after untold hours of rehearsal, after staring in the mirror and painstakingly delivering their focus-grouped “gotcha” moments, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee “welcomed” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the chamber for an afternoon of … grandstanding.

The committee’s ranking Democrat, Ron Wyden — a sweaty, pasty-faced Oregonian who looks like he could benefit from a bit of time in the sun — left no doubt about his party’s plans, and about their collective disdain for fact-finding. This would be a theatrical hearing, a hearing featuring one well-rehearsed tirade after another from the Democrat committee members.

“Robert Kennedy,” said Wyden, “has elevated conspiracy theorists, crackpots, and grifters to make life or death decisions about the healthcare of the American people.”

Kennedy, though, had to know what was coming because he responded in kind: “We are the sickest country in the world. That’s why we had to fire people at CDC. They did not do their job. … Senator, you’ve sat in that chair for — how long? — 20, 25 years, while the chronic disease of our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. You never asked the question, ‘Why is this happening?’”

Indeed, why is this happening? Why is 21st-century America the fattest and most mentally unstable nation in the history of the world? It’s a question worth asking, no?

Well, no. Not among Democrats, anyway, who seem perfectly content with that scandalous status quo.

The hearing comes on the heels of a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Kennedy, in which he pointed to the erosion of trust at the Centers for Disease Control, an agency that he noted had rolled out one disastrous COVID-19 policy after another: “cloth masks on toddlers, arbitrary 6-foot distancing, boosters for healthy children, prolonged school closings, economy-crushing lockdowns, and the suppression of low-cost therapeutics in favor of experimental and ineffective drugs.”

Kennedy then delivered this broadside, which every American, regardless of political party, should be talking about: “America is home to 4.2% of the world’s population but suffered 19% of Covid deaths.”

Kennedy’s piece was followed by an op-ed from former CDC Director Susan Monarez, whom Kennedy had recently cashiered after just 29 days on the job, and whose departure was followed by the coordinated resignations of four other career CDC officials.

To them I say: Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.

“For three decades,” Monarez wrote, “I have worked at the intersection of public health, science and technology innovation — always challenging the status quo and welcoming discovery and change. Real science evolves with evidence.”

Except, of course, when “real science” hides the evidence and silences the dissenters, as it did during the Chinese-made COVID pandemic — especially with those who questioned both the safety and the effectiveness of the experimental mRNA vaccines, as well as the wisdom of mandating their introduction even into the bodies of young and perfectly healthy people, who’d already been conclusively shown to shrug off the same virus that was killing the elderly, the morbidly obese, and the otherwise infirm.

But, but, but, we were told, if we take the vaccine, we won’t get COVID and we won’t spread it to other people. Uh-huh.

After a stentorian screed from Colorado’s Michael Bennet about how “parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America deserve so much better” than Kennedy’s leadership, the black swan of the Democrats’ first family responded, “Senator, they deserve the truth, and that’s what we’re gonna give them for the first time.”

Along the way, Kennedy also reminded the American people what the Democrats’ ardent defense of this sickening status quo is all about. Responding to an attack by Elizabeth “Honest Injun” Warren, he interrupted, “And I know you’ve taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator.”

To be sure, RFK Jr. isn’t cut from conservative cloth. Far from it. He’s been a Big Government type his whole life, and as my colleague Nate Jackson noted last week, his on-the-record stance on vaccines has ventured into the realm of crankdom. To Kennedy’s credit, he’s since moderated that stance somewhat. And as for his approach to our — let’s face it — poisonous food supply, with its man-made dyes and its fake flavorings and its thousand-or-so preservative ingredients that are banned by healthier countries than ours, Kennedy’s disruptive efforts there are more than welcome.

Here again, Donald Trump and his lieutenants have staked out the high ground and forced the Democrats into a woeful position, where they defend an indefensible status quo. Think about it: illegal immigration, crime, unfair trade practices, ruinous wars, transing kids and undermining women’s sports, and now the American people’s undeniably awful health.

Clearly, the Democrats have forgotten what the American people voted for — and voted against. They voted for Donald Trump and his team of disruptors, and they voted against the weary, worn-out, status-quo do-nothingism of today’s Democrats.

Here, then, is a friendly reminder to those hang-dog Democrats: Elections have consequences.