All eyes on BILL CASSIDY GOP senator (and physician) has been focus of major lobbying campaign over his RFK Jr vote, which could prove decisive Doctors are urging him to say no Kennedy allies are optimistic he’s a yes We’ll know soon: Senate panel votes on Tuesday w @rachelroubein.bsky.social - ThreadSky

ddiamond.bsky.social • 20 days ago

All eyes on BILL CASSIDY

GOP senator (and physician) has been focus of major lobbying campaign over his RFK Jr vote, which could prove decisive

Doctors are urging him to say no

Kennedy allies are optimistic he’s a yes

We’ll know soon: Senate panel votes on Tuesday

w @rachelroubein.bsky.social

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jacksonr08.bsky.social•20 days ago

Never count on a Republican to do the right thing.

annabusybee.bsky.social•19 days ago

The first rule for a medical doctor is: do no harm. Let's see if Cassidy is doctor enough to honor his oath.

tadams2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

I guess we will see whether the parts of the Hippocratic Oath of "Primacy of the Patient" and "Do No Harm" go out the window for physicians in Congress.

lurkingwithpopcorn.bsky.social•20 days ago

My bet he folds like a lawn chair.

travishampton.bsky.social•19 days ago

Call Senator Cassidy’s office at 202-224-5824 and urge him to vote no. Our voices matter!

motherboy.bsky.social•19 days ago

I just did. Voicemail. “I encourage you to visit the young person you were in med school. What would he have thought about this decision?”

oothoon.bsky.social•20 days ago

The absolute absurdity....

anonimusnow.bsky.social•20 days ago

So @senatorbillcassidy.bsky.social has a chance to do the right thing not just for my kids, not just for the US, but the world?? VOTE NO ON RFK (and Tulsi, and VOUGHT and Oz)

musicinthedmv.bsky.social•20 days ago

Please don’t Bill. You took two oaths. Remember that.

shorroldcurvers.bsky.social•19 days ago

Bill Cassidy is a sellout and a coward. He is a disgrace to the medical profession. He violated his Hippocratic oath!

rthstewart.bsky.social•19 days ago

Goddess I hope Cassidy is no, but given Capo is willing just now to go to the vote I think means he's got the votes

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•20 days ago

spoiler: he'll cave.

sergiol652.bsky.social•20 days ago

Has he started getting death threats?

mspeggyhill.bsky.social•20 days ago

He’s a Yes, you can just feel it.

daenacat.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm (unfortunately) a constituent of his and have been calling daily for a week.

poodlestan.bsky.social•19 days ago

and here we are hoping and praying that one republican senator will jump over the lowest bar imaginable

amidprivilege.bsky.social•19 days ago

Dollars to donuts he's a yes

susanwabuda.bsky.social•20 days ago

GO TO HIS OFFICE. GET THROUGH TO Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. The citizens of Louisiana have more to lose than most if RFK Jr is confirmed. We can do this if we act together.

spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact/get-in-touch/

A sample note to GOP Senator and Physician Bill Cassidy for Louisiana residents to get you started urging him to vote now on RFK Jr for HHS.

fearless2.bsky.social•19 days ago

He caved. It was painful to watch him vote. No hope for the R’s. It’s all theatre.

ddiamond.bsky.social•20 days ago

Casisdy has already suffered politically for voting to impeach Trump in 2021.

Key GOP strategists have stopped working with him.

And he’s facing a primary challenge from a former GOP congressman - and also a physician - who says that he’d absolutely vote for RFK Jr because he trusts Trump.

kscincotta.bsky.social•20 days ago

If he’s being primaried either way, he might as well go down fighting for what he believes.

calvinonthebeach.bsky.social•20 days ago

Then he might as well vote "no." What's he got to lose 🤷‍♀️

averybullard.bsky.social•19 days ago

I trust the guy I voted to impeach? Doc, DO NO HARM.

lizhighleyman.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ericcolumbus.bsky.social/post/3lhd3lwc5e227

ddiamond.bsky.social•19 days ago

RFK Jr vote slated for 10 am ET

Finance committee set to post live video here:

mjwaldow.bsky.social•19 days ago

So we’ll find out if he’s like his party’s a colleagues and his political career is more important to him that the Americans he’s supposed to be representing. I’m not holding my breath.

ddiamond.bsky.social•19 days ago

About two dozen senators here but still no Bill Cassidy…

elkmovie.bsky.social•19 days ago

Cassidy needs to accept that he's going to lose his primary anyway (over his impeachment vote) and do the right thing here to save his soul

ddiamond.bsky.social•19 days ago

Cassidy, who arrived more than 12 mins late, has been sitting and pivoting in chair, pursing his fingers and huddling with his staff, as Ron Wyden rattles off his concerns with new Trump admin and possibility of RFK Jr as health secretary

Wyden: I urge my colleagues this morning to vote no

rthstewart.bsky.social•19 days ago

Wyden was much better this week.

j-waller55.bsky.social•19 days ago

Sadly, Sen Cassidy voted in favor of RFK, Jr
😖

ddiamond.bsky.social•19 days ago

Cassidy a yes on RFK Jr

bourbonmot.bsky.social•19 days ago

You misspelled “kowtower”

redpainter1.bsky.social•19 days ago

What about that Hippocratic OATH????

nschwalbe.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yup. Its a wrap.

cantard.bsky.social•19 days ago

And then he fled the room like the yellow coward he has proven himself to be.

lynnrschrader.bsky.social•19 days ago

Our country is split between (1) self-serving greedy power mongers and the idiots who support them and (2) everyone else. The greedy and idiotic are in charge.

grabarr.bsky.social•19 days ago

They won't say no. This is all so sad. So many more are going to die and suffer and America will no longer be the leaders in research.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, let's hope he sees the writing on the wall and decides that lets him vote his conscience. But I won't hold my breath.

dustcongress.bsky.social•20 days ago

sad that as a Dr his vote is potentially something other than "fuck no"

snzuluz7.bsky.social•20 days ago

With actions going on now, and rewriting code for CDC and other mods the Senate can ni confirm RFK, Gabbard or Patel.

jimmyengel.bsky.social•20 days ago

A key test: “Do I do what I KNOW is right ethically and for those I’ve sworn to represent… or…

thewhitebook.bsky.social•20 days ago

He’s hemmed and hawed, then folded like a cheap lawn chair before. No reason to believe he won’t do it again.

rezdogyazh.bsky.social•20 days ago

Vote no!!! I’m a retired nurse…there’s no way he’s qualified for the job.

ahlfla.bsky.social•19 days ago

Cassidy is a coward!

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