Bill Cassidy blasts RFK Jr. vote in Congress' final days

trying to have it both ways. He cast the vote that helped put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of health policy. Now, with his career in Washington effectively over, he’s talking about that vote like a man who wants a mulligan but won’t admit it. Refusing to say whether he regrets it is its own answer, and it tells you everything about why Louisiana voters sent him packing.

The strange part is that RFK Jr. has done exactly what he promised. He’s going after the chronic disease epidemic, questioning the food system, and rattling the public health establishment that lost trust with every lockdown and every rushed booster. Cassidy, a physician, should understand that the old consensus failed. Instead he sounds like a disappointed committee chairman, worried about process and decorum while the country’s health metrics keep sliding. The vote wasn’t the mistake. The mistake was thinking Cassidy would ever stand for something when his political survival depended on standing for nothing.

And let’s not miss the timing. Cassidy waited until after he lost the primary, after President Trump endorsed his challenger, to start lobbing criticism. That’s not conscience. That’s a lame duck looking for a legacy. He had the courage to vote his fears, not his convictions. If he truly believed RFK Jr. was dangerous, he could have said so before the vote and taken the consequences. He didn’t. Now he’s giving speeches about it in his final months, and the only thing being blasted is whatever remains of his own credibility.