“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they’ve got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

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Did this dude have a Scrooge moment or something??

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He’s retired. So he can say whatever he might have otherwise retained from saying.

By the same token, it doesn’t matter what he says since he will have no power.

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Mitch McConnell had polio himself. He knows what the vaccine defends against

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All the more unfathomable that he could have seen those horrors and still turned out to be so evil.

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The funny part is, with how wacko things have been in the last 2 months, it would not surprise me one iota for him and the balance of the last dozen old guard repubs to defect to the dems over something like this.

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He’s old enough that he had polio before their were vaccines to prevent it, and had a leg paralyzed for an extended period of time. Probably saw other kids forced to live in an iron lung and maybe even die

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