On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, first profiled U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, who first got his Senate seat back in the 2014 elections, after serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District.
Perhaps during the Covid-19 pandemic that it was best that we looked at Sen. Cassidy’s passion for denying health insurance to the American people. He opposed the passage of the Affordable Care Act, supported repealing it once the GOP retook the House in 2011, and as a senator in 2017, worked hand in hand with Sen. Lindsey Graham to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act withthe Graham-Cassidy Bill. Now, the public debate on this bill was what really told you everything you needed to know about Bill Cassidy. He appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, likely expecting a softball interview, only to be surprised when Kimmel pitched him a healthcare situation that was absolutely not hypothetical. Kimmel’s son was born with a congenital heart disease, and he asked Cassidy if such a child born with a pre-existing condition would be able to get everything he or she would need in that first year of life under Cassidy’s plan, and if their parents would have the surgeries required to keep their infant alive paid for under it.
Cassidy, in front of a national audience, lied and said it would. However, after experts and analysts took a hard look at Cassidy’s bill, they determined that the bill would cut healthcare by just shy of $300 billion in the year 2027 and leave 32 million more Americans not covered… and oh yeah… it would have not covered Jimmy Kimmel’s kid. Kimmel, in a monologue, called Cassidy a liar, and Cassidy responded that Kimmel just “doesn’t understand” his bill, and went on to double down and claim it would cover MORE people than the ACA, which was utter bulls***.
But that’s Bill Cassidy. There’s a pathological nature to his mendacity and cruelty… he just doesn’t care who lives or dies, as long as he can avoid tax dollars going towards paying for the poor, and money staying in the pockets of the rich. He was even bored during the hearings on his doomed piece of legislation, lazily yawning as protesters in wheelchairs were carried out by capitol police in front of him.
We should also note that after Donald Trump made national headlines for his “s***hole countries” comments regarding African nations and Haiti, that Bill Cassidy had some harsh words of criticism… for Senator Dick Durbin, for telling the media how much of a disgusting racist the president is. Yup, he didn’t seem to object that Trump said it, just that the public found out, thanks to Durbin.
And that’s not the only moment where Senator Cassidy chose the side of bigots in our national political discussion. As white nationalists repeatedly were making the news for carrying out mass shootings and other domestic terror attacks over the summer of 2019, Cassidy and Senator Ted Cruz thought it was a great time to draft a resolution to criticize the real problem…antifa.
Only a few weeks later, he used the Senate’s time to address the very important problem that he was upset about the New Orleans Saints getting hosed by referees in the NFL playoffs six months earlier.
Your tax dollars at work.
Taking a look at Cassidy’s worst moments as a legislator… well, there’s a lot to choose from:
- July 30th, 2010: Months after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a bill comes to the floor to better regulate off-shore drilling. Cassidy is apparently alright with ecological disasters continuing in the future, as he votes against it.
- December 8th, 2010: Rep. Cassidy votes against the DREAM Act.
- December 15th, 2010: Cassidy votes against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
- On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Cassidy votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act an would vote for almost every attempt to do so since.
- January 15th, 2013: Bill Cassidy votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
- June 19th, 2013: Bill Cassidy votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- September 30th, 2013: Rep. Cassidy votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown. When the vote came up seventeen days later to re-open the government, Cassidy voted to keep it closed.
- January 6th, 2015: Bill Cassidy’ first act in the Senate is to vote for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
- Sept. 24th, 2015: Cassidy votes to defund Planned Parenthood, based on conservative outrage over a video concocted by the Center for Medical Progress that had been repeatedly debunked by investigators, and eventually resulted in the CMP being hit with criminal charges.
- December 3rd, 2015: Sen. Cassidy votes to protect the right of people on terror watch lists to still buy guns and explosives.
- July 25th, 2017: Cassidy votes for the BCRA, aka Trumpcare.
- December 20th, 2017: Sen. Cassidy votes for the GOP Tax Plan/Scam, that places the burden of taxation upon the working class and almost none upon our country’s billionaires.
- October 6th, 2018: Bill Cassidy votes to put accused attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court.
- January 31st, 2020: Sen. Cassidy votes against witnesses being allowed in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, effectively making it a “trial”.
- February 5th, 2020: Bill Cassidy votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump, in spite of the mountain of evidence showing that he solicited foreign assistance in the 2020 elections.
- February 25th, 2020: Cassidy co-sponsors and votes for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, an insane piece of anti-choice legislation that would ask abortion providers to try to admit aborted fetuses to a hospital if they were “alive” after the procedure, which is medically impossible given the age that abortions can be performed at.
- March 30th, 2022: Tillis votes against putting the extremely qualified nominee, Judge Kentanji Brown-Jackson, onto the Supreme Court.
And yet, AND YET… this conscienceless douche-nozzle was re-elected in 2020, winning every parish in the state except one for 59% of the vote. Since returning to the Senate, Sen. Cassidy refused to hold anyone accountable for a violent coup attempt on the Capitol that resulted in five deaths and very nearly could have caused the deaths of elected officials, voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 because he would rather do nothing to help Americans during a pandemic, against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and has voted against the majority of President Biden’s Cabinet nominations.
After he was one of the six Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial for inciting the Capitol attack on Jan. 6th, Cassidy has likely assured himself a primary challenge the next time he’s up for re-election. However, barring any scandals forcing his resignation, that won’t be happening until 2026. Rumors are already starting that he might make a run for Governor of Louisiana in 2023, but time will tell…
One Year Ago, May 14th, 2021: Bill Cassidy (LA)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, May 14th, 2020: Bill Cassidy (LA)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, May 14th, 2019: Burt Minor (IL)
Four Years Ago, May 14th, 2018: Jesse Kremer (WI)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, May 14th, 2017: Jesse Kremer (WI)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, May 14th, 2016: Jesse Kremer (WI)… Original Profile
Seven Years Ago, May 14th, 2015: Jeffrey Wood (WI)