On this date in 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “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, of all times, 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 with the 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 a load of crap, entirely.
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.
Your tax dollars at work.
Taking a look at Cassidy’s worst moments… 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 Gulf in the future, as he voted 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".
- January 15th, 2013: Bill Cassidy votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy
- 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.
- 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 alleged rapist Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court.
- February 14th, 2019: Cassidy votes to approve the nomination of William Barr to be the country’s Attorney General.
- January 31st, 2020: Sen. Cassidy votes against witnesses being allowed in the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, effectively making it a “trial”.
- February 5th, 2020: Bill Cassidy votes against the impeachment of Donald Trump.
- 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: Cassidy votes against putting the extremely qualified nominee, Judge Kentanji Brown-Jackson, onto the Supreme Court.
- May 27th, 2022: Bill Cassidy claims that AR-15s are justified as weapons for the public because they might be attacked by “feral pigs”.
- November 13th, 2022: After the Republican Party had an embarrassing showing in the 2022 mid-terms and lost control of the Senate, Sen. Cassidy laments public perception about his party on an episode of Meet the Press, whining that “it’s not a cult”.
- January 24th, 2023: Cassidy finds an interesting scapegoat for the debt limit crisis that the Republican Party are deliberately creating… he says it’s because Social Security and Medicare need to be destroyed.
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.
With a new six year term in the Senate 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.
One Year Ago, May 14th, 2022: Bill Cassidy (LA)… 2022 Update
Two Years Ago, May 14th, 2021: Bill Cassidy (LA)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, May 14th, 2020: Bill Cassidy (LA)… Original Profile
Four Years Ago, May 14th, 2019: Burt Minor (IL)
Five Years Ago, May 14th, 2018: Jesse Kremer (WI)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, May 14th, 2017: Jesse Kremer (WI)… 2017 Update
Seven Years Ago, May 14th, 2016: Jesse Kremer (WI)… Original Profile
Eight Years Ago, May 14th, 2015: Jeffrey Wood (WI)