Friday's Final Word
Especially if she got three boosters of the mRNA vaccine. ===Matt Taibbi: Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, after the former NIAID head invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions. Predictably, the press response was to dismiss the vote as a vengeful partisan “stunt” and “ruthless persecution,” with no point other than to “punish” a figure once celebrated for leading America’s Covid-19 response.The investigation of Fauci is no stunt, though.
- ▪Especially if she got three boosters of the mRNA vaccine. ===Matt Taibbi: Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Dr.
- ▪Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, after the former NIAID head invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions.
- ▪Predictably, the press response was to dismiss the vote as a vengeful partisan “stunt” and “ruthless persecution,” with no point other than to “punish” a figure once celebrated for leading America’s Covid-19 response.The investigation of Fa
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Friday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | August 07, 2026 AP Photo/Mary Schwalm You probably didn't even know it, but I'm a tabbie browser too, and if you care to take a dare, I'll click a link with you ...Is that how you plead the fifth in sign language? https://t.co/XQQJhv7SRl— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) August 6, 2026 Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Ed: You're number one in her heart, Senator. Especially if she got three boosters of the mRNA vaccine. ===Matt Taibbi: Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Dr.
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