Re: Incompetent Health Secretary Xavier Becerra never knew anything about health, and Biden was fine with that

[Daily Mexican]

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<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I believe Biden is incompetent and insane. Facts speak for themselves.
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Here are two questions:

How the hell during a pandemic did President Joe Biden name a
health secretary with no competence in public health?

And is anyone surprised that HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra is
making the monkeypox outbreak worse?

Part of Becerra’s incompetence is his inability to clear away
red tape or prioritize anything at a time when we were supposed
to have learned something about infectious diseases. Another
part is his lame political correctness in talking about a
disease that is overwhelmingly spread by men having sex with men.

But Barro’s critique of Becerra gets at the heart of the
problem. Becerra (beyond having no competence, experience, or
training in public health) can’t fight this fight because he was
brought here precisely to be a left-wing culture warrior.

Becerra met Biden’s standards for health secretary because
Becerra is an abortion extremist and a culture warrior who
relishes in persecuting religious conservatives.

Becerra’s qualification for HHS secretary was pressing a felony
prosecution against pro-life activist David Daleiden because
Daleiden exposed Planned Parenthood’s trade in the organs of
aborted babies. Even the Los Angeles Times called Becerra’s
crusade “a disturbing overreach.”

Becerra had a 100% lifetime rating from NARAL and Planned
Parenthood, which means he defended partial-birth abortion and
adult men taking underage girls across state lines in order to
skirt state parental notification laws.

Becerra tried to force pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to
advertise abortion.

As I wrote upon his nomination: “In 2007, for instance, Becerra
co-sponsored a bill requiring all employers who cover
prescription drugs to cover contraception also. This mandate
would have allowed zero exemptions for conscience. It would
force Catholic parishes to pay for birth control for parish
staff, although Catholic teaching rejects artificial birth
control as an unnatural and unethical means to divorce sexuality
from life-giving family formation."

Becerra has voted to ensure that states can discriminate against
hospitals and doctors for not providing or recommending
abortions. Becerra believes taxpayers should have to fund
abortions — he has voted against the No Taxpayer Funding for
Abortion Act.

Xavier Becerra was obviously unqualified to run HHS during the
COVID pandemic, and his incompetence is worsening the monkeypox
outbreak.

Some commentators are baffled by Biden's pick, but pro-life
conservatives who remember the Obama administration are not. It
was HHS that created the contraception mandate, which tried to
force nuns to cover birth control. Obama's health secretary,
Kathleen Sebelius, was probably the U.S. governor who was
closest to the abortion industry. HHS became the abortion-and-
contraception agency under Obama-Biden. So, public health wasn't
the focus in picking Becerra.