Which means holding the line against Kennedy. The NY Times recently described how Kennedy’s laywer and colleague, Aaron Siri, has spent much of his adult life trying to stop vaccination, including polio vaccination (boldface mine):

The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.

Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.

Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.

I could go on, but the NY Times, unlike most of their political reporting, was uncharacteristically direct and blunt.

Any Democratic senator who votes for Kennedy needs to be run out of the caucus. If a candidate can’t fucking draw a red line at polio, then they’re no damn good. As I noted, the NY Times just served Kennedy up on a platter. If professional Democrats aren’t out there hammering him with invective–including things like “kiddie killer”–then they suck at their jobs. This one is now easy.

Let’s see if they fuck this up.

Added: It appears the Democratic Senate caucus is already going soft (hint: he’s not going to fix food production, but he will fuck up vaccination. Against polio. On goddamn polio. Gotta love the Magic Carpet Fallacy.