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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.   
      
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