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Fauci Hearing Serves as a Testament to Senate Dysfunction 60%
By Klaus Marre86%
7/30/2026, 5:28:04 AM
Keywords: Fauci, Senate, Dysfunction, Hearing, Congress, Legislation, Bipartisanship, Tuberville, Trump, Covid 19, Pandemic
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The Senate likes to refer to itself as the “world’s greatest deliberative body.”
However, Wednesday’s Homeland Security Committee hearing with Anthony Fauci was further evidence that the upper chamber of Congress deserves that title as much as Donald Trump has the “world’s greatest natural skin tone.”
The truth is that the Senate is constantly hitting new lows.
It is failing its main job by barely producing any legislation.
The spirit of bipartisanship that once allowed liberal icon Ted Kennedy and conservative stalwart Strom Thurmond to work together on criminal justice reform, or former GOP presidential candidate John McCain to reach across the aisle to write a campaign finance bill with progressive Russ Feingold, is dead.
Especially on the GOP side, the number of radicals who have no interest in addressing the country’s problems have grown.
Quite frankly, many senators are unfit to serve.
We could single out Sen.
Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), who may be the least qualified person to ever serve, but he is far from the only one.
The chamber is now littered with crackpots.
But it’s not just legislation.
The Republican-controlled Senate keeps gleefully ceding authority to Trump and waves through even the most incompetent nominees for important government positions.
In addition, it has abdicated its oversight role at a time when the most lawless and corrupt administration in history is running rampant.
Instead, senators are pursuing the president’s and their own vendettas and vanity projects.
And that brings us to Wednesday’s show trial of Fauci, which served as a microcosm of what ails the Senate (and the country as a whole).
First of all, this could have been an important hearing.
The pandemic was a major event in US history.
The public (and GOP senators) seem to have forgotten that more than a million Americans died and that the country’s death rate was higher than that of just about every peer nation.
That alone shows that the COVID-19 response was botched.
Mistakes were also made in the post-pandemic response, which prevented the country from getting back on its feet again once enough people had been vaccinated.
Generally, a lot of people were wrong about a lot of things, and if senators were serious about learning from these errors instead of grandstanding, then having Fauci testify would have been highly beneficial.
Of course, that’s not what anybody was interested in on Wednesday.
Republicans (with the notable exception of Sen.
James Lankford of Oklahoma) were trying to outdo themselves with outrageous rhetoric that will serve as soundbites for their campaigns while Democrats were too deferential.
In a functioning legislative body (and society), Fauci would have appeared and admitted that the government got a lot of things wrong in the interest of erring on the side of caution.
And then experts like himself and the lawmakers before whom he was testifying would figure out how to be more prepared next time and how to get to the bottom of the question of where the virus originated .
Instead, Fauci took the Fifth because Republicans made it clear that they wanted to throw him in jail, and nothing was learned.
And that’s one of the biggest problems of the Senate today: There is nothing deliberative about it because so many lawmakers are only interested in showboating.
As a result a real opportunity was missed on Wednesday, and the nation is worse off because of it.
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