Senator John Kennedy joins Biden’s banking regulator candidate Red-Baiting Pile-On


Kennedy: There was a group called the Young Communists, and you are a member, aren’t you?

Omarova: I don’t know exactly which group you are referring to.

Kennedy: Well, its official name is the Union of Young Communist Leninists of the Russian Federation, and it is also known as the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation. And they are commonly called the Young Communists. Were you a member? … Have you resigned?

Omarova: Of-

Kennedy: Young Communists.

Omarova: You come out of it automatically with age.

Kennedy: You still sent them a letter to resign?

Omarova: Senator, that was many years ago. As far as I can remember, how the Soviet Union worked at a certain age, you automatically stop being …

Kennedy: Could you take a look at your files and see if you can find a copy?

The day before, Omarova was honored by a the Wall Street newspaper editorial for supporting “a long-term national strategy for economic development and reconstruction”. Omarova supported a national investment authority for this purpose. She dared to support a Green New Deal. Sounds like a Commie to Senator Kennedy, who would sure be rejected by the comedy channel. Too retro. Just when you think the Republican Party has scratched the bottom of the barrel, it enters the mud pit below.

In fact, Senator Kennedy is blowing hot and cold on Russia. In 2019, he speculated that Ukraine, not Russia, had hacked into the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Yet, On hearing Senator Kennedy launch his inquisition on Professor Omarova’s childhood, Senator Sherrod Brown called Kennedy “unbalanced”. Joe Scarborough, on MSNBC, not a fan of the former Soviet Union, called his intervention “rude”.