Sen. Rand Paul is a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist, but he has an unhealthy obsession with Dr. Tony Fauci and now has rigged a ridiculous contempt of Congress charge against Fauci, who was the ubiquitous, calming voice of reason during the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many in the MAGA base came to resent, even hate Fauci for this, disregarding his advice often at their own mortal peril. Yet he carried on, determined to see the nation through, the consummate scientist who tried to keep the nation abreast of how to navigate the deadly crisis.

Last week Fauci was rewarded with an attempt at prosecution, with the Paul-chaired Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs having voted along party lines to refer Fauci to the Justice Department for contempt — preempting a full Senate vote, which is dubiously legal in itself — after the doctor invoked his........

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