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Rand Paul slams House GOP leaders over debt ceiling
Wed, 01/23/2013 - 12:45pm | posted by Jason Pye
The House of Representatives will vote today on a three-month extension of the nation’s debt limit, which the White House has said President Obama would sign. While there will be some dissent from conservative members, the vote shows that House Republicans have completely caved to the White House.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is thought to be a potential candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, sharply criticized House Republican leadership during a speech in South Carolina on Monday, according to Politico:
In remarks to the Charleston Meeting, a gathering of conservative leaders in the first-in-the-South presidential primary state, Paul rebuked the House for its plans to delay the debt limit fight by a few months. Republicans intend to vote this week on raising the country’s statutory debt limit to delay a spending standoff with the White House by about three months.
“I saw the speaker on TV handing the newly sworn-in president a flag. I am afraid it was the white flag of surrender,” the Kentucky Republican said, according to a GOP source present at the meeting.
Alluding to the House GOP’s gathering last week in Williamsburg, Va., Paul jabbed: “They came out of their retreat and retreated.”
And sadly, it seems that Republicans are going to cave on spending. During an interview with Neil Cavuto on Monday, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) pointed out that House Republican leadership wants to fight on sequestration. This is a peculiar position to take since, as Rep. McClintock notes, sequestration cuts are automatic and don’t require any action by Congress for them to go into effect. This leads him to believe that “they’re planning on bargaining even the sequestration reductions.”
The point that the House Republicans are in a tough spot politically is well taken. No one is arguing otherwise. But with their caving to Obama on the debt ceiling, with absolutely nothing to show for it, and what seems to be a sketchy strategy on spending; it just doesn’t seem like there is coherent message coming from GOP leaders right now.
Rand Paul is an ignorant self serving tea party clown. What an embarrassment of a man. Who in the world does this man think he is? May he lose and stand down. No one in this country needs such a racist ignorant fool in office. Get rid of these tea party nut jobs. The GOP has humiliated itself with these clowns.
Wow! Who is the ignorant one? Seems you are since you are going by that tired old bs of calling anyone and everyone a racist. Get over it already and open your eyes. This is about spending money we don’t have! That is really a no-brainer. Rand Paul says we need to cut foreign aid. Why are we BORROWING MONEY to give to other countries? Foreign aid has gone up b 80% under Obama when we have the worst economy since the great depression. Now tell me again WHO IS IGNORANT?????
Yeah ! Who is the idiot? Anyone knows you can’t spend money you don’t have.Sure wish i could print some money to take care of my family’s needs,but I’d be in prison, if i tried to do that! HMMM. It’s certainly not the idiots in Washington or idiots like you who suffer!! Let them go w/o something they need just once. Hell let them go w/o something they want and they would be robbing anyone they can. OH!! WAIT!! They already do!! I am so sick of Barrack and all you Libtards destroying OUR Country!! Go live elsewhere if this is what you want.. We Don’t need change… We need our country back!!
I, unlike you, am not ashamed of my Party affiliation or my beliefs. I am also willing to fight and die for The United States of America, and her Constitution. Rand Paul is a man who speaks the truth and holds our Constitution and our rights as citizens very high. He also would honor his oath if he were to be President. He would actually PRESEVE AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Very much UNLIKE our current administration, which has committed acts of treason over 20 times, just google what constitutes treason by a sitting president and follow the links. I would be willing to bet you have never even read the Constitution. Obamcare is unconstitutiomal. Sending weapons to a terrorist organization BY EXECUTIVE ORDER is unconstitutional, bypassing Congress and bombing another country (an act of war) is unconstitutional. Going on 5 years now and the man REFUSES to even DISCUSS spending cuts when he has added more debt than all previous presidents combined. Issuing executive orders that restrict my second ammendment rights; and I’ll bet you can’t even tell me what the main reason our forefathers gave us our second ammendment rights for. Thank God there are men and women still unafraid to stand up and KEEP THEIR OATH OF OFFICE!!!!
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