Posted on 12/03/2010 12:29:06 PM PST by OldDeckHand
In the space of 24 hours, Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) has voted for tax hikes, against censure for Charlie Rangel, and defended Julian Assange.
Just sayin’.
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The Libertarian influence in some of the Tea Parties is the only thing that really scares me about the movement. One of the TP groups that emails me event updates has a link to a Truther site on their home page.
Wear a helmet, that wall you are banging your head against is pretty hard...
Daniel Foster—not giving context, being deliberately misleading. Making a mental note to not trust him in the future.
Libertarians are destroying the fashion sense of America! The man can’t even find shoes that fit him! He’ll be wearing a Boob Belt next.
The fact is, Paul voted for a tax increase by voting for a tax increase.
He didn't vote for a tax cut of any kind - he supported Nancy Pelosi's position of raising some taxes and keeping some taxes the same.
It's really, really simple to understand.
For instance, I was at one meeting where an otherwise sharp guy speculated that with the Chinese one-child policy, desperate Chinese men would arrive at our shores to abscond with American women.
Just had to laugh at the mental picture of these young Chinese men chasing after some of our overweight white women...
Sadly this one had a bunch of bong hittin’ kids (followers)...
That must have been Paul's evil twin.
Has he ever Tweeted about the Rosenbergs?
You say "deliberately misleading". I say "cutting through the Paulian obfuscation".
Paul voted against censure.
Paul voted to raise people's taxes.
Paul clearly supports what Assange did.
Per se.
I stand corrected in the specifics and not in the general issue of where he will be if this goes into the new Congress. I am assuming that the Nancy vote today is the one that extended all the tax cuts except added back the old rate on the $1,000,000 and above.
While the lame duck congress with have this go through the House and fail in the Senate, the new Congress will have a total extension made permanant in the House which will still fail in the Senate. The bill today probably isn’t that much different from what we will see actually gets through and signed as a retroactive compromise in February — I can hardly fault the old fart for that.
My position is that Ron Paul is not due any leadership or nomination for anything. I do, however, respect that he is elected by his district, that he caucuses with the Republicans and he deserves to be slammed with accurate description (which the article failed to do) or we are in-fighting and promoting the Obama Administrations ability to run wild.
Nope. The higher income taxes weren’t in the bill.
I thought that as well at first, however, checking on what actually happened, he is correct. Paul even jumped over to join Pelosi in her bill to raise taxes on those making over $250K.
Oh, get over yourself.
For instance, I want to know about all the GOP senators' support of the ObamafoodCare act.
Did he give a reason for voting for the reprimand over censure? It was only Paul and Peter King who voted that way, right? I heard the Peter King speech, but missed Paul’s if he gave one.
He's right. We could prosecute Assange for Espionage which would be the correct charge.
No the higher income taxes weren’t in the bill. I get what you are saying, you should get what I’m saying. Paul makes it a point of pride that he never votes for a tax increase. To vote against the continuation of the middle class tax cuts would have been to vote for a tax increase.
I think this is really about trying to deny Paul his chairmanship where he can question the Fed. I think he’s right for that position, one of the few positions most Republican voters would agree he’s right for. The leadership may try to stop that.
That's what you call "a full throated defense?" It sounds like he's making a point to me. Where is the hew and cry to prosecute Cong. Jim McDermott? Or John Kerry? Or Bill Clinton? Or, as Ron Paul asked, the NYTs?
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