Tea Party conservative blocks pipeline safety bill

sfgate.com ^ | 09/28/2011 | Carolyn Lochhead

[deek69]

Tea Party conservative Sen. Rand Paul is blocking pipeline safety legislation intended to fix some of the problems that led to the rupture of a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno last year that destroyed a neighborhood and killed eight people.

Paul, a first-term Kentucky Republican whose father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex. is running for president, is using his prerogative as a senator to stymie action because he is opposed in principle to adding regulations and expanding the federal government.

[afraidfortherepublic]

arth to DC — Will all the Congresscritters carrying the last name Paul please report to the bus that will take you to your family re-union. Your return bus will bring you back to DC in December 2012.

[icwhatudo]

“Tea Party conservative Sen. Rand Paul is blocking pipeline safety legislation intended to fix some of the problems that led to the rupture of a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno last year that destroyed a neighborhood and killed eight people.”

LOL! The most loaded opening statement EVA!!!!

[rmh47]

I'm proud that Rand Paul is my senator.

Wish I could say the same for Mitch.

[Lazlo in PA]

...pipeline safety legislation intended to fix some of the problems...

Yeah right. Isn't that what regulations always do. Fix problems. More like make things worse for both the consumer and businesses. Good for Rand, the sane Paul.

[DaveyB]

Those !@#$%^&* liberty loving tea party government hating patriots. How dare they stop over-regulation, after all if even one life could be saved, we must must must pass it no matter the cost. Unless it regulates the killing of babies in the womb, then it is choice. /s>

[TheOldLady]

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[mirkwood]

[Buckeye McFrog]

This SF rag wants you to see “Tea Party Ensures More Exploding Pipelines” when you pass the local newstand

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ron Paul wants to impeach Obama for the drone attack on Alawawki. Biden doesn’t know who Van Jones is. I say, impeach them both (simultanously) and this is what we have:

Prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no provision for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. When a president died in office, the vice president succeeded him, and the vice presidency then remained vacant. The first vice president to take office under the new procedure was Gerald Ford, who was nominated by Nixon on Oct. 12, 1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.

•The Vice President Joseph Biden
•Speaker of the House John Boehner
•President pro tempore of the Senate Daniel Inouye
•Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
•Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
•Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
•Attorney General Eric Holder
•Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
•Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
•Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
•Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
•Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
•Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
•Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
•Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu
•Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
•Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
•Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

Read more: Order of Presidential Succession — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html#ixzz1ZqooO1KE

Does that line up scare the wits out of anybody besides me? John Boehner is fine for the next year and ahalf, but look at the rest of them! Would you want any of those clowns in the O Office?

[rmh47]

No, I don’t want any of “those clowns” in the Oval Office. But what’s your point? I didn’t say anything about Ron Paul.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I just happened to know Ron Paul at one time. I worked with his very first campaign when he was my Congressman when I lived in TX. That was when he was sane. He’s gone off the deep end since, although I applaud his suggestion to impeach Obama (just not the reason). Ron; Rand. My mind took a flight of fancy when I saw juxtaposed headlines about Ron suggesting impeachment and Biden not even knowing who Van Jones is. And these were just a few stories away from Rand trying to impede drilling (my interpretation).

If you impeach Obama, we can’t allow the ignoramus, Biden, to stay. Then who? So I looked up the presidential succession rule (it’s been revised since I took Civics.) OMG — the only decent one in the line of successtion is John Boehner; and he’s not the best the GOP has to offer.

What if something REALLY awful happened in DC? Are you ready for President Geithner? The thought is enough to make me take up strong drink. How about President Chu?

[mo]

Rand is gettin’ between a couple of bureaucrats and their next GS level or perhaps even worse, somebody’s potential promotion into the glorified SES

Can't have that happenin’.

[rmh47]

Are you ready for President Geithner? The thought is enough to make me take up strong drink. How about President Chu?

Thanks. Now I won't be able to sleep tonight.