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Title: Paul slams spending bill (STATUS QUO = FAILURE)
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti ... 55268-paul-slams-spending-bill
Published: Sep 29, 2015
Author: Jordain Carney
Post Date: 2015-09-29 19:27:52 by Hondo68
Keywords: Take a Stand, Waste Report, cocaine quail sex
Views: 965
Comments: 8
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) slammed his Republican colleagues over backing a short-term spending bill, calling Congress a "withering shadow" of what it once was. "Congress is a withering shadow," the Kentucky Republican said. "It's a shadow of what it once was. Congress has no power, exerts no power, and we walk and we live in the shadow of a presidency that is growing larger and larger and larger." Paul's remarks come as the Senate is expected to pass a short-term spending bill that includes money for Planned Parenthood ahead of an end-of-the-month deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. The Kentucky Republican, who is running for president, was one of 19 Republicans who voted against moving forward with the short-term continuing resolution (CR) during a procedural vote on Monday. He added on Tuesday that the legislation is a "steaming pile of the same old same old. ... A warmed over version of yesterday's failures." Paul isn't the only 2016 competitor unhappy with the Senate for taking up the short-term bill. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) railed against the spending bill on Monday evening, suggesting that if outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had allowed it to move forward, he would have lost his job. Boehner announced on Friday that he would step down at the end of October. Paul added on Tuesday that the CR is an example of Congress's "failure to use our leverage, a failure to use the power of the purse. Conservatives across America are unhappy and rightly so." Paul is a frequent critic of government spending, including releasing a "Waste Report" to highlight programs that he believes are a misuse of federal funds. "This is the perfect time to turn the table," he said. "Now some will report on this speech and say, oh, he wants to shut down the government. No I don't. I just want to exert the power of the purse, and that means spending must expire. But I'm all for renewing the spending." Poster Comment: Cruz and Rubio were for increased spending and bigger government, before they were against it. After Rand Paul held their feet to the fire, Rafael Cruz changed his tune. Cruz, Rubio Vote to Increase Debt By $400 Billion; Paul, Sanders Vote No (Friday)
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
The Republicans will lose control of the US Senate this time. And the White House if they don't run Trump. And before the end of the next President's term, the Supreme Court (if the Republicans don't run Trump so the Democrats win the White House). The House may stay Republican...or it may not. But it will hardly make a difference. Boehner is going to be replaced by his right hand man, and the House will continue to be a rubber-stamp.
There are some other options besides McCarthy, maybe... Once again, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has found himself in a very bright spotlight. The third-term congressman and former federal prosecutor is being floated as a potential candidate for House majority leader, someone who could upend the race between Reps. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Steve Scalise (R-La.). On Tuesday morning, the Draft Gowdy movement picked up steam, but by Tuesday midday it looked like the South Carolina congressman wasn’t interested, though could still be convinced. They're "options" in the sense that people have proposed their names. But they're options like anybody but Jeb and Rubio. The GOP IS the party of the crony capitalist country club. Middle class conservatives may like to dream that it's their party, but it is not. They are water-bearer voters whose purpose is to install the GOP in power. The GOP then services the country club, and at best throws a sop or two to middle class conservatives. No amount of bleating will change it. This election COULD actually change the power structure of the party - by installing Trump. But look at how hostile the Republican Party is to Trump. They're even more hostile to lesser men like Cruz or other conservatives who buck the power structure. It will be McCarthy or some other tool. The conservatives do not hold sway in the GOP, and are not going to until AFTER the election, if ever.
Gowdy disavows any interest in running for majority leader.
You're a fucking liar. At least about Cruz.
Rand made a few sharp remarks about Cruz's bull-in-a-china-shop act. He also outlined his own preference for the Senate GOP forcing votes on every program individually, with each one requiring a closure vote. I dunno if it would work but it's better than McConnell's process. RollCall: By Niels Lesniewski, Sept. 29, 2015 Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday said fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted. Cruz is “done for” in the Senate. “Ted has chosen to make this really personal and chosen to call people dishonest in leadership and call them names, which really goes against the decorum and also against the rules of the Senate, and as a consequence, he can’t get anything done legislatively,” Paul told Fox News Radio. “He is pretty much done for and stifled and it’s really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships, and it is a problem.” Paul, a Kentucky Republican who has had the backing of his home-state senior senator, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, despite some tough policy differences, had been asked about Cruz’s inability to even muster the support of 11 senators to secure a roll call vote on a procedural motion designed to amend the continuing resolution to keep the government running. The Senate’s set to vote on passage of that measure at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the last day of the federal government’s 2015 fiscal year. “I approach things a little different, I am still just as hardcore in saying what we are doing, I just chose not to call people liars on the Senate floor and it’s just a matter of different perspectives on how best to get to the end result,” Paul said in the interview. Paul backed McConnell’s 2014 re-election bid. Cruz had accused McConnell of lying to him about the way forward for the revival of the Export-Import Bank in the Senate. Like Cruz, Paul opposes the CR advanced by McConnell to avoid a shutdown later in the week. But Paul has focused his criticism on the use of the stopgap spending vehicles. Paul would have rather seen more pressure put on Democrats to advance the dozen individual appropriation bills. “I would defund not only Planned Parenthood but hundreds and hundreds of regulations, hundreds and hundreds of wasteful programs. I would take them all out, put them on the table and say ‘You know what Democrats, it doesn’t take 60 votes to defund something, it’s actually going to take 60 votes to fund any of these programs,’ vote on them one at a time and we will see how many of these crazy programs get 60 votes. My guess would be very few, but that would take the courage to let the spending expire and start anew and let new programs all require 60 votes to pass,” Paul said. McConnell signaled Tuesday he intends to call additional votes on the regular fiscal 2016 spending bills, though there was no evidence Democrats accede to that proposal without a big budget agreement between the two parties.
Rand Paul. The fool who endorsed POS McConnel. Rand should just shut up and go away.
Well they voted for a huge $400 billion budget increase for bigger government, so THEY'RE the liars.
#2. To: Vicomte13, Trey Gowdy, Tom Price, Steve Scalise (#1)
Boehner is going to be replaced by his right hand man, and the House will continue to be a rubber-stamp.
Who is Trey Gowdy, the Republican being floated for House majority leader?
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"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
Who is Trey Gowdy, the Republican being floated for House majority leader?
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
Cruz and Rubio were for increased spending and bigger government
#6. To: hondo68 (#0)
Cruz and Rubio were for increased spending and bigger government, before they were against it. After Rand Paul held their feet to the fire, Rafael Cruz changed his tune.
Rand Paul: Ted Cruz ‘Pretty Much Done For’ in Senate
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
#8. To: A K A Stone, Cruz, big gov liar, 400 billion budget increase, 10 billion over caps (#5)
liar. At least about Cruz.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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