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RINOs Rand Paul and Mike Lee are Part of the Problem in the DC Swamp
DB Daily Update ^ | Gregg Updike

Posted on 01/09/2020 10:46:04 AM PST by EyesOfTX

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To: facedown; Kristin; firebrand; RaceBannon; SunkenCiv; TEXASGOP

The phone numbers for his DC and Utah offices are here:

https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/

“We’re sorry but we are experiencing heavy call volume, leave a message.”

Bet you are, pal.

Freep the daylights out of him; tell him to keep his policy and procedure disagreements PRIVATE while we are on the brink of civil and international war.


41 posted on 01/09/2020 12:48:01 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

He just said that the very worst briefing he heard was the Obama Benghazi hearing.

Not sure why some here are getting their underwear all bunched up. We need the Constitutionists to keep the Deep state under surveillance. They will betray Trump faster than you can “first lady Michael obama”.


42 posted on 01/09/2020 2:07:09 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: SecAmndmt

“He just said that the very worst briefing he heard was the Obama Benghazi hearing.”

Not what I heard here.

00:05:44 from CSPAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDVVIO5OH0

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43 posted on 01/09/2020 2:22:21 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

Ultimately, who cares which was worst?

Congress needs to at least try to rein in the executive branch. I trust Trump but not the deep State


44 posted on 01/09/2020 2:29:42 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: EyesOfTX

Rand is NOT swamp, he may be wrong on some issues but he is NOT swamp.

I would say the same of Lee but I’m not so sure since he seems to have sold out to big tech.


45 posted on 01/09/2020 3:17:06 PM PST by Farcesensitive
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To: SecAmndmt

Unless I missed it in the video linked above, the only person who brought up Benghazi in this conversation was you.

And WADR, comparing the abject lies (and imprisoning some innocent bumbling video animator ) when 4 Americans were killed in Benghazi is a LOT worse than whatever Trump’s team could have told told Lee et al about killing Soleimani.

I understand the concern over the Constitution issues Lee brings up when discussing going to war.

But IMHO he’s WRONG about Trump needing congressional approval to kill Qasem Soleimani (sp).

We need to crush the deep state in ALL BRANCHES;
THEY are the ones who enable Iran.
THEY do not support killing Iran’s operatives.


46 posted on 01/09/2020 3:26:31 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: SecAmndmt

“What on Earth does NATO have to do with the Middle East??”

Germany (if not other members of NATO is doing an oil / gas deal with Russia.

Most of NATO does not stand with us in demanding Iran never have nuclear weapons. Many of them (Germany and France at least) trade with Iran.

Some in NATO get their oil through the Gulf that Iran is trying to control.

We are a part of NATO.

It’s all tied together.


47 posted on 01/09/2020 3:39:08 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: thoughtomator

I will inform you that Rand Paul comes from Wrong Paul, the disgusting scumbucket who was touring the morning talk shows when I finally got back stateside from the ‘90 to ‘91 war.

That shithead was going around on television elucidating his belief that using armored bulldozers and tanks with plow attachments to clear Iraqi trenchlines was tantamount to a war crime.

I suppose he (and by extension all of his defenders) thought that we should have charged the trenches with fixed bayonets and trench knives.

Screw Wrong Paul, and all of his defenders.

Yep, I know exactly where Rand comes from.


48 posted on 01/09/2020 5:27:19 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

Trumpism derives directly from Ron Paul’s liberty movement, FYI. No Ron Paul means no Trump.


49 posted on 01/09/2020 5:31:01 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: EyesOfTX
This is crazy. Rand Paul is in the top 5 of US Senators who day in and day out are supporting of President Trump. On this particular issue however, is one of the areas that Rand Paul disagrees with the President. And Rand has been pretty consistent in this particular area of foreign policy over the years.

Cut the guy some slack and send your flak at Mittens or the old bag in Alaska, or Lamar Alexander, just to name 3 quick ones.

50 posted on 01/09/2020 5:35:42 PM PST by Pappy Smear
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To: thoughtomator

I was for the things Trump espouses long before that movement, and my maternal grandfather before me.

No, wrong Paul did not invent those things, and no Trump’s demonstrated methods are antithetical to condemning our troops for war crimes while fighting an orthodox ground war as wrong Paul has done.


51 posted on 01/09/2020 5:38:47 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

I wrote the drafts, and was largely inspired in doing so by Ron Paul, so like it or not you have Ron Paul to thank for it.


52 posted on 01/09/2020 6:08:09 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: thoughtomator

Drafts for what?


53 posted on 01/09/2020 6:10:16 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: DesertRhino

It sounds like what they want is an actual briefing and description of the threat. Instead, the intel community (the same Intel community that told us Trump was a Russian spy) briefers blew them off.


Actually, it sounds like what Rand & Lee want is to burnish their beltway maverick brands at the expensive of POTUS and the 60 million people who voted for him.

It seems to me POTUS was quite respectful of Congress and sent a high level delegation to “brief” the useless US Senate:

The briefing was conducted by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley.

Sadly, the same can not be said of the Quisling Republicans now sleeping with the enemy on this issue.


54 posted on 01/09/2020 6:16:33 PM PST by lodi90
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To: SecAmndmt

Not sure why some here are getting their underwear all bunched up. We need the Constitutionists to keep the Deep state under surveillance. They will betray Trump faster than you can “first lady Michael obama”.


You don’t find it a bit odd the Senate “constitutionalists” have shown exactly zero interest in the CIA backed coup currently raging in the executive branch? Obviously, these preening beltway careerists like Lee and Paul care little about the Constitution.


55 posted on 01/09/2020 6:18:44 PM PST by lodi90
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To: thoughtomator

Trumpism derives directly from Ron Paul’s liberty movement, FYI. No Ron Paul means no Trump.


LOL. That’s funny. You should write comedy for a living.


56 posted on 01/09/2020 6:20:04 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Rand Paul has spoken about it extensively, and he is certainly more on Trump’s side on foreign policy than neocons like Graham and Rubio. Or were you not around when the President said we were withdrawing from Afghanistan and Syria?

You think open borders, anti-gun Lindsay Graham is OK while pro-gun Rand Paul is not? Lol.

I do wonder which people here have a vested interest ($ or other) in military action in the middle east.


57 posted on 01/09/2020 7:51:25 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: thoughtomator

Ron Paul’s youtube program is actually balanced and reasonable in regards to Trump. Paul has frequently referred to Trump’s instincts on foreign policy.


58 posted on 01/09/2020 7:54:48 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: thoughtomator

Drafts for the President’s foreign policy positions?


59 posted on 01/09/2020 7:56:09 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: thoughtomator

Rand is a tool. F him.


60 posted on 01/09/2020 8:02:03 PM PST by Fledermaus (I usually like Tucker Carlson but he's too dovish. Hitting a bully back isn't the end of the world.)
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