Posted on 01/21/2018 1:13:13 PM PST by Kaslin
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) met with Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning to discuss the government shutdown and who deserves the blame for Capitol Hill's current quandary. Paul, a libertarian who tends to stray away from conventional GOP thinking, offered a "doable" solution that allows the legislative process to work itself out.
Paul said the American people see though "partisanship and gamesmanship," when politicians claim the opposing party does not want to fund the military and pay our soldiers.
"Republicans and Democrats and everybody trying to say 'Oh, you don’t want to fund the military', everybody wants to fund the military. No body wants our soldiers not to be paid, but when both sides do it, I think the American people see through it. It’s gamesmanship and partisanship" the Kentucky statesman told the host.
Sen. Paul then offered a solution which he claims was rejected by Democrats.
"I gave them the answer. Here’s the answer how you solve this today. Republicans promise, guarantee in writing, there will be one-weeks debate on immigration and a vote on immigration sometime in the next month, in the house and senate, " he said. "Now when I presented this to Senator Durbin, they said, 'Oh, no, we want a guaranteed passage on a must pass bill.'"
Sen. Paul explained that was simply an unreasonable request but his solution would allow a bill to come to fruition that would produce compromise on both sides.
“It's, like, well nobody gets a guaranteed passage. So, I do not think they’re going to get that. But, what about a guaranteed week? Open amendments, I get to present amendments, everybody does, which rarely ever happens. Do the same thing on the house side, you’ll get two different bills go to conference, work out our differences, and there could be a new immigration bill in the next month. I think that’s very doable."
As for why that was not possible in the first place, Paul claims that attempting to force immigration into the spending bill would have produced an unwanted result for everybody involved. "The reason that’s hard on the spending bill, is we don’t all agree to what the fix is on immigration. And rather than try to work out a deal in advance. Put it on the floor and let the deal work itself out as the legislation comes to a conclusion.”
The federal government is currently shutdown after Democrats and the GOP failed to reach the necessary votes to continue funding the government for the next month. The GOP is branding this the "Schumer Shutdown," a reference to Senate minority leader Sen. Schumer (D-NY). The Democrats claim the blame falls solely on President Trump.
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul slams what he calls the government shutdown "blame game": "It's gamesmanship and it's partisanship" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/TrfiS859eS— CNN (@CNN) January 21, 2018
It is unclear how long this shutdown will last though another vote is scheduled for 1:00 AM Monday morning.
Rand is not as goofy as his dad, but that ain’t saying much.
You have WAY too much confidence in the average American. You forget - between the "education" system and the absolutely corrupt Progressive media - the sheep formerly known as Americans believe the Democrat propaganda every time the government sees one of these "shutdowns" - that the Republicans are responsible.
It is a fact - perception is the reality for most people. They perceived, because they are fed the sugar-coated Marxist toxins by the Media and Democrats, that Republicans are ALWAYS wrong - ALWAYS evil...
And the GOP, ever proving and justifying their nickname as "The Party of Stupid" fail to recognize this and keep plodding along with a limited audience listening to them.
I think Paul’s heart is right in this case - but for some reason extremely naive... for a guy who’s been around this garbage long enough to know better.
What Rand outlined is the way stuff is SUPPOSE to work in DC - with an elected body of statement who have what is best for the country in heart - even if they have differing viewpoints on what is “best”.
When you have a legislative body made up mostly of statements - they will indeed have constructive compromise - and often actually find the best way forward. Sadly - we discarded that kind of leadership with its statesmen years ago - and now elect partisan hacks who simply go for their pet, pocket-padding (their own) agendas.
I’m glad his neighbor kicked his ass.
This is not close to a “solution”.
Trump has the only possible 4 point compromise.
Constructive compromise between the Dems and their uniparty, GOPe counterparts is of course a massive amnesty and open borders with close to zero interior enforcement.
Paul’s not stupid.
I think it comes from his learning at the knee of his Dad, who was half brilliant, half crazy.
“Paul said the American people see though “partisanship and gamesmanship,” “
No, they don’t. If they did there would be no more liberals.
The White House hotline says it all: The government is shut down because democrats are holding it hostage.
in his latest efforts, for the past 1/2 year, he has been pitching his own deal to democrats to give citizenship not only to the daca illegals, but to the entire 3.6 million set of illegal alien 'dreamers', and their parents.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rand-paul-trump-not-racist-funded/2018/01/14/id/837068/
note he gets away with saying he will give citizenship to the much larger group of 'dreamers' by not saying registered daca illegal aliens, but 'My compromise all along was, those who are here, the kids that came here or their parents brought them here illegally, we could internally immigrate them,'.
if rand paul had his way, all illegal aliens (probably closer to 30+ million or more) would become citizens - which would fit the open borders viewpoint of libertarians which he believs in. this would effectively make it impossible for republicans to win further offices.
Senator Paul is looking more and more impressive.
That he would even confront that sh*tfly Tapper shows he has more stomach than most.
...which is the most concise definition of a bureaucrat that I know. Democrats nowadays are first and foremost bureaucrats (and champions of bureaucracy). What saddens me is that the FBI and the intel community has taken on that bureaucratic character as well. It's all being exposed because of Trump, and it is hideous.
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