Senators listed.
Some usual suspects but also some surprises?
Thanks for trying, Rand. It has to be frustrating, when so many in the GOP will say they support the cuts, but won’t actually vote that way. Most seem afraid to lead by example, and prefer to keep a very low public profile.
Rand is not.
“Some usual suspects but also some surprises?”
Surprises both ways. Cornyn voted for the measure. He must have forgotten to take his RINO pills.
Huh. Still hanging onto that gravy train, GOP?
What are you gonna do?
A number of people say Rand grandstands and nothing else.
I disagree. I think he says what he means and he brings ideas and bills and amendments forth.
It’s just that too many Rs aren’t conservative OR libertarian.
They’re just politicians. And far too many primarily want to make big bucks while in office.
Legally or illegally
The Founder’s Great Compromise strikes once again, they would be terrified if they knew what the senate would evolve into. Repealing the 17th would be a place to start.
Great vote to have everyone on the record.
Now we know exactly where the corruption is....
Certainly not defending the action, but need more info. Was this a standalone bill or an amendment to another bill? Perhaps the bill was not the best and that’s why they voted against it? (I know, I know, not very likely). Though infuriating on the surface, I also don’t like judging merits based on a social media post title.
All bad Senators.
Another list of rino GOP folk that need to be removed.
POS libs in GOP disguises.
"Rand just tried to codify Foreign Aid CUTS into law but FAILED (GOP voted it down ...)"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Rand's heart is in the right place, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of foreign aid.
Justice Joseph Story had put it his way about foreign aid.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
So Rand's effort to codify foreign aid cuts is off-target imo since foreign aid is not one of Congress's constitutionally enumerated powers.
On the other hand, PDJT47 using tariffs to help shape foreign policy seems to be what the Constitution's drafters had intended for foreign policy.
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
The worthless Senator Crapo actually has a debt counter on his web page, as if he’s concerned about it. Obviously he isn’t.
That is the true demographic of Washington DC.