Posted on 09/24/2009 10:44:24 AM PDT by freepersunite
Long before he danced with the stars, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay two-stepped all over fellow Texas Rep. Ron Paul's hopes of overseeing the Federal Reserve, according to an account provided by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.
In a broader interview with my colleagues Phil Mattingly and Benton Ives, Frank offered this assessment of how DeLay and other GOP leaders tiptoed around giving Paul -- who wants to abolish the Fed -- the gavel of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over it:
"In 2003, Ron Paul was in line to be chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee of this committee. Specifically and solely to frustrate Ron from being the chairman, they merged the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy with the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy. Ron Paul then complained to Tom DeLay, and Tom DeLay told [then-Chairman Mike] Oxley [R-Ohio] 'Don't change it' ... [T]wo years later, even though they merged the two subcommittees in the progression, Ron was then again ready to be chairman, this time of the combined one. [Then-Rep. Deborah] Pryce [R-Ohio] was dragooned to come back and assert a subcommittee chairmanship ... Ron at that point said to me, 'I guess I have to wait for you to be chairman for me to have any authority around here.' The Republican Party was a staunch defender of the Fed against Ron Paul."
Paul and Frank share an interest in auditing the Fed, though neither Frank nor any other member of the House has signed onto Paul's bill to repeal the Federal Reserve Act.
The general outlines of Frank's account -- though not DeLay's hand -- were confirmed by Republican sources. Paul said he didn't recall DeLay's involvement, but he acknowledged Republican leaders didn't want him to have the subcommittee chairmanship.
"They just got rid of one" subcommittee, Paul said of the first time he was passed over. "They wouldn't have enjoyed me being chairman."
But Paul has a defender in the current top Republican on the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, who appointed him to the leading spot on the subcommittee with Republicans in the minority.
"There are people who said 'Is this the best thing to do?' I felt like it was," Bachus said. "I'm glad I appointed him. I have no regret."
Lew Rockwell Jr.
Look Paul and his group is anti-war ( openly so). They are extreme libertarians.
Functionally non-intervention and isolation are in fact the same thing. Dr. Paul espouses the view point that no influence of any kind be used with other countries ( included foreign aid etc).
Now go and be angry some more that willhelp ever so much
You truly are over the edge. I have not even stated what I believe our foreign policy should be with regard to your examples.
Fact is That Paul’s association with Lew Rockwell Jr. is more than enough for me.
You too can go back and be angry some more.
Why SHOULD the government take OUR tax dollars and give them to foreign governments, MOST of whom are inimical to our interests ANYWAY??? Please be specific.
So let’s look at all YOUR affiliations. I would bet that many of them would offend numerous people here on FR, but SO WHAT? Are you headed in much the same direction we are? (Not according to what you have to say, but who knows?) IF that’s the case, we can travel together for as long as we’re headed the same way. When you want to start growing government again, we will have to part company.
As far as your assertion that you “have not even stated” what you believe, I can deduce from what you DID say just about how you feel. If you are a “non-isolationist” by most folks’ definition, you are in favor of having troops stationed all over the world... It’s our “burden.”
No you can’t. Your ‘deductions’ are based on the idea that I don’t agree with Ron Paul on any number of things. And by the way, you can look at ALL of my affiliations if you so desire. My life to those who know me is transparent. I am not ashamed or embarrassed by ANY of my associations ( past or present). Jump to whatever conclusions you want, I assure you most of what you decide about me will be incorrect
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