Posted on 12/28/2009 12:11:21 AM PST by Bokababe
Ron Paul is a white-haired, soft-voiced, 74-year-old doctor who has twice failed in presidential campaigns and is frequently derided by his Republican colleagues as an ideologue from the party's libertarian fringe.
No one would have been surprised if the Lake Jackson congressman had slipped off the political radar after his 2008 quixotic bid for the presidency, his ambitions for higher office thwarted.
But Paul has refused to go out to the political pasture to live in comfortable irrelevance. As odd as it may seem, he has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal Democrats.
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Ping!
Ron Paul the most influential Republican in DC BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA now that really is a tin foil hat moment.
Now that’s funny
Or it tells you how far down on the food chain most Republicans are at the moment.
Only if your IQ has the same name as my fridge -- Sub-Zero.
Good, knowing this, it falls upon him now to stop the hideous healthcare reform bills.
As much as the Fed needs audited, it is more urgent to stop this healthcare reform, cap & tax and such measures that are staring us n the face.
Surely as "one of the most influential Republicans," he'll have no problem doing so, right?
BB, the reason that they are so lowly on the political food chain is because they governed ruled in a manner thoroughly inconsistent with the principles upon which they campaigned.
If anything, the GOP is toast because, when provided with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually put conservatarian principles into action, it instead chose to act like the Democrat Party and engage in nation-building and Big Government borrow-and-spend (or rather, deferred tax-and-spend) policies at home.
Wouldn’t Batman have a problem with that!?
You either have no sense of humor or you are a Paulbot -—— maybe both
And that is the truth of it
Without the Federal Reserve System, the Federal government can't continue on its borrowing binge, which means Obamacare, cap-and-tax, etc. grind to a halt.
...says the newbie to a FReeper since 2001.
*laugh*
Knotty problem...
Small to no (too far) government libertarians or big government republicans.
The bad law that is now on the books...count on it to stay. When have we heard of our congress critters repealing any law?
Maybe a whackjob in chief could clear the books a bit.
Bullseye
Oh, but you see, we are faced immediately with helathcare reform and cap & trade. Any voting on auditing the Fed is way off yet.
With all that influence, he should be able to stop those first, then continue on with the Fed.
Preventing those from becoming law should be his first prioity and with is new found influence, I cannot see any reason he can’t do it.
Otherwise, we all will be broke long before any votes on auditing the fed come up.
LoL!
The only reason that sort of thing is even remotely a problem is because the majority of the Republicans in Congress are either go-along-to-get-along spineless fools who are unwilling and/or too lazy to actually repeal anything or bipartisan traitors whose only mission in life is to be "relevant."
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