Ron Paul voted FOR Pelosi's tax hike scheme.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/02/dems-screw-the-wealth-producers-bill-passes-pelosi-gloats/
Ron Paul voted with Pelosi and against the Republicans. In other words, Ron Paul voted to raise taxes on anyone making more than $250K..
So much for his claim he 'never votes to raise taxes'. (about as BS as some of his other claims.)
I stand corrected in the specifics and not in the general issue of where he will be if this goes into the new Congress. I am assuming that the Nancy vote today is the one that extended all the tax cuts except added back the old rate on the $1,000,000 and above.
While the lame duck congress with have this go through the House and fail in the Senate, the new Congress will have a total extension made permanant in the House which will still fail in the Senate. The bill today probably isn’t that much different from what we will see actually gets through and signed as a retroactive compromise in February — I can hardly fault the old fart for that.
My position is that Ron Paul is not due any leadership or nomination for anything. I do, however, respect that he is elected by his district, that he caucuses with the Republicans and he deserves to be slammed with accurate description (which the article failed to do) or we are in-fighting and promoting the Obama Administrations ability to run wild.