[US Navy Vet]

:-)!

[driftdiver]

This could get interesting

[marron]

He gets his chance. Lets see what he does with it.

I’m not a fan of his, but I’m rooting for him on this one.

[glorgau]

Good thing I haven’t yet taken the Ron Paul bumper sticker off my car!

[ari-freedom]

Great, so instead of being able to make a convincing case for ending the dual mandate of the Fed, we’ll have a krazy kook in charge.

[apoxonu]

I like this simply because Bernanke doesn’t. If Paul can get a full audit, perhaps we can finally make the banksters flush that bad debt out and enter receivership so we can finally grow this economy.

[MichaelP]

This isn't going to help our cause in any way. It will just be ammunition for the MSM and the RATS... Don't we have anyone in the GOP who can handle a gun without shooting themselves in the foot?

Mike

[WKUHilltopper]

This could get good...

[DannyTN]

I'm hoping Ron Paul gets an education in banking and economics. I hope he doesn't go up there and undermine consumer confidence with uneducated and irresponsible statements.

People like Ron Paul is why Congress made the policy decisions of the FED unauditable in the first place.

[Reagan Man]

[gov_bean_ counter]

Ron Paul + Gavel = Recipe for self inflicted brain damage

[November 2010]

Good. Audit the Fed.

[Nervous Tick]

I don’t like RuPaul.

On the other hand, I absolutely detest “The Bernank”. I hope that come January, Bernanke enters an extended period of sleeping very poorly.

[DManA]

We don’t need to abolish the FED but we do need some institution, a reorganized Fed or some other institution, whose SOLE goal is to maintain a constant currency. Shouldn’t worry about deficits, unemployment, anything except their one goal, constant currency value. If we have a stable currency everything else will take care of itself.

And there should be rewards if they succeed over (say) a 10 year period, and severe penalties if they fail.

And what ever tools we give them should be completely transparent.

[Buckeye McFrog]

for one thing, I am going to start praying for his physical safety...

[LomanBill]

Rut Roh!

Two Pennies for the Old Guy?

[Hostage]

Regardless of what people think of Ron Paul, I am 100% behind him on this one.

1. End the Fed.
2. Amend the Constitution to repeal the 16th Amendment.
3. Enact the FairTax (http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq)
4. Repeal collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
5. Massively prosecute Wall St. accomplices in the collapse of the economy and the NGOs such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.

[ProudFossil]

Over the years I have been President of several civic and fraternal organizations. A tactic I used from the very beginning about members who were bitching or complaining about something worked wonders every time I used it. It was simple.

Just put the person who was complaining in charge of the 'project' or 'department'. In almost every case, about 95% of the time, that person did make the assignment even better than it was before. In the other 5% there was very little change done and the person shut up.

So I applaud this move by Baucus.

[MWS]

I tend to view Ron Paul as a well-intentioned but ultimately crazy uncle — there’s something endearing about him and his views but at the end of the day he tends to be off his rocker.

With that said, I think this is the best place for him. Our banking system needs to be reined in and he is one of the few in Congress that I’d trust to do it.

Here’s hoping for the best.

[LomanBill]

Get ready to rummmmmmmble!