Posted on 12/20/2011 6:56:45 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In June of 1976, I was Ron Paul’s speechwriter. Shortly after I joined his staff as his newsletter writer and economic analyst, I recommended that he do what I had been doing for a year: buy a Code-A-Phone telephone answering machine and make a weekly 3-minute recording for people in his districts to call. He could send the tape to his office in the district, where the machine would be set up at a local phone number. Residents could call it for free. He thought this was a good idea. So began his weekly speeches.
I wrote his first talk. He later told me that he didn’t like reading a script written by anyone else, so he had decided to record his own. As far as I know, that was the last speech anyone ever wrote for him.
He used that machine for the next two-and-a-half years. After his defeat in November 1976, he posted a weekly phone message. The weekly report became a tool for a comeback. In 1978, he defeated the man who had barely defeated him (268 votes) in 1976.
So, having been his only speechwriter, I will now offer my second speech that he will not deliver.
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My Fellow Americans, as an earlier President from Texas used to say.
I would like to take this opportunity to say something that is both profound and memorable. The trouble is, only two inaugural addresses are remembered today, Lincoln’s second inaugural and John F. Kennedy’s only inaugural. Lincoln said these words: “With malice toward none and charity toward all.” Those are fine words. Kennedy said: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” I especially like the first sentence.
Given the fact that hardly anyone remembers an inauguration speech, the likelihood of my saying something both profound and memorable today is low. Therefore, I have decided to do something memorable instead.
[He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper that he has typed. He holds it down to the podium with his left hand. He reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a pen.]
I have in front of me a piece of paper. I wrote it this morning. Let me read it to you.
Executive Order 13,601: An executive Order Revoking all Previous Executive Orders.
I, Ron Paul, do hereby declare null and void all previous Presidential executive orders.
Signed: Ron Paul, January 20, 2013.
The Constitution of the United States made no provision for executive orders. Congress never votes to create one, yet executive orders have the force of law. The Constitution says that all laws must be passed by a majority in both houses of Congress and then be signed by the President. Therefore, during my time as President, the government of the United States will be run exclusively by laws that were passed in accordance with the Constitution. I do not have the authority to repeal laws on my own. I do have the authority to repeal executive orders. I have just repealed 13,600 of them.
From this point on, you are not obligated to conform to rules and regulations issued under executive orders. Of course, the various executive departments of the United States government will do their best to ignore this, so you had better check with your lawyer.
Just in case someone is prosecuted under a now-defunct executive order, I will pardon anyone so convicted. I may have to spend the second half of my first term in office signing pardons, nine to five, but that would be a very good use of my time. I will come out of the oval office to give a few speeches and hold some press conferences, but you will know that I am doing useful work in my office. I am going to get my branch of the government off people’s backs. I say this with malice toward none and charity toward all.
I hope to have good relationship with the press. If some diligent reporter digs up some dirt on what some agency has done, legally or illegally, or in planning to do, he can ask me about it at a press conference. I’ll do what I can to fix it. Because the government is spying on the people, the least I can do is to cooperate with the press when the press spies on the government.
I will run my office with these rules:
First, I will veto any bill that I think is not authorized by the Constitution. If Congress overrides my veto, that is Congress’s responsibility. They call me “Dr. No.” That’s who I am.
Second, I plan to close hundreds of American military bases in foreign nations. They will be auctioned off, with the money going to reduce the federal deficit. I will announce the first action no later than March 1 of this year.
Third, I will ask Congress to mandate a complete audit of the Federal Reserve System annually by the Government Accountability Office. I want to know where the government’s gold is and who has legal title to it.
Fourth, this afternoon, I will order the Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan the removal of all troops from Afghanistan this year, preferably by June 30.
Fifth, I remind the voters and the world that anyone with the power to fix the nation by political action has the power to destroy the nation by political power. I am not here to make America better. I am here to veto laws that will hinder American citizens from making America better. I am here to help keep the federal government from making America worse.
In his first letter to Timothy, chapter 2, the Apostle Paul told Timothy to tell the churches to pray for civil rulers. I strongly suggest to churches they do just this, weekly. Twice a week would be twice as good.
Now, I must bring this speech to a close. I wish you the best in building a better America. I will do what I can to free you from the burden of excessive government regulations, so that you can do this.
Guilt by assocation does not make for good fact checking. Sorry.
Dude, they agree with each other on the show.
And associations do matter.
Would you say the same thing about people who hang out with Rev Wright? Or members of the KKK? Or self declared NAZIS?
Not this $hit again....
You folks would have been the ones apologizing to Hirohito and Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor was attacked. We probably “had it coming” then also...
It is one thing to ascribe motives to the attackers on account of our actions on their turf. It is another to assert our own leaders plotted and carried out the 9/11 attacks. Please direct me to some link or evidence where Ron Paul asserts the latter. Thanks!
Watched the whole thing. Paul does not in any way assert that our own government planned and executed the attacks. I would expect the fed to cover its tracks inasmuch as they are complicit in setting up shop on rattlesnake turf.
But I must yield to the truth that militant Muslims are a genuine threat, not to be underestimated on a temporal basis. Same goes for socialists and communists. In the greater scheme of things, Ron Paul does not concern me in the least when it comes to governance, nor do the other contenders with the exception of Zero . . . who needs to GO AWAY.
So the crackpot Paul refused to let anyone write his speeches yet for decades he claims he did not write the racist vile newsletters that had his name on them? More Ron Paul BS.
I love revoking all executive orders. I’ve always said that if given the power, I’d do the same thing. The vetoes, too. I’ve occasionally said that if I ever somehow stumbled into that office, my first act would be to send an intern down to the office supply store to get a lot of ink pads and a lot of rubber stamps saying “VETO”.
“So the crackpot Paul refused to let anyone write his speeches yet for decades he claims he did not write the racist vile newsletters that had his name on them?”
Who knows? Given the timeframe - about 15-25 years ago, who really cares?
I realize of course that on anti-Ron Paul threads the fact that he might have picked his nose 10 years ago is of paramount importance, but for most folks it’s ancient history.
Given the timeframe - about 15-25 years ago, who really cares?
Who cares? The American people should care. Each one should be studying his entire resume’ and easily determining that he is not worthy of the position he is applying for. The “who cares” is what got us Obama.
I care for my family and country about a racist incompetent libertarian kook running for office who has a naive and very dangerous foreign policy, nutty drug policy, supports OWS, frequents conspiracy nut shows, blames the US for 9/11, and is a nut that nobody in Congress respects or could work with.
Ron Paul is NOT conservative, NOT Tea Party, and NOT GOP. He is the streetcorner crazy that people cross the street to avoid.
Ron Paul is disgusting AND CRAZY.
It took a long for RuPaul’s moonbattery to see the light of day.
“Ron Paul is NOT conservative, NOT Tea Party, and NOT GOP. He is the streetcorner crazy that people cross the street to avoid.”
So I guess you’ll be voting for mittens in the general then. Because that’s the way this is shaping up: mittens, barky and Ron Paul as 3rd party.
You make a lot of assumptions, huh?
But if you want to know, I DO NOT vote for liberals, blatant RINOs, or dangerous crazies.
“But if you want to know, I DO NOT vote for liberals, blatant RINOs, or dangerous crazies.”
We’ll see. I expect to see a lot of folks who talked the talk about mittens to vote for him. And that will be very entertaining to watch them rationalize that decision next fall.
It is just really sad that a crackpot is polluting the GOP field during the needed vetting of serious candidates of across the GOP political spectrum. While Romney and his enablers need to be defeated by conservatives, Paul and his cult are sucking the oxygen out of the primary process.
“While Romney and his enablers need to be defeated by conservatives, Paul and his cult are sucking the oxygen out of the primary process.”
I think the oxygen was sucked out the process the day Sarah Palin decided not to run.
Now we’re just making tradeoffs.
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