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Rand Paul holds up Senate budget vote with government shutdown only hours away
CNBC ^ | 02/08/2018 | Jacob Pramuk | @jacobpramuk

Posted on 02/08/2018 1:39:03 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: greatvikingone

I think he was referring to the parasites, not you personally..................


21 posted on 02/08/2018 1:57:40 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Red Badger

If baseline budgeting is still going on, budget caps are a joke. And Paul knows it.


22 posted on 02/08/2018 1:59:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

It’s better to have no budget at all......................


23 posted on 02/08/2018 2:01:16 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: gathersnomoss
Go to work for your food just like the rest of us....or starve on the streets. You will figure it out.

They should be required to do the jobs that Americans don't want to do (and wetbacks are being removed from)

24 posted on 02/08/2018 2:01:22 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: Red Badger

It’d be cheaper.


25 posted on 02/08/2018 2:02:04 PM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: hardspunned

I dont think they really cared then even. Deficits only matter to the base, and a very few in congress. The bulk of them couldn’t care less. Just this morning Rush was saying he didn’t care about deficits anymore because in his words, nothing bad has happened even though we have all this debt and continued deficient spending...

I think it was the most despicable thing I’ve heard Rush say and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him walk it back tomorrow.


26 posted on 02/08/2018 2:03:24 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Seaplaner

The problem is, if we are really going to allocate $719 billion per year to the Pentagon, there needs to be cutbacks in other parts of the budget to balance things out. Otherwise, the slack has to be picked up with yet more debt. But Congress is not willing to make those kinds of tough choices.


27 posted on 02/08/2018 2:06:50 PM PST by seacapn
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To: Jonny7797

I can see why it wouldn’t much matter to Rush (who I greatly respect). Neither he nor I will have any hand in repaying the debt or suffering the consequences when the piper demands his due. As for my seven small grandchildren it is a different matter altogether.


28 posted on 02/08/2018 2:08:37 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: Red Badger

That’s way too cerebral. You got to bring that down to the current intellectual maturity level. The Republicans are scratchy and the Democrats are itchy.


29 posted on 02/08/2018 2:08:38 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: 1Old Pro

Bump to that!


30 posted on 02/08/2018 2:15:22 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: gathersnomoss

Yeah but that won’t stop the big gubmint wing of FR from calling Paul a Losertarian kook or whatever.


31 posted on 02/08/2018 2:17:21 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Seaplaner
Has Mister Paul ever been a friend of our precious Military?

He, and his crazier father, have never been military friendly, that I can recall.

32 posted on 02/08/2018 2:17:53 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Yogafist

The Republicans are Lisa and the Democrats are Bart Simpson......................


33 posted on 02/08/2018 2:18:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: mewzilla

The Dems and the Repubs are both salivating over the huge tax revenues that are going to come in from the revived economy.

They don’t want the other to get their hands on it first....................


34 posted on 02/08/2018 2:20:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Red Badger

The Republican party only talks about fiscal sanity when they’re in the minority and don’t have to actually DO anything.

Rand Paul is right.


35 posted on 02/08/2018 2:20:58 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: Red Badger

I also just heard that it eliminates reconciliation and that it has Obamacare “fixes” in it. This is an abomination.


36 posted on 02/08/2018 2:31:38 PM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: lonevoice

They used to call these bills “Christmas Trees”—but nowadays that is not politically correct. :-)


37 posted on 02/08/2018 2:34:46 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: gathersnomoss
Rand is not the bad guy. The entitlements, given by the POS Progressive politicians must be cut.

No, he's not. We could use 99 more just like him.

When Senator Paul is for or against something, you can be assured it is a position supported by the Constitution, a document I often wonder if he's the only elected official in D.C. who has ever bothered reading.

38 posted on 02/08/2018 2:36:36 PM PST by Drew68
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To: airborne

“Rand Paul is right.”

No question about it.

It’s good to hear other ex-military guys recognize it - I was airborne too.

People who think the Pauls are anti-military are not correctly making a distinction between guys like them who certainly do respect the military and phony right wingers who just like the type of foreign entanglements and chest thumping which Jefferson warned us about.

Spending the next generations’ money IS the definition of corruption.


39 posted on 02/08/2018 2:37:06 PM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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GOOD
40 posted on 02/08/2018 2:55:12 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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