Posted on 05/23/2022 1:23:20 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) said his Kentucky colleague Sen. Rand Paul (R), who vocally opposed the $40 billion Ukraine aid package, represented “a tiny percentage” of Senate Republicans.
“My colleague, Senator Paul, has always been basically an isolationist. He’s proud of it and believes that’s where America ought to be. That is a tiny percentage of the Senate Republican Conference,” McConnell told Fox News’ Bret Baier on Thursday.
“There’s always been a strand of isolationism in our party, but it’s not anywhere near the dominant view, which was expressed in the vote that we had today and will be expressed again when we vote on the admission of Finland and Sweden into NATO,” he added.
Paul was among 11 GOP senators who voted against the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine earlier Thursday. The Kentucky Republican last week kept the chamber from quickly advancing the legislation after it passed the House earlier this month.
“We only had 11 votes against the package. I predict we will have even fewer votes opposed to the admission of Finland and Sweden into NATO,” McConnell said on Fox, predicting more than two-thirds of the Senate would vote to back Finland and Sweden’s NATO bids.
Responding to McConnell’s remarks, Paul claimed his stance was not “isolationism” but “common sense.”
“Opposing big government spending is not isolationism, it’s common sense. Our country faces an inflation crisis and adding more debt now is a mistake,” Paul said in a statement.
The Ukraine aid package that passed the upper chamber Thursday includes $9 billion to refill stockpiles for weapons sent to Ukraine and close to $9 billion for the Ukrainian government to continue its operations and combat human trafficking, among other provisions.
“If Congress really believed giving Ukraine $40B was in our national interest, they could easily pay for it by taxing every income taxpayer $500. My guess is they choose to borrow the $ bc Americans might just decide they need the $500 more to pay for gas,” Paul tweeted Thursday morning.
Ten GOP senators joined Paul in voting against the aid package: Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), John Boozman (Ark.), Mike Braun (Ind.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Lee (Utah), Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.).
The passage of the aid package was lauded by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
So only a tiny percentage of the GOP cares about America. Got it.
Uniparty won’t last forever. Mitch, your days are numbered.
Thats pretty much it.
Damn, Mitch can tell the truth! Notice my tagline, the water’s fine.
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It’s alarming that only a few give a crap about the American Middle class.
They joined up with the Dems to overwrite America, pretty much.
This is why you saw no campaign to resist Biden from the beginning. They know the tactic works, they saw it done to Trump, but the instead they called Biden a good man, and went to galas with him, and supported his Appointees and Bills. They also sided with him on Covid.
Linda speaking at 1:10 to Ukraine troops in 2016. We will go on offense against Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMMvSiVkjfg
Nice. I don’t think I was ever a globalist, but when the neo-cons took over the party, what option did you have.
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