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This commission will be a colossal waste of time. 0 will be show-boating. My guess, he’ll probably subpoena Bush and Cheney, just cause.
I think wRONg PAUL is an idiot and a losertarian...but he is correct on this vote. (but not much else)
Republicans cave in again. Go Tea Party.
Being a minority of one does tend to make a person feel lonely. I've been there, done that. But when you know you're right, you feel a little sorry for those who for whatever reason do not understand fully the issue they voted on.
There's a brief section in Barry Goldwater's book, The Conscience of a Conservative, where Sen. Goldwater tells of being the only vote against a change to labor law that was supposed to reduce the power of corrupt unions. He was concerned that a half-way fix was worse than no fix at all, since it would remove the pressure and it was unlikely they would revisit the issue at a later time and do it right.
When the bill went to the House, it was rejected and the Landrum-Griffin bill substituted in its place.
Whatever may be said about Goldwater going liberal in his later years, he was a man of great integrity, as is Dr. Paul.
(Google books, I found, provides the very pages I summarized above from Goldwater's book. Go here to read it, and the rest of the chapter on labor. Fascinating stuff, and still relevant today.)