Posted on 04/23/2014 1:06:25 PM PDT by Josh Painter
David Corn of Mother Jones has assembled a number of clips from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over the years criticizing former President Ronald Reagan for the budgets he signed into law. In some cases, Paul declared Reagan worse on budgetary issue than his predecessor, former President Jimmy Carter.
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Something that bothers me about when people go after Reagan, is that they have the bruises and compromises, and flat out defeats of an actual real life 8 year presidency to cherry pick, and usually are using it to defend the campaign/position weakness of a candidate, who should be offering something closer to theoretical perfection.
Thank you. I want you to know you're not alone. Reagan was a great president, but too many want to worship him as the quintessential Conservative. He was not perfect. He spent way too much. Others may excuse the deficit spending, but it started us down a fiscal path that we should have never gone.
The nut does not fall far from the tree.
Particularly he had to deal with that consummate socialist sleazebag "Tip" O'Neill. Am I the only one who remembers that piece of dog-filth declaring all of President Reagan's budget proposals "Dead on Arrival"?
If that nitwit Ford had stepped aside and let Reagan run, things could have been wondrously different. Of course it was four years of that idiot peanut farmer that paved the way for the sheeple to understand that we needed Reagan.
I really feel like he was significantly physically diminished during his second term and allowed advisers to make too many decisions for him. The younger Reagan (1970’s) would have really made a difference. He was a LOT more conservative then.
Bah.
Other people will make up their own minds as they should, but for me, this marks the point at which Starship Rand Paul just blew up on the launchpad.
This must be the “get rid of Rand Paul” day. One hit after another today. Most of the sources are left wing and, under most circumstances, would be ignored. Mother Jones??? Really??
Anyways, Rand Paul must be doing something right or the hits wouldn’t be coming so swiftly in the same time frame. Maybe, Jeb Bush’s announcement has something to do with it.
Anyways, I will listen carefully to Paul. The Rinos and Leftist sure don’t want him to run for President. Says a lot for him....now tuning in.....
The only way to be sure is to bring in fresh blood that is untainted. That in and of itself isn’t easy, but it is necessary.
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There is no existing mechanism for it and if there were it would already be corrupted - but I truly believe we would be better represented if officeholders were selected randomly from the population at large.
25 years or older, not bedridden, insane, or any felony convictions - and otherwise selected by random lottery.
It will never happen, but we would get better people than the professional charlatans.
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[30] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[16] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[25] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[23]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][31] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[32] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[32] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[33][34] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[33]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[29][35]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][36] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[31] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[17][37][38][39][40][41] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[42]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[42][43]
Clerkships
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[12][42] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[44]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[45]
In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.
Bush Administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[45]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.[42][47]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[2][47] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[2][17][47]
Texas Solicitor General
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[12][48] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[25][42]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[12][17][27] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[49] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[49]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[27][50] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[27][51]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[17][27][42]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, [17][42] in which Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that a non-custodial parent does not have standing in court to sue to stop a public school from requiring its students to recite of the Pledge of Allegiance.[17][42] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief in a 9-0 decision.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[42][52]
Private practice
After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, he worked in a private law firm in Houston, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, often representing corporate clients, until he was sworn in a U.S. Senator from Texas in 2013.[29][42][58] At Morgan, Lewis, he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[58]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.[12][17][27][42]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[48][53] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[54][55] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[56][57]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
I dare anyone to find me another 43 year old, ANYWHERE, with that much experience!
I like Ted Cruz very much and I have a lot of respect for him.
I don’t ignore actual video and quotes from any source, as long as they are real.
Following the Rubio insert foot here scenario = downward poll
Bingo.....
“The largest point against libertarians is their pacifist streak.”
Not true. Libertarians who embrace pacifism are not libertarians; they’re purse-carrying commies. Real libertarians will fight for the Constitution and individual property rights like a tiger.
What many conservatives see as libertarianism is another branch of socialism. The Libertarian party has been infiltrated and taken over by libertines and commies.
What we need to do is separate out the Constitutional libertarians from the commies who erroneously call themselves libertarians. Hell, in my wildest dreams, I’m in favor of mustering real libertarians to go to the next libertarian convention and stomp commie nuts into the concrete.
That’s just me, though. You may have a different opinion.
That is just a plain lie, the Libertarian party has never changed or been taken over by anyone, it is as pure libertarian as it ever was, with one microscopic change from 1972 to 1974.
The minor switch was in the first platform, pre Roe v Wade, they put a 100 day limit on abortion, in 1974 they went full libertarian and made it full term abortion.
Maybe.LOL
Actually it may be true.
Many years ago Jimmah was the governor of Georgia and he was going around the nation giving presentations to other states about zero base budgeting. He was very knowledgeable about all of the intricacies of budgeting.
Jimmah was a great detail man, unfortunately the presidency is not a detail job. It's a leadership job.
You know that isn't true and it has been corrected for you before, the Libertarian party has never changed or been taken over by anyone, it is as pure libertarian as it ever was.
Why don't you list some of those reversals, or major changes that never happened?
If you mean their leaning towards free market child porn, they still haven't made that formal yet, so it isn't in the platform.
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