Senator Rand Paul is highly critical of his own party, comparing them to Democrats who just don’t care how much money they spend. He says on one hand they all get behind and endorse the balanced budget amendment yet on the other hand they can’t even cut a few hundred million from ‘loser Amtrak lines’.

But the main question that he asks puts it all into context:

In what parallel universe do we cut spending and actually spend more this year than last year?

Exactly.

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  • Drew

     Right on!!!  It greatly saddens me that one of the Paul’s cant get public support. Very Very Sad. 

    • Duane-p

      I agree with you on this you-tube clip.

      Analoge: An Alcoholic has to hit bottom before he/she recovers 

    • Tyler

      Apparently…NEITHER of them can.

      • Publius

        The only way Rand can get support is another election day like 2010.  Primary the liberal Republicans, and vote for the most conservative candidate in the general.

        Unfortuneatly, the Tea Party Revolution is going to have to fight two more battles like the last one, and win.

        • Tyler

          The Tea Party movement’s already been hijacked and I knew that before the 2010 elections.  Money isn’t the answer.  People throw money into elections like that’s going to fix it all…but what about education on what’s actually going on and what the actual stance of people are on issues?  You don’t really need a lot of money for that.

  • Drew

     Right on!!!  It greatly saddens me that one of the Paul’s cant get public support. Very Very Sad. 

  • sDee

    Surprised?

    The political elite in DC (including most Republicans) would be quite plaesed with the Elephants keeping the House and winning the Senate,  while Barack Hussein occupies the White House for 4 more years of of austere but continued government growth.

    This is the Dick Morris “triangulation” strategy. It is how Clinton stayed in office and we got Newt’s more subdued march toward big government.

    Fortunately it may be too late for that now. The Elephants in the House are jello pudding and, Obama and Soros are too hard core Marxists/Globalists to compromise.

    Dangerous times but an opportunity for a courageous leader.

    • Persephone

      Thank you so much, sDee, for forwarding the thought about an elitist plan for an (R)House + (R)Senate + Barack.
      I’ve been wondering the same thing.
      It certainly seems like that was the plan in 1996.
      Which bought time for W to build his bonafides for a run in 2000.

      It sickens me to think that that is what is going on again…to prepare for a Jeb run in 2016.
      We may not have a country left in 2016.
      And in 2016…Obamacare will be fully implemented and pretty much impossible to repeal.

      The (R)elites are still basking in the glow of the 2010 victories, while chosing to ignore who handed them those victories.
      I wonder if they are so dispicable that they would prefer another 4 years of KingBarry, to the victory of a Tea Party Candidate for president.
       

      • Steprock

        Nothing’s unthinkable once somebody’s thought it. 

  • Pam

    Well, we’ve got two possibilities here. Either we have some of the people in charge from the ‘dumbed down’ public schools that are in the news, or there is no place for an honest person at Washington’s table these days.

  • Mike Coville

     We need more people like this in government. Stop electing politicians and start appointing Representatives.

  • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

    Rand is a one trick pony. He’s great on spending, but if it were up to him Jerusalem would be controlled by the Palestinians.

    At any rate, the GOP is in tough shape and after this election the GOP may be so battered by defections it is no longer a major party. The Tea Party will simply take its place. It might be rough going at first, but the GOP has betrayed us once to often. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulDisciple Robert Timsah

      It must be tough to have an allegiance to two nations. 

      • http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

         Stop trolling for fights. This is your last warning.

    • Tyler

      People should have already stopped trusting the GOP before.  The Rs want to spend more to buy votes from their big business buddies by providing subsidies and tax benefits not given to smaller struggling businesses and the Ds want to spend more to buy votes from the poor through their bankrupting social programs.

      You & I may not agree on Israel…but we can at least agree that this R/D game token has got to be replaced by the truth.

      • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

        The Ds are just as much in bed with Big Business as the Rs. GE payed no taxes last year and benefit from Professor O’Barry’s Cap and Trade regulations. GE, as you may know, purchased the wind energy division of…drum roll please…Enron.

        If the GOP doesn’t wake up soon, they will be replaced completely by the Tea Party. In the end the GOP will be the third party.

        • Tyler

          I actually wouldn’t mind seeing that happen.

          • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

            The GOP is the party of Reagan, but it has drifted so far away from it’s founding principles that I doubt even Reagan would recognize it today.

            • Tyler

              Reagan was also big-government…just in the social conservatism which would explain why he was unable to keep the fiscal sanity he promised.

              • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

                I’ll take Reagan’s “big government” compared to the current Marxist take over any day.

                • Tyler

                  I didn’t say Reagan was as bad.  I was just pointing out something that most conservatives refuse to acknowledge which is that Reagan like every other candidate campaigned on small government and though he succeeded reducing taxes…he didn’t anywhere else in his promise to shrink government and he himself actually took part in many big government activities.

                • http://www.planettron.com NickDeringer

                  Can you name one president in the last 100 years that actually shrank government?

  • Persephone

    Aw come on, Rand…tell us who said that “Who cares”.
    She will no doubt deny it.
    But we will believe you.

    Kudos to Rand Paul for continuing to try to reign in FedZilla.  

  • John42399

      This whole political scene looks like a repeat of 2008 . 2 years and the Republicans haven’t done anything productive . I think they’re just powerless , it’s like they’re  beating a dead horse . As for the Socialist Dems hoping for True Conservatives for Revolution , that’s all reverse psychology trick that they’re playing straight from their handbook . They FEAR  a Revolution . As for Beck saying no violence and playing into their hands , that’s Beck playing double agent . You can’t trust them folks ! This is all by design .  Just my worthless opinion .

    • Tyler

      That’s what they get for going so hard after Planned Parenthood instead of getting a much more serious cut in place by simply addressing government waste and fraud which accounts for more than 10 times the amount they finally allowed to happen.

  • Anonymous

    I understand the sentiment, however, one-trick-ponies are usually filled with giddy-yap. Rand is as eloquent as they come, and a great spokesman for the conservatives.

    The republicans realize that we know how to rotate our stock now…just as well as we know how to replace the competition. When the produce is spoiled, we return it for full credit and replace it with fresh. We outproduce the competitors and gain market share. These either get on the train, jump out of the way, or get run over by it. I think we are going to choo choo them up…one side of the tracks and down the other. Then we’re going to try and untangle all of these mixed metaphors. Yikes.

    This is a response to Nicholas

    • Persephone

      Hail Rshill7…the mighty mix-master of mixed metaphors.
      Haaa. :D

      And since Rand Paul is neither yappy nor giddy, he doesn’t meet the minimum daily requirement for being a one-trick-pony.
      So we can rotate that produce into the spoiled bin.  

      • Anonymous

        You should see me. I’m wearing so much bling from the convenience store you wouldn’t even believe it. I look like flava flave. And before you ask, yes I know what time it is :-D

  • John

    I think the presidential election gets too much coverage. If we get a Republican in the White House, so what? If the Senate and House are not conservative, what does it matter that there’s an (R) in charge of the executive branch. (S)He wil still spend like crazy unless the other branches of government hold him/her accountable. Just look at the disaster that was the Bush presidency.

    In 2012, we need to make sure we have more Senators like Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Jim DeMint. 

    • Tyler

      Me thinks either you don’t realize or don’t believe that Ron Paul actually wouldn’t.

  • Anonymous

    What is the point of this video?  Who did he make it for?

    What a crappy thing to do.  Is Rand Paul stupid or just so much like his crazy old man that he can’t help himself?

    WHY the HELL is he blaming the Republicans?  Why the HELL didn’t he go after the Democrat majority in the Senate and President Obama who are the REAL problem?  Is he really that stupid that he doesn’t know they are the real problem and the only criticism you can legitimately make against Republicans is that some of them are realists?

    Aside from the one Democrat he refused to name, the rest of this rant pit Republicans against “liberals”.  He never said Democrat again.  THEY ARE IN CONTROL.  BLAME THEM YOU MORON! WE HAVE AN ELECTION TO WIN YOU IDIOT!

    This is why I hate so many so-called “conservatives”.  They spend more time and effort attacking their own than attacking the Democrats. 

    • Tyler

      Both parties are just playing games with the spending cuts and anyone who doesn’t see that is just foolish.  The real revolution is NOT Republican OR Conservative…it’s LIBERTARISNISM that’s TRULY about small government, sound money and returning to the Constitution.  ”Realist?”  Really?  What a crock of crap!  They went on full force against Planned Parenthood instead of cutting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of waste and abuse which BOTH parties could have and SHOULD have concentrated on.  They’re DISTRACTING you.  Please open your eyes.

      Rand’s attacking EVERYONE who talks about reducing the deficit, yet DON’T.  It’s not attacking one party over the other because BOTH are responsible for this mess and BOTH are (bleep)ing our country right in the (bleep).

  • Anonymous

     Most incumbents need to be removed and replaced with Conservatives.  I can’t stand the Republican leadership.  They are institutional Republicans.  They care about keeping their cushy jobs, they aren’t serious about Constitutionalism.  They aren’t interested in shutting down unconstitutional departments.  Fine for the private sector to lose jobs, but we must keep these paper pushers employed?  The Federal Govt. isn’t here to employ people.  Shut them down.  They are going to have to find employment outside of the backs of the people.  

  • Hosepipe

    Maybe America HAS the government she deserves NOW… A corrupt government will not change when the people are just as corrupt.. If it wasnt for the TpCaucus(2010) it would be much worse… Join the TpCaucus(2012) Now OR bend over and…… (well you know)..

    • Tyler

      Libertarianism needs to get a much firmer grip on people.  That’s what’s going to save our Constitution and country.

  • Tommyd

    The man speaks the truth…  The problem in Washington is on both sides of the aisle..

    It will take people like Palin, West, Cain, Rand Paul, Ryan and the likes to make any change…

    Electing any Establishment backed politician is a waste of time…  They are not really interested in changing the status quo..

     It’s all Lip Service to them…

    • Tyler

      Until you can tell me a different between Rand and Ron Paul other than age…let’s include BOTH Pauls, shall we?

  • sadpanda

    What about ending the FED paul??  Show me the law that says i must pay a federal income tax and i will give you my life’s savings.

    • Tyler

      Ah…I think you may have found something that he MAY differ from his old man on.  However…I am pretty sure he would agree that the Federal Reserve should not exist because it’s unconstitutional and intentionally stealing our country’s wealth if he’s actually asked about it.

      As far as the law…you should actually research before you make promises.  Unfortunately, there is a 16th Amendment in our Constitution which states:

      “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

      We need to fight for a REPEAL of this amendment as well as getting rid of the IRS.Also…even though the income tax is still technically voluntary according to the IRS’s own codes…they are heavily committed to Orwellian-style “double-think” which leads to them sending armed agents to your house to arrest you and imprison you for not “voluntarily” a portion of your income to them.

      Oh…please don’t give the government your life savings.  Do some research into the market place and understand that there are some seriously lucrative investments (and I don’t mean precious metals either) that can profoundly increase your savings relatively quickly (by which I mean months).  Some friendly advice…for a more long-term investment…buy some shares of U.S. Cellular.  Just the fact that they’ve gone from almost unheard of to mass advertising should tell you they’re doing well and the fact that they’re turbo-charging their 4G capabilities shows that they may very well be the first ones to actually the faster cellular internet nationwide.

  • http://twitter.com/Chris100358 Chris

    Bravo.