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Rand Paul keeps unashamedly showing us the type of person he is, and I think we have to applaud him for that. First it was the uproar over his comments on the Civil Rights Act,. Then it was saying that it's "un-American" for President Obama to criticize BP's handling of the oil crisis in the Gulf. "I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business," Paul said. Yes, after all, businesses should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want to do to make money, without any interference from governmental regulations, oversight, or accountability.
The latest interesting stance of Paul's to emerge is another area where he feels that corporations should have the complete right to take whatever they want from wherever they find it using whatever means they wish to employ. He supports the coal mining industry's method of "mountaintop removal,' a practice which has been linked to environmental devastation in Kentucky and West Virginia. Rand thinks it's a perfectly lovely method of stripping coal from the ground. After all, he says, "I don’t think anybody's going to be missing a hill or two here and there."
You gotta give the guy props for consistency. After all, if we're going to let greedy corporations soil the oceans without restraint or accountability, we should be allowing them to do the same to the land.
My... This guy gets more and more interesting the more he's allowed to talk. I'm beginning to wonder if liberals shouldn't be gleefully supporting Tea Party-supported candidates in the Republican primaries, figuring that their far-to-the-right stances might result in self-destruction during the general election.
I can hope so, anyway... :-)
The latest interesting stance of Paul's to emerge is another area where he feels that corporations should have the complete right to take whatever they want from wherever they find it using whatever means they wish to employ. He supports the coal mining industry's method of "mountaintop removal,' a practice which has been linked to environmental devastation in Kentucky and West Virginia. Rand thinks it's a perfectly lovely method of stripping coal from the ground. After all, he says, "I don’t think anybody's going to be missing a hill or two here and there."
You gotta give the guy props for consistency. After all, if we're going to let greedy corporations soil the oceans without restraint or accountability, we should be allowing them to do the same to the land.
My... This guy gets more and more interesting the more he's allowed to talk. I'm beginning to wonder if liberals shouldn't be gleefully supporting Tea Party-supported candidates in the Republican primaries, figuring that their far-to-the-right stances might result in self-destruction during the general election.
I can hope so, anyway... :-)