Rand Paul

[sleigh]

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... :-)

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"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."

Dangerous.

B

Weimar

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

There's always Weimar.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

For months, I have offered a bet: When the dust settles after the 2010 elections, the Democrats will have larger majorities in the House and Senate than the Republicans did after the 2002 election. For all their braggadocio, no right-winger has taken me up on that bet.

Now, it looks even better for the Democrats. The GOP has been hijacked by the extremists, the Sarah Palin "base" (though her endorsements didn't mean much). A few nutjobs will come through (such as in Utah).

But while the Republicans are shifting to the hard right, the Democrats are moving ever so slightly to the left, almost to the middle. The "anti-incumbant fever" is mainly right-wing outrage at people who were not insane enough for them. In last week's primaries, out of 84 races with incumbents running, the incumbents won 82 of them. One is now in a runoff. The other, the governor of Jim Gibbons of Nevada, lost after being mired in scandal. His Democratic opponent: Harry Reid's son.

While I still think the Dems will lose seats in the offyear, as the majority party usually does, the goppies are shooting themselves in the foot. A little bit of good economic news, Obama cracks the whip on BP and idiots like Rand Paul, and I'm almost willing to predict that the Dems either not lose very many seats or even manage to pick up a few.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

He certainly is a believer in free enterprise: apparently, his claim that he is "Board certified" is true only because he established his own Board http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20100613panel_says_candidate_paul_not_board_certified/