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From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Chakravartin - 10-03-2013

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/10/02/rand-paul-shutdown-about-more-than-temporary-inconvenience/

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that Kentuckians who elected him to fight against President Barack Obama's health care law must overlook the "temporary inconveniences" of a federal government shutdown.

Paul, in an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader less than 12 hours after the federal government shuttered its nonessential services, warned that the battle he and Republicans are waging against Obama's health care law is bigger than a shutdown.

"I think I was elected to stand up and say, 'You know what, the emperor has no clothes,'" Paul said. "And we have to point that out. So really when people get caught up in the shutdown, I try to tell them, 'Well look, this isn't just about a shutdown. This isn't just about temporary inconveniences of the government shutdown. This is about whether or not a society or a civilization can borrow a trillion dollars every year without ramifications.'"


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Ignore the whole thing about him actually approving much of that spending and the ACA having passed both houses of Congress with extended debate (and compromise), been signed by the executive and survived a SCOTUS challenge, etc., etc. Yeah, he's a lying hypocrite. We knew all that...

WTF kind of douchebag tells people living paycheck-to-paycheck and/or depending upon government services that their destitution, their suffering and their dying is a necessary "inconvenience" to prove an abstract philosophical point?!

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Topper:

"I guess I don't see it that way," Paul said. "I'm a physician. I diagnose problems, and I try to fix them. And the problem up here is the government's shut down. And so we try to fix it."

Yeah. The republicans are totally powerless to fix this shutdown. I wonder what they could possibly do to end it.

Douchebag.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - $tevie - 10-03-2013

Except he has been caught saying that it is in fact not about fixing anything, it is about "winning". http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul-government-shutdown-97795.html That guy is an enormous tool.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Chakravartin - 10-03-2013

$tevie wrote:
Except he has been caught saying that it is in fact not about fixing anything, it is about "winning". http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/mitch-mcconnell-rand-paul-government-shutdown-97795.html That guy is an enormous tool.

“I don’t think they’ve poll tested,‘We won’t negotiate.’"

Great quote.

Silly democrats didn't poll-test their facts.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-03-2013

He is close to as bad as Paul "$6 trillion of new spending" Ryan, who for some unbelievable reason is also a tea bagger darling.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - rankandfile - 10-03-2013

Paul is quite shallow and self-serving upon close scrutiny. He really has demonstrated an appalling lack of understanding of economics, both factual and conceptual.

He is, after all, the president of an organization that he created for the purpose of certifying himself as an ophthamologist. His wife is VP.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Speedy - 10-04-2013

At least he is consistent, he also wants to end the expensive government program known as Medicare.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Dennis S - 10-04-2013

rankandfile wrote: He is, after all, the president of an organization that he created for the purpose of certifying himself as an ophthamologist. His wife is VP.

He's obviously a huckster. That was brought out in the election, but apparently the teabaggers are easily snowed.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Chakravartin - 10-04-2013

Dennis S wrote:
[quote=rankandfile]He is, after all, the president of an organization that he created for the purpose of certifying himself as an ophthamologist. His wife is VP.

He's obviously a huckster. That was brought out in the election, but apparently the teabaggers are easily snowed.
To be fair to the schmuck, he did get properly certified at one time and only formed the not-officially-recognized competing board when it looked like they weren't going to re-certify him without him demonstrating some knowledge of the field.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - SteveO - 10-04-2013

I thought he had some common sense and reason. Disappointed to learn this. But not terribly surprised, I guess.


Re: From the human debris department: Rand Paul is a schmuck - Dennis S - 10-04-2013

SteveO wrote:
I thought he had some common sense and reason. Disappointed to learn this. But not terribly surprised, I guess.

No. He's a nut. Like David Duke. Guys like them are not only outrageous and hateful, but they are always nuts all over when you learn enough about them