10-03-2013, 10:20 PM
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/10/02/ra...nvenience/
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.
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.