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Latest Articles: politics and politicians
Totally Eye-Popping [Cruz's fundraising]
Post Date: 2015-04-12 07:54:00 by out damned spot
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Is it a good thing or a bad thing that a presidential candidate demonstrates an ability to raise enough money to effectively reach the “inhabitants of America” with his political message? On Friday, National Public Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show took a further drag on our tax dollars to take incredulous note of the fact that four Super PACs supportive of Republican Ted Cruz’s campaign for president declared having collected, collectively, $31 million. One of Diane’s guests, Neal King, Jr., with the Wall Street Journal, explained that all four PACs associated with the Cruz effort sport the “Keep the Promise” name and distinguish among themselves with the ...
Oh Hill no! Clinton’s stale presidential plan wrong for nation
Post Date: 2015-04-12 07:45:19 by Tooconservative
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More than five years ago, a Clinton confidant matter-of-factly described for me Hillary’s Plan. She would resign as secretary of state after President Obama’s first term, write a book and then run for president again. Check, check, and, with Sunday’s official launch, check again. Her to-do list is complete. She stuck like glue to The Plan, which required years of misleading blabber from her and Bubba that she hadn’t decided about 2016. Fish gotta swim, and a Clinton’s gotta run, so there was never an iota of doubt. But time has marched on and the world has changed, making The Plan, and her, look stuck in the past. What the great Murray Kempton wrote in 1965 of ...
Sens. McCain and Levin urged IRS to target Tea Party, conservative groups
Post Date: 2015-04-11 23:44:28 by out damned spot
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Government documents obtained by a top "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group and released on Thursday reveal that Internal Revenue Service's Lois Lerner was strongly urged by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, her assistance in attacking certain non-profit political groups. The organizations they selected for targeting by Lerner were part of the Tea Party and conservative movements. The group that investigates and exposes government corruption, Judicial Watch, released newly acquired IRS documents, including an email from Ms. Lerner in February 2012 requesting she “put together some training points to help them [IRS staffers] understand the ...
Rand Paul says he supports Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander's re-election
Post Date: 2015-04-11 23:17:14 by out damned spot
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Some Tennessee tea party activists looking for a GOP primary opponent for Alexander NASHVILLE — A week after about 150 tea party activists rallied in opposition to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's re-election next year, tea party favorite Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said here Monday that he hopes Alexander doesn't get an opponent and wins re-election. Alexander, R-Tenn., has aroused tea party ire for his votes for the immigration reform bill and other measures opposed by the hard right. Tea partiers also claimed an Alexander campaign ad televised statewide this month falsely implied that Paul, R-Kentucky, had endorsed him. The ad featured Paul speaking at a Nashville event with ...
Cruz Thunderously Received At NRA Meeting
Post Date: 2015-04-11 21:32:43 by out damned spot
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz opened his remarks to National Rifle Association members Friday describing his disgust with the president’s description of the 2010 Fort Hood shooting as “work place violence.” Cruz began Friday at the Army Base in Texas and told the audience that the military personnel who were killed or wounded by Nidal Hassan were finally awarded the purple heart. “It is a time for truth. you cannot win a war on radical Islamic terrorism with a president who is unwilling to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorists.’ Instead of a terrorist who boycotts Prime Minister Netenyahu,” Cruz told the NRA ...
WOW: Rand Paul Consults With Dr. Evil, Henry Kissinger
Post Date: 2015-04-11 00:36:04 by Deckard
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Buried at the bottom of a recent corporate news article is the startling admission that presidential hopeful Rand Paul consulted with Henry Kissinger, eugenics ghoul and new world order henchman. Politico reported Rand Paul: Mugged by Reality? "The foreign policy eminences Paul has consulted include Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and who was a leading critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq war. According to Burt, Paul has also chatted briefly with Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state who is a favorite ...
New media outrage: Rand Paul takes one last question, answers it, leaves
Post Date: 2015-04-10 19:32:03 by Tooconservative
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A nice demonstration of how the left-media’s “narrative” sausage gets made. The headline at TPM: My goodness. Rand got testy with another reporter, to the point where he actually stormed off? Maybe Megyn Kelly was right to complain about how thin-skinned he seems. This certainly sounds “problematic.” .@RandPaul refuses to answer @PaulLewis' question in the @GuardianUS periscope interview, abruptly walked off AS STAFFERS TURN OFF LIGHTS — Katherine Krueger (@kath_krueger) April 10, 2015 Good lord. They’re literally blacking out the media to shield him from tough questions. No wonder Politico is aghast about his “particularly prickly ...
Quid pro, uh oh: Hillary stopped opposing trade deal after Clinton Foundation’s foreign donations
Post Date: 2015-04-09 13:25:03 by Tooconservative
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Another day, another scandalous tale involving the Clinton Foundation’s suspect ethics. The number of controversial practices in which the Clinton Foundation is alleged to have engaged is growing too numerous to recount in a single post. Just this week, former President Bill Clinton conceded that his family’s foundation might benefit from some internal reforms, but only if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in 2016. Unethical fundraising practices, the misuse of taxpayer dollars, the violation of memoranda of understanding with the administration, and the appearance of selling influence to foreign governments are a few disturbing patterns of conduct that might need to be ...
Paul Blooms As Clinton Wilts In Colorado, Iowa, Virginia [other GOP contenders close behind]
Post Date: 2015-04-09 11:28:06 by Tooconservative
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April 9, 2015 - Paul Blooms As Clinton Wilts In Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll FindsPDF format --- COLORADO: Paul 44 - Clinton 41 IOWA: Paul 43 - Clinton 42 VIRGINIA: Clinton 47 - Paul 43 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lead is wilting against leading Republican presidential candidates in three critical swing states, Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, and she finds herself in a close race with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky in each state, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. In head-to-head matchups, every Republican candidate effectively ties her in Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her in ...
CONSERVATIVES REVOLT AGAINST JOHN MCCAIN’S REELECTION BID
Post Date: 2015-04-08 21:31:26 by out damned spot
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Multiple conservative groups rebelled right out of the gate to Senator John McCain’s announcement that he will indeed seek re-election in what is expected to be a historic 2016 election cycle. Within hours of McCain’s announcement both Conservative Review and the Senate Conservatives Fund had emailed to rally supporters against McCain. The messages pointed out McCain’s record and weakened position. Senate Conservatives Fund called for a strong show of support to oust a weakened McCain and elect a fresh face to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Conservative Review grants McCain an “F” with a 48 percent rating, calling out McCain for an extensive 32-year ...
Harry Reid Changes His Story On How He Sustained New Year’s Day Injuries
Post Date: 2015-04-08 21:00:45 by out damned spot
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is changing the story about how he sustained those gruesome New Year’s Day injuries that have left him blind in one eye. Previously, Reid claimed that an exercise band he was using “broke.” “I was doing exercises that I’ve been doing for many years with those large rubber bands and one of them broke and spun me around and I crashed into these cabinets and injured my eye,” (emphasis added) Reid said at a press conference on January 22. (You can see the video of that press conference here.) But now, in an interview conducted by Fusion (a joint venture between ABC and Univision), excerpts of which have been released ...
The Scandal That Could Blow Up Rand Paul's Machine
Post Date: 2015-04-08 20:56:25 by Willie Green
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A criminal probe involving his father's 2012 campaign is inching dangerously close to Paul's inner circle. On December 26, 2011, a week before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, an influential Republican state senator named Kent Sorenson and his wife, Shawnee, arrived at a steak house in Altoona, a suburb of Des Moines. A goateed Mr. Clean look-alike, Sorenson was a hot commodity. His deep ties to the state's evangelical leaders and home-schooling activists made his endorsement highly sought after by GOP presidential hopefuls, particularly the second-tier contenders who had staked their campaigns on a strong Iowa showing. Sorenson had picked his horse early, ...
Has Rand Paul missed his moment?
Post Date: 2015-04-08 12:09:26 by Gatlin
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It wasn't long ago that the Kentucky senator seemed perfectly matched to the times: a Republican who reflected the nation's reluctance to keep launching wars but clung to a stinging critique of an intrusive, dysfunctional Big Government. But for Paul, who formally announced his presidential campaign Tuesday, that balancing act may not be enough to build a coalition that can carry him to the White House. A cascading list of horrifying headlines from abroad is convincing many Americans that the national interest again requires the United States to project power in the chaotic Middle East. In particular, the gruesome actions of ISIS -- including beheading Americans -- could undercut ...
Cheney: President Obama Wants ‘To Take America Down’ [VIDEO]
Post Date: 2015-04-08 11:37:42 by cranky
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4526037In an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” Tuesday night, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Obama’s actions on the world stage exemplify a president who wants “to take America down.” Cheney also touched on Obama’s comments on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, telling Hewitt that Obama is the only post-World War II president to believe that America doesn’t need “to play a leading role in the world.” The former vice president made the appearance following the announcement of a new book on American foreign policy, co-authored by himself and daughter Liz Cheney, will be released in September. HEWITT: Let me play for both of ...
Can Rand Paul escape his father's shadow?
Post Date: 2015-04-07 22:22:10 by Gatlin
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The launch of Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign -- expected to be officially unveiled in Kentucky on Tuesday -- may not have been possible without the work of his father, Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman and three-time White House contender. The elder Paul, who ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988 and a Republican in 2008 and 2012, helped pave the way for Rand Paul by building a nationwide network of devoted supporters drawn to his message of limited government and non-interventionist foreign policy. But while Rand Paul has largely inherited the ideological roots of Ron Paul's political philosophy, he's not a carbon copy of his father. The two are similar in ...
Rand Paul: Mugged by reality?
Post Date: 2015-04-07 22:05:52 by Gatlin
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As Rand Paul announced his presidential campaign Tuesday, he called for a national defense “robust enough to defend against all attack, modern enough to deter all enemies, and nimble enough to defend our vital interests.” He also called for a “foreign policy that protects American interests and encourages stability — not chaos.” Later this week, the Republican senator from Kentucky will speak in front of an aircraft carrier as part of his campaign rollout. In the months ahead, he’ll talk far more frequently about foreign policy. He is also planning to issue a series of position papers on America’s role in the world. It’s all part of a campaign ...
Rand Paul Is Losing His Father’s Base [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-04-07 21:47:24 by Gatlin
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign is less than a day old but already suffers from an identity crisis. Paul wants to win, but he can only do so if he is seen as more mainstream than his father, Ron Paul, who ran for president in 2008 and 2012. At the same time, Paul can’t completely jettison the far-left and far-right positions that have made him a hero to the substantial number of Republican libertarians who made up his father’s base. In Paul’s dream world, he’ll satisfy everyone. In the most likely real world, he’ll end up satisfying no one. The most obvious path for Paul to win the GOP nomination is to build on the 21 percent of the vote his ...
Ted Cruz Was Way More Welcoming to Rand Paul's Entry into 2016 Than Paul Was to His
Post Date: 2015-04-07 17:43:18 by out damned spot
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The Texas senator said he was "glad to welcome" Paul into the race. April 7, 2015 Ted Cruz warmly welcomed Rand Paul into the 2016 race Tuesday morning, calling him a "good friend"—even after his rival wrote him off. "I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary," the Texas senator and presidential contender said in a statement on his website Tuesday morning. "Rand is a good friend, and we have worked side by side on many issues." It was a decidedly different tone from the one Paul used when Cruz launched his White House bid last month. Appearing on Fox News' The Kelly File the night Cruz announced his campaign, the ...
Rand Paul Can't Change Republicans
Post Date: 2015-04-07 17:35:39 by Gatlin
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Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, announced on his website Tuesday morning that he's running for president. He says he's "a different kind of Republican leader," by which he means a libertarian kind. The closer he gets to the presidency, however, the less libertarian he gets. His evolution is a case study in how hard it is even for a talented politician to remake his party. Paul argues that his concern for civil liberties, skepticism about foreign intervention and willingness to back off in the War on Drugs will win him the support of voters who have never pulled the lever for a Republican. He has spoken often about bringing more minorities and ...
Rand Paul announces he is running for president
Post Date: 2015-04-07 16:48:24 by tpaine
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http://news.yahoo.com Rand Paul announces he is running for president By Dylan Stableford Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made it official Tuesday, announcing that he will run for president in 2016. “I have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words,” the Republican told supporters in a fiery speech at the Galt House in downtown Louisville, hours after announcing his bid for the White House on his website. “We have come to take our country back.” Speaking in front of a backdrop that read, “Defeat the Washington Machine — Unleash the American Dream,” Paul said he is running because he has a “different vision” for America, ...
Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run on Website
Post Date: 2015-04-07 12:11:56 by cranky
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 7 (UPI) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has announced he will be running for President of the United States in 2016 election as a Republican candidate. “I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” Paul said on his website. Paul considers himself a “different kind of Republican.” He was first elected to the 2010 Senate by campaigning for national debt reduction, federal spending cuts and repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Paul will frame himself as “the most anti-establishment figure in the race.” Although younger Republicans agree with some of Paul’s ...
Analysis: Why Rand Paul Probably Can't Win Republican Nomination
Post Date: 2015-04-07 12:06:59 by Gatlin
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In a political world where candidates nearly always follow the party line on every issue, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has broken the mold. Paul, who is expected to announce a presidential run Tuesday, has spent the last two years courting black voters in part by urging the restoration of voting rights for convicted felons, who are disproportionately African- American. As leaders in both political parties take hawkish stances on national security, Paul, often with few allies, has warned against broad surveillance of American phone records and the expanded use of drones. But Paul's unorthodox and at times courageous approach has done little to help his presidential prospects. The ...
The Drug War Litmus Test
Post Date: 2015-04-07 05:36:21 by Deckard
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Conservative Republicans are sometimes said by the media to be “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning.” This is especially true if they say something about marijuana legislation being left up to the states because of the Tenth Amendment. A recent article in the Huffington Post about the attitude of certain Republican politicians—all presidential hopefuls—toward marijuana legalization reminds me to mention the drug war litmus test, especially as we head into another election season. In an interview with Reason last year, Ted Cruz—the first to declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president—said: “I think we can have an intelligent ...
Rand Paul Taps House GOP’s Troublemakers to Boost 2016 Campaign (Amash, Massie, Labrador, Sanford...)
Post Date: 2015-04-06 12:46:27 by Hondo68
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Senator Rand Paul speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 10, 2015. Rand Paul is in the House. While other presidential contenders have thus far been sluggish in soliciting help from Capitol Hill, Paul, the first-term senator from Kentucky, has already enlisted some of Congress's leading rabble-rousers to assist his White House run. Paul will officially launch his campaign Tuesday in Louisville, before embarking on a four-day tour through the first four states—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada—on the GOP nominating calendar. During the launch, or soon after, the senator is expected to announce endorsements from a host of ...
Rand Paul Is Not A Libertarian
Post Date: 2015-04-06 10:01:38 by Gatlin
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On April 7, Rand Paul — the junior Senator from Kentucky — will announce his candidacy for President of the United States. Paul is pitching himself as “a different kind of Republican leader.” Media reports tout his appeal to “young conservatives and libertarians.” Libertarians, in general, are fiscally conservative but socially liberal, with a non-interventionist approach to foreign policy. His father, Ron Paul is a “libertarian cult figure” who had tremendous appeal to young Republicans. Rand Paul is clearly marketing himself as the heir apparent to those supporters — the one candidate with a chance of expanding the Republican base. Rest of ...
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