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Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee apparently aren’t too worried by Tim Pawlenty’s criticism that some Republicans seem like they’re trying to “out-bid the Democrats in appealing to isolationist sentiments.”
“From time to time, I find myself agreeing one way or another with the president,” was Lee’s response, according to Jon Ward of the Huffington Post.
Ward quotes Paul as saying: “It’s not a valid term. It’s a pejorative term. It’s name calling…. Isolationism would mean that you’re nowhere any of the time and you’re completely within a walled-in state. I don’t know anybody who’s for that.”
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Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 12:05PM
I do. Ron Paul. When he's not out chumming with his terrorist buds.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 12:20PM
You're A Slandering Liar, Screwball Israel Firster Maniac,Tool Job.
"On October 10, 2001, Congressman Ron Paul led the effort in Congress to give President Bush the tools he needed to capture, dead or alive, Osama bin Laden and the other terrorists responsible for September 11th. Dr. Paul introduced on that day H.R. 3076 - The September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.
If passed, that legislation would have given President Bush an additional weapon against bin Laden. If Dr. Paul's legislation had passed in 2001, it is likely bin Laden would not have been around until May of 2011."
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:03PM
When he[s not out agreeing to give speeches to CAIR, and chumming with Kucinich, who has terrorist ties.
You really are a bag of filth, Clint.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 7:14PM
"Paul gets CPAC crowd on their feet.
Paul was the winner of the straw poll here last year, and, judging by the reception of the over-capacity crowd, is a favorite to win again. This year's straw poll will be closely watched given the annual event has become an early testing ground for potential GOP presidential candidates.
Ron Paul Wins 2011 CPAC Straw Poll."
"Ron Paul snubs CAIR over banquet
Congressman turns down terror-tied group's invitation to speak"
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:06PM
And you support babykillers, Amalek Clint.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 6:53PM
You're A Slandering Liar Obsessed Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Tool Job.
Eight Ball Tool Job Is All Angst Ridden & Crazed Because Many Of We Tea Party Patriots & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul & Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul Don't Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Agenda.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:09PM
It is not slander when it is true. Do I need to drag out your quotes on the Vogel child again, halfwit?
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 8:39PM
Put Up Or Shut Up Slandering Liar & Fixated Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Tool Job.
You're Up AssFace.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:21PM
Roll Call Link:
http://www.rollcall.com/issues.....77-1.html.
Now, for Bachmann, given that her state has Medtronic, this makes sense. She's a Conservative, not a blithering idiot. But for Paul, it's an earmark. There are no major pharm companies I know of based in his district. UTMB is not involved in patenting meds.
You are, as I pointed out, a twit, Clint. Truth is not slander. You forget your American history---the Zenger case. Now, I admit, you don't physically sleep with Arab terrorists---but you, like Paul, are in bed with them politically. I've got quote after quote on Paul to hammer you with all day long.
Paul is a Porker, big time. And you are a dhimmi, big time, like Paul and Kucinich. Truth hurts, insignificant spawn of a man who actually did something. Unlike you, I do something hard and worthwhile every damn day.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 12:05PM
Or scamming the US taxpayer for scads of POOOOORRRRRRKKK! (Three Ks, there)
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 12:26PM
Do Your Homework Israel Firster Economic Buffoon,Tool Job.
Dr. Ron has never voted for an earmark. His Principled Stand is about The Constitutional Congressional Responsibility for Spending & Not Handing Tax Payer Money To The Executive Branch To Spend.
"REP. RON PAUL, R-TEXAS: Well, it might be.
But I think you're missing the whole point. I have never voted for an earmark. I voted against all appropriation bills. So, this whole thing about earmarks is totally misunderstood.
Earmarks is the responsibility of the Congress. We should earmark even more. We should earmark every penny. So, that's the principle that we have to follow and the — and the responsibility of the Congress. The whole idea that you vote against an earmark, you don't save a penny. That just goes to the administration and they get to allocate the funds."
Cpm| 6.29.11 @ 12:51PM
Clint, you could be just as effective and more time efficient if you would just shorten your diatribes to:
DYHIFEB,TJ.
DR.HPSTCCRSNHTPMTTEBTS.
See, short and sweet and contains all the salient points.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 1:06PM
VENI, VIDI, VELCRO !
Cpm| 6.29.11 @ 2:55PM
All caps, that's more like it.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 7:15PM
Thank You.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:00PM
He has voted repeatedly for earmarks, and set them up. He, like you, is a hypocrite and a Hoar of the first order.
You, Clint, are a Catamite of Terrorists, and a Hoar.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 7:24PM
You're A Slandering Liar & An Uninformed Economic Imbecile, Zany Crazed Israel Firster Tool Job.
Again,
Dr. Ron has never yet voted for an earmark. His Principled Stand is about The Constitutional Congressional Responsibility for Spending & Not Handing Tax Payer Money To The Executive Branch To Spend. Learn The Difference Between Dr.Ron Paul's Principled Requests & His Principled Refusal To Then Vote for Earmarks.
"REP. RON PAUL, R-TEXAS: Well, it might be.
But I think you're missing the whole point. I have never voted for an earmark. I voted against all appropriation bills. So, this whole thing about earmarks is totally misunderstood.
Earmarks is the responsibility of the Congress. We should earmark even more. We should earmark every penny. So, that's the principle that we have to follow and the — and the responsibility of the Congress. The whole idea that you vote against an earmark, you don't save a penny. That just goes to the administration and they get to allocate the funds."
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:05PM
Here's Kucinich in action (Paul votes in lockstep on foreign policy with Kucinich; Kucinich has suggested Paul as a Vice President if Kucinich runs for President in the future):
:"On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) secured diplomatic courtesy letters that allowed anti-American Code Pink activists to travel to the Iraqi border. The radicals traveled to Jordan and the Iraqi border in late 2004 to donate $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the people who had just killed 51 Americans and wounded 560 more earlier that month. Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah was the heaviest US urban combat since the Vietnam War."
Treason knows no party.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 7:36PM
"Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), have not been shy about their desire to end all U.S. foreign aid. This week, the elder member of the Paul family is seeking a full House vote on an amendment that would cut $6 billion of U.S. aid to a host of Middle East countries.
Rep. Paul is trying to build support for an amendment to the fiscal 2011 funding bill that would end all foreign assistance to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan.
"Borrowing money from China -- or printing it out of thin air -- to hand out overseas in [an] attempt to purchase friends has been a failing foreign policy, as we see most recently in Egypt where there is not even a government in place!" Paul wrote in his Dear Colleague letter. "We should seek friendly relations and trade overseas, but we cannot justify lavish gifts to foreign leaders when American taxpayers are increasingly feeling the pain of our economic crisis."
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:12PM
I'm not arguing foreign aid, halfwit. He also supports the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. See his quotes on Israeli legitimate self defense. He takes contributions from White Power groups, as I'm sure you would in his place.
You bore me, twit. I do this to drive your BP up. Hope it's working.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 8:52PM
You're The Chairman Of The Bores, Screwball Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Coward, Tool Job.
Dr. Ron Paul:
"I was in Congress in the early 1980s when the U.S. Marines were sent in to Lebanon, and I came to the floor before they went, when they went, and before they were killed, arguing my case against getting involved in that conflict.
Ronald Reagan, when he sent the troops in, said he would never turn tail and run. Then, after the Marines were killed, he had a reassessment of the policy. When he wrote his autobiography a few years later after leaving the presidency, he wrote this:
"Perhaps we didn't appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the Marines' safety that it should have. In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 Marines would be alive today."
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:13PM
he votes with Kucinich. he's also the only possible Tea Party Presidential Candidate who takes funding from White Extremist groups. Carpe Phallus yourself, Clint.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 9:05PM
You're A Slandering Liar Zany Crazed Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Tool Job.
Israel Firster Fanatic Tool Job is All PMS'y because Many of We Tea Party Patriots Agree with Dr.Ron Paul & Refuse to Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
Back in 2007, a guy named Don Black gave a $ 500 Dollar "Unsolicited" Campaign Donation to Ron Paul's Campaign in which Donations of $ Millions by Thousands of People flooded into Campaign Headquarters.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:25PM
In addition, if you put an earmark into a bill that you know will pass, thus guaranteeing you the earmark even if you vote against it, how is that against earmarks?
Clint, you ignorant slut.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 9:18PM
Now, Nut Bag Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Tool Job Attempts to Move The Goal Posts.
"Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:00PM
He has voted repeatedly for earmarks....."
WRONG, Slandering Liar Israel Firster Whack Job Tool Job.
Dr.Ron Paul Has NOT Voted Repeatedly For Earmarks.
Because Dr. Ron Paul's Constitutional Philosophical Stand is to place transparency & responsibility for spending in the hands of Congress & not in the hands of The Executive in Appropriation Bills.
Aaaand, "If you cut off all the earmarks, it would be 1 percent of the budget. But, if you vote against all the earmarks, you don't cut one penny. That is what you have to listen to. We're talking about who has the responsibility, the Congress or the executive branch?
I'm saying, get it out of the hands of the executive branch. Just listen again about what I have said about the TARP funds. We needed to earmark every penny. Now we gave them $350 billion, no earmarks, and nobody knows..."
Do Your Homework Economic Buffoon,Tool Job.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Sean| 6.29.11 @ 12:29PM
I will take Paul and Lee over Pawlenty any day.
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 6:01PM
That's fine, Sean. Lee ain't running, and Paul will finish behind Pawlenty. Then I will guffaw, as I control the world's money supply from my cave in Barbados during my turn as the International Jew.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 7:30PM
"Dr. Ron Paul told his colleagues that the limited funding bill was not what it appeared to be. Paul argued that the Libya bill “masquerades as a limitation of funds for the president’s war on Libya but is in fact an authorization for that very war.” The purpose of the Libya bill was to “limit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for United States Armed Forces in support of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Operation Unified Protector with respect to Libya.”
Paul pointed out that if HR 2278 passes, “the president would be authorized to use US Armed Forces to engage in search and rescue; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; aerial refueling; and operational planning against Libya.” As of this time, without a declaration of war or congressional authorization, the president doesn’t have the authority to conduct these activities."
Occam's Tool| 6.29.11 @ 8:12PM
I opposed the Libyan intervention, twit.
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 9:24PM
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha !
Then, By Your Own Looney Tune Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Standards You, Tool Job Are Now An "ISOLATIONIST."
Eisenhower| 6.29.11 @ 8:37PM
I'm gonna go with Senator Lee and Senator Paul on this one. The idea that it's some how weak or unprincipled for conservatives to reconsider how far we stretch our military around world, seems illogical to me. Conservatives believe in a strong national defense, not endless wars for democracy at the expense of our troops.
Cpm| 6.29.11 @ 9:18PM
Clint reminds me that Paul wants legalized marijuana
Clint| 6.29.11 @ 9:28PM
Caput tuum in ano est
jordan fusions | 6.30.11 @ 3:11AM
Put on it, you will tread a splendid tomorrow!