https://www.rawstory.com/rand-paul-2655999297/
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky dashed off a letter to President Joe Biden today pleading for expeditious federal relief aid to victims of a deadly 200-mile tornado that struck his state Friday.
That was of course the right to do. But Paul is a strange one to have done it.
Throughout his two terms in the U.S. Senate, Paul has prided himself as a Tea Party fiscal conservative willing to say no to the most milquetoast causes if federal spending is involved. Opposing federal disaster relief is one of his pastimes.
In 2017, Paul was one of just 17 senators to oppose an emergency $15.3 billion federal relief bill for victims of Hurricane Harvey. It had wreaked havoc similar to Friday’s tornado, but not in Kentucky.
In 2013, Paul was one of 31 Republican senators who voted against a $50.5 billion relief aid package for Hurricane Sandy — “after previously disaster aid for their home states,” as reported by ThinkProgress.org.
In 2011, Paul’s first year in the Senate, he was among 38 Republicans voting against a major FEMA funding package despite the fact — not lost upon publicintegrity.org — that his own state of Kentucky had been the nation’s largest recipient of FEMA funding ($293 million), mostly because of a 2009 ice storm.
A decade later, Paul wrote to Biden like the two were old liberal spendthrift friends.
“Last night and early this morning devastating storms swept across multiple states, including Kentucky. A single tornado from that system may have been on the ground for over 200 miles, and a large swath of the Commonwealth has been severely hit.
“As the sun comes up this morning we will begin to understand the true scope of the devastation, but we already know of loss of life and severe property damage.
“The governor of the Commonwealth has requested federal assistance this morning, and certainly further requests will be coming as the situation is assessed. I fully support those requests and ask that you move expeditiously to approve the appropriate resources for our state.”
Paul’s stinginess with federal aid to people outside of Kentucky has hardly been limited to aid responding to physical disasters.
In the very first coronavirus Senate aid package — a mere $8 billion passed on March 5, 2020 — Paul stood out as the lone Senator to vote no.
His complaint: Congress never cuts other spending as the direct offset he insists upon having for federal aid not earmarked for Kentucky:
“This isn’t the first time we’ve had emergency money,” Paul complained after the first COVID-19 spending passed. “This is probably the tenth time we’ve done emergency money in the past two or three years. So everything is an emergency.”
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Is anyone surprised? Until it HITS HOME, it’s all “liberal spending” … no matter what the cause.
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Hello Nan. Rand Pual is a libertarian which is an unworkable political philosophy that says no one who has anything should pay any amount to government to pay for the creation or use of anything. Somehow to them it just spontaneously comes into being and stays that way. I posted before and will again to more that libertarians are like cats, sure of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they neither appreciate nor understand. Hugs
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Rand Paul is a walking pile of monkey shit in a three piece suit that unfortunately can speak.
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Hello inspiredbythedivine1. Hard to argue with that. I think that sums him up very well. Can you imagine living next to this asshole? You would need the property lines very well marked. Hugs
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I’d poop all over his lawn!
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Hello inspiredbythedivine1. His neighbor beat the crap out of him because according to the news reports Paul kept putting his lawn trash and debris on the neighbor’s property. Hugs
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I heard about that. That’s why I’d poop all over his lawn. 😜
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Nope. All those legislators who voted against any assistance for the taxpayers were Republicans, including Manchin and Sinema. I just don’t understand the voters. How does the GOP manage to stay in power in these poor states? I guess some people are just satisfied with chewing tobacco and a place to spit.
Until as recently as 2015, I was unaware of the number of people in our society that are so gullible. We are really falling behind on raising and educating our children. They grow up to become really unresponsible people who think critical thought has something to do with elitism.
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Hello Cagjr. A lot of people simply do not pay attention until the last minute and then go by name recognition or by what ever the single news station ( fox ) that they watch says. Plus decades if not a century of conditioning, of hearing that the Democrats want to destroy you, take away your guys, make the black person your equal, make it legal to rape and marry your teen son ( it is already legal to rape and marry your young teen / preteen girls in some of these states ) teach 1st graders to not only respect the girls but to do the homosexual stuff. So forth and so forth. How long can you hear that the Democrats are destroying everything you love before you reflexively hate them. McConnell may not do anything for them, but he is one of their tribe while that sleazy Democrat promising to make things better really is a lizard who wants to eat your baby. Who needs clean water when they want to eat your baby? Hugs
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