Thursday, August 6, 2009
Rand article cnn.com..........
(CNN) -- The phrase "like father, like son" is ringing true for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. His son, Rand Paul, announced this week he's set his sights on the Kentucky Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning. "I'm very worried about our country; I'm worried about the debt. I'm worried about what the debt will lead to," Paul said in an interview on CNN's "American Morning" when asked why he's jumping into the political arena. "Both sides of the aisle -- Republican and Democrat -- have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to."...Link
Pelosi's plan: wine, dine big donors..........
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moves in a rarefied world of high society and high-level politics — and nothing underscores that fact quite like her plans for the August recess. Pelosi will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California. The two-day “issues conference” starts next Friday night with a dinner for roughly 170 guests on the back lawn of Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar home in the fashionable Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco...Link
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
3 Please...............
Last month, Congressional appropriators ordered three $65 million corporate jets (at a total cost of nearly $200 million), just a year after calling out Detroit executives for taking their own planes to testify on the health of the auto industry. But wait -- it gets better. "The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service," writes Roll Call's Paul Singer. "But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials."...Link
Rand is in.......
On Saturday at the Fancy Farm political picnic, he lobbed criticisms at both Republicans and Democrats, calling “hypocrisy … the one true bipartisan trait.” Paul said Wednesday that his criticism of Republicans may drive away some voters but that it sets him apart from other Republicans. He noted that when he’s at Republican events and he criticizes the bank bailout bill… “I’m a Republican,” he said. “I want us to be true to our platform. The problem is, we’ve elected republicans who aren’t true to our platform,” he said.Link
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