{"id":6157,"date":"2010-05-21T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2010-05-21T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:25:30","slug":"rand-paul-is-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/21\/rand-paul-is-george-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul IS George W Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sooner or later, I will break off my Daily Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 But not yet.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time a long age ago, either in the wake of a Democratic Party defeat in 2004 or some Western Democratic Party victories in 2006, a debate raged over parts of the blogosphere about a supposed “Libertarian — Democratic Party” alliance.\u00c2\u00a0 From my mind, it was a debate dead on arrival, and amusing in its irrelevance.\u00c2\u00a0 But there were a few upshots, offered by the writers and bloggers at Reason magazine.\u00c2\u00a0 In the wake of the great Libertarian — Democratic Party debate, Reason offered up a hilarious celebratory article about some odd forgotten Gilded Age Democrat who fought the battles against William Jennings Bryan as an exemplary figure that the Democrats might model themselves after (No… seriously).\u00c2\u00a0 A bit more relevant was a pretty well deserved scolding that for Libertarian consideration, the Democratic politicians really would have to be “good on the issues” they should be good on as for swarths of their Liberal constituency — you know: cut defense, decriminilize drugs — but generally are not.\u00c2\u00a0 Touche, and touche indeed.<\/p>\n

Do you know why I hold a special enmity toward Rand Paul that I do not hold toward Ron Paul?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, he’s not any good on those issues he should be good on.\u00c2\u00a0 As per a Time article which I saw from Te Nesha Coates<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0who saw it with Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then again,\u00c2\u00a0in relating to\u00c2\u00a0the Ron Paul enthusisasts at the “Daily Paul” — Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Where’s my Hemp???<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 So, if Rand Paul were to move\u00c2\u00a0these types of periphery interests into the forefront of what he’d fight tooth and nail, I’d probably go ahead and begrudgingly welcome his campaign, and a victory as a shake up of the Status Quo.\u00c2\u00a0 But I don’t see a coaliton building for that Patriot Act Reform to crowd in to the middle with Senator Feingold, and I don’t see any “Alternative Sources of Energy”, market driven or otherwise, crowding in to the middle coalition with, oh say Bernie Sanders…
\n… particularly as you consider today’s Rand Paul shoe drop (Media Smear to his Partisans).
\nQuote of the day, as from a link to talking points memo <\/a>from prison planet’s “All Hands on Deck for the Great Rand Paul<\/a>” coverage:<\/p>\n

“I’m delighted that Rand Paul said that.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it’s magnificent. I didn’t realize that he was that good.\u00c2\u00a0 The spirit of non-discrimination ends you right up in compulsory bisexuality<\/strong>.”\u00c2\u00a0 — Walter Block, a libertarian professor of economics at Loyola University, and a senior fellow with the libertarian Ludwig Von Mises Institute.
\n<\/em>Dearly dearly dearly.\u00c2\u00a0 Are we having fun yet?<\/p>\n

But I have certain luxuries with Ron\u00c2\u00a0Paul.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Devoid of any meaningful “he’s not good where he should be”, what we are left with in Rand Paul is, oh I don’t know, the fiery pits of Hell<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— or the oily tarpits of Hell.:
\n“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it’s part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it’s always got to be someone’s fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I am prepping myself for a blasting of Barack Obama and his administration for his deference and corporate fealty.\u00c2\u00a0 For that, I bring about the Obama — Bush merger image — I trust you’ve seen it.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand, BP has pursued one hair brained scheme after another, whilst brushing off and minimizng the damage.\u00c2\u00a0 It is to stare at this quote:
\nTONY HAYWARD, BP CEO: The environmental impacts of this disaster is like to have been very, very modest. It`s impossible to say, and we will mount as part of the aftermath a very detailed environmental assessment as we go forward. But everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impacts of this will be very, very modest.
\n<\/em>And then to jump over to:
\nThe British energy major \u00e2\u20ac\u201c already under pressure from the US government \u00e2\u20ac\u201c admitted the well was gushing out more than the 5,000 barrels a day it had previously estimated. It could not give a new figure for the flow, three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig owned and operated by its contractor Transocean exploded and sank, killing 11 men.
\n<\/em>It is now siphoning 5,000 barrels a day up to a boat, but said although the flow had “noticeably reduced” there was still a plume of oil leaking into the ocean.
\n<\/em>One scientist, Steve Wereley, associate mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University, believes as much as 70,000 barrels could be emerging per day, based on a video released by <\/em>BP<\/em><\/strong>.
\n<\/em>“This is not rocket science,” Mr Wereley told a US congressional panel. “All outside estimates are considerably higher than BP’s.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The failure of the Obama Administration pops in the failure to, until now, regulate one of British Petroleum’s “Sweeping Under the Rug” manuevers<\/a>.:<\/p>\n

The U.S. government is ordering energy giant BP to find less-toxic chemicals to break up the Gulf of <\/em>Mexico<\/em> oil spill amid evidence that the dispersants are not effective and could actually make the spill more harmful to marine life. The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that BP has to choose an alternative dispersant by today and must begin using it by Sunday. So far, BP has put about 600,000 gallons of the chemical mixture Corexit 9500 on the surface and 55,000 gallons on the sea bottom.
\n<\/em>“EPA wants to ensure BP is using the least-toxic product authorized for use,” the agency said in a statement. “We reserve the right to discontinue the use of this dispersant method if any negative impacts on the environment outweigh the benefits.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Rand Paul doesn’t bring us much forward, does he?
\nBefore I locate the Obama Bush image, I should really locate or create a Rand Paul — Bush merger image.\u00c2\u00a0 Notwithstanding that his shedding of various Libertarian impulses brings him to the Neo-Conservative position (Rand Paul: Neo-Con — suckers!!!<\/em>), Rand Paul stands on the shoulder of his father and trades off of his name.\u00c2\u00a0 His organizational and fund-rasing apparatus, as kooky as it may be in spots, is essentially a stealing of Ron Paul’s.
\nGo back to the prison planet article, and we see quotations from Ron Paul.\u00c2\u00a0 We are back to the discomforting vision of George Herbert Walker Bush’s defenses of his son.\u00c2\u00a0 It occured to me, as I flickered past the opening of the Alan Colmes Show<\/em> at midnight, and as he framed the Rand Paul\u00c2\u00a0controversy suggesting he’d be defending him, I had to wonder: what the hell is Alan Colmes doing interviewing Ron Paul?\u00c2\u00a0 I am reminded of November 2000, as the chads hung in Florida, when out from the shadows popped into view… James Bakker from the George Herbert Walker Bush Adminstration\u00c2\u00a0to do battle for George W Bush.<\/p>\n

Rand Paul is the new George W Bush.<\/p>\n

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