Rep. Ron Paul votes against Katrina relief

[Telly Savalas]

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2005&rollnumber=460

Just because somebody is right on one issue doesn't mean we should give a free pass to their social Darwinist agenda.

[ourbluenation]

1. Whats with the rep from LA voting against it? eom

[Seen the light]

5. That's Iowa I believe nt

[ISUGRADIA]

11. Steve King (IA, crazy loony Republican)

[2bfree]

2. Ron Paul is my rep..................

And he is as crazy as a bed bug!

[hiley]

3. Protest vote perhaps?

I mean really FEMA gets the money, and do you trust FEMA?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. ~~waving my hand! waving my hand! waving my hand!~~~~ Don't trust them

one bit. :hi:

[hiley]

12. HI! OmmmSweetOmmm

Here is Ron Paul's speech.
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2005/cr090805.htm

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. Thanks a bunch hiley & hi!!! It was a Great Speech. Quite a follow-up

to Cynthia McKinney! She was Amazing and got censured. :(

[cynatnite]

9. That's what I was thinking

There's a vote coming up on the 50 billion relief and repubs won't allow for any kind of revamping of FEMA to make it more functional.

[hiley]

15. Exactly

Guess we will have to read it..
There is no telling what is in it and with FEMA well you know.

[AlCzervik]

4. is there anything in that bill that shouldn't be

some kind of clause that says Bush won't be held accountable?

[lildreamer316]

8. That's what I'm saying. There must be some reason

that ppl vote against it; something must be in the bill.

[hiley]

14. I don't think they have even had

time to read it yet!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Get out of jail free cards? nt

[ISUGRADIA]

7. Ron Paul is very libertarian in his voting

so anti-war, anti-CAFTA, anti-NAFTA, anti most all federal programs and aid. A laissez faire, 1896 kind of Republican for small government.

That also means he is no progressive: against civil rights laws, social security, medicare, medicaid, any thing other than national defense and post offices more or less. Someone I'd never vote for.

EDIT for spelling

[cynatnite]

23. For what it's worth, I support the excellent speech

:shrug:

Thanks for the info.

[ISUGRADIA]

27. I'm down with any Republican who has the cojones to go against

the Emperor. But just want to avoid the impression some may get that he's any kind of liberal. One post a few weeks ago was trying to say he was a progressive which is not true.

[musette_sf]

13. Thank You Sir!!!

People are swooning over Rep Paul over on another thread. All I got for my trouble of providing factual informaiton about him was a snarky "thanks for sharing". I guess they don't want their love fest interrupted.

FACT: Ron Paul is/was affiliated with the Republican Liberty Caucus, a political group that wants to push a small-l libertarian agenda.

FACT: The RLC affiliated themselves with Reagan Republicans, because at the time they wanted to, as an RLC-er of my acqaintance put it, "fish where the fish are".

FACT: Ron Paul was pro-Nader.

FACT: Ron Paul is virulently anti-choice, which is an awfully funny position for a small-l libertarian, don't you think?

Now, from all of the above, it's easy to see that Ron Paul is simply an opportunist, who is now "fishing where the fish are" on our side because he's gotten all he can from the other side.

Ron Paul wants to drown government in the bathtub just as much as Grover Norquist does. He DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME.

[NoPasaran]

24. FACT: Ron Paul is a lunatic

[evlbstrd]

16. So did Cynthia McKinney (D, GA).

I saw her House floor speech a little while ago, and she was passionate.

[hiley]

18. Did you catch the mp3

of Cynthia McKinney's speech?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4701432&mesg_id=4702304

[charlie]

19. No, she voted for it

These are the nays:

Barton (TX)
Flake
Foxx
Garrett (NJ)
Hostettler
King (IA)
Otter
Paul
Sensenbrenner
Tancredo
Westmoreland

[evlbstrd]

26. May have been a different bill.

But she did mention she was one of six no votes.

[Witchy_Dem]

17. So what's the libertarian agenda on payroll once they get their reduced

gov't rolls down to miniscule? Fatter paychecks for civil servants? Who gets all the money? Do they propose that elected officials do? Where do all the newly unemployed people work once their jobs are removed?

[Nikki Stone 1]

20. 90% of the money in the bill goes to FEMA--Harry Reid mentioned this

And FEMA hasn't done jack.

[hiley]

21. I never heard of him until

today, damn good speech but that is all I think about him.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

22. He's very good at opposing the war

He doesn't like bush and that's a plus. Other than that I can't think of a kind thing to say about him.

It's fun to send out his anti war speeches to RW types who know nothing about him just to make their heads explode. I suppose that's another good thing.

[hiley]

25. Oh I had not thought of

that, very good idea! Lone_Star_Dem very good !

[xultar]

28. OMFG you didn't take a second to think that FEMA would be spending it

He's voting against giving FEMA the money to waste in Bush's Honeypot.

[jamesglines]

29. my thoughts exactly

the only reason I could come up with, was the same. Why give money to people who abused it before, and not to those who need it?

[Rose Siding]

30. The last I heard, no rep had *seen* the bill, let alone read it

The ONLY reason to vote for it was political- that it would look bad.

If they were doing their job, everyone would have voted against it. The function of Congress is not to hand the executive a blank check, but to oversee funding.