Salon: Rand Paul doesn't understand how budgets, the Senate, math work

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rand Paul doesn't understand how budgets, the Senate, math work

http://www.salon.com/news/rand_paul_kentucky_senate_republican/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/14/rand_paul_filibuster_budget



Tuesday, Sep 14, 2010 17:15 ET

By Alex Pareene

Republicans and "moderate" "deficit hawk" Democrats have a brilliant plan to balance the out-of-control federal budget: Never raise taxes on anyone, ever again, for any reason. Also, raise the Social Security retirement age. But that's not radical enough for rebel libertarian Rand Paul. Should Kentucky voters send Paul to the Senate, he promises not just to vote against, but to actively filibuster every budget bill that's not balanced.

OK! Good on you, Rand. That's true fiscal conservatism. Of course, that means you'll have to single-handedly close a $1.3 billion budget gap in one year. So ... good luck with that one, I guess. You'll need to get rid of like 10 Departments of Agriculture.

Oh, wait, there's one other very small problem: Senators can't filibuster budgets.

Paul continues to prove my theory that he's just kind of dumb.

[blondeatlast]

1. Just kind of dumb, yes, but in a singularly charmless, off-putting, and hateful way. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Like Sarah Palin...

...someone who 99.9% of the members of FreeRepublic would like to lay down between soft, white sheets, and who lacks a single functioning brain cell among them.

:patriot:

[Drale]

3. MATH!!!!

WE DONT NEED NOT STINKIN MATH THIS IS AMERICA!!!! (That is my impression of every ignorant tea bagging SOB, including Paul)

[sendero]

4. You have to be stupid..

... to believe the ridiculous shit Libertarians believe about economics and business.