TPM: Conservative Mag Worries Rand Paul Is 'Already Selling Out' On Earmarks

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/conservative-mag-worries-rand-paul-is-already-selling-out.php

Conservative Mag Worries Rand Paul Is 'Already Selling Out' On Earmarks
Evan McMorris-Santoro | November 9, 2010, 10:29AM


Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) is making some of his supporters nervous, after an interview with the Wall Street Journal this weekend where Paul appeared to walk back his bright-line opposition to earmarking, a centerpiece of his tea party campaign for Senate.

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The National Review is worried. De Rugy writes:

I am fully aware that the issue of earmarks is a very symbolic one. Getting rid of earmarks won't save us from the current debt explosion, nor is it likely to end the spending; it will just leave the decision in the hands of the agencies rather than selected lawmakers. Still, I could imagine that when a legislator submits his earmark request, the appropriations committee, at least sometimes, increases the overall budget for the agency by the amount of the earmark.

"I would have expected a little more time between Paul's election and statements like this one," she adds.

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[Ozymanithrax]

1. Rand used the Teaparty to get power...

Who'd a thunk it.

Dip-shits.

Unfortunately, we get what they deserve.

[Blue Owl]

2. Rand wears his flip-flops in November

with white socks.

[FSogol]

3. Rand Paul supporters = Rubes

It only took a week for them to realize they've been conned.

:rofl:

[YOY]

4. Of all the tea partiers this is the only big one to get through, no?

And he's already a sellout to the Neocons.

I am amazed I tell ya!

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Too late. THAT train has already left the station. Paul and Bonehead are on it.