Rand Paul Victory Speech: "We've come to take our government back!" (WATCH)
Video: Dr. Rand Paul's Victory Speech -- Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Story background including tonight's results >>
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- "We've come to take our government back."
- "I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We've come to take our government back."
- "The Tea Party movement is about saving the country from a mountain of debt that is devouring our country and I think could lead to chaos."
- "The mandate of our victory is huge."
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Second video (and QUOTES) added from this afternoon)
Video: Dr. Rand Paul with Bill Plante -- May 18, 2010
Rand Paul joined CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante on Tuesday's "Washington Unplugged" and explained this isn't an issue of Republican vs. Democrat but a referendum on the out of control spending from both parties in Washington.
- "Neither party has controlled the debt very well and neither party has controlled spending. So I think the Tea Party is about bringing government back to its senses and a lot of the things we talk about are a chastisement to both parties."
He insists, though that the aim of the Tea Party movement isn't to isolate the other parties and that, in fact, he shares some ideals with Democrats.
- "I think the interesting thing is that a lot of the things the Tea Party talk about are very popular with Democrats and Independents. We talk about term limits. You poll a balanced budget amendment you find than an enormous amount of Independents and Democrats support term limits and balanced budget."
- "We can't anticipate anything but victory. We've worked very hard. The Tea Party rallies have been enormous all across the state. I think the Tea Party is ready to flex some muscle and this will be the first example of a state wide election where the Tea Party has a chance to win."
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May 19, 2010 at 3:01 AM
Reader Comments (33)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_primary_rdp
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/98437-unions-take-credit-for-lincolns-derivatives-bill
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/94386/senators-load-financial-overhaul.html
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And to Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney. He supported Grayson, too. Is our establishment Republicans learnin'? They'd better be, 'cause the pitchforks our out tonight.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/Specter-sunk-by-Pennsylvania-Dems-94217444.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051800348.html
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Thanks for your help with the story, pitchfork...
NOBAMA!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16dowd.html
it's satire...
letterman top 10 clip on bush...start watching at 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GjfyTfjPk&feature=related
I'm getting fucking tired of these "solutions" that consist in trotting-out YET ANOTHER ignote, backwoods Texan red-neck whose foreign policy decisions will be styled on Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider. PLUS, old Randy has the charisma and personal charm of ASPARAGUS.
RON Paul is still my main man.
enough money to get by they let things slide.But now i talk to people everyday
and they have had it with big banks the fed res and big gov,Stevie Wonder
could see how bad the tax payer got raped on the bail outs.
1. Talk is cheap. Assuming Dr. Paul goes on to serve in the Senate, it will much more difficult for him to buck the Party than it is for his father in the House. That's reality. Rand has already walked back stances on torture and other civil liberty no-brainers, although he's opposed the PATRIOT Act from minute one. So he's got that going for him. But nobody deserves a free pass (see also: #2 below); it's not like he's the second coming of Stephen Strasburg or anything.
2. All things equal, hereditary monarchy still sucks. All things equal. (See also: George Bush, Jr.)
3. Bad toupee.
4. Dude, it's Kentucky.
well-done...
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@polish
1. Have you ever been to the derby...?...beats the shihite out of Pimlico...
2. Paul didn't inherit anything...he earned through his stance on the bailouts...trey grayson, the hack candidate inherited his spot...
3. If it's a toupee, it's a mistake...
4. Paul will be to Republicans as Sanders is to Democrats...on the fringe, telling the truth...
http://www.businessinsider.com/american-austerity-2010-5#ixzz0oORUOjuO
I've never been to The Derby, only read and heard about it from Reliable Sources. Never been to The 500 either. To my eternal shame.
But before last year, when a fella could still bring his own brewski to the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness produced this unique brand of awesomeness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIcyFSYhvV4&feature=related
What's Rand's stance on a BYOB Preakness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIcyFSYhvV4&feature=related
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he was struck by 32 beer cans...many of them full...
as a libertarian one would assume rand supports byob as a general rule...
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Thank you, polish. That was a thing of beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUmqqDu_Tk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNsceun2Ta0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHMKNXpkEok&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJuxMvyehI&feature=related
as a libertarian one would assume rand supports byob as a general rule... "
Indeed. Maybe his first order of business ought to be The Take Back the Preakness Act of 2011. For The People!
While I tend to lean civil libertarian in general and hard when it comes to BYOB, I'm pretty staunchly authoritarian when it comes to wasting brewski (hey, we've all got our hang-ups). In this case though, chucking a full can of malt beverage at a jackass running the port-o-potties absolutely does not constitute wasting brewski.
By the way, DB, is that last video you posted a textbook example of Indiana Foreplay?
Also by the way, the biggest loser last night was not Trey Grayson or Arlen Specter. Clearly it was John Wall.
the drunk stalk...
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john wall knows not what awaits him in dc...
speaking of kentucky...why would calipari go to the pros and coach when he has an unlimited salary cap at UK...he can pay his players whatever he wishes...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16dowd.html
Zarathustra
no i don't miss bush...and i never will...you gotta be kidding...and i don't think the maureen dowd piece is meant to be taken seriously...at the bottom it says written by joe biden...
it's satire...
Satire...1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
Close, it is sarcasm which is often very satirical in nature.
Sarcasm...
2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
The individual in this case would be anyone and everyone who doubts Kagan's "authenticity". Obama picked her because she is who she is.
This is what I like to refer to as a "posting double standard". Sarah Palin getting the same press would have been posted by reflex.
hanging out in the coke a cola fields or the in field .
And i agree with DB as i hope and pray Obongo will never see another term.
Never went to any non alcohol event since i was 15 years old.
Never trust a sober person as they have no grasp of reality .LOL
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Oh man. Words of wisdom. There are few social experiences that aren't made better by alcohol. Not that I can think of any at the moment.
People like Gobie are working on a bill to ban festive shirts...
Because it might encourage drinking and smoking. It is our lives, and the neo fascists of both parties and their heroic HOA's need to stay the f@ck out of it.