[Peace-discuss] pretty good HP article on Rand Paul

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I am a really big fan of Jane Hamsher although there are some points on 
which she and I would most certainly differ.

She is a real go-getter, and she detests McCain and his ilk and a lot of 
other likewise bad guys,
and she hunts them down with trenchant vengeance.   Such nice words from 
her will go
a long way toward lessening the tensions and building alliances and 
coalitions
between those who lean progressive and those who lean libertarian.

*

Rand Paul's mother told some of us not to worry about Rand,
that he was ok and was as a principled as the old man,
but really there have been some reasons to be concerned.

Certainly it's ok to see him doing good.


On 2/16/2011 12:03 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The serious blog FDL has a much more positive take on Paul's WSJ 
> article than I did:
>
> http://my.firedoglake.com/freesociety/2011/02/08/rand-paul-smarter-than-you-think/
>
> I hope they're right.  --CGE
>
>
> On 2/15/11 9:56 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> In an article online in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal 
>> this week, the younger Paul seems to include cutting war spending.  
>> But in the event he seems not to go beyond the rodomontade we get 
>> from Obama's oh-so-flexible war secretary.  Paul writes,
>>
>> "My proposal would also cut wasteful spending in the Defense 
>> Department.  Since 2001, our annual defense budget has increased 
>> nearly 120%.  Even subtracting the costs of the conflicts in Iraq and 
>> Afghanistan, spending is up 67%.  These levels of spending are 
>> unjustifiable and unsustainable.  Defense Secretary Robert Gates 
>> /*understands this*/ /*and has called for spending cuts*/, saying 'We 
>> must come to realize that not every defense program is necessary, not 
>> every defense dollar is sacred or well-spent, and more of everything 
>> is simply not sustainable'" [emphasis added].
>>
>>
>> On 2/15/11 9:07 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>> Many Ron Paul supporters criticized his son Rand quite severely 
>>> during his campaign for
>>> some neoconnish leanings and other deviations from fundamental 
>>> principles.
>>>
>>> I do have to admit that Rand is doing pretty well at holding the 
>>> line so far.
>>> He is also unashamedly calling himself a Tea Party-er of the 16 Dec 
>>> 2007 variety.
>>> He doesnt seem to bother in saying that he is different from the 
>>> astroturfers.
>>>
>>> HuffPost has a pretty good piece on Rand -
>>>
>>> /Rand Paul is a dangerous man. The thing is it's difficult to tell 
>>> whether the Freshman Senator from Kentucky is more dangerous to the 
>>> Left or the Right. Unarguably, he is dangerous to 'The System', for 
>>> if nothing else he isn't screwing around...Apparently Rand Paul 
>>> wasn't merely piggybacking the anti-government groundswell of 2010. 
>>> He was damned serious. And now that 2011 begins with him on the 
>>> inside, he's going to stand on principle, at least for the time 
>>> being. This is nothing Republicans want to hear.../
>>>
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-campion/the-tea-party-man_b_821796.html
>>>
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