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12-19-2012, 03:03 AM
John David Dyche | Rand Paul has it right on the fiscal crisis
Dec 19, 2012
Rand Paul is right — again. This is not a reference to where Kentucky’s junior U. S. senator falls on the ideological spectrum. Paul’s opinions on national defense and individual liberty are to the left of establishment Republicans. It is an acknowledgement that he is correct about how America and his party should handle the short-term fiscal cliff and the larger fiscal crisis looming beyond it.
Paul says we should “cut domestic welfare and entitlement spending” instead of raising taxes on relatively high earners (whom the mainstream media misleadingly insists on calling the “wealthy”). Democrats, including most prominently President Obama, resist really reforming entitlements, which everyone knows are speeding us toward fiscal collapse. Paul walks his policy talk, but grossly irresponsible Senate Democrats have not even passed a budget in over three years.
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Paul advises fellow Republicans to stand aside and let Obama and the Democrats do their dirty deeds alone instead of agreeing to a bad deal that would make the GOP complicit in the economic damage. Voters re-elected Obama, and Paul’s proposal effectively gives them what they asked for. If Democrats enact “the Full Barack” they will bear all the blame when it fails, and Republicans none.
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Like Churchill crying in the wilderness as Britain blundered from appeasement to war, Paul is among the relative few in Washington who to truly realize that these desperate times demand much more than business as usual. Fiscal collapse could come quickly, and dramatic measures are needed now. Implementing bad Democratic ideas will only hasten the hard day of reckoning, but that is better than having Republicans play a prominent part in the demise by joining in a bad deal.
read more:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121219/COLUMNISTS11/312190049/John-David-Dyche-Rand-Paul-has-right-fiscal-crisis
Dec 19, 2012
Rand Paul is right — again. This is not a reference to where Kentucky’s junior U. S. senator falls on the ideological spectrum. Paul’s opinions on national defense and individual liberty are to the left of establishment Republicans. It is an acknowledgement that he is correct about how America and his party should handle the short-term fiscal cliff and the larger fiscal crisis looming beyond it.
Paul says we should “cut domestic welfare and entitlement spending” instead of raising taxes on relatively high earners (whom the mainstream media misleadingly insists on calling the “wealthy”). Democrats, including most prominently President Obama, resist really reforming entitlements, which everyone knows are speeding us toward fiscal collapse. Paul walks his policy talk, but grossly irresponsible Senate Democrats have not even passed a budget in over three years.
...
Paul advises fellow Republicans to stand aside and let Obama and the Democrats do their dirty deeds alone instead of agreeing to a bad deal that would make the GOP complicit in the economic damage. Voters re-elected Obama, and Paul’s proposal effectively gives them what they asked for. If Democrats enact “the Full Barack” they will bear all the blame when it fails, and Republicans none.
...
Like Churchill crying in the wilderness as Britain blundered from appeasement to war, Paul is among the relative few in Washington who to truly realize that these desperate times demand much more than business as usual. Fiscal collapse could come quickly, and dramatic measures are needed now. Implementing bad Democratic ideas will only hasten the hard day of reckoning, but that is better than having Republicans play a prominent part in the demise by joining in a bad deal.
read more:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121219/COLUMNISTS11/312190049/John-David-Dyche-Rand-Paul-has-right-fiscal-crisis