Rand Paul: Government Shutdown Strategy Was a ‘Dumb Idea’
National Review
November 18, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyyK4M_-mk
Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) called the government shutdown strategy to prevent raising the debt ceiling a dumb idea Monday night.
“Shutting down the government was a dumb idea,” Paul said on Special Report. “Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea.”
Paul justified his vote against raising the debt ceiling because what he termed a “conundrum.”
“Unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that, and I can’t vote for that. But the conundrum is, if I don’t, we do approach these deadlines,” Paul said.
Paul predicted that Democrats would resist putting conditions on raising the debt ceiling, but did tell: this Charles Krauthammer that if the Senate was tied and he was the deciding vote, he would vote against raising the debt ceiling unconditionally because it was “what everybody in Kentucky wants.”
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