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Rand Paul to Uncle Sam: Get Your Hands Off My Toilet!
- Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:28am by
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., lambasted the Energy Department today, saying the agency forces Americans to buy toilets that don‘t flush properly and light bulbs they don’t want in the name of energy efficiency.
During a hearing of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Paul told Energy Department official Kathleen Hogan “my toilets don’t work in my house. And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house.”
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spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:02amToilets dont flush, cheryl crow want us to use only one piece of toilet paper to wipe with—disturbing!
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:56amThose curly-Q light bulbs do not fit many lamps,
and even if they do, then the lamp shade won’t fit!
And try fitting a curly-Q mercury bulb into candlestick lanterns.
Lamps and light fixtures, both interior and exterior,
will have to be completely replaced.
And…no dimmers!
Report Post »Yikes…light switches will also need replacing!
Who will pay for all this? Hmmm…and who will profit?
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:53amEnter Jeffry Eimelt head ass kisser and CEO of Genital Electric.
Report Post »RPGZero
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:51amThis was awesome.
I think everyone was one, big special argument they would love to go in front of a governmental committee and complain about. For Rand, it was his toilet. If only we all had such an opportunity to go and complain about how government intervention has affected us personally . . .
Report Post »WTH is up with our government
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:46amPeople are not going to dispose of those bulbs properly…no matter what the fine is/jail time. They don’t have GPS, it’s not like they can monitor each one. If broken/old ones get dumped in a lake repeatedly then it turns from saving energy into an environmental problem/health concerns. These people do not have a clue. I think we should cut them out of DC budget altogether, same with the internet takeover control freaks. Tooooo many control freaks in power. Stock up on the old bulbs before it’s too late! They should have to demonstrate how to properly clean up after one of those things…I bet they wouldn’t care anyway….I’m sure their decisions, don’t effect them in any way.
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:45amMassive quake hit Japan 8.8
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:57amHope they don’t have curly-Q mercury light bulbs.
Report Post »Imagine the mess….mercury all over the floors!
dcwu
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:40amAgor toilets!
Report Post »Amica
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:29amThat was brilliant!
Report Post »mickrussom
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:24amRAND you have a special place in my heart. I gave to your election campaign the first day you accepted donations. I love you and my family loves you and you are doing the right thing, FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM RAND FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Report Post »fortyfivenorth
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:18amThe new bulbs aren’t light bulbs they are just glow bulbs-they glow in the dark but they don’t give off light. The libs smuggle in the larger toilet tanks from Canada. The rules they make don’t apply to them, you know. Of course they have to install them themselves because a plumber could lose his license or even get arrested….Constitution, anyone?
Report Post »awizard
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:25amHeh, maybe that was what she was talking about when she said “I can get you a toilet that works” … call me … ( added that call me part) …
And when I built my a house six years ago, the plumber asked me if I wanted “Good toilets?.. it’ll cost you a little more”, I said sure, he put in the “Old style big tanks” … no problem ‘course I live way out in the country, “We” don’t pay much attention to their nonsense out here …
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:10amI am trying to find the old style light bulbs but its getting harder and harder to find because the major chains are phasing them out. The new bulbs STINK! they give off a nasty light and i dont like the thought of mercury floating above my head. GOD forbid one breaks. If it does you literally have to call the EPA to clean it up because there is enough mercury in there to make the area toxic. So much for progress. Id rather have my old bulbs back.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:20amI’d like my country back, thank you.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:25amive got 500 cartons of bulbs……………….happy to sell you some……….$ 5.00 a piece
( ya i know capitalism rocks )
Report Post »glenng2
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:09amI have heard that a group is planning to buy the new light bulbs and on April first stage a massive break the bulb day in multiple citys, where they go around the city and break several bulbs at major intersections, then call the haz mat squads to do a cleanup, in hopes of cloging major trafic routes in demonstration of the government mandating their use.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:19amGo away troll!
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:18amwell since that would be dangerous, and very costly to the taxpayers then it must be something the unions have planned and are going to bus people in for…. yep, sounds exactly like something the progressives would put into action
Report Post »1bambam
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:09amChristie is a coward next to this man Christie is a quasi progressive Rand Paul is the man go get em Rand
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:07amWhat about the DOE and power plants, nuke or otherwise. Refineries, Drill liscensing, pipelines, damns, canals, ducts, levies, hydroelectirc, natural gas, geo thermal. FDA-allow anything that kills you or makes you sick. Nothing good for you allowed and that includes cures for cancer. FBI-All America hating terrorists welcome.
Most of these jerkoff, worthless pile of camel dung were created by Ececutive order under emergency powers and can be removed. All of our Reps are guilty to date. Maybe Rand can lead the effort to Fluch this crap and Obama down the sewer for good!
Report Post »notofdasleeple
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:04amI miss Dennis Leary driving his convertible Cadillac smoking cigarettes and eating big macs while throwing the Styrofoam containers into the wind! I want my FREEDOM back! We need him to make a video of 1000 100 watt light bulbs shining on him while he takes a big dump on an industrial flush toilet!!
Report Post »notofdasleeple
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:00amlol toilets that don’t flush properly just remind us of the Sh*t the govt keeps sticking us with!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:00amThis guy is simply FANTASTIC!!! I too have been waiting twenty years for a Senator to speak this way.
I hope his frankness and fearlessness will encourage more in government to throw off the shackles of submission to the inevitability and irreversibility of oppressive regulation.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:57amI especially enjoyed her response to Sen Paul’s last question!
Report Post »ErinLindsey
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:47amI cant use those lightbulbs. They actually cause me pain. I’ve had a vision problem called Optic Neuritis that damaged my optic nerve. Fluorescent light hurts my eyes. Halogens are too hot and usually too bright. Incandescent bulbs are the only light bulbs that dont hurt my eyes.
Optic nerve pain is really bad, and I‘ve never found a medication that really kills the pain for me when I’m having an attack from that. I’d like to tell the people who are forcing me to use CFLs a big “Eff You”.
Report Post »NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:06amBetter stock up on those incandenscent bulbs. Probably won’t be any left in stores after this year. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and others have a bill to bring back the incandescent bulb and it has passed the House committee level. We can only hope!
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:46amI can’t put my finger on this, but something is off with this guy. He is too weird.
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 9:02am…”something is off with this guy…” You have that one right! He‘s off to the races to save America and if you haven’t figured it out, the majority of people in America support him. If he is ‘weird’ to you, so be it, then it takes a weirdo to be the hero!
Report Post »dmyze
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:44amit is so true. I am currently planning a trip to Canada just to buy a toilet!
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:01amReally?
Report Post »I”m a plumber and installed thousands of ULF water closets and have never had a problem with them
CatB
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:23amI have friends who remodeled their bathroom—- everything but the toilet .. they wouldn’t give up the good flush!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:42amCrappy light Bulbs,Crappy Toilets,and an End to Easy Bake Ovens.Thought there was not Supposed to be a Government Sponsored religion.SO why is AL Gore’s Cult allowed so much Power?Next thing You know it will Be Finger Toilet Paper and Recycle your poop for food.Thanks Government.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:54amCrappy toilets is right, trying to get a good flush and you end up saying “This is a ”Lot of Crap”!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:42amWalter Fitzpatrick was talking about the appointed governemtn of Obama’s that is being used to bypass Congress with his regulatory czars. Obama is outside the Constitution, and this is a violation of his oath of office.
This crap needs to stop, folks!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:45amI keep asking — when does it rise to actionable? What does Obama have to do?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:57amCatB, he’s already done it.
I posted a link to the online radio program that he was being interviewed on. We have to get a Grand Jury to issue an indictment. ANY Grand Jury. If there’s an indictment, the prosecutor has to prosecute. So far, they’ve managed to keep it out of a Grand Jury. I can give you plenty of information on it.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:03amCatB, call your House Representative and DEMAND that an investigation be done on Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s court martial.
The U.S. Military has takenj an oath to uphold the Constitution. They have not pledged allegiance to the POTUS. Terry Lakin believes, as do MANY people believe, that Obama is not a legal president. He refused orders to be shipped to Afghanistan, and Obama allowed him to be stripped of everything and be put in Leavenworth Prison for six months — solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. The military judge would not allow discovery of the evidence that would have put Obama out of the White House and kept Lakin out of prison. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:05amShowtime
Report Post »Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:34am
CatB, email me at showtime1313@gmail.com. (Blaze, this one is correct.)
AmeriCat
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:08am“The King,” as they now say, decreed by executive order 3 days ago
Report Post »that he can keep anyone in prison for the rest of their life,
even though legally acquitted in a court of law.
Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:30pm@AmeriCat
Report Post »Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:08am
“The King,” as they now say, decreed by executive order 3 days ago
that he can keep anyone in prison for the rest of their life,
even though legally acquitted in a court of law.
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True! True!
mom4times
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:38amand those lightbulbs suck…..we tried dimmable…..they are awful….they dim to a point, then shut off….take them 5 min to get bright enough…………..enough already
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:14amYou don’t suppose these curly-Q mercury light bulbs are The Ultimate Plan
Report Post »to cause the final Dumbing Down of America?
avenger
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:25amyou bet !
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 8:05amSince few Americans know how to dispose of them safely and properly (just look on gov website on what you have to do if one is broken!), the “Plan” is to kill Americans with the mercury!
Report Post »NicoleTheGreat06
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:36amSen. Rand Paul is freaking awesome!! Thank you KY for sending him to Washington!!
AmeriCat
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:59amYes, thank you, Kentucky. Thank you, Dear God.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 4:01amThanks Rand, you took them down a peg…….
Report Post »ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:44amGod Bless Dr. Paul and the fine people that elected him from KY!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:32amGo Rand go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Government stop telling us how to live .
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:36amGet your hands off my toilet, and get out of the bathroom, I’m not Larry Craig dangit.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:40amAnd they keep telling us that we have 3 branches of government !
Report Post »Thatsmrpreztoyou88
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:41amAmen to that!
Report Post »Truth
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:42amThe required Curley light bulbs have mercury in them. Kids break the bulbs and get poisoned. Government has their head up their rear.
CatB
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:44amI was going to mention the light bulbs — glad he included that .. I would like to add .. get out of my LIFE! NO OBAMACARE! Government get your hand out of my wallet!
Thank you RAND PAUL!
Report Post »ozz
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:52amThank you Ron Paul for raising this man the right way :)
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:53amNotice Ms. Hogan’s response was not that they do these things for good reasons but rather that it has been a “bipartisan effort”. So in essence, her answer is “well, the other side went along with it!” Whether that is true or not…what the heck difference does it make? The question is WHY are they restricting our choices and forcing us to buy things that CANNOT BE MADE IN THE U.S.? She can’t answer that. Not because she is hypocritical (which she is)—but because she doesn’t know the first thing about the job she does other than it is where her ginormous paycheck originates from and that she gets to sit around in a cushy job dictating what Americans can and cannot do and to H with keeping manufacturing in the U.S.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:02amOur previuos prime minister and her cabinet pushed for mercury lightbulbs and low flow shower heads etc.
It was one of the things that ended up costing her and her cabinet the next election.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:04amNo1YaKnow
Report Post »Notice Ms. Hogan’s response was not that they do these things for good reasons but rather that it has been a “bipartisan effort”. So in essence, her answer is “well, the other side went along with it!”
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This is exactly what jumped out at me from this clip.
Just like libidiots keep the
“ but Bush did it too ” meme going for issues like border security or inviting jihadies to WH or turning a blind eye to Goldman Sachs .
For them, its not about right or wrong ,
its about the other guy did it too.
They argue just like 5 year olds
Journeywoman
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:06amNo CFLs for me. I’ve got 200 incandescent bulbs set aside for when the ban goes into effect. Best 40 bucks I’ve spent lately.
Report Post »TurnRight
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:17amWhat‘s even more rediculous is that the more we American’s conserve on all our utilities, the more the price goes up. Remember these companies are not going to lose any money.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:33amPaws off my potty
Report Post »paws off my potty
A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:48amWell said, Rand Paul.
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:59amFlush thrice for freedom!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:20amThese are some of the very reasons I live as far out I could get from large cities or towns. Living out in the country allows a person to live more like they want to. Well… until the hippies move there from the cities and they try to shove their BS down our throats. And they wonder why we don’t like city slickers.
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 4:08amBTW – I don’t buy those stupid lightbulbs any more, I get incandencent light bulbs which I buy online. Saddly, we don’t manufacture any of this stuff anymore.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 4:49amA great STATESMAN.. He will be our President someday!~!!!
I feel like taking my toilet out and depositing it on the Capitol steps along with those damn curley cue light bulbs. Let them deal with the mercury!!
Maybe mail them to the White House or to her home address???
Report Post »Tedford
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 5:21amSince it won‘t be long before we won’t be able to get any other light bulb but the curly ones….I think when one burns out we should send it to congress and let them dispose of it. Tell them they wanted the bulbs they can deal with the disposal. Maybe if they got enough of them from enough people they would change the law.
Report Post »dukielouie
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 5:39amRand understands all this regulations come from the blueprint of UN Agenda 21. Sustainable American Policy is killing our free markets!!!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:17amthe betch never really answered him….time to clean out the government ! Rand is presidential material !
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:50amYeah, I feel his pain – my toilets are weak. Speaking of the the Department of Energy…
Report Post »http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/2011/03/drilling-and-constitution.html
Ben__Franklin
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:21amDUSTYLUV,
Take those bulbs into the Capital and start busting them open on the floor. When they come to get you, ask them what the problem is – these are perfectly safe – just ask Kathleen Hogan and the Department of Energy.
If you mail one to her, make sure you bust it open inside the package. Imagine the Fed coming for you for a Terrorist Act for shipping her the very bulbs she if forcing all Americans to place in their homes.
Its the same old crap with our Government – If the curly bulbs are soooo great then let the Free Market Decide by individual choice at the store.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 7:37amIf environmental concerns are set aside in favor of more conservative energy products (mercury-laden curly light bulbs in favor of incandescent bulbs), then the Dept of Energy ought to be moving at the speed of light in favor of nuclear energy and oil.
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 9:09am@robert-ca
Report Post »We need more people who think like that
Grandmadar
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 9:48amDave Barry had a wonderful column around ten years ago about these special energy saving toilets. Someone out to pull it out of the archives! These regulations are getting to be too much! Lets give all the liberals the toilets and light bulbs since they like them so well.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 9:56amGo Rand go, indeed. Water to my house comes from a >29,000 acre man-made reservoir with a maximum depth of almost 70 feet. During periods of drought I have seen it gat as low as 12 feet below normal. Surprisingly, my area wasn’t under water restrictions during this period. Then it rains and it fills up again. During one Summer I saw it go from 12 feet below average to over 12 feet above causing water to run over the spillway. Freshwater is a naturally replenishing resource, at least where I live. I’ll pay for what I use, so yes, hands off my toilet, too.
Report Post »fedfreakingup
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:37amYes, government stop cramming your agenda down our throats. Before when I was young I had my parents setting the rules for me. Now it seems like the government is going to decide what’s best for me. Yes, and I’m fed the hell up with it. I truelly wish there were more Rand Paul’s out there to finally to put these power mongers in their rightful place.
Report Post »Faith in God
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:45amthis has made my day! that lady nut job was stumped by Rands remarks to her.love it!
Report Post »GardenoftheGods
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:17pmI was so happy to hear Rand Paul say what I’ve been saying for the last 10 years…Get you bleeping hands out of my house! Leave my toilets, my lightbulbs, my heating system,etc ALONE! HANDS OFF!!! I don’t want or need your help! Ever read how you have to get rid of those crazy mercury bulbs? Did you know you can‘t just throw ’em in the trash? Enough is enough! I want the Government out of my HOUSE; I can make good decisions on what’s best for ME–you make ‘em for your house, leave everyone else ALONE! Whew, I needed to get that off my chest!!! LOL
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 1:33pmFlush the unconstitutional regulatory agencies and turn the lights out after the last flush!
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 2:51pmWe have got to keep pecking away at these pesky progressives. Hauling them and their counter-productive programs into the spotlight is just one way to expose them. The surest way to end their “reign of economic terror” is to vote them out of office in 2012.
Report Post »colonial10
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Report Post »colonial10
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 6:08pmWe can’t forget that obama and his regime in the beginning of 2009 passed a bill that puts a recreation tax on gun manufactures. They slipped it through. Regulation or strangulation. We have to stop these people dead in there tracks. Go Rand.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:36am@cheezwhiz
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:40am
And they keep telling us that we have 3 branches of government !
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Report Post »Let’s see, 1) Transportation
2) Toiletts
3) Lightbulbs
Let‘s hope they’re the only branches of this parasitical vine called government growing around our lives. {oops, forgot healthcare, the past triumvate installed a 4th branch.}
Mil Mom
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:44am@Tedford
Report Post »Posted on March 11, 2011 at 5:21am
Since it won‘t be long before we won’t be able to get any other light bulb but the curly ones….I think when one burns out we should send it to congress and let them dispose of it. Tell them they wanted the bulbs they can deal with the disposal. Maybe if they got enough of them from enough people they would change the law
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Be prepared to be dealt with like a terrorist. Big Sis will tell you “THAT’S NOT NICE”, (YEAH, SURE THAT‘S ALL THAT’D HAPPEN TO A CONSERVATIVE, THEY’D SHOW UP WITH PULSE WEAPONRY AND ROCKET LAUNCHERS AT OUR FRONT DOORS!!!!