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Rand Paul: ‘We’ve Come to Take Our Government Back’

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  • rdk
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:28pm

    There is no reason to be openly pugilistic. Democrats still hold the Senate and the Presidency. The main objective has to be to repair the economy from all Obama destructive influence. That will be a difficult task because Obama still appears to be an unrepentant Marxist. Efforts will have to be sophisticated and firm with constant feedback to the American people.

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  • Mary M. Tebbe
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:05pm

    Rand Paul’s speech was no doubt one of the better speeches last evening. The Republicans have won a great victory. Our votes spoke loud and clear to the democrats that have been dismantling the country for the last two years as they have attempted to transform America and spend us into oblivion…you have come this far and you may go no further. The people have spoken.
    I gave you the story of Jehoshaphat from 2 Chronicles 20, how he won a great victory against a vast army that had come against him. This King of Judah went before the Lord to ask God for direction, and God told Jehosphat that the battle was not his but God’s. Through a series of events God caused the enemies that had come against Judah to destroy themselves. When the people of the Southern Kingdom of Judah went out to look on the desert floor, all they saw were the dead bodies of their enemies. Not one had escaped. The people of Judah collected the plunder for three days from the enemy camp, BUT on the fourth day they PRAISED THE LORD. The Bible tells us that God had given them cause to rejoice over the defeat of their enemies. We learn that the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the countries who heard about Judah’s great victory, and Jehoshaphat’s kingdom was at peace and rest.
    GOD GIVES VICTORY TO HIS PEOPLE. We must not lose sight of that fact. God is still in control of nations and kingdoms. This trouble that has come upon us has awakened this sleeping giant of a nation, and we must not fall back into complacency and compliance. We have learned a hard lesson as the progressives have tried to destroy our beloved country. We must never let that happen again. It is time to give PRAISE where PRAISE IS DUE! :)

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 4:14am

      So what happened in 2008. Was God on vacation? If God actually turns elections why not all of them? If he is so poweful why does he let people like me call him a feeble powerless twit, a figment of the weakminded’s imaginations? Jesus Christ was a homosexual. He hung around with only men and wore a dress.

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  • mrzmac
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:32am

    I think a tea party needs to be held on the steps of the Capital on January 3, 2011 as the new Congress is sworn in to ensure they understand we are awake, aware and angry! Remember, another vote is only 2 years away…33 Senate seats up for election in 2011 and 24 of those are currently held by Democrats…I am sure some of the others are held by RINO’s. They need to know we are not going away just because November 2 has passed.

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  • individual liberty
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:32am

    Government should NOT EVER be allowed to engage in the benevolence business. If you wish to help the less fortunate, then start a charitable organization. Don’t send the government to extort money from me at gunpoint to fund projects for the “collective good”. What people earn through their labor and ingenuity belongs to them, and no one-especially not the government-has any claim upon it.

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  • In God We Trust
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:53am

    Good speach. LOL at the very end, Ed Schultz heated and up in smoke.

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  • justice
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:37am

    Yes we can…Yes we did.

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  • Novamax75
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:18am

    @ CCMIL true taking care of people and protecting people is a good thing! But it is the People’s job not the GOV. The sweat of my brow is my own. I choose to give it to GOD. I choose to give it to People…. however now that choice is taken away and I AM FORCED to give it away.

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  • megansmom
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:32am

    Rand Paul has one thing his father doesn’t Leadership presences. But I will wait and see.

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  • printdesignchicago.com
    Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:31pm

    damn…. rand paul is a rockstar!

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:46pm

    What has Obama done so far?
    Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB

    Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse

    Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America’s Veterans

    Signed the Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids — 4 million of whom were previously uninsured

    Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research

    Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis

    Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system

    Ended Bush administration‘s CIA program of ’enhanced interrogation methods’ by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations

    Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers

    Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition

    Health Care Reform Bill, allowing children to remain covered by their parents’ insurance until the age of 26

    Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage

    Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance

    Expansion of Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level

    Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the premium actually goes to patient care

    Added 4.6 billion USD to the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals

    Significantly increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act

    Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island

    Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers

    Increased funding for national parks and forests by 10%

    Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college

    Expanded hate crime law in the US to include sexual orientation through the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

    Provided stimulus funding to boost private sector spaceflight programs

    Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans

    Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants’ credit history, income, and employment status

    Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank’s own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers’ interests)

    Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay

    Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50%

    Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Act

    Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees

    Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers

    Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:11pm

      You forgot – destroying the nation while gutting the entire constitutionally established system via his czars. The people have been ignored for too long.

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:14pm

      You do know that most of what you listed would be considered to be a horrible act of government by anyone who knows the slightest about political philosophy. You may consider it noble to give your money to those in need. I would consider it a drain on your life. I would consider it to be the act of siphoning off from what is able and productive to those that are not. Only thats not what Washington or obama are doing. They are giving what they did not earn and could not make. They are not charitable. Does it mater what the highway man does with the cash he takes from you? Do his good intentions sanction his act? You cant be a philanthropist with other peoples money. Only those who look to act out true greatness without ever putting forth the necessity of effort to achieve it try that smut.

      Don’t act like your some kind of saint while your hand is in my pocket. Don’t call me greedy, I don’t subscribe to that morality.

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    • Agentuntomyself
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:25pm

      @anarchocapitalist:
      I love that! “You can‘t be a philanthropist with other people’s money.” I might post that to my facebook page.

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    • Patriotsof1776
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:29pm

      Obama is naive

      Obama is a narcissist

      Obama is inexperienced

      Obama is tyrannical and radical

      Obama’s anti-American conduct brought about the tea party

      Obama never addresses the real issues or seeks real insight of an issue to deal with

      Obama’s health-care plan is going to end up being a fiscal, burreaucratic and medical disaster.

      Obama ignored the call for medical care reform to deal with cost but expanded government instead.

      Obama has failed to connect with the American People but instead has chosen speak of critics as enemies. Uses Chicago mafia tactics.

      Obama in a short time has laid huge economic and politcal problems on America.

      Obama has neglected the federal reserve.

      Obama did do one thing right for sure.. he united the patriots to change our country back!

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:00am

      13thgerationtraitor- Go away. You and the soory excuse for a president LOST! yeeeeha

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    • longhorn mama
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:45am

      13th generation is a troll (drowning his sorrows tonight) and posting this same drivel to every story.

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    • tea bagging patriot
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:11am

      All true patriots know that the government has no business trying to help children who are sick and dying, or helping the families of soldiers who died fighting for this country, or soldiers who were disabled fighting for this country.

      That sounds like socialism to me. Tell those freeloading sick kids to go get a job, and same thing for those soldiers families.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:38am

      @SNOWLEOPARD3200 {MIX ART}

      You sir, did not engage in ANY refutation of the gentlemen’s arguments, although I will grant he didn’t do the normative work for you of spelling out, in every case, the link justifying why those where positive actions, but still I can only assume it‘s because you can’t read. Or maybe you hat veterans, I don’t know.

      This whole Czar bs is blown way out of proportion. A czar, for those of you who are unfamiliar with contemporary American political lingo, is an advisor with NO EXECUTIVE POWER OR LEGAL AUTHORITY. They’ve been around since GEORGE WASHINGTON got together with his buddies and said

      “Excuse me fellow Statesmen, but this English neo-liberal economic policy of forcing us to accept the cheap British tea imports is costing us our economic livelihoods and is quite frankly a load of crap–let’s go kill some Brits–whose with me?!”

      **thunderous appaulse**

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA

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    • Impeach-BO
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:48am

      Anarcho Capitalist, you are absolutely right. And that list was copied from another site, I just looked it up. Not even original. Just more BS.

      You quoted 32 things..there were actually 38 on that list. Leave out an inconvienient truths, did we?

      Not going to waste my time going thru this whole list but are acouple you left out.

      “Appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in US history” – Wow, what an accomplishment. I think another Nobel Peace Prize is in order.

      and passed “The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan” – What an absolute disaster and over 65% rejected by America but he jammed it thru anyway.

      Maybe he’ll get the “Stimulus Peace Prize” for this one.

      He’s a progressive socialist and those policies have destroyed nations.

      Wake up people, 2012 can’t come soon enough.

      Oh, and dueche bagging Matty(AKA Tea Bagging Patriot). As we all know by now you’re really a lib-tard hiding as a real Tea Party mamber..

      I can only say to you that giving money to soldiers is the right thing to do. They actually did a job for us. Remember that? Oh you don’t? Well, get a clue. They were our soliers. As for the non govt employee soldiers, Americans already give their hard earned money to help these people out. It’s called CHARITY, and us Americans give more than any other people on planet Earth. Choke on that for a while.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:06am

      ““Appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in US history” – Wow, what an accomplishment. I think another Nobel Peace Prize is in order.”
      Couldn’t agree with you more.

      and passed “The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: a $789 billion economic stimulus plan” – What an absolute disaster and over 65% rejected by America but he jammed it thru anyway.
      An act that didn’t go far enough in investing in infrastructure and direct employment of Americans in constructing a new set of economic firms and industrial capacity.

      Treating gay people like humans does not make one socialist. Subsidizing infrastructure development, a tax and spend program that is what government has always done, is no socialism. Socialism is some form of public ownership of the means of production.

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    • Impeach-BO
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:26am

      @The Third Archon

      Didn’t go far enough, are you kidding me? Is OVER the cliff far enough for ya?

      I think with this election we may, and I mean MAY barely have saved us from going over that cliff. Still too early to tell right now.

      Wrong, taxation without representation is what the BHO administrantion have done.

      They took the “general welfare clause” and made a mockery of this nation. Promoting socialism all the while disguising it under that clause. It’s not what the founding fathers intended and it needs to be stopped and reversed.

      Here, I’ll even quote it for you.

      “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

      Hmmm, does 80% tax for one group of people and 10% tax for another group of people seem uniform to you?

      Not just Obama, but every admistration has taken these words to mean something they were never meant to be. And every year it gets worse and worse. The BHO admin. is just the lastest and the WORST.

      No wonder the people finally uprose and took back at least some of congress. 2012 can’t come soon enough.

      Ok, I’ll be back later. Have fun.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:47am

      No one in this country is taxed 80% of their income. The uniformity clause references taxes being equal ACROSS THE STATES not that we’d tax everything and everyone the same amount. Why would we do that?

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    • Impeach-BO
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:21am

      I’m talking about what it has been and what it will be again if BHO and progressives get there way.

      http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php

      Check the tax brackets ..

      1913 7% (Thank you for the INCOME tax Woodrow Wilson – BIG PROGRESSIVE)
      1914 7%
      1915 7%
      1916 15%
      1917 67% (Thank you for raising it higher Woodrow Wilson)
      1918 77%
      1919 73%
      1920 73%
      1921 73%
      .
      .
      .
      1936 79% (Thank you FDR for saising it up again – BIG PROGRESSIVE)
      1937 79%
      1938 79%
      1939 79%
      1940 81.1%
      1941 81%
      1942 88%
      1943 88%
      1944 94%
      1945 94%
      1946 86.45%
      1947 86.45%
      1948 82.13%
      1949 82.13%
      1950 84.36%
      1951 91%
      1952 92%
      1953 92%
      1954 91%
      1955 91%
      1956 91%
      1957 91%
      1958 91%
      1959 91%
      1960 91%
      1961 91%
      1962 91%
      1963 91%

      After that it starts to come down after people got so fed up.

      And it says “Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”. It was not made for INCOME, that was added by, you guessed it,BIG PROGRESSIVE, Woodrow Wilson.

      Obama – BIG PROGRESSIVE

      Not sure what you don’t get.

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    • ccmill
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:54am

      You can‘t possibly believe that everything on the list of Obama’s accomplishments is bad.

      I think a great exercise for the new Congress, and all of us, would be for everyone to list five good things about the opposite party. We can’t work together without looking for the good. Believe it or not, all of our public servants (well most of them anyway) want only the best for the country. None of them are trying to bring evil, ans many of you seem to believe.

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    • Novamax75
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:11am

      None of that is the Gov’s job! That is the responsibility of the people through values, tithing, and charity. Also it has been proven time and time again that stimulus (keynesian economics) doesn’t work. Letting the FREE MARKET do it’s thing and weed out the failures and reward the success stories HAS worked.

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    • individual liberty
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:26am

      You Forgot: Nationalized 1/6 of the US economy, banks and 2 of the big 3 auto manufacturers. Empowered unions, apologized for “evil america” given any opportunity, put radical communists in positions of power throughout the government. Bankrupted the country and devalued our currency, spending more money faster than anyone would have believed possible.

      Government is the problem. End ALL entitlements, bring sanity to the tax code, deregulate the private sector and this country will take off like a rocket. Take care of yourself and your family and stop making demands on your neighbors pocketbook via the government.

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    • mrzmac
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:38am

      Do you have the slightest understanding of half the things you posted here and how they will affect the Citizens of America…Anything can have a nice, safe, helpful title…that does not mean it will be that way in reality!

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:29pm

      Oh look at that–the highest tax rate in U.S. history was during EISENHOWER’s (the best Republican… well Lincoln was the best Republican…) term when the American GDP grew FASTER than at any other time in history. And there was less economic disparity then as before–billionaires couldn’t exist in a state of nature–without the government to create a right to property and back it up with force rich people couldn’t be rich; we’d all just be people…probably murdering each other for bread…

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    • alwayssora
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:18am

      I believe you repeated some of your items.
      HOW MANY of the American citizens did Obama refuse to listen to? How much change did he leave in the pockets of our hardest working citizens?
      I hope his trip to India comes out of your pocket, not mine nor any patriot‘s who’s worked hard all their lives.

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  • Ezekiel38
    Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:44pm

    Woohoo! Way to go!

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:55pm

      Go Rand!

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    • tea bagging patriot
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:56am

      That’s what I said impeach-bo,

      The government helping sick and dying children is socialism.

      I think me and you are gonna be good friends Impeach-bo.

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    • tallpines10
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:01am

      way to go kentucy..

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 4:07am

      Time to end All “entitlements”. No one is entitled to anything that they did not earn. If you can‘t feed them don’t breed them. If you aren‘t smart enough to save for retirement move in with your kids don’t force me to support your dumb @ss. Health care is not a right. If you get sick you get the care you can pay for even if you’re old. You got to die some time. I don’twant to ppay while you do it slowly in a nursing home losing your mind and control of you bowels. Charity is a private affair. If you want to help the poor, old and homeless it should be a choice not a forced mandate by the state. Minimum wage laws are unconstitutional. Dismantle the EPA, Dept of Education, HUD, and every other socialist agency. Let the states make the laws not enumerated in The Constitution.

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