Senator Rand Paul Lays It Down Like Every Republican Should

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by Smitty

The GOP should be firmly on #OccupyResoluteDesk’s sad little case just like this, 24/7/365:

@4:36 “This is the emotionalism that’s always used to argue against any cuts.”

Paul invites the question: just why are the bulk of other elected Republicans not stepping up to the plate?

via The Examiner

Update: Geraghty at NRO:
Here’s the 3 by 5 index card version of what the GOP’s message on sequestration ought to be:

  • Our current level of spending is unsustainable. Spending must go down. Period.
  • This is a 2 percent cut [in spending growth].
  • Sure, if we in the Republican Party had complete control of the government, we would be implementing the cuts differently. But we don’t.
  • Congress can only appropriate funds; it doesn’t run the departments and agencies that spend the money. That’s the power and responsibility of the executive branch.
  • If the Obama administration’s response to a 2 percent cut is really to let all the criminals out of the jails and end food safety inspections, then it is no longer disputable that he’s a Stuttering Cluster-you-know-what of a Miserable Failure.

Update II: Legal Insurrection links, “Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013”

18 comments

  11. “Paul invites the question: just why are the bulk of other elected Republicans not stepping up to the plate?” Because Senator Paul enjoys being a lightning rod, and is relatively safe for reelection. I’d like to believe McConnell uses Paul, Cruz, Rubio, and Scott as catspaws, but McConnell isn’t that devious.
    Be nice to see what the GOP PR strategy once we emerge from the great fiscal crisis of this news cycle. But the GOP will cave so it’s a moot point.

  13. It doesn’t help when we have a media whose first loyalty is to making Democrats look good, not reporting the truth. Rand Paul described the problem in very simple terms – there is no reason the media couldn’t do the same thing if they wanted to. But they don’t (notice that Blitzer doesn’t address any of Paul’s points) because that would bring heat on Democrats.

    Nice pushback on the “it’s all Republicans fault” meme, by the way.

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