Rand Paul objection to spending bill forces short-term government shutdown - Polidicks

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-readies-vote-budget-deal-hoping-avoid-shutdown-n845961[/url] [quote]WASHINGTON — Congress has failed to pass a government funding bill before a midnight deadline, shutting down non-essential government services for at least the remainder of the night until the Senate votes and the House follows suit. An objection raised by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., late Thursday single-handedly blocked the Senate from voting on a budget agreement by midnight. Paul raised objections because of the large price tag of the two-year spending deal, nearly $400 billion over the next two years. The agreement is an attempt to end the repeated drama of short-term funding bills that have occupied Congress for much of the past five months. But it, too, is providing drama until the end. "I can't, in all good honesty, in all good faith, just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits. But really who's to blame? Both parties," Paul said on the Senate floor. "We have a 700-page bill that no one has read that was printed at midnight. No one will read this bill, nothing will be reformed, the waste will continue and government will keep taking your money irresponsibly and adding to a $20 trillion debt."[/quote]

Classic Randie.

He has a good point. For all their talk of reining in spending, they haven't. And they're spending more while reducing taxes as well. At least in this matter he has far more principle than the rest of his party.

[QUOTE=download;53119162]He has a good point. For all their talk of reining in spending, they haven't. And they're spending more while reducing taxes as well. At least in this matter he has far more principle than the rest of his party.[/QUOTE] Except he voted for the tax reform which helped balloon the deficit. So in my opinion he still played a role in the mess he's complaining about

[quote=Rand Paul]"We have a 700-page bill that no one has read that was printed at midnight. No one will read this bill, nothing will be reformed, the waste will continue and government will keep taking your money irresponsibly and adding to a $20 trillion debt."[/quote] Hmm... Now wherever might I have heard that before?

[QUOTE=Potus;53119197]Except he voted for the tax reform which helped balloon the deficit. So in my opinion he still played a role in the mess he's complaining about[/QUOTE] Well, Rand isn't for a balanced budget per-se as much as he's anti-federal government. He wants no taxes and no deficit so he's really crazy in that regard. At least he's consistent though, that you can say for sure. He's more independent than Republican.

[QUOTE=glitchvid;53119254]Hmm... Now wherever might I have heard that before?[/QUOTE] any minute now the pie will grow enough for those tax cuts to pay for themselves, just another few minutes.... [editline]9th February 2018[/editline] also his "amendment" basically defeats the point of the bill by blocking the raising of spending caps and the speaker can't just open the floor for just rand paul to amend the bill. this is really just another example of why you don't leave your homework to the last minute, paul might eat it and there's no extensions on government financing

So that's 2 shutdowns in 3 weeks? Amazing.

[QUOTE=Potus;53119197]Except he voted for the tax reform which helped balloon the deficit. So in my opinion he still played a role in the mess he's complaining about[/QUOTE] He probably did that wanting to absolutely gut spending afterwards

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;53119617]He probably did that wanting to absolutely gut spending afterwards[/QUOTE] His plan was to gut social services all along, so, yes, the big tax cut is a self-manufactured crisis which only big cuts to entitlements will solve, what heroes republicans are. Except they've just signed a fat tax cut AND a huge expansion in entitlements. Repubs are the party of fiscal responsibility when it costs nothing to talk shit about fiscal responsibility. As soon as they actually have to deliver they throw that out the window and borrow whatever they have to so they can spend on what they want to please their constituents. It's almost like the GOP doesn't have any notion of good governance and can only function on outrage politics. :thinking:

Would be nice if we could have lower taxes by gutting things that aren’t social services like say... [B]the Pentagon loosing track of almost $800,000,000[/B] and other wasteful spending like that?

[QUOTE=AlbertWesker;53120259]Would be nice if we could have lower taxes by gutting things that aren’t social services like say... [B]the Pentagon loosing track of almost $800,000,000[/B] and other wasteful spending like that?[/QUOTE] Republicans: "wtf I love military deficit spending now"