Rand Paul: Obama is "irresponsible" for "scaring people" on debt deadline, "should be soothing the m
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[quote]Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama should not be using scare tactics as the government approaches a deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling, Sen. Rand Paul argued Sunday.
The Kentucky Republican said if Democrats end up insisting on increasing spending limits as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown, then it will be considered a “nonstarter” by Senate Republicans.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Paul said “the one thing” he cannot accept - as Congress negotiates a deal to halt current stalemates over the budget and national debt - is to exceed the spending caps put into place by a series of forced budget cuts, known in Washington as the sequester.
[B]“It’s funny, (Democrats are) all about Obamacare being the law of the land, but so is the sequester,” he told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.[/B]
While the cuts went into place earlier this year, a second round is scheduled to take effect in January unless there is some agreement on spending on Capitol Hill.
But Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, said the current spending limits from the sequester are needed to help bring fiscal responsibility to the nation’s capital.
[B]“If we get rid of that, it's a terrible step in the wrong direction,” he said.[/B]
He added that a possible proposal to exceed sequester level spending caps would be a new change in policy for Senate Democrats, who have been pushing for a debt ceiling bill with no strings attached. The Treasury Department says it will be unable to pay the government's bills unless the debt limit is increased by Thursday.[/quote]
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[QUOTE]if Democrats end up insisting on increasing spending limits as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown
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I litterally can´t see no sense here.
I have no words. This is utter stupidity.
Presumably he said this without a shred of irony
These scumbags need to be dragged out of their swanky upper class homes and locked away.
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