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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:14 AM Jul 2013

OH-OOH: Rand Paul MOCKS Christie and King: ‘GIMME, GIMME, GIMME ALL MY SANDY MONEY NOW’







Republicans Peter King (Rep, NY) and Chris Christie (Gov, NJ) have been tearing into Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and his “anti-war” NSA foot pounding, saying he is weakening the Republican Party’s bona fides on national security. So Paul took it to the next level, slamming both King and Christie for being takers who are bankrupting the government. At a Republican fundraiser in Tennessee on Sunday, Senator Paul accused Christie and King of being all “gimme, gimme, gimme”, according to CNN affiliate WKRN-TV. Speaking as the headliner at a Boots and Jeans, BBQ and Beans fundraising event in Franklin Tennessee, the Senator said,


“The people who want to criticize me and call me names, they are precisely the same people who are unwilling to cut the spending. They are ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme all my Sandy money now.’ Those are the people who are bankrupting the government and not allowing enough money be left over for national defense.”




Bizarrely, the Senator also explained that the GOP needs to be more inclusive, and suggested that they need to get those New England votes. Senator Paul expounded on ways to grow the Republican Party, “New England, the West Coast, Illinois, we need to figure out how to win in those states. And until we get more inclusive, until we get more African American votes, more Latino votes, more women’s votes, more youth’s votes, we have to do all of that.” Probably won’t get east coasters by slamming Sandy Aide. Just a thought.



But then, the Senator’s plans for expanding the party all seem to follow the same blueprint. Want more African American voters? Hire a racist secessionist who champions the assassination of President Lincoln as your close aide, defend said racist until the pressure gets too high and then say you hope hiring said secessionist won’t damage the GOP brand. Want more women votes? Get out your transvaginal freedom probes on your way to an anti-choice rally for personal liberty (Bob Cesca nicely points out the hypocrisy here).



Republicans are now calling each other names in public, accusing each other of putting the nation at risk by being against national security (delicious to watch this after years of purple band-aid attacks against Democrats) and defending themselves by mocking Republicans who took aide for their states as bankrupting the country.




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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/29/rand-paul-accuses-fellow-republicans-bankrupting-government-sandy-aid.html
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OH-OOH: Rand Paul MOCKS Christie and King: ‘GIMME, GIMME, GIMME ALL MY SANDY MONEY NOW’ (Original Post) Segami Jul 2013 OP
When Rand Paul looks at himself in the mirror what keeps him from punching himself? gordianot Jul 2013 #1
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Segami Jul 2013 #2
Nice first response! adirondacker Jul 2013 #4
Looking at his father, he must think it's normal. Dash87 Jul 2013 #6
Beautifully stated! zappaman Jul 2013 #12
Yet when Dixie floods DonCoquixote Jul 2013 #3
"Mr. Chairman and members of the republican party" Sometimeswedrown Jul 2013 #5
Rand Paul is a red state hypocrite Generic Other Jul 2013 #7
Kick Scurrilous Jul 2013 #8
"not allowing enough money be left over for national defense" LondonReign2 Jul 2013 #9
i love the infighting within the gop Dustin DeWinde Jul 2013 #10
Rand Paul will be their nominee in 2016 LordGlenconner Jul 2013 #11
“New England, the West Coast, Illinois, we need to figure out how to win in those states." B Stieg Jul 2013 #13

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
6. Looking at his father, he must think it's normal.
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 12:11 PM
Jul 2013

His mind was invaded by stupidity ever since he was a deformed tadpole in that nuclear waste puddle.

Generic Other

(29,080 posts)
7. Rand Paul is a red state hypocrite
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 12:14 PM
Jul 2013

I believe the greedy constituents of Paul's state are all gimme gimme gimme when it comes to sucking up more in Federal funds than they pay in taxes. Kentucky is one of the ten most welfare dependent states in the country. Retirement programs, nutritional and anti-poverty aid, farm subsidies. 23.8 billion paid in taxes. 46.61 billion returned to the state. $1.96 for each dollar paid in taxes. gimme gimme gimme Kentucky. gimme gimme gimme

New Jersey is among the bottom ten states who pay more in taxes than they receive in return. $71.53 billion. For each dollar spent, the citizens of NJ receive $.62 in return. So who are the gimme gimme's?

New York paid 222.60 billion. Their citizens get on average $.79 for every tax dollar.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/04/04/state-finances.html#slide49

LondonReign2

(5,213 posts)
9. "not allowing enough money be left over for national defense"
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 04:36 PM
Jul 2013

One wonders what level of defense spending would finally be enough for these people. 95% of the budget? 98%?

Dustin DeWinde

(193 posts)
10. i love the infighting within the gop
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 01:59 PM
Jul 2013

And I want to stress how detestable both king and Christie are. But as usual rand paul is the worst.

Christie seeking money to help people in his state is actually a good thing. And for once in his miserablel life king acted like a new yorker and put our state ahead of his party.

But king and Christie both worked to make the gop the seeping cesspool of lunacy that it is today. So when the beast they have nurtured fed and defended defended turns on them I feel no sympathy.

Vote ALL gop scoundrels out of office

 

LordGlenconner

(1,348 posts)
11. Rand Paul will be their nominee in 2016
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 02:00 PM
Jul 2013

He's got just the right amount of latent bigotry mixed with a anger and a sense of entitlement that will make their masses swoon. And of course he fits the most important criteria of them all: he's painfully white.



B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
13. “New England, the West Coast, Illinois, we need to figure out how to win in those states."
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 06:20 PM
Jul 2013

become democrats

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