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Blue_Tires

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3. Rand doesn't care because he's already bankrolled by Big Coal

Reply to woo me with science (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:49 AM

Jun 2012

So he gets to make his fake "principled" stance for the public...

Yes, he has a point, but he's still a sanctimonious hypocrite of the worst type...If the drones were made in Kentucky he'd be the first one whoring for them...

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GOP Sen. Rand Paul Warns That For-Profit Drone Lobby Is Seducing Congress [View all] Report1212 Jun 2012 OP

Cue the faux freakout over the Pauls in order to defend abominable policy... woo me with science Jun 2012 #1

Rand doesn't care because he's already bankrolled by Big Coal Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #3

I side with Paul here, and I dont believe he would advocate the drones wherever they were built. Puzzledtraveller Jun 2012 #5

Paul will do whatever his corporate overlords tell him Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #6

So Randroid is just now realizing that lobbyists have nefarious agendas? Has anyone told him that Erose999 Jun 2012 #2

Fuck Rand Paul! NNN0LHI Jun 2012 #4

Rand Paul is despicable karynnj Jun 2012 #7

Why would accepting objectives that I don't agree with, in a manner that I believe is TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #8

That must be ProSense Jun 2012 #10

I offered no defense or support of Rand Paul. Always with the personalities and avoidance of issues TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #11

Well ProSense Jun 2012 #14

I was not meaning that we accept the policy decision that we should be at war karynnj Jun 2012 #16

All lobbies "seduce" congress malthaussen Jun 2012 #9

I hope I live to see the day lobbying for profitable interests... Comrade_McKenzie Jun 2012 #12

Cue DU's Libertarian Ron and Rand Paul defenders...nt SidDithers Jun 2012 #13

republicans just drone on and on--they get paid extra???? dembotoz Jun 2012 #15