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Rand Paul delivers blistering floor speech opposing ‘monster' COVID spending bill, says GOP ‘no better' than Dems

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Posted by 746 2020-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 The Senate passed the relief package and government spending bill 91-6, with Paul being joined by five other Republicans in voting against it.

The other five were Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the GOP controls the US Senate, correct? Six (R) senators voted against this. A mere six. And there, ladies & germs, is why the GOP is a broke joke--and has been for years.

Posted by Clem 2020-12-23 00:21|| 2020-12-23 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 And so now we know who really are conservatives and who are not.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-12-23 01:44|| 2020-12-23 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I am amused by the idea that the mainstream GOP is different than the Dems. If you think of the parties as the "heels" and "faces" of professional wrestling, two sides locked in existential combat, presumably diametric opposites but actually two sides of the same grift, then it all makes sense.

As always, pay attention to the hands and not the words. Even AOC denounced this porkulus bill, but she voted for it anyway.

Posted by SteveS 2020-12-23 13:52|| 2020-12-23 13:52|| Front Page Top

/\ I am amused by the idea that the mainstream GOP is different than the Dems

They do share a similar taste in theater. Something tells me the similarities run much deeper.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-23 13:57|| 2020-12-23 13:57|| Front Page Top

#5 They are simply different cheeks of the same smelly ass. And produce about the same result.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-12-23 15:11|| 2020-12-23 15:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Democrats are the "tax and spend" party, while the republicans are simply the "spend" party. At least the democrats pretend to want to pay for all that spending. Both parties are fine with the nation collapsing from the weight of all that debt, as long as it doesn't happen before the next election.

Posted by AuburnTom 2020-12-23 17:56|| 2020-12-23 17:56|| Front Page Top

#7 The US National Debt will never be paid off. The bill will be satisfied in other ways at an unknown time.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2020-12-23 23:10|| 2020-12-23 23:10|| Front Page Top

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