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- Two Pauls Are Better Than One!
- Trump Electrifies CPAC and Infuriates Paul Supporters
- Ruling against health insurance mandate is a ‘tea party’ milestone
- Republican Leaders Yield to a Push for More Budget Cuts
- Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus
| Two Pauls Are Better Than One! Posted: 11 Feb 2011 09:45 PM PST Four years ago, Rand Paul was helping out his father on a presidential campaign that was not taken very seriously. This was fair, in horse-race terms. Ron Paul seemed like the sort of candidate who runs, makes a statement, introduces an issue, and fades away. The issues were abolishing the Federal Reserve, ending both wars in Central Asia, abolishing the entitlement state, and ending the war on drugs. No Republican candidate adopted any of these issues. Paul’s supporters, younger and rowdier and more akin to quoting Murray Rothbard than other Republicans, were grudgingly accepted.  Two Pauls Are Better Than One! Fast forward to CPAC 2011. The economic portions of Ron Paul’s agenda are no longer controversial. Rand Paul is a U.S. senator who can command media attention and confused sports fans. “It’s not just that Rand is a senator,” says William Thompson, a Georgia activist attending with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty—the group he set up after shutting down his 2008 presidential bid. “He’s one of the senators everyone knows. If you ask somebody who doesn’t follow politics to name a politician, they might name him.” This is incredible for the CPAC supporters of Paul and Paul who’ve been coming for years. In 2008, Paul didn’t have a booth in the exhibition hall; his fans occupied the one that Mitt Romney abandoned after dropping out of the race. In 2011, they have paid for booths that occupy most of a long row of the hall. They offer copies of Young American Revolution magazine, the official publication of Ron Paul’s youth group, and bumper stickers that decry “George W. Obama” alongside ones that say “We Used To Hunt Communists. Now We Elect Them.” Paul and Paul’s fans are perhaps the only people in American politics right now who are head over heels in love with their politicians. President Obama’s supporters used to have enthusiasm like this, but it’s tempered. He’s had to disappoint them by governing the country. The Pauls’ adherents can’t be disappointed. They got this far, didn’t they? And they are unavoidable at CPAC, aren’t they? According to Ron Paul’s camp, his organization spent about $100,000 on discounted tickets (students could attend for $15 through Campaign for Liberty) and booths. More than 1,000 people here are Paul supporters. By: David Weigel |
| Trump Electrifies CPAC and Infuriates Paul Supporters Posted: 11 Feb 2011 04:57 PM PST
If CPAC is a primary for self-confidence, Donald Trump won hands down. The real-estate mogul with a genius for self-promotion gave the most-acclaimed – and most colorful – speech at the conservative gathering this afternoon, from the moment he took the stage to the song “Money, Money, Money.” With no visible sense of irony, he slammed libertarian Ron Paul as a losing hopeful who can’t capture the brass ring and got booed by some for it, said our current president came ‘out of nowhere,” and quoted a business magazine’s story about what a terrific entrepreneur he himself is. To read more, visit: http://nation.foxnews.com/donald-trump/2011/02/10/trump-electrifies-cpac-and-infuriates-paul-supporters |
| Ruling against health insurance mandate is a ‘tea party’ milestone Posted: 11 Feb 2011 08:17 AM PST
Reporting from Washington — For nearly two years, the “tea party” movement with its call for limited government has made inroads in the political arena, but a Florida judge’s ruling last week declaring the health insurance mandate unconstitutional may be remembered as its moment of arrival in the courts. Another judge in Virginia had made a similar ruling, but U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s decision gave voice to the tea party’s rallying cry that the Constitution put strict limits on the national government. Harkening back to the time of the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party, he observed that even the hated British did not go so far as to “force people to buy tea.” “Surely this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended,” Vinson said. “We would have a Constitution in name only” if Congress can force an unwilling person to buy health insurance, he wrote. To read more, visit: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tea-party-healthcare-20110211,0,1938491.story |
| Republican Leaders Yield to a Push for More Budget Cuts Posted: 11 Feb 2011 08:14 AM PST
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders said Thursday that they would accede to demands from conservatives and dig deeper into the federal budget for billions of dollars in additional savings this year, exhibiting the power of the Tea Party movement and increasing chances of a major fiscal clash with Democrats. In response to complaints from rank-and-file Republicans that the party was not fulfilling a campaign promise to roll back domestic spending this year by $100 billion, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee said his panel would abandon its initial plan and draw up a new one to slice spending more aggressively. "Our intent is to make deep but manageable cuts in nearly every area of government, leaving no stone unturned and allowing no agency or program to be held sacred," Representative Harold Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who leads the committee, said. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/us/politics/11congress.html?_r=1&ref=politics |
| Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus Posted: 11 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST
Arkansas’ freshman Republican, John Boozman, comes to the Senate with solid conservative credentials (including a 96 percent rating last year from the American Conservative Union), but he tells ABC News he has no intention of joining the Senate Tea Party caucus. “Well you know I’m very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They’re very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things,” Boozman said in an interview for the ABC News Subway Series. “But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.” Forming a Tea Party caucus of Republican Senators, Boozman said, could make the movement seem like a wing of the Republican Party, which he says it should not be. “If you have such a situation where it becomes an arm of the Republican Party, or it appears to be that way — and don’t think that the people who are doing this are trying to do that, but to the public it will appear that way — then you lose the Reagan Democrats, then you lose the independents,” Boozman said. “And I really, I think it’s really important that they continue to have that support.” To read more, visit: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/conservative-senator-john-boozman-tea-party-caucus/story?id=12892983 |
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