Rand Paul Speaks … making sense

It seems everyone has a response now to the SOTU but I am choosing to highlight Senator Rand Paul’s response because he does not hold back, he makes sense, and he, unlike so many others, understands the gravity of the problem. “The fact is the cat’s out of the bag …”

This comes to us from HotAir. As AP points out, the tragedy in the SOTU is that the President had an opportunity to explain just how serious the fiscal problem is in this country. In a sense, the government has now taken the place of the financial system in terms of crisis mode. And like the mortgage crisis that most everyone ignored for years, politicians are pretty much doing the same thing with the government’s money problems, only this time, there’s no one willing to rescue the government.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0B8–qw1ws&feature=player_embedded

Go read AP’s post because he links to a number of great commentaries from yesterday, and wonders how it’s possible the public still doesn’t see much difference between Republicans and Democrats on this issue. He also highlights this from Matt Welch at Reason.

Here’s a reality check: We will not have high-speed rail within Segwaying distance of 80 percent of the country, ever. We will not get 80 percent of our electricity from “clean energy sources” by 2035, unless someone far outside the halls of government invents a snail that eats trash and poops hydrogen. Obama won’t veto every bill that arrives on his desk with earmarks–re-watch that part of the speech last night; no one believed him.

Why won’t these things happen? Because, as Rep. Paul Ryan rightly emphasized last night, the only real policy issue in America right now is that we are on the verge of fiscal catastrophe because cannot afford the government we’re paying for today, let alone the one we’re promising for tomorrow.

Tough love, as always from the libertarian wing of the party.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

5 Comments

  1. RoBrDona on January 27, 2011 at 5:11 am

    Rand is my favorite olive pit in the Washington sandwich.



  2. weregettinghosed on January 27, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Rand Paul has good common sense ideas, that is what we should have; whether he has the ability to turn that into enough political strength for the citizens to buy him completely is yet another story. The citizens are listening and many people talking truth and common sense will the sparks lighting American freedom on fire, but from the flames there will be a rising spark stronger, brighter then any other, this one will be the citizens' choice. Who is that rising spark, the fire is has not yet started to discover it; yet I smell smoke.



  3. brianh on January 27, 2011 at 9:11 am

    At least the cat's out of the bag—and ready to take on the milk spills, I hope 🙂



  4. brianh on January 27, 2011 at 9:28 am

    At least the cat's out of the bag—and ready to take on the spilt milk, I hope—so Dennis, don't cry if you drool milk from your disabled mouth 🙂



  5. JollyRoger on January 28, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    You'd better hold onto your slurpee when Obama drives the economy over the cliff… There are no slurpees in third world nations…



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