With American Democracy Functionally Dead — We Will Have to Settle for its Occasionally Humorous Theater — Senator Rand Paul Blasted Two Republican Blowhards with a Dose of Truth

© 2015 Peter Free

 

22 April 2015

 

 

Calling the warmongering loud-mouths out

 

Senator Rand Paul, arguable libertarian lunatic though he may be, may go further with his presidential candidacy than one might have expected. Many of us cannot help but smile, when he says something true in an arena where truth almost never emerges.

 

Here, courtesy of Andrew Kirell at Mediaite is what happened:

 

 

On Monday morning [20 April 2015], Sen. [Lindsey] Graham told Morning Joe that Paul is “more wrong than right” on foreign policy, and that “even Obama” is stronger than the libertarian-leaning senator when it comes to dealing with threats abroad.

 

The U.S. Senator from South Carolina accused Sen. Paul of wanting to “lead from behind” on global issues.

 

Additionally, Sen. McCain — Graham’s best friend for life — charged that Paul “just doesn’t understand” foreign policy.

 

Paul fired back at both senators during an interview with Fox’s Bill Hemmer . . . .

 

 

"This comes from a group of people wrong about every policy issue over the last couple decades. I’ll give you a couple examples where they support the president’s foreign policy and I don’t:

 

"They supported Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya; they supported President Obama’s bombing of Assad; they also support President Obama’s foreign aid to countries that hate us.

 

"So if there is anyone who is most opposed to President Obama’s foreign policy, it’s me.

 

"People who call loudest to criticize me are great proponents of President Obama’s foreign policy — they just want to do it ten times over.

 

"I’m only one actually standing up and saying the war in Libya was a mistake; the bombing of Assad would make ISIS stronger; the arms to the Islamic rebels would make ISIS stronger.

 

"So I’m really the one standing up to President Obama.

 

"And these people are essentially the lapdogs for President Obama and I think they’re sensitive about that.

 

"I think that intervention is not always the answer and that some interventions lead to unintended consequences."

 

© 2015 Andrew Kirell, Rand Paul: Lindsey Graham and McCain ‘Lapdogs for Obama’, Mediaite (21 April 2015) (extracts, reformatted)

 

 

The moral? — If we cannot have sanity in government, perhaps we can settle for a handful of people grabbing the blowhards by their tongues and applying a dose of Grandma’s old fashioned lye soap

 

Admittedly, it probably will not do any good.

 

We are too ignorant and apathetic to let truth register long enough to do something about it. But the verbal engagement does lend an entertaining thrill similar to Bloaty Bullfrogs speaking loudly in the swamp.