Keeping it Factual: Rand Paul's Voting Record
Last edited Mon Aug 25, 2014, 03:31 PM - Edit history (2)
If folks are determined to talk about Rand Paul as a progressive let's at least keep it factual.
Here is his actual voting record: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/117285/rand-paul#.U_tm_mPTf_k
July 31, 2014 HR 5021 Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 Senate
(81 - 13) Nay
July 30, 2014 S 2569 Bring Jobs Home Act Cloture Not Invoked - Senate
(54 - 42) Nay
July 16, 2014 S 2578 Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014 Cloture Not Invoked - Senate
(56 - 43) Nay
July 9, 2014 PN 1736 Nomination of Julian Castro to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Nomination Confirmed - Senate
(71 - 26) Nay
It goes on and on ....
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and yes it does baffle the mind that some are cheerleading for him right on DU
...but thanks for posting this. 
Fuck Rand Paul.
By Dana Liebelson - Oct. 10, 2013
1. Social Security payments will be delayed, possibly cut. According to President Obama, in the event of a default the US government will have no choice but to delay Social Security checks. The government owes $12 billion in Social Security payments on October 23 and an additional $25 billion on November 1. At some point between October 22 and November 1, the BPC predicts that the US government will have exhausted its borrowing power and will either have to start severely delaying its bills or sort through the millions of different payments it makes each month—on everything from national parks to the FBI—to figure out which ones to stop paying. That's when Social Security could see sustained cuts.
2. Federal employees will be screwed…even more. Furloughed federal employees haven't been paid since the government shutdown began on October 1. Congress is unlikely to end the shutdown without raising the debt limit, meaning furloughed staffers would be unlikely to receive paychecks anytime soon.
3. Pay and benefits for military service members and veterans will be delayed, possibly cut. The US government owes $12 billion in pay to active and retired military service members on November 1. Those payments will be delayed if the government runs out of money before then, and potentially cut, depending on which bills the US decides to pay.
4. Medicare and Medicaid checks will be delayed, possibly cut. The US government owes $2 billion in Medicaid payments on October 30 and $18 billion in Medicare payments on November 1. Same deal: If the government runs out of cash before then, payments will be delayed, or put on the chopping block with everything else.
Kept within 4 paragraphs to match DU rules. Much more at the link, showing it will be impossible to recover from default, yet the GOP thinks this is a great idea. They want a civil war, and this is how they want to get one, but many won't survive this. It is a manufactured crisis, there is not country in the world that wants this.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/16-ways-not-raising-debt-ceiling-will-screw-americans
With thanks to Mira who posted the Mother Jones link in GD. You can go to enter that discussion, I added more information:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023834604
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110218177
Debt Ceiling: 'Chaotic' choices on 100 million payments
By Jeanne Sahadi - January 7, 2013
If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling soon, the Treasury Department will be forced to make drastic, no-win decisions on how to honor tens of millions of legally owed payments every month...
Prioritizing interest payments means Treasury must choose from more than 100 million monthly payments and would not be able to pay 40% of the dollars owed...
Much more at link:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/07/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html
Those expecting veteran benefits will lose those in November through shutdown or with default:
5 million will lose veterans' benefits next month if shutdown stretches to November
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=616482
Rand Paul says default can be 'framed as a reasonable idea' and Tom Coburn wants to default to face a 'managed catastrophe.'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3820816
Why the people of the USA aren't in the offices of these gangsters protesting right now, proves the power of media.
They will blame Obama, the poor, the disabled, the elderly and any 'Others,' instead of the GOP.
We should never forget on a liberal, progressive website whose mission is to see more Democrats elected to office:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice
We can see the F.U.D. for what it is. Rand Paul has voted for repealing the ACA that benefits people in his state, still pushes Right to Work laws, personhood attachments to bills, voted against the VAWA, is for privatizing police, fire departments, schools, social services or eliminating them along with Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, is anti-environment... the list goes on.
His alleged virtues about warfare are con jobs when you see the warfare by inequality and racism he supports daily. He says what's happening in Ferguson isn't racial. But then, he doesn't see a lot of people as worthwhile human beings who should have a say in governing ourselves.
He's too wet to step on and too low to kick. ~ JustAnotherGen
Paulbots of both sorts seem either unaware or unconcerned about the actual records of their heroes.
