the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over libyan territory. so rand paul voted in the senate for regime change. he voted in the senate for the imposition of a no-fly zone. he voted for everything, everything president obama has said he is in favor of doing and everything president obama decided to do, and he voted for it weeks before president obama decided to do it. but because the news media virtually ignored the march 1st senate resolution until i happened to mention it on this network yesterday afternoon, rand paul and his staff managed to forget, along with the news media, that senator paul, like every other united states senator had voted their support for everything president obama has done weeks before the president took action. senate flip flops rarely get
courage that led members of congress to abandon service to the people by passing continuing resolutions instead of cutting the hundred billion they pledged. potential 2012 candidate for president, congresswoman michele bachmann will headline that rally. newt gingrich will also be at the capitol thursday, speaking to house freshmen. there is no chance that gingrich will say anything like what he said when he was in a similar situation as speaker and actually had the responsibility of governing. newt gingrich gave a speech when we reached the 98 agreement between clinton and gingrich, and he said to his what he called perfectionist caucus, look, they elected a democratic president, some democrats in the senate and house, and by the way a number of republicans in the senate that don t agree with the republicans in the house, and the american public expects us to move forward. if the profession is caucus and the republican party wins and shuts down the government, it will be to the grea
response to an imminent threat. neither was the case here. turns out freshman senator paul agrees with candidate obama and president obama. what he left out of his youtube commentary last night is that 28 days ago senator paul voted for senate resolution 85, which was proposed by a bunch of liberal senators, including bernie sanders. that resolution, quote, strongly condemns the gross and systemic violations of human rights in libya, including violent attacks on protesters, demanding democratic reforms. calls on moammar gadhafi to decyst from further violence, recognize the libyan people s demand for democratic change, resign his position, and per a peaceful transition to democracy. and urges the united nations ty council to take such further action as may be necessary to protect civilians
in libya from attack, including the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over libyan territory. so rand paul voted in the senate for regime change. he voted in the senate for the imposition of a no-fly zone. he voted for everything, everything president obama has said he is in favor of doing and everything president obama decided to do, and he voted for it weeks before president obama decided to do it. but because the news media virtually ignored the march 1st senate resolution until i happened to mention it on this network yesterday afternoon, rand paul and his staff managed to forget, along with the news media, that senator paul, like every other united states senator had voted their support for everything president obama has done weeks before the
frosted in congress over the lack of consultation as you know, and people have been reading back this quote from candidate barack obama in 2007. quote. the president does not have the power under the constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. history has shown us time and time again, military axis most successful when it is authorized and supported by the legislative branch. what happened in this instance? well, keep in mind that we had to move quickly to save lives. gadhafi s forces were on the edge of benghazi. i consulted with a bipartisan group, including the speaker of the house, including the republican leader in the senate, and made sure that they knew this was a possibility that might take place, but we might