get back to work. sharknado strikes. sharknado, what happens when you combine sharks with a tornado. you re going to need a bigger boat. social media jumped on the sharknar doxt bandwagon. 5,000 tweets a minute. we created a sharknado moment. now it s headed for the big apple. check out the latest dust-up from chris christie and rand paul, two gop favorites, squeal over spending. sno senator paul, maybe you should start looking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. king of bacon talking about bacon. unexplained bacon. not true. i don t vote to bring home any bacon. i never feel like i get enough bacon. will cooler heads prevail
afford defense, maybe he should start lacking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, but i doubt he would, because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. thus began the great bacon war of 2013. this is the king of bacon talking about bacon. reporter: but all this talk about pork actually got at a conflict, deep within the republican party, over spending and the growing national security state. my problem with some of the more liberal members of the republican party is, they re not willing to cut spending other places in order to preserve national defense. reporter: rand paul is a tea party hero, and the most notable skeptic of the security state in the gop. he s a leading voice against the nsa and the man who led the nearly 13-hour anti-drone filibuster. chris christie has already planted his flag as a hawk. the next leader of the john mccain wing of the party. the battle between these two men will be one of the most clar
afford defense, maybe he should start lacking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, but i doubt he would, because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. thus began the great bacon war of 2013. this is the king of bacon talking about bacon. reporter: but all this talk about pork actually got at a conflict, deep within the republican party, over spending and the growing national security state. my problem with some of the more liberal members of the republican party is, they re not willing to cut spending other places in order to preserve national defense. reporter: rand paul is a tea party hero, and the most notable skeptic of the security state in the gop. he s a leading voice against the nsa and the man who led the nearly 13-hour anti-drone filibuster. chris christie has already planted his flag as a hawk. the next leader of the john mccain wing of the party. the battle between these two men will be one of the most clar
gimme attitude. so if senator paul wants the to look where to cut spending to afford defense, maybe he should start lacking at cutting the pork barrel spending he brings home to kentucky, but i doubt he would, because most washington politicians only care about bringing home the bacon. thus began the great bacon war of 2013. this is the king of bacon talking about bacon. but all this talk about pork actually got at a conflict, deep within the republican party, over spending and the growing national security state. my problem with some of the more liberal members of the republican party is, they re not willing to cut spending other places in order to preserve national defense. rand paul is a tea party hero, and the most notable skeptic of the security state in the gop. he s a leading voice against the nsa and the man who led the nearly 13-hour anti-drone filibuster. chris christie has already planted his flag as a hawk. the next leader of the john mccain wing of the party. the
ryan, you wrote an excellent piece on ways to fix washington and you suggested counter intuitively that maybe we should go back and increase those earmarks, the pork barrel spending as some people call it, because that might make the government more efficient and effective. i think they have a worse reputation than they actually they have a horrible reputation. speak to john mccain. he ll tell you. there s an argument that a little bit of pork in the system, not too much, and it is true they got out of hand right before they were banned by republicans, a little bit of pork in the system helps lubricate the gears of congress. give us an example how that could have made a difference this time around. we all know that there s this bridge on the river between kentucky and illinois that got $2 billion in increased funding. $2 billion is a lot but everyone is saying this was for mitch mcconnell. i don t think mitch mcconnell agreed to this compromise because of that bridge but if