i think the war issue is a great issue that and you know, the federal reserve has been something. i had tremendous support from democrats. i had 320 members of congress sign on to that bill. so that is what i think is important. but i didn t have to compromise my principles. as a sitting member of congress, given the anger out there, obviously you have a lot of support among and sort of, you know, a lot of credit among tea party activists. but do you think some republican congress people are concerned about being seen as too moderate, as being seen as being too willing to compromise? by the tea party people, you mean? yeah. yeah, i think that s it, but i just think that we re moving in the right direction. i think the most magnificent thing is that this revolution is going on and the people have discovered it, and they re not blaming the average citizen. they re blaming washington. that s why republicans and democrats are losing. but the most important thing for me is having
end. it s going to end badly. but it s a bipartisan effort. i m tired of hearing this bipartisanship. that s all we have in washington. bipartisan supports the war. obama wants to expand the war and republicans love it. and when there is big spending, yeah, they agree. well, you spend on this item and this item, and both sides agree to it. so i think we need somebody to stand up and say we need a new idea. i like the idea of progressives and libertarians and conservative constitutionalists getting together and starting talking about civil liberties and this war issue, because this is bankrupting our country. and i ll tell you politically it s much easier to sell spending a little bit less overseas. why are we building an embassy in london, now over a billion dollars. london? why do we have a fortress there? we have a fortress in baghdad, a fortress in kabul. it makes no sense whatsoever. and i think there can be a coalition. to me that would be a very good bipartisan coalition. but it
the supposedly libertarian- leaning conservatives that his presidential candidacy inspired. if they re not cool with ron paul, who are they cool with? joining us now is dave weigel, the senior reporter for the washington independent. he reported on this weekend s tea party convention in nashville. david, it s very nice to see you. thanks for being here good to see you. thanks. let me just ask you the last question. if they re not cool with ron paul who are they cool with? i would have expected it to be a nice fit between the tea party movement and mr. paul. he s never been a good fit with these types of conservative activists because of the war issue. i kind of got misty-eyed looking at the old tea party videos. i was at one in 2007 in georgetown where a ron paul activist put things like federal reserve and unsound money on boxes and then jumped and smashed the boxes after they threw them on the floor. so they really did invent all of this stuff. but the tea party movement is mor
convention in minneapolis. he s now getting challenged by the supposedly libertarian leaning conservatives that his presidential candidacy inspired. if they re not cool with ron paul, who are they cool with? joining us now is the senior reporter for the washington independent who reported on this weekend s tea party convention in nashville. david, it s very nice to see you. thanks for being here good to see you. thanks. let me just ask you the last question. if they re not cool with ron paul who are they cool with? i would have expected it to be a nice fit between the tea party movement and mr. paul. he s never been a good fit with these types of conservative activists because of the war issue. i kind of got misty eyed looking at the old tea party videos. i was at one in 2007 in georgetown where a ron paul activist put things like federal reserve and unsound money on boxes and then jumped and smashed the boxes after they threw them on the floor. they really did invent all this st
getting through congress? you have class-war issue, special interest, any others? yeah, the ego of senate. paul: who are you talking about when you re talking about egos or is it all 52 republicans? we will get to that in a second. with the health care bill, it began to get into trouble when the freedom caucus began to raise objections. i talked to the chairman of the haus freedom caucus mark meadows in washington this week and he said they thought they were going to be okay and get it done. i don t see the big problem coming out of the house this time. when you go over to the senate, what happened with the health care bill with senators mccain and rand paul, lisa murkowski and susan collins, there s something about the senators who just don t feel like they can they want to win, that they have to express themselves more for reasons of their own egos than