RE: Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out, Ron
November 15, 2012 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2012 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm glad to see him go precisely -because- he's consistent. A consistent shill, that is. There's some narrative floating around that he isn't a wholly owned double-speaking subsidiary of so and so like any other politician...but lets look at just a small sample of his voting record....
He apparently thinks that we should develop energy independence, good for him. He also, apparently, thinks that big oil subsidies are not ok. However......
Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. (Apr 2011)
Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution. (Jun 2009)
Voted NO on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets. (Sep 2008)
Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (May 2008)
Voted NO on tax incentives for renewable energy. (Feb 2008)
Voted NO on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007)
Wedged between all of these votes is an inexplicable one....
Voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
Sometime between January and June of 07 (when he made the comment about oil subsidies) he appears to have decided that big oil subsidies aren't okay after all...no worries..people can change their minds. His comments against oil subsidies conveniently appeared at the GOP debate at St. Anselm in 07. When he's angling for fucking office he tells us he doesn't like subsidizing big oil...but back in Washington casting his vote he's all about it. Hey Ron, hows about Big Oil finding oil on it's own goddamned dime eh?
........we'll continue...looking into the past.
Voted NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
To me, his voting record seems to indicate a person very much in the pocket of oil. Consistently so, you might say.
Rated 0% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence. (Dec 2006)
This rating was given in 06....and despite his comment in 2012 about developing energy independence I don't see anything in his voting record in the 6 year interim that would alter that rating.
Now, if you'd like the full quotes and their sources, the arguments for and against each of these bills what I think you'll find is an even more descriptive and inescapable pile of political doublespeak. What irritates me about Ron Paul is not Ron Paul, but the folks who are incapable of sifting through his voting record and recognizing that he does not live up to his hype. He -does- vote the party line, consistently, he offers token resistance to dead-in-the-water issues (though he also sets himself up to benefit from those positions he opposes..check his record on voting no to government spending, including his own proposals....knowing full goddamned well that his no vote means jack shit- and his requests are going to get greenlighted. Brilliant political dance right there.)
http://www.ontheissues.org/tx/ron_paul.htm
Don't even get me started on that son a bitch. Ever since I signed a damned petition here in Kentucky my email has been getting spammed with pro-life bullshit from his office. His record is even more dismal than his fathers (impressive..because it's not nearly as long...). The apple didn't fall far from the tree, and in one generation it appears to have gained significantly higher levels of genetically driven ideological purity......
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm
He apparently thinks that we should develop energy independence, good for him. He also, apparently, thinks that big oil subsidies are not ok. However......
Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. (Apr 2011)
Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution. (Jun 2009)
Voted NO on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets. (Sep 2008)
Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (May 2008)
Voted NO on tax incentives for renewable energy. (Feb 2008)
Voted NO on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007)
Wedged between all of these votes is an inexplicable one....
Voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
Sometime between January and June of 07 (when he made the comment about oil subsidies) he appears to have decided that big oil subsidies aren't okay after all...no worries..people can change their minds. His comments against oil subsidies conveniently appeared at the GOP debate at St. Anselm in 07. When he's angling for fucking office he tells us he doesn't like subsidizing big oil...but back in Washington casting his vote he's all about it. Hey Ron, hows about Big Oil finding oil on it's own goddamned dime eh?
........we'll continue...looking into the past.
Voted NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
To me, his voting record seems to indicate a person very much in the pocket of oil. Consistently so, you might say.
Rated 0% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence. (Dec 2006)
This rating was given in 06....and despite his comment in 2012 about developing energy independence I don't see anything in his voting record in the 6 year interim that would alter that rating.
Now, if you'd like the full quotes and their sources, the arguments for and against each of these bills what I think you'll find is an even more descriptive and inescapable pile of political doublespeak. What irritates me about Ron Paul is not Ron Paul, but the folks who are incapable of sifting through his voting record and recognizing that he does not live up to his hype. He -does- vote the party line, consistently, he offers token resistance to dead-in-the-water issues (though he also sets himself up to benefit from those positions he opposes..check his record on voting no to government spending, including his own proposals....knowing full goddamned well that his no vote means jack shit- and his requests are going to get greenlighted. Brilliant political dance right there.)
http://www.ontheissues.org/tx/ron_paul.htm
(November 15, 2012 at 2:15 am)Minimalist Wrote: The constitution that a shitbag like Paul is talking about was written in 1789.
All the changes since then are outside of his world view.
By the way, that was the headline of the story. I've heard all I ever care to from Paul...and his fucking stupid-ass son.
Don't even get me started on that son a bitch. Ever since I signed a damned petition here in Kentucky my email has been getting spammed with pro-life bullshit from his office. His record is even more dismal than his fathers (impressive..because it's not nearly as long...). The apple didn't fall far from the tree, and in one generation it appears to have gained significantly higher levels of genetically driven ideological purity......
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm
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