Rand Paul

Wow! I just listened to Dr. Rand Paul talking to Dennis Miller on a clip from last weeks Dennis Miller Radio Show. I'm ready to move to Kentucky just so I can vote for him.

DM asked him to list the top 4 or 5 changes he would make if he could. They were:

1. He would require all Senators and Congressmen to read a bill before they would be allowed to vote on it. (What a concept!)

2. He would mandate a wait of 1 day for every 20 pages of a bill before it could be voted upon. (Had this rule been in place they would have had to wait 116 days to vote on the health care bill. How many of those yes votes would have been no votes if 116 days of revelations been allowed to surface prior to the vote?)

3. Every bill would be required to identify where in the constitution they got the authority to do what the bill was proposing to do. (Just imagine the mental gymnastics they would have to go through to connect many of these things they foist upon us to the constitution. The very document that is supposed to guide all things governmental in this great country of ours.) and

4. Congress should pass no bill that they themselves are exempted from. (How many of those yahoos would have voted for the health care bill if they thought they were going to have to use that gawd awful system for their own health care?)

The apple didn't fall to far from the tree here. Clearly Rand has inherited many political beliefs from his father, Ron Paul, the former Libertarian now Republican Senator from Texas.

Rand shows many Libertarian leanings. One of the clearest being his desire to have all bills trace their roots to the constitution. Libertarians believe that the central and state governments only have the powers enumerated in the constitution. All powers not specifically given through the constitution then reside within the people themselves. The sole role of government is to protect individuals life, liberty and property from being taken or impinged upon through the use of force or fraud! Period.

Go Rand, Go!

We need more folks like you and your father looking out for our individual rights!