Rand Paul Response To 2015 State of the Union
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Timothy D. Easley, AP)
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Sen. Rand Paul, a likely GOP presidential candidate, took on the duties of a one-man rapid-response team and pounced on President Obamas State of the Union Address on multiple platforms.
The Kentucky senator posted his own response to Obamas speech on his YouTube channel offering a separate viewfrom the official Republican rebuttal being delivered by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and the Tea Partys view from Rep. Curt Clawson of Florida. Paul is also scheduled to appear on Fox News at 11 p.m. ET.
In his 12-minute video, Paul calls for new leadership and new blood in Washington and leveled broadsides at Obama on issues such as the budget, taxes, health care and foreign policy. Paul pointedly criticized Obama for contributing to income inequality in America and said the presidents policies have allowed the poor to get poorer and the rich to get richer.
The president is intent to redistribute the pie, but not growing it, Paul said in his video. He misunderstands that the bulk of America wants a bigger pie.
Paul didnt limit his criticism to Obama and included his colleagues in Congress as part of the problem.
In another State of the Union-related response, Paul encouragedhis supporters to use a fact-checking tool on his Facebook page to review some of Obamas previous statements.
The libertarian-minded senator is no stranger to the post-State of the Union drill. Paul delivered the Tea Party Express response in 2013 and criticized Obama for increasing spending, raising taxes and overusing his executive authority.
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with people at the Peppermill restaurant Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, in Las Vegas. Paul is a possible Republican presidential candidate. (AP Photo/John Locher) more >
By Christopher White - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January 21, 2015
It was President Obama speaking, but it was rock singer BobSegerthat Sen. Rand Paul said he was thinking about.
The Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 presidential contender, noting Mr. Obamas declaration that the country could now turn the page on recent hard times at his Tuesday evening State of the Union address, said the Detroit rocker expressed it much better in his 1972 song about the difficulties of life on the road.
All I could think about was Bob Segers song, and I was wishing Bob Seger was up there speaking and not Obama, Mr. Paul told a moderate Republican group Wednesday morning at the Capitol Hill Club.
The song is kind of melancholy, he noted. It is ultimately about moving forward. But I think we as a nation are moving backward.
Mr. Obama used the turn the page line to tout what he said were his administrations successes in guiding the economy back from the Great Recession, but Mr. Paul argued the presidents policies have only left the U.S. in a deeper hole.
The president is on course to add more to the deficit than all 43 presidents combined. And he has the gall to brag about reducing the deficit, Mr. Paul told a breakfast meeting of the Ripon Society.
The Kentucky senator offered what he said were better ways to stimulate the economy than government checks to random citizens.
If I have $800 billion and I want to pass it out, if I randomly select people to give the money to, I dont know if they are going to use that money on businesses, Mr. Paul said. But returning that money to Americans in the form of a tax cut, youll find that it is a hundred times more effective than the government just passing it around.
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Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday pointed to several ways he was personally open to teaming up with the White House, noting that the 2016 Republican nominee will be affected by whether the GOP-dominated Congress can accomplish anything.
Paul (R-Ky.), a near-certain presidential contender, offered those remarks to the Ripon Society, a Republican group, at the Capitol Hill Club in an early-morning speech the day after the State of the Union. During the speech, he also offered an impassioned defense of his foreign policy views.
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If were looking forward to 2016, and some of us are, he said to laughs, we need to show we can do something when were in charge and something that works.
He noted a tax effort hes working on that would bring back money from overseas to be reinvested in American infrastructure, saying that it could be a bipartisan success and whoever our nominee is can move forward taking credit for it.
Beyond infrastructure, the senator said he would be willing to work with the White House on a range of issues including criminal justice reform he is a leading Republican advocate for restoring voting rights to nonviolent felons and even said he would compliment the administration for moving to roll back civil forfeiture laws. The libertarian-leaning Paul, who visited Ferguson, Missouri, during the protests following the death of an unarmed teenager, described an undercurrent of unease, in which minorities feel that they arent being treated fairly by the criminal justice system, even as he was quick to stress he didnt think police conduct was racially motivated.
If the president wants to work with me, I have five or six bills, many related to criminal justice reform, the senator said.
Paul, who is seeking to broaden the GOP base in part by reaching out to minority communities that dont often hear from Republicans, also underscored his support for piecemeal immigration reform, though he did not back the comprehensive approach the Senate passed.
But the senator also spent plenty of time mocking the State of the Union, saying at times it was frankly difficult to listen to with a straight face. He said it took chutzpah and gall to tout cutting the deficit by two-thirds, Obama said at a time of significant debt.
He should come to the Hill, Paul said of the president. He should talk to the legislators for all the fire, I will work with him. Ive offered to work with him.
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