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It appears that the Senate win by Rand Paul in Kentucky marks a first in congressional history. It is the first time that a son has served in the Senate while his father served in the House of Representatives.
Ron Paul of course is a congressman from Texas, and a former GOP contender for president.
There have been other instances of fathers and sons serving in Congress together. Of note, Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and his son Patrick serving as a Congressman from Rhode Island. But in that case it was the father in the upper house and his son serving in the lower house.
And there was a father and son that served in the Senate simultaneously. Henry Dodge of Wisconsin served in the Senate from 1848 to 1857 and his son, Augustus Dodge, was a Senator from Iowa, from 1855-1858.
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rand paul is an embarrassment to our nation.
I'm happy right there with you wesley. :-)
Joanne,
That you find self-professed Constitutionalists to be "an embarrassment to our nation" is truly depressing. Speaking of depressions, enjoy the one we're about to experience... I think it's too late to undo the damage done to our economy and Constitutional freedoms by the past dozen or more presidential administrations and the congresses they've conspired with. The two major parties have succeeded in driving the greatest nation in history to the brink of ruin. Our founders and those who laid down their lives in the world wars defending our freedom would be ashamed of how we've squandered what they sacrificed so much to give us.
Let's have Rand in Spain then !
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how does this help low and middle class people in kentucky with a republican scumbag getting into office that the idiot news people didnt report on.chris mathews is an idiot and doesnt report the truth
Kentucky voters are apparently the ones that have caused this embarassment...
Who's embarrassed? I doubt the ones who voted for Paul are embarrassed in the least. I'm not embarrassed either nor are thousands of others in this country.
Why are you embarrassed?
Thankfully Common Sense will now prevail.
Thank You GOD!
Hello sanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only more candidates had "Daddy" to fight the mean, mean men.
Ron Paul is more of a man than Obama will ever be. Ron Paul's response to negative questions about Rand from the media was "ask him yourself". No one went crying to anybody. I trust an honest congressman (who returns a large portion of his congressional pay to the treasury, and who also doesn't participate in the congressional pension), and his son over liar Obama (the disappointment of both progressives and independents) any day :)
Kentucky had no ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION, Joanne.
Americans, if you didn't vote today for someone who promises:
1. To adhere to the United States Constitution
2. Sound Monetary Policy and Fiscal Responsibility
3. Personal Liberty
4. Non-interventionist Foreign policy (No Nation Building)
you deserve what is surely coming!
Rand "the gov't has no right to tell businesses that they have to serve black customers if they don't want to" Paul???? Way to go Kentucky.
That is quite a long middle name. However, he was right, and being right does not make him racist. It makes him a man with common sense. He never said that he would discriminate against Blacks, you and those like you said that.
and business have the right not to serve white people if they chose also.
In response to your comment, It isn't the governments responsibility to tell you who you have to serve. People who are black, people without socks, people without shirts, etc. I am tired of you people playing the race card every chance you can get. It's mondane like people using God as a argument for ethical delimmas. It is your business, you have rights over your property.
peanut-are you saying that if you ran a business that you would welcome the federal government telling you who you must serve or be else punished?
You say that as if white people are all a bunch of racist pigs. FU for that. Should a black business owner have the right to refuse service to someone sporting a KKK uniform? Of course they should. Government discrimination is the cause of divisiveness in this country and racism has never been more evident through our history than by the racist Democrats.
Paul opposes all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations among individuals; and the owners of property have the full right to control, use, dispose of, or in any manner enjoy, their property without interference. Would there be some discrimination if this philosophy were followed? Of coarse there would but those businesses would not be in business for very long in this day and age. This liberal social engineering that you promote is constantly chipping away at our liberties and keeping this country divided. You can't dictate beliefs and you can't just take away someone's inalienable right to free speech because you don't like what they do with it.
Funny how you propagandists try to use racism rhetoric against anyone who wants all people to be treated equally.
How sad! Rand Paul will bring our country to further ruin, economically, diplomatically, environmentally, in every area. Very sad day for Kentucky!
Well Evolenow.. you must be a banker, Corp CEO or a wealthy person cause Rand Paul is out to help the middle / lower income class americans.. and you apparently wont like it!! We are tired of being sucked dry of what little income we have while our govt keeps getting bigger and taking more and more of our hard earned money.... I wish we had Rand Paul in Illinois!! kentucky is very lucky to have someone like him!!
Unemployed In Illinois
I think Il gained a Republican senate seat as well. Hang in there. I'm in Fl and there are no jobs in this area either. Thank God my husband is working. We lost one car, so now it's even hard for me to go interview for a job. Things will get better. I'll keep you in my prayers.
Could you please elaborate? You see, in well over six decades I've never heard of anyone having ever successfully refuted the Austrian School.
Well if he's an embarrassment, Obama must be a travesty. This is amazing news. We desperately need more Common sense in Washington, something that has been lost in recent times. Big Government is bound for failure, history has proven this every single time.
I'm glad he won.
Rand Paul is awesome! He will value the constitution and civil liberties more than anyone else, just like his father Dr. Ron Paul! He is also a true conservative and an old time republican, not a neoconservative like the recent republican party. This is change I can believe in!
Perhaps we will see Chairman Barney Frank stop attempting to humiliate Ron Paul on the Finance Committee. Barney, have a seat in the back, where you can't continue to hurt the nation and embarass yourself.
Champansky
"Barney, have a SEAT IN THE BACK........" omg no racism or bigotry here - NO WAY...YES WAY!
Thankfully only one - possibly two if Buck wins his seat - of the lunatic far, far, far right will travel to DC and find out what the real world is like - what it takes to legistate this country. Their meger votes won't carry any weight in the real world!!
After the republicans in the House HAVE to start working for the wage they pay them....instead of being the "Party of No", some things will change - just not the way this handful of wealthy bigots would like!
Once they speak their minds (??) regarding returning racism, removing Federal funds from our all ready suffering education system and taking away every citizen's RIGHT to elect our Senators (Ken Buck's claim to fame).....sanity will set in.
In a crazy way these bigots and folks with more money than sense and believe THEY can dictate how our country is run, just may be the wake up call our society needed. Just making the outcome of the 2012 an easier task for President Obama and his administration to win!!!!
The folks who "thank God" for Rand Paul, etc.............are you sure you want to insult HIM in such an uneducated and bigoted fashion. Excuse me......."Love one another!" OMG
Hey LadyRed:
You seem upset with the election results, and now you call people uneducated and bigots because they thank God. Typical liberal reaction.
Also, you said:
I certainly do hope you realize this describes the current Pres and HitlaryClinton and the rest of the Soros Puppets. These Dems have as much $$ as the Repubs ya know. You really think BO will win in 2012? Anything is possible I guess. Maybe the world win end before his election. That would be the better thing to have happen.
ladyred
typical response about removing federal funds as if these funds just come from the funds fairy-when a currency is debased everyone suffers-if there are no government funds available then the money is printed or borrowed, either way it`s a lose lose for the recipient of the funds and everyone else
Less than 24 hours after winning the majority of the House......Republicans have already started to dump the Tea Party folks that they used as pawns to regain their power! LOL
Not funny, but tru. Even Glenn Beck of FOX was left speechless during a live phone conversation with Ms. Bachmann of Minn. She was going on about how she and just 20 or so other republicans can take control of our government now and in 2012! She also stated that she fully expects to be given one of the top 3 seats within the House! As she spoke, well established republican members of the House were meeting with investment bankers planning how they will return govt. to how they had it......no restrictions and lots more $ for all of them!!
A list of 10 recently elected Tea Party folks came out today that the Republicans plan to get rid of first!
Demint announced that they ARE going to raise the Debt Ceiling! Wasn't that exactly what the Tea Party was against??! Reduce Deficit? LESS government....not more REPUBLICAN government.
You folks have been bought and paid for and the establishment (republican) has no further use for you and your wild fantasies. You've been had......dubed......scammed....etc.
Check out the news just since the morning after the poles closed. Mc Connell and the established republicans have already dismissed all of you and your misplaced values.
Oh yeah......and Painer - (Boener) already made his tear filled speech of how HE is willing to work with the "other side" - in his new position of Speaker of the House!!!
Talk about " out of the frying pan and into the fire"!!!!!! Break out the popcorn folks - it's gonna be a very interesting ride for the next few months.........and the newly elected Tea Partiers haven't even been allowed to place their fine fannies in the seats they just won and they are being told to sit down, shut up and know your place.....by the Republicans who played them like tiny little fiddles!!!!
He isn't change he already took money from Mitch..its business as usual what a disappointment !
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in
session," said Mark Twain. But he never met Rand Paul and Ron Paul. All you whiners can move to Cuba, North Korea, or China. Get what you deserve there.
According to the tea baggers beliefs he has yo say NO to raising the debt ceiling..
We will see if he is bought and paid for ! if he allows it to be raised !
It’s a fact now: The majority of voters in Kentucky are ignorant imbeciles.
j.wesley
You really hit the nail on the head. And you have no use for PC I may add. I agree once again.
MISinformed, you are kindly referred to Alkatraz007 below.
Another nut in DC!
The beginning of the end, as we know it. A truly sad day for all America...One thing has come out of this election..You surely can not blame Obama anymore. You now have republican rule, you now have republican hatred for it's fellow man, except if you are a republican, you now have corporate dominance, you now have the real ' pledge to America '....Now let's see if you will have any more jobs, let's see if you will have lower taxes, let's see if you have lower gas prices. let's see if you have any lower prices of anything..Let's see if the new majority can deliver on it's promises, or continue to lie out of the sides of their mouths. What new republicans did you elect..You have the same old bunch of NO for everything.. They first must give back all the millions and millions received from special interest...Who do you think will pay that back? YOU, you fools. Not the poor or the middle class, but the filthy rich..YOU have been used again. In house fighting now begins, not with the democrats, but with the republicans and the tea party. If I were the democrats, I would be relieved from the misery of dealing with a bunch of out dated azzholes who have no plan and have nothing but promises and more misery to give. They can't repeal nothing at all. When the dust finally clears, and the high fives stop, they have only won a name and nothing more...Business as usual.
"Republican hatred for it's fellow man"?
Are you referring to:
belief that people can't take care of themselves?
belief that people won't take care of their neighbors unless forced to do so?
belief that people are imbeciles, in constant danger of being victimized by tobacco companies, banks, manufacturers, and other boogie men?
belief that all people are stupid, greedy, jerks without Big Brother to keep them in line?
Oh wait,
that's liberals.
And please, spare us your stereotypical, liberal, empty demagoguery about TEH EVIL RICH. That's just political hay that Democrats grow to feed their devoted sheep, like you. There are just as many rich Democrats as Republicans.
I'm definitely not an imbecile, and the title of ignorant goes to all of you out there who think our current administration is leading us out of our problems. P-LEASE! Rand Paul is hopefully a step closer to getting our country back in the position and order it needs to pull us out of this incredible mess we seem to be in. Dems are too far left, Reps are too far right ... now that some are coming closer to the middle and not having to leave our morals and sanity at the door, I'm happy to say the future looks brighter.
Yup - amazing how it it JUST one small state in this entire country that would even consider going back to the days of racism and other RIGHTS that this country fought for!! Just one..........
The House finally has to work for their pay and make advancements in all the areas they so deftly destroyed in the previous administration for eight very long years. You know....all those votes that came up for every single issue, including the ones they NOW say they support, and voted NO on.
Taxes?? Yup, keep the DEEP tax cuts for the 2% of our wealthiest citizens have spent their millions during this election to protect THEIR tax increase. DUH......that will throw this country into a huge deficit - even worse than the Bush years. Then watch as they continue to increase their wealth as they continue to work to be able to ship even more of our jobs to other countries, where child and slave labor rates are paid!! Jobs......they want more jobs shipped to their facilites in other countries!
Ron & Rand Paul
They are wrong we shouldn't read bills before they are voted on.
Keep the Federal Reserve (it's not Federal & they have no reserve). Print Quantitative easing (inflation printing $2 Trillion into the $ supply this month).
Lets have more bail Outs (never mind mathematically impossible to repay). For derivatives that sell the same mortgage to seven different investors.
Support Jack Conway Attorney General tipped of his brother that they were investigating his brother for Drug Trafficking (Support Obstruction of Justice).
Hero Tyler Clay Collins Democrat Freemasons PRETENDING to be Rand Paul supporter while yelling raciest remarks.
http://www.examiner.com/city-hall-in-louisville/jack-conway-s-dirty-tricks-uncovered-at-fancy-farm-picnic
moveon.org members Democrats Pretend to be Republicans assault tea party member biting fingers off, chocking them and tried to attack Rand Paul.
Moveon.org try to tie republicans to corporations while hypocritically funded George Soros owns 83 stocks with a total value of $3.1 billion.
See a pattern George Soros funding by a man that made a fortune imploding East European Countries currency and buying up their resources at foreclosure prices.
Soros is truly out to bring this country down. Have you ever listened to any of his interviews. He said in order for world government to take place the USA has to first be brought down to the level of other countries. See the signs here in the US that he is succeeding? He is evil and needs to be put behind bars with no means of communication. He owns the Dem party.
I hope the Republicans have a plan of reconstruction. First step, get that Botox Queen Peeelosi Out of there! Get on your broom and fly back to Calif. nancy
Lucy
GREAT IDEA!!! Give the job to "Painer".........he's only been in his office for the past TWENTY YEARS -
Just look what a fine, fine job he has done so far!!
Tea Party did not win any majority - the Republicans did. With out even realizing it, the Tea Party was bought, paid for and drug along like sheep to slaughter - to benefit the ubber wealthy that paid all those millions to buy the seats they ended up with!!
Lady-Red
Oh, you mean just like the progressive/communists did to the Dems? The progressive/communist have now taken over the Dem party. And Soros has bought and paid for the progressive/communist/Dem party and is trying to drag this entire country to the slaughter house.
You really are upset aren't you?
OMG. I can't believe the same party, who mostly have caused this country's worst economic downfall in 90 years, is back at the wheel. Again, corporate money, lies, and fear mongering have influenced this election. Plus Democrats were less prepared this election and, unfortunately, underfunded. We desperately need campaign finance reform. This is pathetic. Lord help our once, and hopefully still, great country.
Dear Congress;
We the People are Watching! You have made us a LOT of promises. You have 2 years, time starts NOW!!!
tick-tock.
It's a sad day for moochers and looters.
lol.
Bye Bye Libs...your time has come and gone.
wonder if libs will be rioting in the streets because of this? moveon.org will probably provoke it.
Not sure if the Repubs will take enough of the senate seats though. Darn it. Good start though, but the dems may still control the senate, crap!