[Vision2020] So, This is What Being a Libertarian is All About . . .

[Joe Campbell]

This pretty much shows that Paul is NOT a libertarian; similarly with
a lot of Idaho Republicans. Joe

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Is this what the Libertarians' battle cry of "Less Government!" is all
> about?
>
> Courtesy of Outside the Beltway at:
>
> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rand-paul-trying-to-add-personhood-amendment-to-flood-insurance-bill/
>
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> Rand Paul Trying To Add “Personhood” Amendment To Flood Insurance Bill
>
>
> WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a
> noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that
> life begins at fertilization.
>
> The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program
> on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the
> Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated “fetal personhood”
> amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of
> fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to
> halt progress on the legislation.
>
> “I’m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an
> amendment — listen to this one — wants to offer an amendment on when life
> begins,” Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “I am not going to put up
> with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my
> friends can say, ‘Let them have a vote on it.’ There will not be a vote on
> that on flood insurance. We’ll either do flood insurance with the amendments
> that deal with flood insurance, or we won’t do it. We’ll have an extension.”
>
> Reid has allowed Republicans to attach unrelated amendments to other
> important bills in the past few months. Most notably, he let the Senate vote
> on a contraception-related amendment, proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), to
> a transportation bill. But Reid called Paul’s measure “ridiculous” and
> “outlandish,” and asked Republicans to deal with him on “their side of the
> aisle.”
> Paul told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that he is “just trying to get a
> vote for people who elected me.”
>
> “Can you believe that they’re exasperated with me?” he said, responding to
> criticism of his attempt to attach the unrelated amendment. “If [Reid will]
> give me a freestanding vote, I’ll take a freestanding vote any time.”
>
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> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) response . . .
>
> “I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance.  I can be condemned
> by outside sources — my friends can say, ‘Let them have a vote on it.’ There
> will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We’ll either do flood
> insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won’t do
> it. We’ll have an extension.”
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdw36CZSbeI
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
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