Thread: Senator Rand Paul and Charles Krauthammer on the Much Hyped Sequester....

Senator Rand Paul and Charles Krauthammer on the Much Hyped Sequester....

Posted by Darla Dawald, National Director on February 20, 2013 at 7:44pm in Patriot Action Alerts

Charles Krauthammer's take: Sequester 'Most ridiculously hyped Armageddon since the Mayan calendar.'



Krauthammer's Take: Sequester 'Most Ridiculously Hyped Armageddon Since the Mayan Calendar' - YouTube

Krauthammer went on to say that sequestration remains the subject of controversy because the president “is looking for a fight, and not a solution.” A week ago Krauthammer recommended that Republicans call the Democrat's bluff on the sequester.



Rand Paul: Sequester Is A Pittance - 2/19/2013 - YouTube

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul believes the sequester and its $85 billion in spending cuts present a great political opportunity for Republicans. In an interview with WKU Public Radio Tuesday, Sen. Paul said as the March 1 deadline nears, more and more members of the GOP are starting to believe the sequester may be their best bet for getting significant spending cuts to become reality

According to Sen. Paul, Republicans "have the President where we want him. These spending cuts will occur automatically, without a Presidential signature, and without the Democrats in the Senate voting for it"

WKU Public Radio spoke with Sen. Paul about sequester politics, gun control, and America's appetite for a libertarian presidential candidate.

Here are some excerpts from our interview:

President Obama and Senate Democrats have said the sequester will have dire consequences for the country. They have said air-traffic control, military preparedness and emergency response would be degraded. Will the country be hurt if these spending cuts go through?

"I would call that histrionics. This is what comes forward every time we talk about reducing or slowing down the rate of growth of government. Everyone should realize that the sequester should not cut any money. So all the departments will have what they had last year."

"What happens is, it slows down the rate of growth. And when they say 'oh, we're going to turn the lights off in the White House, and we're going to close the Washington Monument", this is histrionics in order to get people hysterical, so that we don't have a reasonable debate."

"Cutting spending, even if it's just cutting the rate of spending, is absolutely necessary."

Do you think a deal to avoid the sequester will happen before March 1?

"I think the sequester will go through, that's my prediction. Now, even though there are Republicans complaining about it, you're seeing less and less of a complaint about it on the Republican side, and more and more of a realization that, for a change, we have the President where we want him. These spending cuts will occur automatically, without a Presidential signature, and without the Democrats in the Senate voting for it."

"So we actually have spending cuts, or--as I would like to call them--reductions in the rate of growth in spending. We have them automatically (with the sequester), and I think it would be foolish to let the President get back in to where he can expand spending and expand the debt further."

For the entire interview on many subjects click here

Senator Rand Paul and Charles Krauthammer on the Much Hyped Sequester.... - Patriot Action Network

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