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RON PAUL CAN’T BE BOUGHTBy Betty Freauf
January 1, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
Lobbyists and colleagues of Congressman Ron Paul learned early on that he was a Constitutional principled man who took his oath of office very seriously and couldn’t be bought so they never wasted their time to get him to compromise. I guess that is why he consistently has a 100% Constitutional voting record. With tongue in cheek, may I ask, “Now isn’t that a novel position for an elected official to have?” It’s almost a given with Republican leadership even when they are in control that the Democrats are better poker players than the Republicans who fold like a cheap umbrella in a strong wind. The latest strong wind, of course, was the two-month temporary tax holiday extension – a trap that the GOP walked right into.
I remember in 1995 with the GOP under the fearless leadership of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (GA), a government shutdown was imminent caused by President Bill Clinton’s veto of token Congressionally passed spending legislation reducing the size of government but the media didn’t blame Bill Clinton for the possible shut down. No, they blamed the Republicans for the crisis. Say what? Yup, the Republicans had submitted bills to try to cut our national debt and the Democrats turned the tables and threatened to blame the Republicans. Again, out came the cheap umbrella. Rather than have the Republican leadership articulate directly to the public at large what happened and why they were trying to save America from eventual bankruptcy, they succumbed to the pressure.
Not having learned their lesson from 1995, in 1998 we experienced Newt’s final compromise. The same GOP was terrified that Bill Clinton would once again shut down the government and blame them and they didn’t want that to happen before the elections, a period better suited for campaigning than for gridlock. Better to sacrifice a few conservative principles such as cutting spending and allowing the government to be shut down as an example, than to provide Clinton with an excuse for wielding his dreaded veto pen. Besides, the new budget “surplus” (which Gingrich brags about now) albeit a spurious one – made it much easier for Republicans as well as Democrats to “justify” spending more money. I’ve never been able to figure out how Gingrich can claim the budget was balanced so long as all the IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund remained unpaid.
All media outlets have been brain dead on these issues so I couldn’t believe my ears on December 29 when Mark Steyn, guest host for Rush Limbaugh finally admitted he’d take Ron Paul over Marxist Barack Obama. Dahhh. This was in response to Newt Gingrich on FOX the night before saying he couldn’t vote for Ron Paul if “we, the people” chose him as the GOP presidential candidate because Gingrich does not approve of Ron’s “non-interventionist” foreign policies and planting fear in the minds of people about Iran getting a nuke. If Iran gets one, is it possible the U.S. taxpayers helped build it for the following reasons?
Our U.S. Diplomats have been accommodating foreign aid to Soviets, who support Iran, for decades. M. Stanton Evans in his 1966 book THE POLITICS OF SURRENDER (P.160) noted that the Lyndon Johnson (elected 1964) administration was spending almost $100,000 on a projected tour of U.S. scientific facilities by representatives of the Iron Curtain countries. The purpose of the visit was to have the Communist representatives “lecture, conduct seminars, survey our current research, take field trips in the U.S. and conduct research of their own.” Oh, it gets better. The visiting scientists, thanks to the unconstitutional National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the State Department, would be travelling first class: “American taxpayers provided travel, lodging, food, medical costs and even paid the scientists from the Communist countries a salary while they were here. If they planned to stay five months or longer, the U.S. taxpayers would have the added burden of financing the visiting scientists’ families who would also be allowed to come to the United States. Accommodation would be first class, with the taxpayer providing “housing appropriate to the visitor’s professional status and also his family.”
Our officials agreed to supply the visitors with information about our scientific laboratories in order that they could select the ones of most interest. The American taxpayer not only paid for the $3.3 billion in foreign aid every year, but now they were being called upon to foot the bill for Communist scientists to junket to the United States for a look around our scientific laboratories. Later Evans says the stated purpose for the many grants to Communists nations such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia was to enable them to achieve “independence” from Moscow. The idea, according to Liberal theorists, was to help these regimes achieve a “certain measure of autonomy,” even though they remained with the Communist block.
History will reveal all the U.S. did was empower the Communists even more to fulfill its agenda of “external encirclement, plus internal demoralization, plus thermonuclear 'blackmail, leads to progressive surrender.” Early in the 1960s, Nikita Khrushchev in his intimidating, boorish manner described Americans to foreign correspondents in Moscow as people whom “You spit in their face and they call it dew.” And Gingrich does not approve of Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policies and possibly getting a nuke?
I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thought of his guest host giving a shout out in support of Ron Paul because on his 12/15 radio show Rush was quietly whispering “Ron Paul might win in Iowa.” An 11/2/1994 article in the Portland OREGONIAN said that talk radio was booming in scope and influence and Rush was playing a significant role in shaping the issues and public opinion about them, and that his talk radio picks up, amplifies noise of conservative ferment. Every show is another gush for rush, another talk-radio triumph. Fans tune in to Rush Limbaugh to hear about the latest outrage in Congress. They heap praise on him for ‘telling the truth.’ There’s little doubt he fuels their fire.”