Senator Rand Paul has blocked a fast-track senate vote on the additional $40 billion funding package created by Joe Biden and House Democrats. Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell approved a fast-track vote; however, senator Rand Paul (KY) stood defiant against their effort.
Despite the high-profile pressure from the two Senate leaders, Rand Paul refused to move and that means the Senate will have to take procedural steps to overcome his objection, which could take several days. “My oath of office is the US constitution not to any foreign nation and no matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America,” Paul said in his remarks before objecting to moving to swift passage of the bill. “We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” WATCH:
The $40 billion supplemental spending bill for Ukraine is more than the total military budget of Russia. The combined Ukraine aid packages now exceed $60 billion, more than the entire budget for the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security including border protection.
Rand Paul is on the right side of history with his position, and the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with him. However, the opinion of the people is irrelevant to the Senate. Even democrat Senator Chuck Schumer seemed to admit this point when he said Rand Paul’s position “was not the opinion of the overwhelming majority here,” meaning in the senate. Schumer would have used other terms if he thought the American people agreed with him. They don’t, and he knows it.
” It’s not like we have this money lying around …. we have to borrow it – From CHINA ! ”
Rand Paul
With inflation devalued bonds, China may not be interested.
Of course, if the bond yield were massively boosted, that would be different. But then that was usually pegged to interest rates and with all the short term government debt, that won’t be possible.
Not that any of this matters to those who represent us.
He tried to introduce an oversight amendment. ( Poison pill ? )
Will it work, Shooo-mer seems to think it won’t.
Japan money managers have been selling US treasuries. They sold almost $60 billion of our govt debt paper in the 1st three months of this year.
We have no long-term plan to win in Ukraine. It is just throwaway money until Ukraine runs out of boots. Then we have to send our own boots to carry and drive the weapons. Where is the long-term plan?
Wars are won on morale. The US government is hell bent on demoralizing the US population. You see the attack increasing every day. How then are you supposed to rally troops from the sons and daughters of US families to support the war effort? You are not. You can only raise troops to meet the Russian meat grinder by going door to door and seizing troops to enter the meat grinder.
There will be no rally around the flag when the flag has been stolen. They are living in a total fantasy world.
Current and projected future military conflagrations are all about the SKIM. All about the armaments and military services that our Uniparty interrogatories can demand for the services of giving USA taxpayers money away for personal enrichment.
no demoralizing effect on me! I trying to take the fight part of fight or flight
I think it is better for people to recognize it as intentional demoralization so they can recognize it for what it is and not get angry punching walls.
As the president of CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the country, explained to me in the spring of 1997, “They have given up on the country. They are moving all the money out starting in the fall.”
— Catherine Austin Fitts
It continues year after year and day after day. Presidents do not matter. Majorities do not matter.
And when the government defaults, the politicians and their families will remain rich while we, the taxpayers, will owe the debt. Approximately $956,000 per household and counting. Make sure your estate planning includes the coming deduction.
May God bless and protect Rand Paul!
Chuck Grassley could have joined Rand Paul, but sadly he apparently did not . . .
A LOT of Senators could (and should) have joined Rand Paul…
Paul is totally right, Levin is appalling.
Levin is a self-absorbed snake.
Anyone who supports this monstrosity, much less insults others while doing so, is a traitor to this country. Yes, I said it.
Levin is the same snake who tried like hell to install Bush company man Lying Ted Cruz..
Never forget who these people are , they are NOT really America First.
nor are they MAGA as they may try to convince you they are.
you mean CANADIAN Cruz?
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His self-awareness is in negative territory.
His latest ‘show’ was all about how the NYT let Duranty lie to the American public, knowing full well he was propagandizing, along with other NYT journalists throughout the years.
Yet, he BELIEVES the NYT’s position on Ukraine . . .
Stopped watching the neo-con long ago.
He lost me for good with the comment that Bill Barr was good and honorable man.
“Un-freedom Of The Press” is an ironic name for a book..
Levin says it is not about government funding but government incompetence. OK then Levin, if you admit the goverrnment is incompetent then why would you want them in charge of money. Maybe we should hold off until after the election.
Shortly after the election, Biden will announce the draft.
I’m 100% over Levin.
Last night, Tucker did a fantastic takedown of GOP leadership on this issue. It sickened me to hear McConnell say something to the effect of “everyone agrees that the most important issue now is Ukraine.” Huh? Hardly anyone outside DC thinks that. McConnell looks and acts like a pathetic old woman. We badly need new, younger leadership, and the way we get it is to start at the local and state level and send up MAGA candidates only. Vote in every election and research the candidates. It is shocking how many elections for school board, water board, community college board, etc., have radical far left candidates running, and their views are out in the open. You just have to do a little research.
You got that right!! Tucker laid the Guilt on our Republican Politicians.
There is ONE vote of consequence that these senators will make and it’s choosing the majority leader. So far they’ve whiffed on that every time.
Did Tucker mention 2000 Mules and the stolen election?
No… but this is not as important today? Election fraud is not getting us anywhere. This tugs at the hearts of Americans as why the politicians don’t give a damn about us the people and what we want.
Election fraud Proof like 2000 Mules shows that the J6’s were on the right side of history and they were not insurrectionists. They are heroes and have become political prisoners
So, now what?
Election fraud is the reason we are in this position, the reason the pResident and his handlers goaded Putin into this war.
Making the perfect the enemy of the good, i.e., attacking people who are with us on key issues, is why the establishment is in charge and not MAGA. It wouldn’t surprise me if the establishment were behind the latest non-story over Tucker’s show, as the silly division benefits them, not MAGA.
If people on our side attack people on our side for not talking about something, for not being perfect, the other side–the enemy–is delighted.
It is the way the devil operates: have the good guys fight and attack and criticize each other.
I get calling out Tucker and Fox news on refusing to mention 2000 Mules. But, life is not so black and white. Allow me to ask a question…
If you were the only person in a community who still had the ability by your presence alone to keep a child from being abused but in order to do so you had to never mention the address of the child….Would you blurt out 1760 Drury Lane and then sit back and watch the child be abused?
Tucker did not choose the path of censoring 2000 Mules that is blatantly obvious. This is a corporate legal edict. If Tucker does not comply then YOU and I no longer get all the other info Tucker provides to the public that is crucial at this juncture- they take him off the air.
Again, I get the urge to say so what , right is right and wrong is wrong. But I caution everyone to grasp the battle we are presently waging, our enemies do not play by rules or a sense of fair play. If you give away your advantage over self righteousness but lose your position and get out flanked – then your army is obliterated and no one lives.
i am no defender of Fox news, however reality does matter.
There are factually news agencies including FOX being sued for the Big Lie as we speak. This is a treacherous miscarriage of justice yet we do not have the power at the moment to stop this abuse only run the gauntlet.
Live to play another day is far more agreeable than no breath to fight the cause.
Tucker is invaluable as a voice in this siege. Careful about judging John Gault’s in this world – unless you are prepared to sacrifice to claim the mantle.
Exactly! Getting 95% of what you want is better than getting 0% when Tucker gets sacked!
95%?
What part of Fox is that 95%?
If you mean you get Tucker on other issues, that leaves what? 95% of Fox air time doing the bidding of the Uniparty?
Correction , Capital I and Galt.
Everybody knows that the election was stolen. They don’t really need to see a movie about it.
Everybody includes how much of the professional GOP? Because they still say there is no evidence.
This isn’t just about reaching the uninformed. Its also a show of power. RINO power to limit what you can say.
it is called information suppression because the GOPe are in it to their necks almost as much as the Dimm/commies
The movie isn’t for those people, of course.
I love how people are finally finding out that virtually NONE of the people who you’ve voted for actually give a damn about what you think if it conflicts with what their actual owners want. They’re the slightly lesser of two evils party and what third party will ever get enough of our idiocracy to vote for them?
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [Princeton University, 2014]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Excerpts:
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
And, BTW, Carlson’s claim in that segment that the Reps so often cooperate with the Dims because “they worry about what the New York Times says about them” is about the dumbest excuse I can image.
They don’t like being called a Racist. Why do you think the left uses that so much? it’s all about the perception don’t cha know?
It is much more lucrative to sell out America and its future than the measly congresscritter pay they get….heck it isn’t even $200k/year…..hardly enough to live on let alone at the level they are accustomed to once reaching DC
The whole ‘pretending to be ignorant’ thing comes from both sides of Leadership.
And Levin is an America-last neocon like his buddy Hannity.
For sure.
Levin is a Levin-First!
There, you said it.
I see Mark Levin is making a fool of himself again by openly demonstrating how much of an anti-MAGA neocon he is.
I’d call him a horse’s a$$ but then at least a horse’s a– provides some form of utility.
He and Schumer, two heads of the same animal
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I thought it was peculiar that the amount rose from 33 to 40 billion after the Kentucky Derby did not yield a result that they could easily exploit and launder into pay-offs . . .
Well-written, Mark!
He neglected to note the degree of graft involved in Ukraine “Aid.”
I doubt he knows. That’s the point of plausible deniability. So even the good people, if there are any, truly know the truth.
Frankly I suspect it’s more a matter of self-preservation than it is lack of knowledge.
He is in the belly of that beast, after all.
Who will be the first Senator to require the money be taken from an existing budget item? (which is already borrowed money). Or require that it not add to the national debt? Or that it be a loan? (not like a student loan?) Oh forget it, there are too many loopholes. How about we add a provision to cut the Federal Government by 33% each year?
“Who will be the first Senator to require the money be taken from an existing budget item?”
That might be not-so-simple to do, since the last time the United States had an identified/functional budget was about 2008-9.
NOT…FY 2008 was the last LEGAL budget…..BEFORE Ozero….since then the “stimulus” has been carried forward in the CR and omnibus spending packets they keep passing
Glenn Beck said this morning it’s coming from our Veteran’s programs.
Yay!! I was just getting ready to blog this!! Rand Paul the Republican with integrity.
Senator Paul is one of my senators. He is running for reelection this year. Pretty gutsy to go against the majority of the Senate in an election year.
So Rand is the only Republican to stand up to object to this further fleecing? Grrreeeeat.!\/?
Exactly. Great that he’s standing up to object. More frightening to admit that he’s the only one voicing loud objections. However, as for the rest of them, their silence speaks volumes.
I hope the entire Congressional club who voted for this monstrosity pay dearly for their betrayal of this great country.
If the amounts and names of politicians who are in anyway receiving kickback cash from this 40 billion disaster became known, Rand Paul wouldn’t be the only person against this bs.
Have to check their extended family members ie nieces, nephews, cousins, grandchildren etc.
Then go for claw back, if they had guts. However, the rot may be to deep😥🤔
Good for Rand…stop their money laundering!
The closest man we have to an actual conservative in the Senate… Which is why most Republicans cuss him!
Now maybe all the Rand Paul haters here will finally give this man the credit that he has earned.
I think Rand is sincere. I also think McConnell has a lot of control over GOP senators and limits what Rand can do. McConnell wouldn’t have that power if there were 30 more like Rand.
Imagine where the free world would be today if President Trump had just ONE vote to recess, so he could circumvent that putrid swamp to make his own cabinet appointments? Where was Rand OR ANY OTHER REPUBLICAN for that matter, when it REALLY counted, to thwart this Great Reset?
DAMN RIGHT!
Excellent question, Judith.
Yes, that still taints any display of ‘outrage’ that a Republican senator occasionally exhibits.
Thank you, Senator Paul.
Let’s write to him and express our thanks and support.
Bill may be delayed until next week now.
Call your Congress-critters inn the Senate and tell them NO – NO – NO !!
Silence , as always equals consent.
Exactly! Write to your senators, regardless of their party affiliation.
Stand up–let’s all do something, do what we can.
Doing this right now!! Thom Tillis hasn’t heard from me in a week and I feel the need to express myself to this duffus once again!!!
I just want to insert here: Silence has never “equaled consent”. Ever. Sometimes the silent people are cleaning their weapons, or maybe they’re on their knees praying. I used to write letters. I used to vote. I think it’s going to take “extreme federalism” or a civil war or I don’t know what. Our government has never been so corrupt.
Washington D.C. could disappear and the rest of us would heave a sigh of relief.
“Sometimes the silent people are cleaning their weapons“
Need more women like you😉
Levin proves himself to be a member and supporter of NWO. Now his support for a COStates makes sense. He cannot make his hatred for this country any clearer.
Yes, his invlvement in CoS in 2016, while he was spreading TRUMP hate, is why I left CoS.
What’s the most important thing S Paul is doing is keeping this in the light longer. Believe me these idiots that voted for Biden are struggling too. Seeing our government do this while baby formula is scarce is bad optics. And if Team America/Liberty has any chance of turning this around at the ballot box in November we are going to need all the support we can garner. Most of you know that I lack hope in that resolution. Still we must try and this is a great move.
Where does Levin think federal funding comes from? The tooth fairy?
Haha. We fund them. They just give us the ok spend our own money
That’s the only place he cares about.
It is interesting that Intel-Slava noted this before I had seen it here or anywhere else: “Kentucky Senator Rand Paul blocked a bill to provide Ukraine with a record nearly $40 billion in additional assistance”.
The people of the US need to write every Senator and tell them – whether they pay attention or not. When it comes back to bite them in the future, we can point to the letters we wrote, the views we expressed, and how they ignored us.
Bfd.. Rand Paul isn’t voting to nix the Bill but supposedly have some accountability attached to the Bill.
Besides it’s another undeserving payoff atop the $33,000,000,000, $16,000,000,000,000, $700,000,000 & $700,000,000 already stolen from the checks & balances results driven non union sector to the most crooked European nation, their disgustingly poorly trained, nil disciplined, zero experience military.
Where was Paul & other GOP’ers accountability concerns for the 1st 4 payouts?
Rand Paul has been consistently voting against spending bills. If you try to look up his voting record on Duck Duck Go, the first sites that come up will only show a few of his votes for 2015-2019 or will talk about how he missed votes. Here is some of his 2021-2022 voting record:
https://ballotpedia.org/Rand_Paul
I don’t know how to look up a complete voting record. The Senate website seems to hide that.
“Here” hasn’t meant the good ole U.S.A. for a long time in D.C….It’s meant to describe the Good ole Boyz club which no long feels tied to the wants and needs of the U.S. taxpayers and citizens…When the game is rigged on both sides of the aisle, there’s no longer a middle path for we citizens.
“Putin ass-kissers”…. friggin Levin has ” lost the bubble ” and earned the mute button…
I have to sadly agree with you.
Chickenhawk Levin has gone full warmonger bonkers.
Has he called Tulsi Gabard a traitor yet?
Bill number – H.R. – 7691 Ukraine Supplemental Aid
4.35 Billion for global food aid to be distributed by US-A.I.D. ( Laundry )
$ 700 Million for State Dept. food aid ( more laundry )
Billions for D.O.D. and Pentagram ( Pentagon )
@ColumbiaBugle thread
Call me cynical….token GOP rep laying down a speed bump before passage
Agreed. According to this article, Rand Paul only blocked this because he wants language inserted in the bill, and does not trust the process for putting it in an amendment for a vote.
I’m glad he blocked it since it will give more time for people to put the screws to their Senators, but he only blocked it because he does not trust the Turtle.
https://thehill.com/news/senate/3486654-rand-paul-objection-delays-40-billion-ukraine-aid-package/
War is Peace.
Sane people are Russian stooges.
Thank you, Senator Rand Paul
Why does a Jewish man named Levin support aid to Nazis in Ukraine? Everybody has a price.
Zelensky is Jewish and the corrupt US govt. is Jewish with a few traitors mixed in. The CIA and Mossad are the same. They control almost all media personalities. He supported the war on terror like all other media Zionist hacks also. Who benefited from that one after 9/11? Not the people of the US that’s for sure. Netanyahu the warmonger said so himself.
Anti Semitic attacks are not helpful. How many crooked Catholics, Muslims, Chinese , Black, White, etc. are cited here? Stop it. Remember, there are many Jewish Americans who love this country with all their heart and soul.
Apparently, they really hate Orthodox Christian Russia today which is weird because in the past most of them loved the Old Communist and Athiest Soviet Union. It was a group led by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that gave our atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union in 1950 despite the fact that doing so could turn 200 million Americans, their own two children and themselves in nuclear ash?
Because “Nazis” no longer go after Jews, they go after Russians now.
Did the squad for these montrosity? Then are fake.
Levin should go to Ukraine and fight for them and not come back.
He’s one of the revolutionaries who believe in managerialism under the guise of capitalism.
He should focus on the US or go to Ukraine.
Something tells me the big guy is getting more then 10%
Mark Levin is great on a lot of issues but he is always a cheerleader for war. It’s the only thing that makes me stop listening.
Levin has always just sold a lot of books and shouted a lot of rants, but has actually done nothing, never put his money where his mouth is.
Just another grifter like Coulter, Hannity and O’Reilly.
Totally pissed I ever listened to any of those clowns.
In Russia’s view, It’s this equivalent to a Declaration of War?
Appropriations for the funding a War Against Russia.
Not Wise.
Maybe Russia will do us a favor and boil the Swamp.
Rand Paul is the only United States Senator I respect.
The rest of them can be #@&*%_ as far as I’m concerned.
That means the Senate will have to take procedural steps to overcome his objection. Consider it done. Looks good on his midterm election application doh.
Too bad he couldnt stand defiant against the 2020 election fraud effort which he admitted was fraudulent. Could have helped prevent all of this.
Thank you Sen Paul you are the only one who stood for American People
Good for him.
In a world gone mad, perhaps the most insane thing of all is conservatives (so called) joining hands with leftists to advance the cause of war on the side of Ukraine – the Capital of the One World Government corruption and oppression.
Mark Levin can Kiss My ***. So can anyone else who takes his side against America First.
Realize this:
The Ukraine TOTAL economy is only $112 billion to $198 billion a year!
Think critically: It is not the world’s wheat producer, or corn producer?
Their economy doesn’t even match alot of the states in the US.
Think critically.
Channeling my Henry II….
“Will no one rid us of the Senior Senator (cocaine Mitch) from Kentucky”.
You said it. Thank you, Samanna.
I find it interesting that two such different senators could be elected from the same state.
McConnell is more of an infestation
not so sure Turtle was “elected” last go-round…a serious audit would likely reveal MANY “representatives” failing to get the grade to actual be in their positions
Levin wants a ‘preventive war’ against Russia.
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
…And China. And Iran. And N. Korea. And….
This effort by the Elite war machine has gotten totally out of hand. Our congressman, David Rouzer, sent out a message today to tell us the rest of the story. These people think we are totally brain dead. Some of his points were idiotic, he says much of the funding is to resupply weapons to our military in Europe, I guess those weapons were misplaced or were sent to resupply the Taliban. Later he stated that Ukraine is saving the world. I am still slobbering when I talk, DC is the enemy.
Looks like the pallet of cash Obama sent to the enemies of the USA in Iran.
I can’t let this Mark Levin comment go unanswered at least by me. This is where Levin shows his Hannity , Rove, Bush ass kissing. Once upon a time Mark Levin thought he was Rush. He ain’t and he’s pissed. he in fact is sickening. Let’s just say the baby formula shortage/Ukraine asinine funding came at the same time. It’s a coincidence.
Thank God for a little relief from one Rand Paul.
Regardless of the outcome, eventually he/we will be overwhelmed but people need to go kicking, screaming and fighting.
eff Mark Levin, as usual
Kudos to Paul. This is not just mere theater. He’s incurring a cost to do this.