Ron And Rand Paul Disagree Over How To Fight Debt Ceiling Battle

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by Matt Schneider | 6:21 pm, January 5th, 2011

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Congressman Ron Paul and his son, new Senator Rand Paul, together appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, and after some joking between the Pauls about whether the House or the Senate was better, the conversation turned serious with the debt crisis. Neither Paul was in favor of raising the debt ceiling outright, but the two disagreed on what it would take for them to get on board and avoid the catastrophe warned of by Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, if the debt ceiling was not increased.

Ron declared that he is not in favor of raising the debt ceiling saying “I never voted for any of the spending, so why should I raise the debt for the people who’ve been spending the money? For me it’s a very comfortable vote.” Ron admitted if the debt limit isn’t increased it will cause problems, but thought that the alternative of continuing to borrow and spend endless money is much worse, and instead would rather face reality today.

The younger Paul dismissed Goolsbee’s warning and claimed since President Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling as a senator, “it’s a little disingenuous for [his] people to say ‘oh the sky is falling if we don’t do it.’” However, Rand is a bit more pragmatic than his father, suggesting “I’ll vote to raise the debt ceiling if we attach a balanced budget rule to it. If they say no more debt will be added and from here on out we’ll balance the budget, I’ll vote one time to raise the debt ceiling.”

Ron says pretending to balance the budget is irrelevant and instead demands that our “whole philosophy has to be changed, monetary policy has to be changed, foreign policy has to be changed, our attitude about the welfare state has to be changed.” The debate about the debt rages on, but between the two Pauls, its interesting to see that the less alarmist, more realistic and eager to compromise Paul is the one who just started work in Washington today.

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

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The_Reasonable_Lib

The real libertarian versus his partially reasonable son. This should be an interesting Congress for sure.
Oregon Conservative

Finally, some common sense in Washington.

I like these Paul dudes, I like them a lot. I also like the dream ticket heard on Beck this morning:

Christie/Bachmann 2012
ordinary

The title of the article starts with “Ron And Rand Paul Disagee “.

Agee means awry or crooked, so I guess disagee means not crooked.

So Ron and his son Rand are not crooked like most politicians? I didn’t think so either.
Socialist

Oregon Conservative said:
Finally, some common sense in Washington.

I like these Paul dudes, I like them a lot. I also like the dream ticket heard on Beck this morning:

Christie/Bachmann 2012

emm i would rather take Ron Paul..
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
The real libertarian versus his partially reasonable son. This should be an interesting Congress for sure.

I bet Rand is more like his dad than he can let on. I mean, he’s the Senator of Kentucky, they just got printed books there in 1976, you can’t start throwing too many ideas at once or they’ll just think you’re a Muslim.
EricBoisen

Is it me or does the article picture look like they are one of the Taiwanese news computer generated people?
nrgetick

Oregon Conservative said:
Finally, some common sense in Washington.

I like these Paul dudes, I like them a lot. I also like the dream ticket heard on Beck this morning:

Christie/Bachmann 2012

ugggh. what the hell is a matter with you. Are you gonna wage as much money as you did on Chris Dudley? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
btimsah

I’m more of a Ron Paul fan, but Rand is probably better Presidential material in the short term.

Although, due to our fiscal situation, over time people will be forced to realize we’d be better of just letting everyone keep their damn income instead of letting the government have it for pre-emptive wars and socialism. That is, unless the American Idol watchers don’t make up the majority of our population, in which case we’re completely screwed. Atlas Shrugged.
nrgetick

btimsah said:
we’d be better of just letting everyone keep their damn income instead of letting the government have it for pre-emptive wars and socialism

You mean corporate socialism, yet, better known as corporatism.

the American idol watchers do make up the majority of our population (compare ratings to election debates)….and yes we are all completely screwed.
Just4thefax

nrgetick said:
You mean corporate socialism

Fact: Liberals can’t even take a dump without thinking it’s socialism! You guys are the real deals one and all! Look cowd people, Cut the spending and then cut, cut, cut somemore! That’s it and it shouldn’t take either Paul version to do it!
bealzebubba

@Fax: I suggest you find a smart-phone better suited for your fingers.
Nachi

Two brilliant GOPster intellects at work. – minus any intellectual curiosity. Both of their mothers are having deep regrets.
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All I can say, you learn from your Father who in the end usually knows best.
I like both guys..I choose Father over son in this debate.