On Wednesday, Congressman Paul appeared on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" to discuss Ben Bernanke's selection as TIME Magazine's 2009 "Person of the Year."
Posted by Matt Hawes on 12/18/09 Last updated 12/18/09
Yesterday's 16-7 Senate Banking Committee vote to approve Bernanke's nomination to a second term as Fed Chairman was not all smooth sailing. In her piece out today, Politico's Victoria McGrane looks at the potential trouble ahead for Bernanke.
"It's not the foregone conclusion it was a couple of weeks ago," said Brian Gardner, a bank analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
Remember, the key issue here is not Bernanke's confirmation. No matter who becomes the Chairman for the next term, they're still going to be at the helm of the world's greatest counterfeiting machine.
Thanks to strong stands by Senators DeMint, Vitter, Bunning, and Sanders, we can use this process to push for a standalone vote on Audit the Fed.
Posted by Adam de Angeli on 12/18/09 Last updated 12/18/09
In an e-mail issued this morning, Michigan Secretary of State candidate Michelle McManus boasted of her vote on a bill that will strip business owners of the right to set a smoking policy at their businesses. The new law, which bans smoking in private businesses, will devastate bars and restaurants.
McManus argues that an indoor smoking ban will reduce the state's Medicaid expense. In other words, the nanny state will protect us from the nanny state.
Based on the dubious assumption that a ban will lead people to quit smoking, McManus traded the rights of property owners, which should not have been hers to trade, for others' safety.
McManus characterizes her vote as "pro-life," again on the dubious assumption that a ban will lead people to quit.
It is repulsive that McManus would compare the robbery of personal liberty with saving babies, and pandering at its worst.
Cameron Brown, who has previously voted for a total ban on smoking in all private businesses, voted against the ban this time. However, it is not clear whether he voted against the bill because he has had a change of heart, or because he found this ban, with its token exemption for casinos and tobacco stores, not sufficiently comprehensive.
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The Houston Chronicle's Meredith Simons takes a look at Congressman Paul's widening political influence in a piece out today.
No one would have been surprised if the Lake Jackson congressman had slipped off the political radar after his 2008 quixotic bid for the presidency, his ambitions for higher office thwarted.
But Paul has refused to go out to the political pasture to live in comfortable irrelevance. As odd as it may seem, he has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal Democrats....
In less than a year, we've taken an obscure Audit the Fed idea and made it mainstream news. As I listened to a White House press briefing yesterday, a reporter even brought the issue directly up to Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
And this is only our first major legislative push. Ron Paul and the freedom movement are here to stay, and now it's Washington that's having to adjust to us.
The last time the august publication honored a national economic mastermind, it was 1933. And things ended badly.
Brig. Gen. Hugh Johnson seemed a good choice at the time. True, he seemed a fan of Mussolini - he distributed the writings of one of the Italian dictator's fascist economists. But he had also helped set up the World War I draft and the Army's war procurement from the private sector. An avid New Dealer anxious to root out destructive competition, he was President Roosevelt's choice to administer the National Recovery Administration.
The NRA was the closest the United States ever came to a government-run peacetime economy. It negotiated codes of "fair competition" for major industries, setting wages and prices, and enforcing them by jailing non-compliers.
But by 1934, the NRA was faltering under the weight and inflexibility of its own rules. Roosevelt ousted General Johnson. A year later, the Supreme Court ruled that the whole scheme was unconstitutional and Johnson became forgotten.
Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick tries to defend her view that using TARP money to pay for a "jobs" bill is constitutional in this interview with Neil Cavuto. Kudos to Neil for mentioning that Congress didn't have the constitutional authority to do TARP itself. But I will give this to the congresswoman: at least she's paying some lip service to the document.
Keep spreading the word and taking every opportunity to educate those around you. We've got a long way to go.
Posted by Matt Hawes on 12/16/09 Last updated 12/17/09
Tonight, Congressman Paul will appear on CNN's Larry King Live, where he will debate Barney Frank over health care "reform." The hit time is right at 9:00 pm eastern. Be sure to check it out!
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