During the 2010 midterm election, I was actually surprised how much fire the Left trained on conservative Rand Paul, running for Senate in Kentucky. Paul, after all, beat Mitch McConnell and was shunned by all the PACs and the Chamber of Commerce. Liberals are supposed to like that sort of thing, right?
The knock on Paul from the Left was that he was too extreme and Tea Party-ish. See the image above, taken from a blog post by a Johns Hopkins Professor, for an illustration of this liberal line of attack.
Sure enough, Paul is proving to be a bit outside of the Washington mainstream. For instance, look at this new proposal he’s put forward:
Today in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Rand Paul introduced an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill to formally end the war in Iraq.
The war in Iraq cannot be considered definitively concluded if Congress does not reclaim its constitutional power to declare war by repealing the underlying authorization. Until Congress takes this action, the President would still possess the legal authority to move troops into Iraq or to conduct kinetic operations within its borders, agreements with the Iraqi government notwithstanding.
The war in Iraq cannot be considered definitively concluded if Congress does not reclaim its constitutional power to declare war by repealing the underlying authorization. Until Congress takes this action, the President would still possess the legal authority to move troops into Iraq or to conduct kinetic operations within its borders, agreements with the Iraqi government notwithstanding.
Those crazy right-wingers. This is probably another conspiracy by the Koch brothers.
