The Rand Paul victory is a huge blow against the Cheney wing!

[annabanana]

He slammed Paul, with the sort of language usually reserved for trashing liberal Democrats. "We need senators who truly understand and who will work to strengthen our commitment to a strong national defense and to whom this is not just a political game," As if his crabbing weren't enough, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is slammed Paul with equal force.

What really troubles Cheney and his circle, according to the Cato Institute's David Boaz, is the prospect that a Paul win would begin to crack the false facade of party unity on military intervention. "That's an issue the GOP establishment doesn't want an open debate on," says Boaz, who suggests the neocons "desperately fear that a conservative anti-interventionist leader on foreign policy just might reveal that a lot of Republicans and conservatives...don't buy the world-policeman foreign policy the Bush/Cheney administration imposed on the GOP."

http://www.thenation.com/article/wrath-neocon
"The Wrath of the Neocon"

You need to be a Nation subsciber to read the whole thing.... But then, DUers should be Nation subscribers. :)

[msongs]

1. so he will not support obama's endless wars and occupations? hmmm nt

[Frances]

2. OR public schools OR public roads OR social security OR

medicare OR the highway department OR bank regulation

Libertarians basically believe that it's every man for himself, so you had better have enough money to pay for all these things yourself

[myrna minx]

4. Or regulation to ensure clean, potable water and untainted food, a fire department

public roads etc.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Sneer. Sneer. Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

"We chickenhawk republicon oil-crony fatcats will triumph in the end."

- xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvCLjsWq_UU/SQGpsqD2FtI/AAAAAAAAAek/RuNJ7WpKBQE/s400/cheney.+sneer.jpg

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Rand Paul is a mean, unfriendly, impolite SOB

he will turn off the general electorate really soon. Watching him on MSNBC was jaw dropping. What a jerk.

[Blue_Tires]

6. huge blow?? how is that when they probably agree on everything else?

and I still think the antiwar talk from elder and younger Paul is still just talk...

Other than a symbolic vote here and there, what has Ron Paul really done to show his opposition to the wars?

[theangrystoner]

7. Why not deregulate everything?

Privatize everything. The poor don't deserve quality anything because they're poor.

:sarcasm:

[howaboutme]

8. I'm glad to see the establishment get its ass kicked

The USA political establishment needs shaken up. I'd like to see Congress and politicians actually become fearful of their jobs and start listening to VOTERS and constituents, instead of corporations and powerful lobbies that most of the time don't even represent the interests of the USA.

If we could strip the exorbitant wealth from the Wall Street gang that produces really nothing of worth, and start taxing high net worth individuals as they did back when our country was much more self sufficient and stronger economically, as in the 50s and 60s, we might find a path to recovery. This excess wealth in the hands of a relative few is corrupting our government. If they lost much of their disposable income to the greater good, they wouldn't be spending it buying politicians.

We are a nation that has been moved by the pro multi-national corporate policies (of both Rs and many Ds) from a nation that produced real tangible products, to a nation that has a populace and government whose economy is artificially enhanced by burying itself in debt. I support any movement that gets all Americans involved in their government and that inevitably strips power from the corporations and lobbies.