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on February 21, 2017 in World News

Drudge Put It Perfectly: Congressional Republicans Flail and Fail

Incompetence hinders party from accomplishing Trump’s agenda By Brian Darling On February 8, 2017, Matt Drudge tweeted, “No Obamacare repeal, tax cuts!” and “Republican party should be sued for fraud. NO discussion of tax cuts now.” Drudge was spot on. This week, Sen. Rand Paul (my former boss, it should be pointed out) stormed out of a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan when he heard talk of keeping Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion intact and creating tax credits. Paul worried these tax credits would be a Republican-created entitlement program. Unfortunately, the leadership and establishment in the Republican party is incompetent…. View Article

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on February 20, 2017 in World News

Rand Paul: We’re very lucky John McCain’s not in charge

By Alexander Bolton Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped fellow Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Sunday after McCain criticized President Trump’s escalating war of words with the media. He argued that the nation is “very lucky” that Trump is president and not McCain, who won the 2008 GOP nomination but lost to Barack Obama in the general election. Paul said that McCain’s recent criticisms of Trump are driven by his “personal dispute” with the president over foreign policy. ADVERTISEMENT He added that McCain and Trump are at odds because McCain supports the wide deployment of U.S. troops to protect and… View Article

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