U. S. Senator Rand Paul: Another Republican Ditto Head Hypocrite.

The so called conservative who represents Kentucky held up the Senate budget vote this past Friday which shut the government down a few hours before he voted no on the bill.  His peeve was an increase in domestic spending without spending cuts.  He then went on a rhetoric rampage for TV criticizing both republicans and democrats because the budget bill added to the federal deficit and he said conservatives are against deficit spending.

The ditto head hypocrite failed to mention that Trump and the GOP's tax cut scheme that he himself voted for will add $1.5 trillion to deficit spending because the tax cut does not pay for itself with offsets.  And that $1.5 trillion in deficit spending he voted for is over 3 times larger than the short fall in the budget he opposed on Friday.  He then made the claim the federal government will be going back to the deficits of the Obama administration.  Actually Paul got that wrong also because deficit spending went down on Obama's watch year to year compared to the deficits of the Bush 43 administration which still holds the single year deficit record of $1.4 trillion which took place in Bush's last fiscal year.  By contrast, the federal deficit at the end of Obama's last fiscal year was $666 billion.  That is a big difference than what he inherited from Bush.

Of course the big kicker for Paul and the GOP is what this writer has said for years.  They really are not fiscal conservatives.  No republican President has balanced the federal budget since Eisenhower in 1960 and no republican President in the last 50 plus years has left office with a smaller deficit than when he took office.  But democratic Presidents have and Obama was the last to do so.  In other words there is no record of precedent in the past 50 years that can justify republicans as fiscal conservatives.

Fiscal conservative republicans?  The truth in fact is that they do not exist including Paul.   And Donald Trump who complains about the National Debt and deficit spending has already joined the republicans parade.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio