Rand Paul, fresh off his insane commentary on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has taken another step into loony-land.
“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,'” Paul said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business.”
Poor li’l BP. Mean ol’ Obama is being so unfair to them.
And then there’s this, regarding a catastrophe in his home state:
“And I think it’s part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it’s always got to be somebody’s fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen,” Paul said.
The senate candidate referred to a Kentucky coal mine accident that killed two men, saying he had met with the families and he admired the coal miners’ courage.
“We had a mining accident that was very tragic. … Then we come in and it’s always someone’s fault. Maybe sometimes accidents happen,” he said.
Um, yeah, that’s going to play well.
In honor of Paul’s complete wackiness, we’re delighted to add Democrat Jack Conway to BMG’s Act Blue page. Toss him a few bucks if you’re inspired — this would be a huge Democratic victory.
That man is whacked with the stupid gene — I don’t even care if he’s a doctor (I think he is, at least), he has absolutely, positively no common sense at all, and has a complete and utter ignorance over government and all kinds of policy.
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p>How anyone could try to excuse BP for this, after its long-litany of other disasters and near-disasters, is beyond me.
his position on BP is consistent with his position on civil rights: business should be more or less 100% free of government regulation, and over the long run, the market will take care of discrimination, environmental issues, etc. It’s a position that does not work in real life, but in theory it is logically consistent. Too bad he is running for office in the real world instead of the magical kingdom of LibertarianLand.
Not because he’s stupid, but because he’s honest.
stupid and honest…
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p>though he’s becoming less and less honest, now that he’s learning there can be consequences to saying things like he thinks restaurants should be able to ban black people from eating there. He’s already tried to flip flop on the issue, coming out saying he’d have voted for the civil rights act… just days after saying that he didn’t support it, at least in full.
You can stupid and right, you can be smart and wrong. Rand’s problem is he had 48 hours of Truth Disease.
As crazy as she is, I’m pretty sure she’s never said anything as stupid as Rand Paul has with his opposition to the Civil Rights and Americans With Disabilities acts
Okay… so she didn’t exactly say it in those words (thanks Tina Fay!), but it was pretty close. Claiming to be a foreign policy expert because you live next to Russia is f-ing stupid. What Rand Paul said may be more deplorable than many of the things that Sarah Palin said, but I don’t think it’s actually more stupid. The really stupid thing about what he did was saying what he believed out loud, but thank goodness he did it.
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p>Note, like Sarah Palin, he’s bailing out of Meet the Press this weekend. Keith Olberman says he’s the third person ever to do so. So, I guess his people have finally realized he has a big problem on his hands. Let’s hope he’s just like Sarah Palin in one other respect, too — the fact that she couldn’t help herself. We need him to not be able to help himself.
more than human rights.
And since BP made $5.5 Billion last quarter, they have lots of property, and therefore lots more rights than the fishermen, the tourism industry, and people of the Gulf Coast… in Rand Paul’s mind.
So have people from John Locke through to Ayn Rand. Moderates and independents should be turned off to his complete disregard for a horrible ecological disaster to his waffling on a fairly non-controversial issue even in KY (Civil Rights for blacks). Meanwhile, his anti-Gitmo, anti-Patrict Act, anti-drug war, anti-war on terror positions should become well known and infuriate the tea party base. To be fair I happen to agree with him on those particular issues, but the base of the KY GOP certainly does not. Conway should really pounce on him and this represents a great opportunity to send a real progressive from KY to DC.
but “human rights” is a term that has been so diluted as to become meaningless.
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p>I get your point, though.