Saturday, March 15, 2014

Rand Paul Backs Bill That Could Lead to Crack Down on States Where Voters Legalized Marijuana

Raw Story reports:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has thrown his support behind legislation that Republicans could use to force President Barack Obama to crack down on legal marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington.

Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the libertarian-leaning senator said he supported the Enforce the Law Act, which has been approved by the House. The legislation would allow Congress to sue the president for failing to faithfully execute laws.

Paul said that Obama appeared to be “writing his own laws whenever he feels like it.”

“He also does need to enforce the law. We write laws and he is just deciding willy-nilly if he likes it he enforces it, if he doesn’t, he won’t enforce it, and we really think he needs to be chastened, rebuked, and told that he needs to obey the constitution,” he added.

Republicans have championed the bill as a way to make President Barack Obama enforce immigration and health care laws, and prevent the executive branch from overstretching its regulatory authority.

But a committee report submitted by a co-sponsor of the bill suggested Republicans would also use the law to try to force Obama to crack down on marijuana in states that have legalized its possession and sale.

Note: I doubt Rand wants to see a crackdown on states that have legalized marijuana, but Rand's support of this legislation is another example of Rand not fully understanding the consequences of statements he makes and proposals he favors. It brings to mind Rand's comments on Milton Friedman SEE: Rand Paul Is Embarrassing the Austrian School of Economics and his confused comments about Ronald Reagan. SEE: Rand Paul versus Murray Rothbard on Ronald Reagan and Rand Paul's Latest Disheartening Piece.

When Rand talks, it is all about mixed messages and mixed policy positions.

9 comments:

  1. The goobermint should give away all doper drugs for free at post offices. No more drug lords - they are instantly out of business. No more Magsican drug wars killing thousands of people near our southern border. No more state troopers killed by drug dealers.

    Then, after the rotten scum dopers are hooked and sleepy, lace ALL the drugs with a chemical that will kill them with the first puff, snort, injection, etc. POOF, a lot fewer dopers all of the sudden. The nation will be A LOT better off.

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    1. Who are you, Anonymous, JW's halfwit brother? Though you're unquestionably less articulate than him, you share a common moral framework.

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    2. Brilliant analysis. Why go through the ruse of fooling them. A bullet to the head would be more efficient.

      Nothing that violates the NAP here folks.

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    3. I rather think "The nation" would be better off without you.

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    4. The doper drug lords are killing people by the tens of thousands each year. NAP my ass. Wake up dumb asses.

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  2. This guy is either a complete sellout or EXTREMELY confused. Rand.....get it together dude. PICK a side (liberty or government worship) and stop stumbling all over the place. You're ruining the freedom movement!

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  3. "Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the libertarian-leaning senator said he supported the Enforce the Law Act, which has been approved by the House. The legislation would allow Congress to sue the president for failing to faithfully execute laws.

    Paul said that Obama appeared to be “writing his own laws whenever he feels like it.”

    Acknowledging that the Constitution is a form of government that doesn't work, wouldn't the better way to ensure that the President faithfully executes the laws be to IMPEACH and then REMOVE a President who fails to do so, rather than attempting to sue him in court? That's a power the House and Senate already hold and fail to use over, and over, and over again.

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    1. Elections are coming. Repubtards can't be seen as the big mean racist meanies that hate the Oblabbinator just because of the color of his skin. The Dems and the media would beat the living shit out of them with this "fact" each and every hour between now and the 2016 election.

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  4. The liberty position is that LESS laws need to be enforced, not MORE.

    Of course, with Rand being just another government fetishist, it should come as no surprise that a president's 'inactivity' is a bad thing to him.

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