The Pragmatic Rand Paul
Adam Schwartzman, Intern ·
Mar 12, 2011 at 7:45am
Senator Rand Paul took advantage of a great opportunity yesterday, driving home his libertarian views at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. His speech was perfect- supremely sensible, to the point, and biting. Check out the video here.
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Jun '10
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As a concession to conservatives, any gulag barracks where they might reside (in the future) will feature bare incandescent light bulbs and high-water-volume toilets. You're welcome.
Aug '10
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This is one of the most enjoyable and satisfying video clips I've ever seen.
Oct '10
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I posted this a couple of days ago, along with a transcript from ABC news. Rand Paul rocks!
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May '10
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I loved this. The feds don't need to tell me what I have in my bathroom!
May '10
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In my hometown GE closed and has just finished demolition of an incandescent light bulb factory. 65+ jobs were lost.
Aug '10
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That reminds me, I have to stock up while they're still available - just like the many EU citizens that have a lifetime supply of effective, non-toxic incandescent light bulbs squirreled away.
May '10
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If I only knew how to blow glass, I'd get this incandescent black market up and running today.
While getting a tire repaired today, I happened to meet a friend of my Congressman, the honorable Ted Poe. He said Poe expressed frustration at finding that whenever he seeks significant changes his colleagues ask what's in it for them.
As the bumper sticker says, sometimes you have to flush twice.
Jun '10
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"As the bumper sticker says, sometimes you have to flush twice"
Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't. Current low water toilets flush better than older models that used three times as much water. I'd rather use that water to luxuriate in my shower than to flush my waste. On the other hand, I am outraged that these idiots are forcing me to bring poison into my house with these new mercury laden light bulbs...and costing us jobs as well. Manufacturers spend billions to keep up with bureaucratic edicts like lead free brass faucets, when the miniscule amount of lead in brass faucets never caused any human problems. If a manufacturer in a free market produced a low consumption toilet that worked well and saved apartment and commercial building owners hundreds of thousands of dollars in lower water bills annually, does anyone think we would need a law forcing someone to make it? When the lady says the appliance industry and Congress have worked well together in a bip-partisan manner over the years, something on my backside begins to itch as I think crony capitalism must have its skinny fingers in there somewhere.
Jul '10
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Ah, at last; a libertarian voice in the Senate. I've waited a lifetime.
Jun '10
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Irony of ironies, the twisty-light bulbs put out less heat than incandescent bulbs, so if you live in a northern clime you have to replace that excess heat. The most likely source of that replacement heat will be natural gas, a non-renewable resource. You would think these folks would learn. When they legislated lighter vehicles to increase fleet fuel economies, the consumer, driven by safety concerns, moved into a subclass of truck: The SUV. The result: greater fleet fuel inefficiencies. Like it or not markets automatically move to the most efficient products made, because consumers buy what serves them best. To interfere with this general principle is to play with fire, just ask the old communist apparatchiks, who in seventy short years managed to screw up one of the most resource rich countries in the world.
May '10
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cdor: "As the bumper sticker says, sometimes you have to flush twice"
Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't. Current low water toilets flush better than older models that used three times as much water....
I should have clarified. That bumper sticker was referring to the 2010 and 2012 elections. ;)
Nov '10
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I enjoyed it, but I wish that he had come back at her when she said, "you want light." He let that one pass.
Personally I would say, No. I don't want just any light. I want nontoxic, cheap, incandescent bulbs with the light spectrum they give, that I can put on a dimmer, that turn on instantly, and that don't make a funny noise. Put those toxic things in the store if you want. I don't mind having a few in ceiling fixtures that are hard to reach and that won't get knocked over by a child or a cat. But give me back my incandescents.
Was this a hearing on the incandescent bulb ban? Are they going to repeal it? I need to figure out how much space I need to allocate for lightbulbs.
Sep '10
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Mandatory appliance efficiency standards are not so much about energy savings but rather are about conditioning citizens to wearing the "yoke." After all, the government knows better and to paraphrase Orwell - "Coercion is Liberty."
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First time I'd heard Rand Paul at work. A marvel to behold.