{"id":5976,"date":"2011-09-29T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2011-09-29T00:31:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:31:30","slug":"when-insanitea-is-hereditary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/when-insanitea-is-hereditary\/","title":{"rendered":"When InsaniTEA is hereditary"},"content":{"rendered":"

When there is a bill pending before that Senate that has the support of Democrats, Republicans and even the industry it proposes to regulate, and a single Senator is preventing the passage of the bill by unanimous consent, you can be pretty sure that the culprit is either Tom Coburn (R-OK) or a Teabagger.  In this case, it\u2019s not Coburn.  And in this case, the InsaniTEA is hereditary.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RandHat\"The only senator opposed to a bill to toughen federal safety regulation of oil and gas pipelines said Wednesday he’s willing to work with Senate leaders to schedule a debate on the measure, but he’s still blocking expedited passage.<\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who is philosophically opposed to federal regulation, also blamed Democratic leaders for the Senate’s failure to act on the measure, saying they could have scheduled a debate and vote on the bill at any time.<\/p>\n

But a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Paul of "a classic tea party stunt<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

"The simple fact is that if Sen. Paul stopped blocking this bill, it would sail through with overwhelming bipartisan support," spokesman Adam Jentleson said.<\/p>\n

The bill has wide, bipartisan support and is backed by industry and safety groups. It was approved without opposition by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in May. Paul is the only senator opposing an effort by the bill’s Democratic sponsors to pass it swiftly using "unanimous consent" procedures that eliminate the need for a time-consuming debate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"I believe legislation should have open debate and votes. It need not take weeks. Certainly we could spend an afternoon for the people’s elected representatives to discuss whether they got massive new regulations," Paul said in a statement\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How many times have we seen this happen.  A single Republican holds up a bill, and the rest say it isn\u2019t them.  That may also be the case this time, but not necessary.  Rand Paul is the son of the original wearer of the tinfoil hat, Ron Paul, and reflects his extremism on most issues.  I guess they think that, instead of depending on nanny government, folks should all move somewhere that has no no natural gas pipelines.  Thank goodness that Ron \u201cnever mattered, never will\u201d Paul is retiring in 2012, after a last useless attempt to win the Republican presidential nomination.  May the son of tinfoil follow him into obscurity in short order.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow and blogger Joe Sonka discuss this issue and expand it into a demonstration of why Democrats, not Republicans, are the party of American values.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Whose values do you want?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When there is a bill pending before that Senate that has the support of Democrats, Republicans and even the industry it proposes to regulate, and a single Senator is preventing the passage of the bill by unanimous consent, you can be pretty sure that the culprit is either Tom Coburn (R-OK) or a Teabagger.  In […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}