05-27-2015, 07:45 PM
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE GOP?
Depends on who you ask.
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul each tackled the question today; they kicked a bunch of Republicans and got some bonus points for kicking each other in the process.
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If you ask Hillary Clinton what's wrong with the GOP, she'll tell you that (among other things) they're behind the times when it comes to gender pay equality.
Today in front of the South Carolina Democratic Women's Caucus, Clinton alluded to some of the recent remarks that her Republican rivals have made in regards to the issue.
These are some of the GOP gems.
-Governor Scott Walker called equal pay a "bogus" issue.
-Senator Marco Rubio said that Congress was "wasting time" on the matter.
-And, Senator Rand Paul compared fairness to price-setting by the Soviet Union's governing body, the Politburo.
Hillary retorted today, "what century are they living in?" and promised the women in the audience that she would be working hard to get equal pay measures passed if she's elected President.
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According to Rand Paul, the hawks in the GOP were wrong about Iraq and they created ISIS.
Today Paul said: "Everything that they have talked about in foreign policy, they have been wrong about for 20 years, and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise."
Paul said that those who said his kind of foreign policy (which his critics inside and outside of his party label "isolationist") was responsible for the rise of ISIS were wrong.
"I would say it's exactly the opposite. ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately. And most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS. These hawks also wanted to bomb [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad], which would have made ISIS's job even easier," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved -- they loved [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya. They just wanted more of it."
Refs:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/politics/h...-carolina/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-201...n-the-gop/
Depends on who you ask.
Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul each tackled the question today; they kicked a bunch of Republicans and got some bonus points for kicking each other in the process.
If you ask Hillary Clinton what's wrong with the GOP, she'll tell you that (among other things) they're behind the times when it comes to gender pay equality.
Today in front of the South Carolina Democratic Women's Caucus, Clinton alluded to some of the recent remarks that her Republican rivals have made in regards to the issue.
These are some of the GOP gems.
-Governor Scott Walker called equal pay a "bogus" issue.
-Senator Marco Rubio said that Congress was "wasting time" on the matter.
-And, Senator Rand Paul compared fairness to price-setting by the Soviet Union's governing body, the Politburo.
Hillary retorted today, "what century are they living in?" and promised the women in the audience that she would be working hard to get equal pay measures passed if she's elected President.
According to Rand Paul, the hawks in the GOP were wrong about Iraq and they created ISIS.
Today Paul said: "Everything that they have talked about in foreign policy, they have been wrong about for 20 years, and yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise."
Paul said that those who said his kind of foreign policy (which his critics inside and outside of his party label "isolationist") was responsible for the rise of ISIS were wrong.
"I would say it's exactly the opposite. ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately. And most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS. These hawks also wanted to bomb [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad], which would have made ISIS's job even easier," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "They created these people. ISIS is all over Libya because these same hawks in my party loved -- they loved [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya. They just wanted more of it."
Refs:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/politics/h...-carolina/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-201...n-the-gop/