Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
It is really not taking Rand Paul much time at all to be morphed like clay in the hands of Mitch McConnell. Yes, the further away from his primary win he gets, and the more time he spends with the Kentucky Republican taskmaster Rand Paul is being shaped into Mitch McConnell. One need only look at his now rescinded promise to balance the budget in a year to see that. You see, Mitchie-master got to little Ayn through the malted hops and bong resin and let him know that Kentucky Republicans don't balance the budget because that does not leave room for huge tax breaks for Corporations and the very wealthy during a time of "war".
So now like the molded little clone he is, Randy is falling in line:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul backtracked Thursday on his pledge to erase the federal budget deficit in a year, instead offering several options that he said could get it done within five.
"If you’re not willing to balance it in five years, you’re not a serious person," he said.
http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.co...
Yes, poor Rand is realizing that he cannot balance the budget in one year and be in the pocket of the big Corporations like his mentor Mitch McConnell. If you think that Rand Paul will try in five years you are kidding yourself too. Republicans never balance the budget because they are too busy giving handouts to their Corporate donors. They never want the budget balance anyway they just want to pick who the money gets thrown away too. In case working people haven't noticed, in the last few decades it has not been them which is just what Republicans want.
But Randy did give us one telling little gem into the whole Republican mindset and what it is they are really trying to achieve over anything else in this election:
Paul, a Bowling Green eye surgeon, also reiterated his long-standing assertion that everything in the budget needs to be looked at for downsizing, elimination or privatization.
I hope America really begins to understand just what this man is saying. He wants any program that helps anyone eliminated or cut to the bare minimum. He wants Social Security and Medicaire privatized. Remember what would have happened to Social Security had Bush been allowed to privatize?? It would be gone. Republican solutions consist only of taking the government out of everything and letting the crooks in Corporate America and the banking industry make all the decisions with all the money.
To try and pound this home to the people in Kentucky who stand to lose if Rand Paul's and the tea-baggers vision comes to fruition the Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear went in front of about 1600 Kentucky farmers to let them know exactly what they can expect from Rand Paul and the Republican Party:
Without mentioning Paul by name, Beshear said Kentuckians are hearing "a lot of loose political talk" about the need to eliminate federal programs that provide a safety net for farmers, such as farm subsidies and efforts to "shutter the doors" of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Kentucky Democratic Party distributed to people at the breakfast a mock check worth "$0.00" dated "11/3/10," a day after the Nov. 2 general election.
It was made out to Kentucky Farmers, and signed by "Rand Paul." In its memo line was written, "Don't spend it all in one place! Rand."
The fake check also said on the back that Paul has called for the elimination of farm subsidies and that he "also wants to do away with the Department of Agriculture, the federal department that monitors the safety of the food we eat, helps open new global agricultural markets for Kentucky products and supports the rights of rural agricultural workers."
"When it comes to Kentucky agriculture, Rand Paul is a few pumpkins short of a patch," the check said.
http://www.kentucky.com/...
And unless you are a Corporation or very rich that is what the Republicans offer from now on. Far from learning the lessons that their disastrous mistakes under Bush and the former Republican Congress caused, Republicans are now taking that ideology and pumping it full of steroids. They insanely want to cut the federal government down to nothing so it can provide no services, no social security or anything else.
Why?? Because they want the wealthy and the ownership class to be able to do whatever they want. They do not want a middle-class and do not want to be told what they can pay. They want to reap the rewards of the American system without actually paying back into it. Most of all, they want a populace full of virtual slaves who will do what the hell they are told for what they are given without question.
I hope America remembers one thing well. They will never hear Rand Paul or any Republican for that matter saying that their, or their Corporate masters pay should be cut: