The Gift that Keeps on Giving

I saw this today. According to the Kentucky Republican candidate for Senate, Rand Paul, the president criticizing BP for the oil spill is un-American. So, according to Rand Paul, businesses should choose who to serve and who not to serve for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. And free speech is un-American. What is this, the stone age? Or colonial times? What decade is Rand Paul living in?!?

Kentucky's Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as putting "his boot heel on the throat of BP" and "really un-American."

Paul's defense of the oil company came during an interview in which he tried to explain his controversial take on civil rights law, an issue that has overtaken his campaign since his victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

"What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP,'" Rand said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America." "I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business."[...]

"And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be somebody's fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen," Paul said.

For starters, Rand, President Bush's administration was very lax in their regulations. This is how this oil spill happened.

On the recent mining accident in the state of Kentucky:

"We had a mining accident that was very tragic. ... Then we come in and it's always someone's fault. Maybe sometimes accidents happen," he said.

Expect Rand coverage from folks like Joe, Jake, and myself all year long.

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