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08-01-2013, 06:58 AM
To be objectivist about it, you would have to conclude that the Republican Party is shrugging at Rand Paul right now.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Republican colleagues dealt the junior senator from Kentucky what can be described only as a resounding rebuke.
Even the 86-13 vote (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00195) against Paul’s proposal to strip Egypt of its foreign aid (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/31/rand-paul-attempt-to-cut-off-aid-to-egypt-fails/) doesn’t capture the lopsided nature of the defeat. In the final seconds of the roll call and long after the outcome was obvious, a bloc of six GOP lawmakers led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) quietly cast their votes with Paul — not in agreement with him but in fear of the tea party voters who adore him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-rand-paul-rebuked-by-fellow-republicans-on-foreign-aid/2013/07/31/8b2ec348-fa24-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?tid=pm_pop
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Republican colleagues dealt the junior senator from Kentucky what can be described only as a resounding rebuke.
Even the 86-13 vote (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00195) against Paul’s proposal to strip Egypt of its foreign aid (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/31/rand-paul-attempt-to-cut-off-aid-to-egypt-fails/) doesn’t capture the lopsided nature of the defeat. In the final seconds of the roll call and long after the outcome was obvious, a bloc of six GOP lawmakers led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) quietly cast their votes with Paul — not in agreement with him but in fear of the tea party voters who adore him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-rand-paul-rebuked-by-fellow-republicans-on-foreign-aid/2013/07/31/8b2ec348-fa24-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?tid=pm_pop