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Rand Paul Calls Benghazi "Worst Tragedy Since 9/11"

Do you recall the debate in Florida with all the changing recounts, the 'dangling chads' etc. and yet somehow there are all these precincts where one party gets 100% of the vote? After what happened in Florida I find that very unlikely, but you seem to buy it and I'm certainly okay with that.

I remember Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris "purging" 10,000 legal black voters in Dade county from the rolls "by mistake."

I guess you forgot all that.
 
That's a nonsensical position which justifies the elimination of every law. After all, if a person really wants to murder, they will.

The perfect is not the enemy of the good.

I tend to agree with that, but I think Voter ID is a solution in search of a problem:

The database shows 207 cases of other types of fraud for every case of voter impersonation.

Who Can Vote? - A News21 2012 National Project

So people are already committing fraud with elections. Maybe laws that guard against those 207 cases of other types of fraud is where to start.
 
All of those things are Drivers License. What you're talking about is a national ID with a microchip in it. Why don't we all line up and get a microchip implanted? That way the government can track our every move.

Don't you have a chip on your credit card? Was there an option to implant it in your body?

Why not stick to the facts rather than your hyperbolic attempts at metaphors?
 
Don't you have a chip on your credit card? Was there an option to implant it in your body?

Why not stick to the facts rather than your hyperbolic attempts at metaphors?

I don't carry a credit card. I think they're all cut up. My ATM card does not appear to have a chip.

The big difference is you are not required to have a credit card, and even if you do have one you are not required to carry it. You are saying everybody should have a national ID card with a microchip. You're one sentence from requiring everybody to carry it at all times. Since elections are carried out on a state by state basis, under what authority can the Feds require a state to accept such a card as valid ID? Basically, you want to create more government where it doesn't exist. Personally, I prefer no government where it is unnecessary.
 
yea sure... If Obama was only half as good as GWB...Obama is a muslim, kenyan socialist..who despises the USA..

Thats not who GWB is...

You ever try using facts?...

:lamo:lamo

I'm not certain I have ever seen one poster with such a perfect one-two punch in sequential posts. After all, Obama being a "...muslim, kenyan socialist who despises the USA..." is not only a fact; its an axiom.

:lamo:lamo
 
Yeah, like the 4000 soldiers who died in Bush disaster in Iraq. As Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said rebuking the cretinous Paul in the next exchange. "If some people on this committee want to call this tragedy the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4000 plus Americans lost in the War in Iraq under false pretenses."

Well if he is going to make 9/11 comparisons, then u have to ask... Why wasn't the Bush Admin ever grilled about failing to prevent an attack and invading Iraq following 9/11?
 
Personally, I prefer no government where it is unnecessary.

Me too but the government continues to grow anyway. Better that the American taxpayers gets some value for their money, and being as certain as possible that their vote is taken seriously is a good place to start.
 
Well if he is going to make 9/11 comparisons, then u have to ask... Why wasn't the Bush Admin ever grilled about failing to prevent an attack and invading Iraq following 9/11?

Because that was the second attack on the WTC and the planning for it occurred during the Clinton Administration. If George Bush had been at all responsible you can bet that the Democrats would have been all over it.
 
The Bush administration did everything to protect Americans in Iraq, the Obama/Hillary duo did nothing to protect the lives of the Ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. They left them them alone to die. That was never the case in Iraq. Americans always helped each other.

The best way to protect Americans in Iraq would have been to not start yet another war without a declaration from Congress. That would have been the best way to have protected the Constitution that every elected official has sworn to uphold as well.
 
Because that was the second attack on the WTC and the planning for it occurred during the Clinton Administration. If George Bush had been at all responsible you can bet that the Democrats would have been all over it.

What about invading Iraq? He was accused of lying to invade? Was there ever a hearing on that?
 
The best way to protect Americans in Iraq would have been to not start yet another war without a declaration from Congress. That would have been the best way to have protected the Constitution that every elected official has sworn to uphold as well.

Iraq Liberation Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 296-133 and, on Friday, October 11, 2002, the U.S. Senate voted 77-23 to "authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions."
 
What about invading Iraq? He was accused of lying to invade? Was there ever a hearing on that?

All higher levels of the US Government had the same access to information George Bush had and some of them had it much earlier.

Your question has been raised many times by those unfamiliar with US history and what led to the invasion of Iraq. The following quotes should clear things up and avoid any historical confusions.

If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People — Version 3.0 | Right Wing News
 
I don't carry a credit card. I think they're all cut up. My ATM card does not appear to have a chip.

The big difference is you are not required to have a credit card, and even if you do have one you are not required to carry it. You are saying everybody should have a national ID card with a microchip. You're one sentence from requiring everybody to carry it at all times. Since elections are carried out on a state by state basis, under what authority can the Feds require a state to accept such a card as valid ID? Basically, you want to create more government where it doesn't exist. Personally, I prefer no government where it is unnecessary.

Since when are Democrats against more government?

A recent interesting article on the subject Thomas Fleming: A Jersey Lesson in Voter Fraud - WSJ.com
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