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Senate Republicans vote to arm the Muslim Brotherhood

So the GOP brain trust now brings this Midas touch to Egypt, rallying behind Obama’s cozy relations with the new “Islamic democracy.” That would be the Brotherhood’s rapidly unraveling sharia basket case, into which our own bankrupt government has so far sunk nearly 3 billion U.S.-taxpayer dollars, with more billions soon to come through U.S.-backed IMF loans and, yes, sophisticated U.S. weaponry. Any moment now, as it was in turbulent Libya, the ground in Egypt is certain to shift, or crater. When it does, who knows whose side the senators will have us on . . . and who knows what American enemies may be wielding that U.S. weaponry?

Senator Paul, by contrast, has three ideas that seem positively batty to the McCain gang. First, he thinks that American foreign policy ought to be premised on American national interests, not on the shifting notions of “global stability” popular at the Wilson School and the Council on Foreign Relations. Second, he suggests that when we give aid and arms to anti-American Islamists, bad things tend to happen to America. Finally, Paul believes the foundation of American foreign policy is, of all quaint things, the United States Constitution. The Framers gave Congress not merely the authority but the duty to thwart executive excess. On the international stage, that primarily means the power of the purse, which enables the people’s representatives to defund such madness as the arming of Islamic supremacists.

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Rand Paul v. NeoPaleoOctogenarioCons

Jeddite on February 2, 2013 at 4:49 PM

Finally, Paul believes the foundation of American foreign policy is, of all quaint things, the United States Constitution.

What a crazy idea./

rndmusrnm on February 2, 2013 at 5:00 PM

Rand Paul v. NeoPaleoOctogenarioCons

Jeddite on February 2, 2013 at 4:49 PM

And if it were politically expedient for them, the Demoncrats would be in on this as much as they were for the Bush Wars. Count on it.

MelonCollie on February 2, 2013 at 5:00 PM

reason number 1,045 why Republicans are NOT the saviors we are looking for.

nazarioj001 on February 2, 2013 at 5:01 PM

I say we should arm both sides – equally.

OldEnglish on February 2, 2013 at 5:03 PM

I say we should arm both sides – equally.

OldEnglish on February 2, 2013 at 5:03 PM

So do I: we should give them both nothing. That’s fair, isn’t it?

MelonCollie on February 2, 2013 at 5:06 PM

MelonCollie on February 2, 2013 at 5:06 PM

I could live with that, too.

OldEnglish on February 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM

Unbelievable…

Is there anyone in governance that isn’t a traitor?

tom daschle concerned on February 2, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Paul believes the foundation of American foreign policy is, of all quaint things, the United States Constitution.

I hate statements like this. It’s absolutely nonsense. Conservatives add “Constitution” to a sentences like it’s a preposition. It’s like when people name drop celebrities. It’s annoying as hell.

And Paul believes the foundation of American foreign policy is, of all quaint things, the United States Constitution.

And Andy McCarthy is a hack. He’s Dick Morris on crack.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:11 PM

But no, I wouldn’t send weapons to Egypt.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM

And Andy McCarthy is a hack. He’s Dick Morris on crack.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:11 PM

so you are perfectly fine in giving the savages in the muslim brotherhood advanced weaponry and 1.5 billion dollars in aid? I say you are the hack, sir…Andy McCarthy is once again speaking the and the truth does hurt

sadsushi on February 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM

Never mind the question but Andrew McCarthy is no hack

sadsushi on February 2, 2013 at 5:16 PM

Andy McCarthy is once again speaking the and the truth does hurt

He writes:

the ground in Egypt is certain to shift, or crater. When it does, who knows whose side the senators will have us on . . . and who knows what American enemies may be wielding that U.S. weaponry?

Now read some of his other work regarding the war in Iraq. How he could possibly write that statements demonstrates he’s just a super partisan hack.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:21 PM

Andrew McCarthy has identified the willful blindness, the refusal to recognize the Islamist’s goals for a worldwide caliphate, that has been guiding our foreign policy for way too long.

Read the whole piece, segasagez, and note what Morsi verbatim has said.

onlineanalyst on February 2, 2013 at 5:22 PM

McCarthy shifted his thinking a long time ago, segasasgez. Familiarize yourself with why and how he came to view democratization of Islamist countries a fool’s errand.

onlineanalyst on February 2, 2013 at 5:25 PM

the ground in Egypt is certain to shift, or crater. When it does, who knows whose side the senators will have us on . . . and who knows what American enemies may be wielding that U.S. weaponry?

Now read some of his other work regarding the war in Iraq. How he could possibly write that statements demonstrates he’s just a super partisan hack.

It’s a legitimate question..look at the ‘rebels’ the US helped give weapons to in Libya…those weapons helped with the Jihadist attack in Algeria and killed Americans in the process..this administration is seems hellbent in helping our enemies and continuing to weaken our allies..open your eyes to the truth

sadsushi on February 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM

So the GOP brain trust now brings this Midas touch to Egypt, rallying behind Obama’s cozy relations with the new “Islamic democracy.”

GOP is making it almost impossible for conservatives and conservative libertarians to stay in the tent.

petefrt on February 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM

McCarthy shifted his thinking a long time ago, segasasgez. Familiarize yourself with why and how he came to view democratization of Islamist countries a fool’s errand.

onlineanalyst on February 2, 2013 at 5:25 PM

He hasn’t “shifted his thinking”. He simply opposes every single thing Barack Obama and democrats do. That’s called a hack. He hasn’t had some “profound” come-to-light moment. He still supports the Iraq invasion. Reading him now, you’d think he’s a pacifist.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:35 PM

Senate Republicans vote to arm the Muslim Brotherhood

Why not?

BigGator5 on February 2, 2013 at 5:37 PM

It’s a legitimate question..look at the ‘rebels’ the US helped give weapons to in Libya…those weapons helped with the Jihadist attack in Algeria and killed Americans in the process..this administration is seems hellbent in helping our enemies and continuing to weaken our allies..open your eyes to the truth

sadsushi on February 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM

It’s a completely legitimate question, but a question he only really started asking January 20, 2009. I fundamentally agree with the question. I don’t think he does.

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:37 PM

Andy McCarthy 12/3/2011:

For one thing, it will be seen as the policy that vested such dangerously misplaced Tea Party credibility in libertarian extremists such as Senator Paul and Judge Napolitano, who, under the Orwellian guise of “constitutionalism,” seek to vest our wartime enemies with the rights and privileges of American citizens (to the full peacetime extent of those rights and privileges).

Andy McCarthy 2/2/2013:

Finally, Paul believes the foundation of American foreign policy is, of all quaint things, the United States Constitution

H.A.C.K!

segasagez on February 2, 2013 at 5:43 PM

In a related issue re Al Gore’s selling of Current TV to AlJazeera, New Zeal Trevor Loudon has a few tidbits of interest. Did you know that Sen. Diane Feinstein’s husband was/is an investor in the company? You know, the same Diane Feinstein who wants to dismarm Americans and whose husband has been profiteering from the “war machine”?
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/02/congress-fails-to-act-against-gores-terror-tv-deal/

onlineanalyst on February 2, 2013 at 5:59 PM

This stuff is annoying, but the amnesty vote will be the final straw for me. If Senate Republicans vote for it and Boehner allows it to pass in the House with a minority of Republicans I am finished with the party.

Wigglesworth on February 2, 2013 at 6:22 PM

I’ve disagreed with Andy McCarthy at times but he’s absolutely right.

FloatingRock on February 2, 2013 at 7:10 PM

So Senator Paul tried to stop weapons transfer. His amendment, however, was defeated 79–19, because 23 Republican senators opted to follow the lead of McCain, Graham, and Ayotte.

Those 23 need to retire or be primaried, if not resign, IMO.

FloatingRock on February 2, 2013 at 7:19 PM

The 23 culprits:

Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Thanks a lot for helping Hatch get reelected, Mark Levin! /not

FloatingRock on February 2, 2013 at 7:25 PM

Hatch has lots of practice selling out as do Milquetoast McConnell, Hello Sailor Collins and Lamar Alexander.

I’m not from Ohio but I hoped the prospects for Portman would be better. No longer.

viking01 on February 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM