http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292935/-Kentucky-Dems-royally-screw-over-Rand-Paul-s-2016-plans?detail=email
So Rand Paul wants to run for President in 2016. Rand also wants to run to keep his Senate seat at the same time in case his White House bid doesn't work out.
In order to do so Rand needs the Kentucky state legislature to pass a law that would allow him to appear twice on the same ballot, as Senator and for the Presidency, something that has happened several times since LBJ first did it. Of course, the Republican controlled Kentucky State Senate happily obliged, they passed a one paragraph bill to let Rand run for Senate and the White House. The Assembly in Kentucky is controlled by Democrats and they said, hmmmm, let me think, no.
Yeah, it must suck to have the Senate pass something and then have a lower legislative body kill it.
Kentucky Democrats in the State Assembly took their Senate GOP counterparts bill and let it die in the legislative docket at the end of this legislative session. They jokingly claimed they were still taking their time reading the one paragraph bill.
Which leads me to believe that what National Democrats need is a good sip of bourbon.
Rachel Maddow makes the case in her segment that Ron Paul was always a joke fringe candidate who kept his safe House seat and made a mini-career of running for President and saying no to every legislative idea presented to him. He dabbled at running for President, and when he lost, he would not lose his current House seat.
Now that Rand Paul can't safely run in 2016 as a White House hopeful AND Senate candidate unless Kentucky Dems suddenly have a change of heart or lose the Kentucky Assembly, which seems unlikely, well, that throws a monkey wrench in Rand Paul's safe try to run for the WH and fall back on a Senate seat should he lose.
Rand Paul now has to choose. Does his family name fall out of Congressional office if he runs for the White House and loses, or maybe he just wants to be that blow hard Senator who never really passes legislation and hires charlatan's who claim to hate Abraham Lincoln for no apparent reason. Your know, just like his dad did for a living while he was running for President.
this is a taste of their own treatment of "we the people" in the House of reps.,senate passes laws for the benefit of the country and "we the people" then republican congress craps on it, that has been a glaring reality every since they went on nat'l TV and declared they would do nothing to help Press. and make him a one termer, one out of two is the best they got they have done nothing.
i woud equate this to him not getting that Red Ryder BB gun when he was a little tyke, but grew up to be a racist and disrepectful woman hater remember this, don't trhink he ever appologized.
