{"id":1779056,"date":"2022-12-18T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779056"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:05:43","slug":"rand-paul-its-not-just-democrats-republicans-are-breaking-the-bank-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-its-not-just-democrats-republicans-are-breaking-the-bank-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: It\u2019s Not Just Democrats \u2014 Republicans Are Breaking the Bank Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frand-paul-its-not-just-democrats-republicans-are-breaking-the-bank-too%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Conservatives are often disappointed when Republicans tell us one thing at home when they\u2019re running for office and do quite the opposite as soon as they cross the Potomac.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take a long memory to remember that Republicans campaigned on \u201crepealing Obama\u00adcare.\u201d These Republicans came home to campaign and loudly proclaimed: \u201cGive us a Republican House!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/14\/nancy-pelosi-blamed-white-male-thing-for-2010-midterm-losses\/\">Conservatives stepped up and made it so.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the GOP candidates came back and pleaded: \u201cNo, we can\u2019t repeal Obamacare unless you give us a Republican Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, conservative activists gave Republicans the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To which the Republican Congress opined, \u201cWe\u2019re close, this close to repealing Obamacare. Just give us the House, the Senate, and the White House and we will repeal Obamacare!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/rand-paul-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rand-paul-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rand Paul speaking about the Senate budget on Dec. 7.\" class=\"wp-image-25046931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/rand-paul-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/rand-paul-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/rand-paul-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Rand Paul questions whether adding $45 billion more to a military budget that exceeds the next 10 nations combined improving US national security?<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We all know how that turned out. Voters gave Republicans both Houses of Congress and the Presidency and Republicans reneged and we live with Obamacare to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Republicans came home and said: \u201cVote Republican! The Democrats spend too much and borrow too much!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And conservatives gave Republicans another shot. Because, as conservatives, we know Democrats don\u2019t care about the debt but we continue to hope Republicans do.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>So, I have \u201cshocking\u201d news for conservatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/11\/gop-to-launch-investigations-into-big-business\/\">big-government Republicans are really secretly tied at the hip to spendthrift Democrats<\/a>. The Republicans differ only in where they wish to spend the money.<\/p>\n<p>I can best explain it, as I did recently to my Senate Republican colleagues:<\/p>\n<p>Our leadership paints the massive spending bill before us a Republican victory because it <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/15\/congress-passes-858b-defense-spending-bill-cuts-covid-vaccine-requirement-for-troops\/\">secures $45 billion more for military spending<\/a>. That is one perspective, but it ignores the real question: Is adding $45 billion more to a military budget that exceeds the next 10 nations combined improving our national security?<\/p>\n<p>Or, is a spending bill that adds over a trillion dollars to our $31 trillion debt more of a threat to our national security?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I come down firmly on the side that our debt is the greatest threat to our national security. I fear more the possibility that America will collapse from within by destroying our currency and cratering the economy than I fear a foreign military invasion of our soil.<\/p>\n<p>So, as Christmas approaches, and Big Government Republicans join Democrats to load up a \u201cChristmas tree\u201d spending spree with pork for all, remember that the monstrous bill, thousands of pages long, put together in the middle of the night and presented with mere hours to read, is the bipartisan compromise of advocates for the welfare state joined hand-in-hand with advocates of the warfare state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives are often disappointed when Republicans tell us one thing at home when they\u2019re running for office and do quite the opposite as soon as they cross the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5373,5458,3997,3685,6550,5531,5530,3819,3756,3618],"class_list":["post-1779056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bank","tag-bongino","tag-breaking","tag-democrats","tag-its","tag-paul","tag-rand","tag-report","tag-republicans","tag-riot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}