Rand Paul's daddy, Ron Paul, the ORIGINAL teapartier, turn on another MAMA GRIZZLY! (Actually, he got replaced by the stepdaddy, Dick Armey)
From the USA today BLOG on politics:
Nov 09, 2010
Michele Bachmann loses a Tea Party vote for GOP post
Rand Paul, and his father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, are both favorites of the Tea Party movement.
By Ed Reinke, APA libertarian icon who helped inspire the Tea Party movement won't be supporting Rep. Michele Bachmann's bid to be in the House Republican leadership.
Rep. Ron Paul, father of newly elected Kentucky senator Rand Paul, is backing Rep. Jeb Hensarling for chairman of the House Republican Conference, the party's No. 4 leadership post. The senior Paul and Hensarling are both Texans. Bachmann, from Minnesota, founded the Tea Party Caucus in Congress.
"You have a unique opportunity to guide the conference to support concrete legislation that reduces the size and scope of the federal government," Rep. Paul wrote about Hensarling, in a letter that was released by Hensarling's office.
Paul, a liberatarian who once ran for president, has long advocated cutting back on federal spending, slashing the government's debt and lowering taxes -- all key principles of the Tea Party movement.
The veteran lawmaker, who has run for president as a Republican and as a Libertarian, has been a featured speaker at Tea Party functions. His son, Rand, won Kentucky's Senate seat last week with Tea Party support.
Bachmann told USA TODAY on Monday it wasn't important if she didn't win the leadership contest. She said her bid against Hensarling is all about ensuring the "ideas and ideals" of the anti-tax, small-government Tea Party movement are included in the GOP majority.
Bachmann said that win or lose she wants to form a new group in Congress focused on adhering to principles in the Constitution. "It's important that we continue to learn more about the document we pledge to uphold," she said in our interview.
Here is a link from politico:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/...sarling.html?showall
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