Sen. Rand Paul: If I Become President: My 1st Executive order---Repeal ALL Previous Executive Orders

[kpete]

The Very Serious Rand Paul
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is a very serious person.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that if he became president he would repeal all previous executive orders.

“I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders,” he said, according to Breitbart News.

Isn’t that a great idea?

Repealing all executive orders has the potential to undo a large amount of policy. Executive orders, for example, ban assassinations by the United States and organize intelligence agencies under the Director of National Intelligence.

Hmm. Maybe it’s not such a great idea.

“Senator Paul’s statement was meant to emphasize this president’s overt and unconstitutional executive orders, it was not meant to be taken literally,” Paul spokesman Sergio Gor wrote in an email.


Alrighty then. Never mind.



http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_09/the_very_serious_rand_paul052076.php

[bhikkhu]

1. The one banning torture? All the ones providing for equality and non-discrimination?

Some are pretty important, but most of them are just dull policy and administrative things. Either Paul doesn't have much of an idea about what executive orders are, or - more likely - he's well aware that his audience doesn't really know what executive orders are, and he's just rambling on (yet again) saying whatever his audience wants to hear.

[Coventina]

2. Haha! Hilarious!

Is he going to ask us to tip our servers?

We already know he's going to be here all week.

[samsingh]

3. without knowing what any of them do - what a useless pandering moron.

[rock]

4. So we're going to make our campaign promises

in metaphor, figures of speech, non-literal language? We'll also answer all question while on the stand the same way.

[tridim]

6. That describes almost all Republican campaigns.

Vote for me, cause 'merica fuck yea!!!!1

[rock]

9. Yeah, it allows them

to sneak out if they are called on any point they make.

[n2doc]

5. What he really meant- Repeal all Executive Orders by that Kenyan Socialist!

Keep the ones by the wondrous W and Reagan.

[IDemo]

7. Rand Paul slides in latest 2016 Iowa GOP poll

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - With the first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential caucuses less than 16 months away, the latest CNN poll finds Kentucky's Rand Paul in a distant third place among the possible GOP field.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has the lead at 21 percent. Huckabee won the Iowa GOP caucus when he ran for president in 2008.

Wisconsin's Paul Ryan is second with 12 percent, while Paul is in third with 7 percent.

It marks a big change from CNN's previous poll in Iowa. In March, Paul was the frontrunner with 16 percent.

http://www.wave3.com/story/26521308/rand-paul-slides-in-latest-2016-iowa-gop-poll

[Johonny]

8. So Rand Paul is not for the Emancipation Proclamation

but you knew that already.

[freshwest]

13. Nailed! Thinks it's the worst EO ever! Freedom! Liberty! For some, that is.

[TacoD]

10. Reminds me of John Kyl 3 years ago "not intended to be a factual statement"

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/08/157415/kyl-walks-back-claim-about-planned-parenthoo/

[Cha]

11. You Go.. you fucking libertarian, Rand Paul

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017215329#post18

[Cha]

12. Oh yeah, and I'm K&R this.