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30 Jun

More Punked By Paul With His FISA Statement

A few more glossy-eyed Paulifried, passing disinformation trash without even a fucking clue.
Ron Paul DID NOT speak out against the FISA Bill on the House Floor on June 20, 2008. In fact, Ron Paul wasn’t even on the House Floor June 20, 2008. He was in Missoula, Montana to keynote at the State Republican [...]

28 Jun

Vectors Of Disinformation Spew: Ron Paul’s FISA Bill Dissent

It’s fascinating to watch how disinformation gets fed into the datastreams. It also offers instructive lessons for any who actually believe that truth should triumph over “truthiness” wherever it is encountered, except on the battlefield of comedy. {One - Two}
On June 26, 2008, this blog published the following Congressional Records reprint verbatim:

Congressional Record: June [...]

26 Jun

Paul’s Absenteeism - Mid Season Stats

In January, I posted the stats for Ron Paul’s absenteeism in congress for 2007.  Paul had the 6th worst voting record for active members in 2007 missing 27.2% of all House Roll Call Votes in 2007.   By the end of February Paul had managed to increased his missed vote percentage to 27.7%.
Revisiting Paul’s missed [...]

26 Jun

Revisiting Ron Paul’s Congressional Absenteeism

Ron Paul says he would have voted against the FISA Amendment, if he would have been attending Congress the day of that vote.   Ron Paul did however have a nice ditty entered into the the Extensions of The House Congressional Record four days later, so he could claim he was against it, even though he [...]

23 Feb

Ron Paul’s Improbable Excuse

Ron Paul bowed out of an energy forum event scheduled for Houston next week that he had originally committed to attend. This would not merit a note, except the reason given reached into the absurd:

Houston Chronicle Febuary 22, 2008
Paul withdraws from energy forum
by David Ivanovich
Organizers of America’s Energy Future: Houston’s Presidential Summit scheduled for Thursday [...]

07 Jan

Paul’s Congressional Absenteeism in 2007

The Washington Post’s U.S. Congress Votes Database has the final figures for Roll Call Votes missed by Ron Paul in 2007. It is a less than stellar statistic:
Ron Paul has missed 315 votes (27.2%) during the current Congress.
For those who may be wondering just how Paul’s absenteeism stacks up compared to the rest of [...]

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