While visiting a Manchester pub in New Hampshire, Rand Paul replied to one in a crowd that had gathered around him who asked about actions he would take to restrain the presidency, specifically on executive orders, if he should become president.
“I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders,” Paul replied to resounding cheers.
Paul continued, “Democracy is messy, but you have to build consensus to pass things. But it’s also in some ways good, because a lot of laws take away your freedom. So it should be hard to pass a law. And it, frankly, when you do it the proper way, is. We’ve done way too many things [the wrong way]: Signing statements, altering legislation by the president, are wrong and unconstitutional and shouldn’t happen. Executive orders shouldn’t either.”
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — In front of a boisterous pub crowd of young voters here, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into President Obama over executive overreach and even vowed to repeal “all previous executive orders” in one of his first acts as president, should he run.
Paul’s comments came to the New Hampshire chapter of Generation Opportunity, a national grassroots conservative group with a libertarian appeal with thousands of young liberty-minded activists nationwide engaged through it.
Paul focused much of his remarks on executive overreach by President Barack Obama, saving some of his most interesting points for a question-and-answer session at the end.
“There’s a rumor going around you might run for president in a couple years,” a young man shouted as Paul took questions from the audience for several minutes after a 15-plus-minute speech.
“Man, who started that?” Paul joked with the man, who was in his mid-20s.
“I know, it’s crazy,” the young man followed up. “You spoke for a bit on the executive orders tonight. If you were to receive the presidency would you repeal previous executive orders and restrain the power of the presidency?”
“I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders,” Paul replied to resounding cheers through the Manchester pub, named for the beer bearing the namesakes of American revolutionary Sam Adams. “Democracy is messy, but you have to build consensus to pass things. But it’s also in some ways good, because a lot of laws take away your freedom. So it should be hard to pass a law. And it, frankly, when you do it the proper way, is. We’ve done way too many things [the wrong way]: Signing statements, altering legislation by the president, are wrong and unconstitutional and shouldn’t happen. Executive orders shouldn’t either.”
“Absolutely,” the man shouted back at Paul. “You should run.”
While he’s not officially running for president – yet – Paul recently told Breitbart News he will decide whether to make a bid for the Oval Office by next spring, and his trip to New Hampshire, the site of the nation’s first presidential primary, is one of many trips he’s taken to key states over the past two years.
In a brief interview with Breitbart News outside after the speech and question-and-answer session, Paul said he thinks the president’s executive overreaches are massively unpopular nationwide and will have electoral consequences for candidates in races ranging from this year’s Senate races to 2016’s presidential contest.
“I’m very serious that the biggest problem with President Obama is his usurpation of power, destroying the separation of powers and not believing there are any checks and balances and believing that the executive branch can do whatever it wants—and this is exemplified in immigration, Obamacare and more—but really it’s the most seriously destructive thing he’s doing to this country,” Paul said. “While Obamacare’s bad, Dodd-Frank is bad, immigration is bad, the problem is is he’s doing it in an unconstitutional way. You can see how the crowd really understands that. The problem is he’s acting like a legislature.”
Before Paul spoke at the event, his staff kicked out liberal operatives there to videotape him to use it to attack him—called “trackers” in professional politics—from American Bridge.
“They say that if you’re not drawing flak, you’re not over the target,” Paul said when asked for his reaction to the fact that liberal groups like American Bridge are targeting him. “So I think that they’re sensitive, and I think they’re also very aware—and I didn’t get into it so much tonight, but I think that my discussion of Hillary Clinton and the disaster that she was a part of in Libya in Benghazi and now with the chaos in Libya—that that’s really hitting the mark and that she’s going to have a tough time really getting beyond that and they’re really sensing that. They’ll get more of it tomorrow too.”
Paul’s reason for being in New Hampshire is a series of events he’ll attend with Scott Brown and other Republican candidates on Friday, including a post-primary “unity breakfast,” to unite the party here behind Brown heading into November’s battle with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). But it certainly didn’t hurt a likely 2016 candidate like Paul to hit up the bar with conservative college-age or just-out-of-college kids from Manchester while in town.
They did the same thing to Rands father
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It appears that Trump is one of the few that seems to no the true About John McCain and his POW time He was shot down. Whora was all about his Father. He had a chance to get out ”Hanoi Hilton” twice but he turned it down. He was stupid and idiot he chose too stay as a POW. As a Politician a Senator he is all abut the money that’s why he divorced his fist wife married the second with deep pockets. Again McCain went with Bush on all the foreign bailouts pushing Senate. Caused by Bill Clinton and Senate pushed through by John McCain But after they voted to end fixed home rates replaced with floating entrust rates sold millions of homes no down payments. Then later sold the American housing Notes to foreign banks entrust went up every year on American homes owner tell they couldn’t make payments any longer had to file bankruptcy. J.McCain is a SOB. McCain started the attacks Trump finishes a winner.
And just did big mouth trump do during the Vietnam Conflict, should not take long to find that out..b****r all, played the rich college deferrals and medical bone spur..gutless big mouth
Walker.
republican senate and congress and youre fkn useless
They should be repealed there illegal
Can we please elect an American? We have wasted enough time, money and sacrifice on professional politicians; don’t you think? STOP THE MADNESS, THE TRUTH HURTS AND HEALS. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=135922859807645&fref=ts. LIKE,JOIN,VOTE. #Trump
Important About Rand Paul:
Remember this at voting time. Rand Paul is for amnesty for 13,000,000 plus Mexicans!
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) became the latest Republican to support amnesty for the 13 million plus illegal aliens in this country. The Tea Party Senator announced his immigration plan during a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. (Politico, Mar. 19, 2013)
There are millions of people in the USA without jobs now and the USA doesn’t need this kind of thinking. Send the Mexicans back to Mexico.
You are 180 degrees out of phase with immigration. You know nothing about what you say or think when it comes to immigration. We, the people in Texas, have to put up with all their stupidity and wants. Texas is 61% Mexican now and what is Kentucky? Do you have Mexicans jamming the streets with their cars, maybe six to a house to the point where you can hardly get down the street? You need to see the overall picture Rand Paul before you jump off and stand for amnesty.
Don’t forget Rand Paul that we live in Obama’s age where there’s no jobs created and there’s no one fighting to bring jobs about. Are you for starving the unemployed? I’m sure if there were jobs to be had most of the people that are unemployed would love to have one especially with Christmas coming on. I know you are for bringing more than 13,000,000 Mexicans into the country which I am definitely against and where does that put our American workers that are unemployed? This one fact will probably keep you out of the White House as President! I don’t think most of you politicians think right. I agree with one thing the longer people go without working it’s going to be the devil for them to get a job when jobs do open up but that will be two and a half more years from now and probably longer with Obama in the White House. What are you doing to get Obama impeached…anything?
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Amen to that. If they’re in, they’re out.