Neocon Trying to Oust Ron Paul

October 28, 2009

InfoWars

By Kurt Nimmo

Tim Graney of Katy, Texas, has announced a bid to unseat Ron Paul in the 14th congressional district of Texas. According to FortBendNow, a news website in Houston, Graney is a small business owner and this is his first political campaign. Graney told FortBendNow the district needs a new voice in Congress, particularly in the area of foreign policy.
 
Ron Paul adamantly opposes the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. “I believe our founding fathers had it right when they argued for peace and commerce between nations, and against entangling political and military alliances. In other words, noninterventionism,” Paul wrote in 2007. He believes Congress needs to reassert its authority over foreign policy. The Constitution makes no distinction between domestic and foreign matters, Paul insists. “Policy is policy, and it must be made by the legislature and not the executive.”

“I am a fiscal conservative, but I do not support Ron Paul’s weak foreign policy views, nor do I support his do whatever you want ultra-Libertarian views that conflict with our American values,” Graney said.

In other words, Graney subscribes to the unitary executive doctrine of an imperial presidency. The Constitution makes a distinction between the power of the Congress and that of the president by stating that Congress shall “make all laws” and the president shall “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

Graney apparently believes invading small countries and killing large numbers of people — more than a million so far in Iraq — represents “American values.”

Ron Paul is not an “ultra-Libertarian” (ultra-libertarianism would be defined as anarchism). Paul is a mainstream Libertarian. Mainstream Libertarians support free market capitalism by advocating a right to private property, minimal government regulation of property, minimal taxation, and rejection of the welfare state, all within the context of the rule of law.

According to Graney, Paul’s mainstream Libertarianism is not consistent with the beliefs of residents in the district. Mr. Graney apparently believes the residents support undeclared and illegal wars, unchecked federal power over the states, federalized local police, and an astronomical federal debt that threatens to impoverish them and their children.

It is not clear if Mr. Graney’s campaign is supported by defenders of the Federal Reserve and the bankers. In February, Ron Paul introduced HR 1207, a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. If enacted, the bill would enable the Comptroller General of the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve system before the end of 2010. HR 1207 now has 307 sponsors. Committee hearings were held on September 25.

On October 12, the neocon Republican Lindsey Graham, a senator from South Carolina, told a town hall meeting he would not allow Paul to “hijack” the Republican Party. Graham supports a big government climate bill “because it could mean good business,” according to Politico. He told Politico he backs “combining an energy independence bill with one to control carbon dioxide emissions.”

“I am more resolute than ever to help steer our nation back onto the path of common-sense energy initiatives,” said Graney.

Ron Paul has signed the “No Climate Tax Pledge” sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. The pledge opposes “legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue” through taxation.

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