WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, announced on Friday that he would resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, as Congress moved to avert a government shutdown.

Mr. Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1990, made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning.

“My first job as speaker is to protect the institution,” Mr. Boehner said at a news conference at the Capitol, adding, “It had become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution.”

Looking poised and sounding rehearsed, Mr. Boehner, who stunned the capital with his news, became emotional as he recalled a moment alone with Pope Francis, who had been his guest the day before at the Capitol and who had asked the speaker to pray for him.

Reflecting on his decision, he said, “This morning, I woke up, said my prayers, as I always do, and thought, ‘This is the day I am going to do this.’ ”

...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/john-boehner-to-resign-from-congress.html

And, nothing will change as the next establishment pick won't stand up to Obama on anything.

Employer-based health insurance premiums climbed 4.2% this year for family plans, according to an annual Kaiser Family Foundation report. That's up from 3% the year before.

Since 2008, average family premiums have climbed a total of $4,865.
The White House cheered the news, saying it was a sign of continued slow growth in premium costs.

That much is true. Since 2006, the average annual increase for family plans at work has been 4.9%, down from around 10% a year from 1999-2005.

Slightly less higher premiums aren't what President Obama promised Americans when he ran for office touting his medical overhaul. He specifically said his plan would cut premiums.

"We will start," Obama said back in 2008, "by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family."


Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/092315-772384-premiums-have-steadily-climbed-despite-obama-promise-to-cut-them.htm#ixzz3mmPH7pnQ

Rand Paul Gets It Wrong on Pot (HuffPo Goes SoCon)

During last week's Republican presidential debate, several candidates commented on marijuana use and drug policy. And recently, Obama-appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor also commented on legalization.
The GOP Candidates rightly expressed concern about the impact of arresting and imprisoning people solely for having or using small amounts of marijuana. Incarceration is not the solution for such cases, and often aggravates addictions. In fact, Senator Rand Paul's praise of drug courts and alternative approaches to law enforcement should be welcomed. SAM will soon be releasing a report card detailing the candidates' positions.

But the decision of Senator Paul to hold up Colorado's model of marijuana legalization as a solution is cause for concern. Colorado certainly is a model-but of failure, not success.
But one major leader did get it right -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In a discussion at Amherst College, she told students:
"I don't care what kind of thing you become passionate about, just not legalizing marijuana."

But Senator Paul doesn't appear to be listening. Stopping the incarceration of marijuana users and eliminating racial and income-driven disparities in the treatment of drug offenders does not mean we must legalize another addictive and dangerous drug alongside alcohol and tobacco, as Colorado has done.

...http://mobile.gazettenet.com/home/18526310-108/at-amherst-college-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-encourages-students-to-listen-work-hard

Lindsey Graham itching to confront Rand Paul

Lindsey Graham has told colleagues he launched his implausible presidential campaign, in part, for two reasons: Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

The straight-talking South Carolina senator hasn't been able to rebut his two conservative Senate colleagues on a debate stage yet. But he’ll get a chance on the Senate floor later this week when he slugs it out over their hardball legislative tactics to defund Planned Parenthood that have Congress hurtling toward a government shutdown.

...http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/graham-cruz-paul-senate-213985

I agree with that at this point, they're virtually free and might even pay you to take them as time goes by. Would be nice if the big guy rate was the same as the student loan rate. Just go negative on us already plz! I'll borrow an irresponsible fortune if that's the case.

Nice pic but what does your broad think about you posting that? You're free to post and stuph and all. Did she realize your epic status on a world-wide forum dedicated to disruption?

Rand Paul target shooting a clown at New Hampshire Firing Line
https://www.facebook.com/RandPaul/photos/a.10152070880746107.1073741828.54172246106/10153370877156107/?type=3&theater

Lots of likes piling on on facebook in a short amount of time.

Great movie, Murray was epic in that wonderful show. It's on you to keep going on with it.

If trading isn't your fortay, then just keep up w/ the holding at this point. Things are going to take its toll as we mature, it's on you to deal w/ the in-betweens.

Don’t count Paul out of race

There are a lot of ways to describe Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate. Luckily, two words can do it effectively: It stunk.

Despite being a ratings success for CNN with almost 23 million people tuning in, it was a disaster. Not only was it three hours long, but it was also pure chaos. The moderators lacked complete control, turning what was supposed to be an informative event into a game of which candidate could get the last word.

Nevertheless, a winner did emerge: one candidate who made the most sense and whose campaign will hopefully benefit the most from their performance. Carly Fiorina? No.

The true winner of the second debate was Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning senator from Kentucky. Unlike his fellow 10 candidates, Paul brought up what parts of the Republican agenda needed to change, mainly foreign policy and marijuana policy.

On foreign policy, Paul argued for discussion and patience when facing issues involving our standing overseas, going against the Republican trend of promoting a strong military presence abroad. This includes the previously mentioned Fiorina, who advocated for sending troops abroad and adding more items to our already bloated force.

“I don’t think we need to be rash,” Paul said. “I don’t think we need to be reckless, and I think need to leave lines of communication open.”

...http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/09/column-dont-count-paul-out-of-race

Rand Paul just spoke to 500 students in South Carolina

https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Students for Rand continue to impress. This followed another speech of hundreds in Rock Hill. Liberty is alive and well on campuses.

Rand Paul brings campaign to Rock Hill, SC, now seeking Scott Walker supporters

GOP Presidential candidate Rand Paul made a campaign stop in Rock Hill Wednesday to gain more supporters and make a big announcement.

Paul has now received his first endorsement from a South Carolina representative, Congressman Mick Mulvaney.

With 15 candidates running for the Republican nomination, a new poll shows Paul is in eighth place at 4% while Donald Trump is in first place with 24%.

We asked him what he thinks about Trump's campaign and if he takes him seriously.

“I do think Donald Trump is a fake conservative and I think he is putting on an act. And he's tricked some people for a while, but you can't trick people for long. I think ultimately people are going to look for somebody more serious,” he said.

...http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/23809121-story

Rand Paul’s Bad Numbers Are Due to the Youth Being Ignored

In the latest CNN poll since last Wednesday’s Republican primary debate, Rand Paul polled just 4% - in eighth place.

Boy, does that sound bad.

Good thing it’s not.

You see, national polls are completely ignoring the youth vote. And we don’t mean “18-24″ youth vote - we mean that they are refusing to poll voters under the age of 50 - or at least refuse to report the crosstabs.

This CNN poll has Rand Paul with 4%, but nobody under 50 years old was polled. This CBS poll didn’t either. Nor this Monmouth poll. Nor this ABC poll.

When polls do show crosstabs that include age, Rand Paul does much better. In this WBUR New Hampshire poll, Rand Paul receives just 2% - but he gets 9% of the youth vote.

It is true that young people vote less than older people do. Nonetheless, about a third to a half of young people vote - and in 2012, our vote was decisive in giving Obama the victory.

Though Rand Paul is middling in the polls right now, that’s largely because the youth vote - which goes heavily for Dr. Paul - is being ignored. Rand Paul is performing much better than the polls show because of this point.

...http://www.youthforrandpaul.com/post/129573342508/rand-pauls-bad-numbers-are-due-to-the-youth-being

Rand Paul and 10 Heedless Hawks

The Kentucky senator offers a desperately needed alternative to the GOP's mindless militarism

At a Q&A session in Dallas a year ago, Rand Paul expressed skepticism about whether the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) posed "a threat to our national security." Hours later at another event in Dallas, the Kentucky senator said that if he were president he "would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily."

Paul's sudden conversion on the merits of war with ISIS made me worry that, in catering to Republican primary voters, he would lose his distinctive voice on foreign policy, which urges caution and modesty instead of the heedless interventionism advocated by his rivals. But last week's Republican presidential debate showed that Paul still offers a desperately needed alternative to the mindless militarism favored by the GOP.

"We have a world that grows increasingly dangerous," Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida declared, "and we are eviscerating our military spending." It is so eviscerated that the U.S. spends more on the military than the next seven countries combined.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson nevertheless agreed with Rubio that U.S. military spending is dangerously low. "We need the strongest military on the face of the planet," Fiorina said, "and everyone has to know it." Although we and they already do, Fiorina still wants to boost spending on the Army, Navy, and Marines.

...https://reason.com/archives/2015/09/23/rand-paul-and-10-heedless-hawks

Trump has already peaked and his numbers are on the way down as people have got to peak a little more into his record as well as Rand Paul pointing out what a fakeass the guy is. I like his immigration talk but I'm not for creating a police state to deport the whole lot of the illegals, just cut off the welfare and most of the non-productive will self-deport. I'm cool with the productive staying here in a non-citizen faction. We need a real focus on liberty and restoring the middle class and only Rand Paul will see to it w/ his lower flat tax plan and his adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights at all times. Furthermore, I don't trust Trump w/ Obama's centralization of power in the executive branch nor his finger on the nuke triggers.

I just wonder if his prescription of young (financially screwed atm) people will indeed get politically active and take on the establishment in the US's one party system: the right which compromises w/ the left so the welfare and warfare state just keeps increasing which squeezes out the productive capacity for middle class jobs for those coming out of college and keeping interest rates low so baby boomers must keep working. Sanders and Paul are ginning up the campuses nationwide but only Rand's plan  to restore liberty across the board is going to change anything for the better. This is the main reason I post about Rand's prez campaign in politics so at least the US bitcoiners can stay on top of things.

[VIDEO] Rand Vs Sanders SS reform

Rand is making a case for liberty against socialism at the recent Heritage action forum. Pretty good watch and listen. Rand kills it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=40&v=TLCxZDJOx-o

Rand Paul: Here’s How the GOP Can Stop Government Dysfunction

When I ran for office, I ran in opposition to the establishment and the politicians in both parties. Bank bailouts, Obamacare, and a failure to stand up and fight were among my main complaints, and these were many of the same frustrations that moved people to start the Tea Party.

Frankly, I just got sick of throwing things at my television and decided to do something about it by running for office. I took on the special interests and Washington Machine, and I won.

Since I’ve been in Washington, let me tell you, it is every bit as bad as I feared. It’s why so many people—myself included—are angry and challenging the status quo.

At first, we were told that we couldn’t fight for change because we didn’t control the Senate. Now we are told we can’t take a stand until we win the Presidency. I’m tired of waiting—it’s time to stand and fight for the principles of limited government that voters sent us to office to defend.

This week will be a crucial test. Putting forward a “continuing resolution” is simply more of the status quo: More debt, more Obamacare, more funding of Planned Parenthood.

I won’t vote to continue borrowing and spending a million dollars a minute. I urge the leaders of my party to do something different: to take the offensive for our beliefs rather than surrendering before the battle begins.

...http://time.com/4043506/rand-paul-heres-how-the-gop-can-stop-government-dysfunction/?xid=tcoshare

Rand Paul gets endorsement from conservative SC  US Representative Mulvaney

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney says he's supporting Rand Paul's bid for president.

The South Carolina congressman told The Associated Press on Monday that he's backing Paul because he believes voters will embrace a Republican candidate who breaks with the party's establishment and supports less government involvement in their lives.

Mulvaney says he's not discouraged by Paul's low-single-digit poll numbers. The third-term congressman said he believes the U.S. senator from Kentucky has a campaign strategy in many early voting states that will serve him well in the long haul.

Mulvaney and Paul are slated to make several stops together in early voting South Carolina this week.

...http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=oPfUbIXd