A deal to end the 41-day government shutdown is running into turbulence, thanks to a single Senate objection: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Senate Republican and Democratic leaders say they need to resolve Paul’s objection to a provision in the government funding package before they can accelerate consideration of the bill. The provision would restrict the unregulated sale of intoxicating hemp-based products.
Every democrat tried to hold out to keep health insurance rates down for millions of people and the republicans refused to negotiate. Now one asshole republican refuses to cooperate until some drugs are less easy to get and they’re going to accommodate him? Really shows what republicans think of 50% of the population.
Edit: he’s trying to remove the language that would make it more difficult to sell hemp products. He’s still an asshole and the republicans still suck for ignoring half the country and entertaining one of their senators demands, but he’s right about this thing.
He wants the provision to restrict the sales removed, so less less easy to get
You’ve misunderstood what Rand is doing here. He wants language that restricts the sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids removed from the bill. I happen to agree with him here, hemp is practically the only thing Kentucky still has going for it.
Yeah, you’re correct, thanks. I went back and reread it; the original article I read had some slightly confusing wording about it. He’s still an asshole though and my point about the republicans holding up for one of their senators and not half the country still stands tho, but I do agree with him that this shouldn’t be in the bill.
He is trying to save the number one job and revenue creator for Kentucky. Hemp derived cannabinoids. Where did you parrot your info from ?
Where did they say anything incorrect? Lmao
Glad to see your care more about weed than 40 million Americans health insurance and 50k dead Americans per year.
They inverted the logic on the bill. Ie they literally are complaining about the opposite of reality.
The rest of what they said made sense, but when someone doesn’t even read the topic you can’t be sure they didn’t get the rest right by accident.
“Where did they say anything incorrect?”
The bill makes it harder to get drugs. The person said one asshole republican was holding out until some drugs are less easy to get. The asshole republican wants drugs to be easier to get, so he is voting against it. That is what they said that was incorrect.
“correcting misinformation? Glad to see you don’t care about anything else in the world!”
What a brain dead take.
More easy
DNC held out, to see which way the recently elections were blowing.
Back to red after this bs
Seems like that’s vote winner though, they do keep getting reelected.