Before the storm clouds gathered over Tampa, a plank advocating an
audit of the Federal Reserve was written into the Republican platform.
An even more exacting audit the Fed bill passed the House with
bipartisan support. Republicans voted for it by a 238-1 margin.
Sen. Tom Coburn has signed onto the next project to advance federal transparency: an audit of the Pentagon. The Oklahoma Republican is unique in that he is respected both by conservative hardliners and centrists who like bipartisan problem-solving.
Co-sponsors of a bill requiring such a measure include swing state Democrats like Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, moderate Republicans like Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, Tea Party favorites like Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, establishment Republicans like Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, and even GOP hawks like New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte.
Neither of these issues was remotely mainstream until relatively recently. The Fed was a particularly arcane topic, of interest only to a small number of gold bugs, libertarians, and hard-money types. Today college students chant “End the Fed” while conventional Sunbelt Republicans like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich express their disdain (or worse) for Ben Bernanke.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/ron-pauls-emerging-legacy/
Sen. Tom Coburn has signed onto the next project to advance federal transparency: an audit of the Pentagon. The Oklahoma Republican is unique in that he is respected both by conservative hardliners and centrists who like bipartisan problem-solving.
Co-sponsors of a bill requiring such a measure include swing state Democrats like Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, moderate Republicans like Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, Tea Party favorites like Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, establishment Republicans like Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, and even GOP hawks like New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte.
Neither of these issues was remotely mainstream until relatively recently. The Fed was a particularly arcane topic, of interest only to a small number of gold bugs, libertarians, and hard-money types. Today college students chant “End the Fed” while conventional Sunbelt Republicans like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich express their disdain (or worse) for Ben Bernanke.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/ron-pauls-emerging-legacy/
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