Liberty Maven

It’s Friday so here’s another installment of “quick hits”…

Ron Paul’s HR1207 to audit the Federal Reserve picked up some new cosponsors this week. While the pace has slowed down the number is now up to 190. That means that only 28 more are needed to reach 218, a majority in the House. This is great news, but it appears there may be some efforts underway to undermine Ron Paul’s magic bullet for the Fed.

I’d call it waterboarding HR1207 rather than watering it down. Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill (HR2424) that is a tortured version of HR1207 that focuses only on the recent financial crisis, not a general audit like Paul’s bill. Apparently, Kucinich’s bill was transformed into an amendment to HR2646 (The GAO Improvement Act) and adopted unanimously by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

This week in the Senate some more HR1207 waterboarding occurred. This time from Republicans.

Perhaps it is time to start a “Don’t Torture HR1207″ effort?

In more positive news, a long time writer here at Liberty Maven is putting his words into action. Jake Towne has kicked off his campaign running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 15th district. He’s running a different kind of campaign for sure, but if it were status-quo it wouldn’t be Jake. Take some time to check out his awesome presentation regarding his campaign here. He wears liberty and honesty on his sleeve. We need more candidates like Jake across the country.

The fund raising for Rand Paul’s exploratory committee ramped up this week with both a mini-money bomb raising about $25k and an official endorsement from his father Ron Paul. The latter was sent out in an email and the heavy traffic took down Rand’s campaign site for a few hours. It reminded me of the early days of Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign a bit. Oh nostalgia!

My wacky headline this week regarding the GM bankruptcy, “Jesus H. Chrysler, Obama Pimped my GM!“, was dubbed the headline of the day by the great Stephen Gordon on Twitter. Thanks Stephen!

I had a strange dream earlier this week. All I recall: My 5 year old daughter turning to me in slow motion lifting up her arm and saying, “Smell my Barack Obama!” I thought about it for awhile and realized… ha! B.O. I get it.

Some random thoughts for the week:

• Trusting a politician is like taking a shower during the holocaust, too risky. At least WE can choose whether to shower.

• The Constitution doesn’t need to be “interpreted”. It’s less complicated than a Dr. Seuss book. Just enforce it!

• Government is like that relative who never rises above incompetence, with each new hope comes more disappointment.

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.  -H.L. Mencken

• Friends don’t let friends make laws while drunk on government power.

And finally the absurd thought of the week:

• Do dyslexic existentialists ponder the existence of Dog?

Enjoy your weekend!