Fred Clark wrote: The feud between Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Republican Gov. Chris Christie is getting nasty. I suppose Paul thinks calling Christie the “King of Bacon” was a clever fat joke, but nobody is going to lose votes in America for loving bacon. Plus, Paul’s political prospects are already limited by his efforts to alienate anyone who isn’t a straight, white, Christian male — it doesn’t help him any to further limit his appeal to only straight, white, Christian male ectomorphs. The factual basis for Paul’s swipe is even worse since, as Steve Benen notes, blue-states like New Jersey subsidize red-states like Kentucky: Kentucky, unlike New Jersey, receives far more money from Washington than it sends. Paul said that’s because of the military bases in Kentucky, but that doesn’t make any sense — New Jersey has more bases than Kentucky, but receives less per capita federal spending. In fact, for every dollar Kentucky sends to D.C., it receives $1.51 back; for every dollar New Jersey sends to D.C., it receives 61 cents back. maddowblog.msnbc/_news/2013/07/31/19796296-christie-paul-and-a-gop-fissure-coming-to-the-fore
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:57:12 +0000
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