{"id":49867,"date":"2021-12-14T01:57:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49867"},"modified":"2021-12-14T01:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:57:14","slug":"poor-rand-paul-hes-getting-criticized-for-seeking-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49867","title":{"rendered":"Poor Rand Paul; he&#8217;s getting criticized for seeking help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19798\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19798\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/o-RAND-PAUL-facebook.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I won&#8217;t shed a single tear for Sen. Rand Paul, who&#8217;s getting an earful from critics over his request for federal help for his Kentucky constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Kentuckians need help. The tornadoes that tore through the state killed scores of people. They destroyed whole towns. They brought untold misery to many thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, is asking for federal assistance. His request has drawn predictable criticism from those who remind him of how he has opposed other senators&#8217; requests for federal aid to help their constituents. Why has he dug in? Because the nimrod has said the government must cut spending in other areas to &#8220;pay&#8221; for the aid it would give to citizens in dire need.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as they say, the ol&#8217; shoe is on the other foot.<\/p>\n<p>Rand Paul&#8217;s constituents need help. They deserve to get it. Sen. Paul, though, needs to suck it up and face the criticism that is being directed at him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t shed a single tear for Sen. Rand Paul, who&#8217;s getting an earful from critics over his request for federal help for his Kentucky constituents. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Kentuckians need help. The tornadoes that tore through the state killed scores of people. They destroyed whole towns. They brought untold misery to many thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor Rand Paul; he&#8217;s getting criticized for seeking help<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3822,5619],"class_list":["post-49867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-rand-paul","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49868,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49867\/revisions\/49868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}