Rand Paul wants to abolish The Americans with Disabilities Act..

[butterfly77]

U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul (R-KY), a darling of the tea party movement, has gained notoriety for his extreme views and close relationships with fringe leaders like Alex Jones. Part of Paul’s appeal has been his supposed support of individuals over large interests, like the government. But Paul appeared to reveal his true priorities during an interview with the candidate in Lexington over the weekend.

Paul was asked whether he supports the Americans with Disabilities Act, the landmark 1990 legislation that established a prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. Paul said he advocates local governments to decide whether disabled individuals deserve rights. Requiring businesses to provide access to disabled people, Paul argued, isn’t “fair to the business owner.” Later in the interview, when asked if he believes Americans have a right to use the 2nd Amendment to violently overthrow the government, a Paul staffer physically intercepted the recording and shuffled Paul away:

PAUL: You know a lot of things on employment ought to be done locally. You know, people finding out right or wrong locally. You know, some of the things, for example we can come up with common sense


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/17/rand-paul-ada/

[DrToast]

1. Who are we running against this guy?

[KingFlorez]

2. The primary is tomorrow

The Democrats facing off for the nod are Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo and Atty. General Jack Conway.

[izquierdista]

3. That staffer had a whiff of sense....

Take the staffers away and all the Paul family would be free to hold their family reunion in the middle of a busy freeway, oblivious to the 18-wheelers bearing down on them.

[zulchzulu]

4. Paging Mr. Karma... paging Mr. Karma...

It's going to happen, Rand.

[Kerrytravelers]

5. Well, what a wonderful human being Rand Paul is.

:eyes:

[neverforget]

6. It's all about money with Teabaggers er Republicans. It'll never change.

[LeftyAndProud60]

7. LOL. Him and his father would do a lot of things that would make people think we were in the 1900s

if they ever got real power. They hold office in Texas and Kentucky, so what should we really expect?

[Hekate]

8. ADA has been in place 20 years, and "it isn't fair to the business owner" to comply?

Spare me. "Reasonable accommodation" leaves plenty of wiggle room for employers and businesses, and the ADA is far from universally applied.

Some people are just heartless -- and don't think disability will ever happen to them or their families, so why care about others?

Hekate

[Cha]

9. He doesn't sound very bright..

like he's lacking in basic common sense.

[comtec]

11. He's lacking basic compassion.... a requirement to being a libertarian

fucking bastards!
every, single, libertarian i've had the misfortune to run into has lacked a greater than themselves sense of compassion.

THEY may be compassionate in their acts (many are), but they really have no concept of large-scale compassion.
it's odd how they see that as beneath them, and a concept they are unable to grasp.

sad really.

"I got mine so fuck you, unless I help you, then you shoudl worship me like a god!"

[krabigirl]

16. not true..what about left libertarians or people like Chomsky?

[Jennicut]

18. Right libertarians lack common decency and care for others.

Anarchist types are not that way, generally. I dislike right libertarians immensely for that reason of lack of empathy.

[saltpoint]

12. Agree. It would be better if he were smarter than he sounds, but he's

giving us very little room to work with on that...

:hi:

[Mass]

10. Thanks for posting that. It is sickening.

[butterfly77]

14. Your welcome and...

I'll bet those voting for his ass are disabled or some don't know this..These are some hatefilled bastards..

[Vinca]

13. Definitely King of the Teabaggers.

Mean, nasty, hateful and dumb as a stump.

[krabigirl]

15. He won't be able to affect that policy if he's elected, anyway. But yeah, it's nuts.

[Jennicut]

17. Yeah local governments...states rights. Slavery would never have been abolished

then. Nice one. And his friendship with Mr. Prison Planet. Lovely.

[MindandSoul]

20. More like the "heir of the throne!" Are the Paul's trying to build a new dynasty???

Do they have "Bush envy???"

[Phx_Dem]

19. He also wants to abolish the U.S. Dept. of Education. n/t

[izzybeans]

21. He really does take after his sociopathic namesake.

[Sebastian Doyle]

22. Figures.... the one decent thing Poppy Bush ever did in his miserable smack dealing murderous life

...and leave it to a fringe Republican to want to tear it down.

[butterfly77]

23. and they say they don't..

want people living in the streets,they don't want them to have jobs or access to them..

[Rambis]

24. I would like to see the sponsor of ADA act kick his arse

Go get him Tommy!

[paparush]

25. Another Proud Graduate of the Palin School of Political Savvy

[Odin2005]

26. Scumbag!

[Cha]

27. KR

[butterfly77]

28. Maybe this and...

this nut talking about getting rid of the Dept of Educ will wake up some more voters about this nut among other issues tonight, he says he wants to take his country back and Obama shouldn't go to copenhagen there is no climate changing..

[FailureToCommunicate]

29. WHEN you fall of a stage and are in a wheelchair yourself Mr. Paul, you may see things

a little differently -from a lower, wiser angle. You will see why the ADA law Bush 1 signed that great July day in 1990 is called a "landmark civil rights law" It's because it is for everyone, not just "those people"

We're ALL just TADs -temporarily able bodied- till something happens.

And you being a medical doctor, Mr Paul. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Luckily, there were many in Congress -the place you hope to go- who believed that ALL people deserve the right to get an education, get and keep jobs and use buildings (particularly ones their tax dollars support!) no matter their mental or physical challenges.

Good luck turning back the clock of progress.

I hope you -and those like you- are unsuccessful.