Rand Paul Not Letting Us Down

Yep, he's doubling down on the corporate cock-sucking.

From TPM:

Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) is not backing down from his claim that President Obama was too hard on BP back during this summer's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On the campaign trail in March, Paul took heat for his statement that Obama's rhetoric toward the energy giant in the wake of the disaster off the Louisiana coast was "un-American." In what appear to be his first public comments about the spill since being handily elected Kentucky's new Senator, Paul took a similar line to the one he did as a candidate.

"I didn't like the language," Paul said in an interview on CBS' Face The Nation this morning. "I didn't think the president or his people should say something like 'putting a boot heel on the throat' of a business. I didn't like that."

Paul was referring to a statement made by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar back in March, as oil was still flowing unfettered from an open hole in the ocean floor drilled by BP. As the Obama administration amped up its public response to the spill, Salazar told reporters that the government would keep its "boot on the throat" of the company to ensure that it did all it could to plug the leak.

Somebody tell Mitch McConnell that beating Paul's performance is going to require a major rim job.