A righteous rant from Rand Paul, speaking to Kathleen Hogan, DOE deputy assistant secretary of energy efficiency:
“Light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. You can't go around your house without being told what to buy,” Paul said. “You restrict my purchases. You don't care about my choices. You don't care about the consumer.
“Frankly, my toilets don't work in my house, and I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house,” Paul said. He added, “I find it insulting.
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Back to abortion, he said, “I think there should be self-examination from the administration on the idea that you favor a woman's right to an abortion but you don't favor a woman, or a man's, right to choose what kind of light bulb, what kind of dishwasher.”
Amen, brother, amen.
