Paul: Balanced budget is first priority
(CNN) - Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul said Tuesday that the first thing he would do if elected is introduce a balanced budget amendment, but said he would be willing to compromise on what gets cut.
"Both sides [have] shown themselves to be untrustworthy. What we need to do is balance the budget and I don't think they'll step up and do it unless we force them to do it by law," Paul said during an interview on CNN's American Morning.
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Tea Partier's posting slammed as 'feeble,' 'offensive'
Update 4:41 p.m.: CNN has learned that Williams has removed the version of his blog post that was quoted in this story and replaced it with a "personal note" to readers.
(CNN) – The war of words between the NAACP and the Tea Party movement has reached a new level, with the spokesman for a national Tea Party organization penning a controversial blog post and a representative of the NAACP calling the post "a feeble attempt at satire" and offensive.
In an effort to mock to the NAACP's recent criticism of the Tea Party movement, Mark Williams, a conservative radio talk show host and spokesman for the Tea Party Express, published a post on his blog that is a mock letter from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to former President Lincoln.
"Dear Mr. Lincoln," the blog post reads, "We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop!"
The mock letter continues by taking on several core beliefs and positions of the Tea Party movement including the conservative movement's desire to end bailouts of big business, to reduce the size and scope of government, to reduce government spending and to cut taxes.
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