Just goes to show you, in the end they're all just politicians

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Rand Paul votes against transparency and accountability in fed.gov. A good reminder that there is no actual conservatives in .gov when it's their ox being gored.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/206463/

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Well, unless Vitter was in cahoots for some reason, he deserves some props for effort.

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Pathetic but hardly unexpected.

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/04/rand-paul-leads-effort-to-block-senate-fraud-investigation

What happened next, was that four other Committee members with close ties to the majority leader’s office each rescinded their consent one by one, thus leading to the measure’s defeat in committee. Our sources tell us that the flips were an effort on behalf of the leadership to provide political cover for Paul, who would have otherwise been the lone holdout.

A congressional aide to Senator Paul told Conservative Review that “Senator Paul opposes allowing Congress to exempt themselves from any legislation. To that end, yesterday, he reintroduced his proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit Congress from passing any law that exempts themselves. Senator Paul prefers this option over a partisan cross-examination of Congressional staff.”