REALITY CHECK

MR. RUSSERT:  If you were true to your philosophy, you would say no pork spending in my district.

REP. PAUL:  No, no, that's not it.  They steal our money, that's like saying that people shouldn't take Social Security money.

MR. RUSSERT:  For...

REP. PAUL:  I don't advocate that.

MR. RUSSERT:  All right, let me ask you this...

REP. PAUL:  I'm trying to save the system, make the system work.

MR. RUSSERT:  Let me ask you this...

REP. PAUL:  But no, I think you have it all mixed up.  Now, you're confused.

MR. RUSSERT:  All right.  It's all facts.

REP. PAUL:  You're confused.

MR. RUSSERT:  This is The Wall Street Journal.  You load up the bills with special projects...

REP. PAUL:  I--no, no, no.  No, you don't.

MR. RUSSERT:  You do.  You do.  You deny that you have, you have...

REP. PAUL:  How many of them ever got passed?  But the whole point is, we have a right and an...

MR. RUSSERT:  They pass.  You vote against them, but you take the money.

REP. PAUL:  You don't quite understand.

MR. RUSSERT:  OK.

REP. PAUL:  They take our money from us, and the Congress has the authority to appropriate, not the executive branch.  And I'm saying that I represent my people.  They have a request, it's like taking a tax credit, and I put it in--the whole process is corrupt so that I vote against everything.

MR. RUSSERT:  All right, let me ask you this.  But if...

REP. PAUL:  I vote against it, so I don't endorse the system.

MR. RUSSERT:  But when it passes overwhelmingly, you take the money back home.

REP. PAUL:  I don't take it.  That's the system.

MR. RUSSERT:  The system.

REP. PAUL:  I'm trying to change that system.  To turn it around and say I'm supporting this system, I find it...

MR. RUSSERT:  Well.  Well...

REP. PAUL:  ...rather ironic and entertaining.

MR. RUSSERT:  Well, when you stop taking earmarks or putting earmarks in the, in the spending bills, then I think you'll be consistent.

Ron Paul is a fraud.  He's a sneaky spin doctor.