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" There&amp;#039;s nothing that the kidz at Tiger Beat On The Potomac love more than writing about anything \u2014 or, as we will see, anyone \u2014 who is The New Anything or Anyone. Those of us who are old enough to remember the endless parade of &amp;quot;New Dylans&amp;quot; that came out in the wake of Blonde On Blonde. Most of them heavily hyped. Most of them very lame. Bob Lind comes immediately to mind. Now, though, with the departure of Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) from the scene, the TBOTP New Stuff Staff has found The New Ron Paul. His name is Justin Amash, and he is from a congressional district near Grand Rapids in Michigan, and he is the New Ron Paul because he says so, and because TBOTP says so, and also because, FREEEEDOOOOOOOOMMMMMM! I&amp;#039;m not kidding. That&amp;#039;s the sum total of the case that TBOTP is making here. Here&amp;#039;s the congressman himself. &amp;quot;Ron Paul was an educational figure. He was out there really presenting things that others had not been talking about,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;This next generation of liberty Republicans, like Rand Paul and Mike Lee and Thomas Massie and Raul Labrador, we&amp;#039;re interested in making sure that ... we re-brand the Republican Party as a place that is welcoming to people from across the political spectrum and follows the founding principles of our country: limited government, economic freedom, individual liberty.&amp;quot; And here&amp;#039;s TBOTP, saying pretty much the same thing, except with more Liberty. Amash is chairman of the House Liberty Caucus. There&amp;#039;s no formal membership list, and Amash said about a dozen regular meetings are held in his office. He hopes the group gets big enough someday that they need to move to a bigger space. And here&amp;#039;s FREEEDOOOOOMMMMMM!!!! checking in through the voice of Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) himself. Ron Paul praises Amash for being &amp;quot;very, very principled.&amp;quot; He doesn&amp;#039;t believe they&amp;#039;ve spoken directly since he left Congress, but he continues to monitor what&amp;#039;s going on in the Capitol. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sort of pleased with what&amp;#039;s happening in the sense that it&amp;#039;s not just one person,&amp;quot; Paul said in a phone interview. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a group. I think they will have more influence than I ever had.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#039;s it. In this entire story \u2014 and I&amp;#039;ve read it twice and very much now would like to stick a fork in my eye \u2014 there isn&amp;#039;t a single word about what Justin Amash actually believes, or what policies he would put in place, or where he stands on any issue except, of course, Liberty-Fck-Yeah. All we learned is that he was one of the irreconcilables that John Boehner purged from their committee assignments because too many of their fellow Republicans thought they were dickheads, that he is a the leader of a congressional caucus that one day hopes to become large enough to need a bigger working space, and that his PAC is run by two anonymous 20-year olds somewhere in the land beyond the World Of Warcraft. Oh, and he would like to run for Senate. Maybe. Bartender, double Prestone, and see what the pundits in the backroom will have. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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