Rand Paul: Obama is Losing the Moral Authority to Lead the Nation

During a recent appearance on ABC’s This Week, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continued to blast the Obama Administration over their handling (complete inaction) of the numerous scandals that have plagued the country over the last month.

In the interview Paul makes it clear that he believes that President Obama will soon lose his moral authority to lead if he continues to refuse to take any legitimate action against those actually involved in the scandals.

“I don’t know whether people were targeted for conservative religious values or just conservative political values and sometimes there’s an overlap.”

“I think we have to get to the bottom of this. I think the constellation of these three scandals ongoing really takes away from the president’s moral authority to lead the nation.”

“Nobody questions his legal authority but I think he’s really losing the moral authority to lead this nation and he really needs to put a stop to this.

I don’t care whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, nobody likes to see the opposite party punishing you for your political beliefs.”

During the interview, Paul suggested that someone with the IRS should be losing their job and that because the main women involved with the scandal has taken the fifth, she should be immediately suspended.

“The main woman from the IRS that’s involved has taken the Fifth Amendment.”

“She’s no longer cooperating, so I have called for her suspension. The president did respond to that and he has suspended her.

However, he’s still paying her so I don’t want that to go on forever. I think there needs to be a speedy resolution on this and I think the president is in danger of losing his moral authority to lead the nation if we don’t get to a resolution.”

Towards the end of the interview Paul also gets into drone strikes and the targeting of American citizens with those drones.