A RAND SLAM: Rand Paul Slams Congress For Funding Egypt’s Generals, ‘How do you feel now?’

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.

“This is something that those who voted in Congress are going to have to live with,” Paul told The Cable on Thursday. “The question is: How does their conscience feel now as they see photographs of tanks rolling over Egyptian civilians?”

As the official Egyptian death toll climbs to 638, the legislation the Kentucky libertarian is referring to was an amendment to suspend aid to Egypt until the country holds free and fair elections. Two weeks ago, Republicans and Democrats rejected it by an overwhelming 86-13 vote — and top lawmakers in both parties protested it loudly.

“This amendment may be good politics, but it is bad policy,” Sen. Bob Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said at the time.

“It would be a terrific mistake for the United States to send a message to Egypt: you’re on your own,” Republican Senator John McCain added back then. “I urge my colleagues to vote to table the Paul amendment.”

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