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C’est un signe important, l’émergence dans différents domaines et selon différentes orientations, au sein du système US, de personnalités et de mouvements qui devraient rester absolument marginaux selon les règles de ce système. On a vu l’émergence des femmes, fortement populistes. On a vu, dans ce Bloc-Notes, ce même 1er décembre 2009, les inquiétudes du président de la Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. Dans ce cadre, justement, trône la personnalité de Ron Paul. Le site Politico.com consacre (ce 30 novembre 2009) une analyse sur l’extrême popularité du “gentleman du Texas”, comme on le nomme, on Congrès – une popularité de Rock Star, précise Politico.com.

«He’s got everyone from South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint to Minnesota moderate Democrat Collin Peterson to California liberal Barbara Boxer on his side in his audit-the-Fed crusade. He’s drawing liberal support in his push to rein in the cost of the war in Afghanistan. Senate candidates like Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes of New Hampshire are finding Dr. No’s populist economic anger to be useful in the campaign, echoing Paul’s criticism of the Federal Reserve. Even Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is delivering backhanded compliments, taking credit for merely allowing a vote on Paul’s amendment to audit the central bank.

»This convergence of odd bedfellows, and the economic angst that’s driving it all, is yet another signal that President Barack Obama is going to have more and more trouble keeping his traditional Democratic allies on his side as the economic debate continues. It seems that everyone is looking for something new to latch on to in the economic debate — even if those ideas belong to one of the more eccentric members of Congress.

»“This brought people together [from] the whole political spectrum, from progressives and liberals and libertarians and conservatives. ... they all came together. That, to me, is what is really so important,” said Paul, who has been introducing his audit-the-Fed measure since the early ’80s.»

Dans le courant actuel de sa popularité, Ron Paul élargit son influence vers des domaines d’un très grand intérêt. Il devient en effet un point de rassemblement au niveau de la politique extérieure. C’est un point capital, peut-être plus important encore que son attitude vis-à-vis de la Federal Reserve.

«Paul’s long-standing critique of American foreign policy has also earned him some new allies. Paul joined Reps. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Steve Kagen (D-Wis.) on Nov. 18 in a series of House floor speeches to argue against committing more resources to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The members of this bipartisan team were all signatories of a Sept. 25 letter to Obama that carried 53 other Republican and Democratic names opposing sending more troops to Afghanistan.

»“I don’t think we can win the argument,” Paul recalled telling his three co-speakers as they planned the debate. “But eventually we’ll win — not because they’re going to listen to us and have another foreign policy. But we’re going to win because we don’t have any money, we’re broke and the troops will come home.” “All empires end through a flawed foreign policy,” Paul said at another point in his interview with Politico.»

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