Jim Bunning and Ron Paul: Fed trendsetters?
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Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will line up Thursday to take their shots at Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
To which Ron Paul and Jim Bunning might say: Where have you been?
Paul and Bunning — viewed by their colleagues as among the most eccentric members of Congress — were anti-Fed before anti-Fed was cool.
Paul, a Republican representative from Texas, has railed against the Federal Reserve for so long that his supporters sometimes chanted “End the Fed! End the Fed!” at rallies during his long-shot 2008 presidential run.
Bunning, a Republican senator from Kentucky, hates the Fed so much that he compared it — unfavorably — with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez when it bailed out the insurance giant American International Group last year.
The two were outliers then, but they aren’t now. Republicans and Democrats alike have balked at President Barack Obama’s proposal to expand th
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