Rand Paul, the great uncompromiser
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightRand Paul gave his maiden speech on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, and he immediately Whigged out. The Kentucky Republican was sent by the Tea Party to bring change to Washington -- and change he brought. His first address to his Senate colleagues came in the form of an extended denunciation of one of his home state's favorite sons and one of America's most accomplished statesmen: Henry Clay, the antebellum Whig senator and speaker of the House known as the "Great Compromiser," whose work ...