“Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy… And he was going around, jumping around saying ‘Winning, winning, we’re winning. Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I’m not on any drugs.”
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by NBC News, on the Republican party winning recent battles with Democrats.
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