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Why Rand Paul´s Filibuster Matters
Rolling Stone, by John Knefel

Original Article

Posted By:tisHimself, 3/10/2013 10:53:39 PM

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) held the Senate floor for 12 straight hours this week, from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning, in an attempt to block the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. But the junior senator from Kentucky had a much deeper purpose – namely, seeking an answer to what he saw as a fairly straight-forward question: Can the president order the extra-judicial killing of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil in a non-battlefield context? Though the filibuster is over, the Obama administration still has yet to clearly and directly answer that question.

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Please grasp how & when to split headlines. Counting 35-40 characters maximum, including spaces is what works for a computer screen. LCom Staff.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Pros7767, 3/11/2013 12:46:49 AM     (No. 9218686)

You´ve got to love the Rolling Stone. Four years of Obama´s indiscretions and still Bush gets attacked. Unbelieveable!


Reply 2 - Posted by: HisHandmaiden, 3/11/2013 1:00:41 AM     (No. 9218692)

Rand Paul has earned this respect.
God bless him, protect and guide him...


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Spidey, 3/11/2013 3:16:56 AM     (No. 9218735)

You´re not going to get clarification for Obama or Holder on domestic drone strikes because they don´t want to alarm people that their own government could attack them simply because they have different political beliefs.

Despite what the lame streamers claim,Obama is losing in the court of public opinion.The only reason he´s still alive politically is because you have an incredibly stupid electorate who can´t connect the dots between Obama´s failed policies and the country going down the tubes.

Man on the street interviews continue to prove how stupid and uninformed voters are on the simplest of questions. Many don´t even know who the VP is.I remember a middle aged woman who couldn´t identify who JFK was.

Here´s something else I bet. There´s millions of illiterate people in this country who can´t fill out absentee ballots so they´re getting pro-Obama relatives to fill them out for them.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Janjan, 3/11/2013 7:19:42 AM     (No. 9218805)

Ignorance is the most dangerous enemy America faces. Starting with McCain and Graham.


Reply 5 - Posted by: dudette4freedom, 3/11/2013 7:50:02 AM     (No. 9218846)

the comments after the article on RS are interesting...


Reply 6 - Posted by: olcap, 3/11/2013 8:46:15 AM     (No. 9218923)

Rand Paul stood up, defied "the old boys club" mentality, and did something to wake this country up to its duty to protect our liberties, rather than sit quietly while they are taken awa, one by oney.

In my book, anyone, and I mean ANYONE, I don´t care who it is, that attempts to sully Rand Paul´s courage or wisdom in staging that filibuster, is ANTI-American.


Reply 7 - Posted by: pineledger, 3/11/2013 9:16:56 AM     (No. 9218996)

I would vote for Rand Paul in a heartbeat. Paul Ryan too.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Felixcat, 3/11/2013 9:21:02 AM     (No. 9219007)

I think back to the George W Bush administration and all the hostility he received from the Libs/Dems, code pinkos and Cindy Sheehan for his "war crimes" and yet silence when it comes to this administration´s decision to use drones to kill Americans her in the USA.

The fact that the Administration even mentioned the use of drones this way tells me they are seriously thinking of using them - in spite of what Dr. Krauthammer and other say.


Reply 9 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 3/11/2013 9:34:42 AM     (No. 9219038)

Amen #6 and #7. A Rand Paul/Paul Ryan sounds like a good ticket to me. It could we called the Paul-Ryan ticket - that would be a stitch.


Reply 10 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 3/11/2013 9:36:55 AM     (No. 9219041)

oops that should be: "It could be called".


Reply 11 - Posted by: udanja99, 3/11/2013 9:46:28 AM     (No. 9219062)

TEA party rallies will be defined as domestic terrorist attacks in the not too distant future.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Rinktum, 3/11/2013 10:22:09 AM     (No. 9219130)

Obama is setting this country up for failure and having men like Rand Paul stand up for our freedoms is not going to sit well with the ruling class. Obama has woven a web of lies and he can´t have anyone exposing them. He has been very successful in shutting down any opposition and uses tools like McCain and Graham to attack anyone who questions his policies. The fact that they went public with their opposition of Mr. Paul´s filibuster exposes their motives. Any criticism could have been made privately, but they deliberately went in front of the cameras for one reason and that was to undermine the message that was communicated by Rand Paul and the men who supported him on the floor. McCain and Graham have proved time and time again they will enthusiastically shove the knife in the back of any Republican who espouses conservative ideas.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: lalo, 3/11/2013 10:22:40 AM     (No. 9219131)

Please forget Ryan for prez or VP. A scissor-happy accountant type is great for the Senate but will always be a jinx on the national ticket.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 3/11/2013 11:01:36 AM     (No. 9219222)

With all the lawyers stinking up the joint, maybe what this country needs is a few ´scissor happy´ accountants. They at least understand budgets.

#3, I have maintained for a long time that not all of the lofo problem is not due to deliberate ignorance of the voters. It is due to decades of being deliberately lied to by the press in this country. Combine that with the school system that no longer lets you think independently, and you have a recipe for a crime against humanity.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 3/11/2013 11:14:04 AM     (No. 9219251)

Wait a few months. The American Left will be united in its support of letting the President be judge, jury, and executioner of any American he takes a dislike to. The "good news": this support will immediately cease should a Republican be elected president.


Reply 16 - Posted by: peterfleming, 3/11/2013 11:49:39 AM     (No. 9219329)

Two observations. (1.)
Rand´s focus on muslim enabler John Brennan
is a brilliant action, and all who agree need to see the incredible Robert Spencer JIHAD WATCH interview with former FBI agent
John Guandolo. The infiltration of muslim influence in our governemtn is shockingly dangerous and completely overlooked, ignored by the Diane Sawyer mafia media TV traitors-to-the-truth. The betraying media is as dangerous as the covert activities of the stealth muslims in our government and media. And that´s the truth !
(2.) Rand´s artful filibuster reminds movie
nuts of the marvelous image Jimmie Stewart
portrayed in MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, a
Leo Mc Carey classic film about that rare, honest young guy who is elected to go to Washington and makes a breathtaking speech.
Congratulations to Rand for just speaking up. We have over 500 Congress people just sitting there silently on their asses saying NOTHING because they are all so busy stealing, lobbying, corrupting with taxpayer´s fake Fed paper money, while it still has diminishing value. Go ! Rand!


Reply 17 - Posted by: chicodon, 3/11/2013 11:55:42 AM     (No. 9219343)

Even frothing libs question this administration´s intentions. Anyone who has read Prairie Fire know where this is heading and it ain´t pretty.

-- Larry Grathwohl, former member of the Weather Underground

I asked, well, what´s going to happen to those people that we can´t re-educate; that are die-hard capitalists. And the reply was that they´d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious."


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Clinger, 3/11/2013 12:58:14 PM     (No. 9219480)

#13 I think I understand your sentiment. However; we have sacrificed our principles at the alter of electability far too long. We don´t win with one who has drifted to the outstretched hand of the left drifting ever further away with every attempt to meet in the middle.


Reply 19 - Posted by: sw penn, 3/11/2013 1:47:36 PM     (No. 9219563)

It is hard for people
who look at elections
as contests designed
to put the best,
most qualified candidates
in office
to understand
that there are
people,in America,
who deliberately vote
for the most destructive
candidate
available.


Reply 20 - Posted by: Rafter, 3/11/2013 3:06:46 PM     (No. 9219693)

Haven´t heard any of our analyzers yet bring up the following point...

Remember that the President is barred from assassinating foreign leaders?
Isn´t that still the policy?
Probably specifically prohibiting the CIA from carrying out assassinations, right?

If our CIA, overseas, cannot assassinate any foreign leader, no matter how hostile
and how belligerent, including actively fighting our nation...
then what is the distinction between that and this free-kill policy toward the
hapless underlings?

Can we now expect to drone-kill hostile politicos overseas?
Why not drone-kill people like, say, the late not-great Hugo Chavez back in the day?

We could manipulate internal politics in any location by having a drone-kill list
and popping the opposition figures.

What is the difference between this drone-killing stuff and any previous and current
policies on Gummint assassinations?


Reply 21 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 3/11/2013 3:41:24 PM     (No. 9219756)

Just think #21 if one was to backtrack the information that slips out now and then the number of foreign person taken out via assassination drones would be very clear. The problem is the same old one of he who lives by any murder code also risks the same elimination.
Iran says they will photo -op the drone they claim to have when Obama visits the imaginary nation of Palestine in April.


Reply 22 - Posted by: cincinnati whig, 3/11/2013 7:40:42 PM     (No. 9220080)

#17: that was back when the US population was ~204 million. Proportionally, today Progressives would have to slaughter over 37 million Americans.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Reaganite dno, 3/11/2013 7:57:33 PM     (No. 9220113)

While Sen. Paul was standing up and defending the constitution. Senators McCain and Graham were sucking up to moocher in chief, all on the taxpayers dime.

Great contrast.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 3/11/2013 8:16:26 PM     (No. 9220135)

Several posters here understand. Sending drones after Americans in a non-combat situation for purposes of counter-terrorism is only part of the story. The rest of the story is a gummint that worries about a massive uprising of Joe Average Citizen who is sick of having his liberty and wealth milked away from him each and every day by a conniving and all too powerful federal gummint. This is the very thing that our founding fathers foresaw and why the Constitution is written the way it is written.



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