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Teufelhund
03-06-2013, 13:55
He's vowed to speak "as long as it takes." Happening now. Live feed: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

News article: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/rand-paul-filibuster-john-brennan-cia-nominee-88507.html?hp=t2_3
Clint45
03-06-2013, 15:11
But . . . what is wrong with drone strikes on Americans on American soil without a trial? After all, Eric Holder signed off on that. . .
muddywings
03-06-2013, 15:52
He's vowed to speak "as long as it takes." Happening now. Live feed: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

News article: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/rand-paul-filibuster-john-brennan-cia-nominee-88507.html?hp=t2_3

btt
got this on my other screen in the background. better than listening to the local radio station. [rockon]
flan7211
03-06-2013, 15:56
Go Rand Go. Paul/Cruz 2016
muddywings
03-06-2013, 16:08
NAILING IT!
Dave_L
03-06-2013, 16:32
Rand is a boss. Keep on keepin' on!
blacklabel
03-06-2013, 16:38
So full of win.
sellersm
03-06-2013, 16:40
Good for him! It's a known fact that Brennan converted to Muslim. And he wants to be the CIA director? Ummmm, yeah...
Rust_shackleford
03-06-2013, 18:05
Wonder if Bush and Dick ordered this how many fake conservatives would be okay with it?
blacklabel
03-06-2013, 18:12
Paul called for a vote on the use of drones and the Ds objected.
TheBelly
03-06-2013, 18:15
Still going..

'Merica.
Fmedges
03-06-2013, 18:25
I am a big fan of Rand starting today. American needs more people like this man.
muddywings
03-06-2013, 19:08
just got home and turned it back on....still winning!
Sharpienads
03-06-2013, 19:22
He's still going... started at 11:47am
Teufelhund
03-06-2013, 20:46
He's still going, still speaking eloquently on limitations of government per the Constitution. What a monster! That is dedication, folks.
Sharpienads
03-06-2013, 20:51
Who else has been speaking? I saw Mike Lee from Utah and John Barrasso from Wyoming.
Teufelhund
03-06-2013, 20:54
Sen. Cruz (R-TX) spoke (well) for a while earlier.
Sharpienads
03-06-2013, 20:58
Cruz has been doing great so far in the Senate. Way better than that rino Kay Bailey Hutchinson. I was ready to vote against her when I lived in TX, but she didn't resign when she said she would. Oh well, looks like TX dun good without me.
Teufelhund
03-06-2013, 21:18
Sen. Paul has not been allowed to read his cell phone for the 10 hours he's been on the floor, so Sen. Cruz is now giving him a reprieve by reading his entire twitter feed for the last half hour. #StandWithRand
Doubledamage
03-06-2013, 21:40
Filibusterin...Like a Boss!
10mm-man
03-06-2013, 21:51
These guys can talk!! Holly shit, I would have talked for 10 min and been tired .........

How long do they need to Filibuster for?

I like the last guy from TX talking.
mb504
03-06-2013, 22:27
How long do they need to Filibuster for?


Till the fall over or get an answer from the Whitehouse.
mb504
03-06-2013, 22:32
FYI:

Longest filibuster

Strom Thurmond — 24 hours, 18 minutes: At the time, the South Carolina senator was a Democrat, who was railing against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. To fill the time, Thurmond read the election laws of all 48 states that were then part of the union.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/03/06/rand-paul-top-senate-filibusters/1968793/
TheBelly
03-06-2013, 22:36
He still goin?
flan7211
03-06-2013, 22:40
He still goin?

He sure is. Many Senate Republicans have joined him. May I say I am proud of Rand Paul. Finally an elected leader fighting for our citizenry.
XC700116
03-06-2013, 22:40
Rand is off right now, Pat Toomey going now.
mb504
03-06-2013, 23:21
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEuvWB3CcAAqdqT.jpg
Teufelhund
03-06-2013, 23:40
He just yielded the floor. I think he said he needed to go take a dump.
mb504
03-06-2013, 23:43
If you have CSPAN2 tuned in.. at 11:47 (maybe next up) "Gun Violence Reduction"
That will be sure to make you scream!
10mm-man
03-07-2013, 00:01
He just yielded the floor. I think he said he needed to go take a dump.


Why go for 12 hours and then stop???
Teufelhund
03-07-2013, 00:04
Why go for 12 hours and then stop???

Well, it wasn't really about keeping this guy from being nominated. It was about calling attention to this administration's propensity to assume authority prohibited to it by the Constitution.
def90
03-07-2013, 00:12
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/answer-does-us-govt-have-right-kill-american-citizens-us-soil/fBj10XgH
mb504
03-07-2013, 00:16
This one too
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/respond-senator-rand-paul-drone-strikes/Kq6d9S3l
liberty19
03-07-2013, 00:22
Way to go Rand! Rand Paul 2016!
Faust
03-07-2013, 00:23
Im paying attention. Im looking for someone to put my time, effort and money behind; someone who will put their time and effort for the future of this, no!; the greatest nation on God's green earth and that of my children upon it. Period; Before our "options" for the next election are made for us and we end up seeing a famous name ( a trap) on the ballot. God please hear my prayer! Help me contribute to the stop of californication of Colorado and that of the nation! Please help me be that message that needs to be heard by those who are still lucid enough to grasp what is at stake.
sniper7
03-07-2013, 00:26
Pure awesome
tmleadr03
03-07-2013, 08:21
He left the floor because he had to poop.


Would you have respected him more or less if he had just dropped a load in his shorts to stay on the floor?
TheBelly
03-07-2013, 08:24
Filibuster has continued for over 24 hours in the past.

Rand is pretty spectacular for doing this.
osok-308
03-07-2013, 09:01
He left the floor because he had to poop.


Would you have respected him more or less if he had just dropped a load in his shorts to stay on the floor?
[ROFL1]
Maybe he should have brought a bottle of Imodium and popped one every few hours.

He is the kind of guy that the GOP really needs. Man I wish we had some more reps like him. Someone who will stand for the constitution and oppose unjust laws. If this guy runs in 2016 he will have my vote! I also like that he compared the drone bombing to alice in wonderland. shows you how stupid you must be to want to allow bombing of American citizens ESPECIALLY on American soil.
Epyon
03-07-2013, 09:45
Wonder if Bush and Dick ordered this how many fake conservatives would be okay with it?

I was thinking the exact same thing. The modern republican party isn't the one Eisenhower belonged to.
muddywings
03-07-2013, 12:52
sad:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mccain-slams-rand-paul-filibuster-2013-3

U.S. Sen. John McCain blasted fellow Republican Rand Paul (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/rand-paul) on the Senate floor this morning for his 13-hour filibuster to block John Brennan (http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/john-brennan)'s confirmation as CIA Director. "Calm down, Senator," McCain said, in an apostrophe to Paul. "The U.S. government cannot randomly target U.S. citizens."
In his filibuster Wednesday, Paul criticized the White House over its drone policies, and for refusing to rule out military strikes against U.S. citizens on American soil. (http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-filibusters-john-brennan-2013-3)
McCain, a staunch foreign policy hawk, said Thursday that Paul's warnings that the U.S. could target "Jane Fonda" or "people in cafes" bring the debate into the "realm of the ridiculous."
"If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids," McCain said, adding: "I don't think what happened yesterday is helpful to the American people."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) echoed these criticisms, adding that he was "disappointed" in the 13 Republican Senators who supported Paul's filibuster last night.
Graham later told reporters that he will vote to confirm Brennan as a result of the filibuster.
blacklabel
03-07-2013, 13:01
Glad to know I'm an "impressionable libertarian kid."
Fmedges
03-07-2013, 13:11
Fuck John McCain. Years in a north Vietnam prison doesn't cancel out decades of fucking up Anerica via DC.
sellersm
03-07-2013, 13:15
Graham later told reporters that he will vote to confirm Brennan as a result of the filibuster.

And we're supposed to have some kind of respect for these "leaders"? Sounds like a kid who got all upset over his marbles at the playground... And it's so nice of the Repubics (to use Mark Levin's phrase) to all get along and stop this terrible nomination!
losttrail
03-07-2013, 13:30
McCain & Graham both need to fade into the sunset.
Ronin13
03-07-2013, 13:56
Wow... and to think, I voted for McCain in '08. Shameful. I guess the old dogs of the GOP need to retire and make way for the younger crop.
I'm reminded of what my friend's son said back in '08: "Daddy, kind of a hard election huh? You have the ugly, black, dumbo eared buffoon vs the Emperor..." [LOL]
Teufelhund
03-07-2013, 16:56
If a party that was trounced in the last two elections for being out of touch with the majority of voters wanted to give itself a makeover by having the fresh faces of the party identify with the center and right-leaning voter base, what better way to do so than to have the old guard oust itself while we are cheering on their replacements? Maybe the Republican party isn't brain-dead after all. Time will tell.