March 8, 2013
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Rand Paul’s Filibuster
If any of you have not watched ay of Rand Paul’s Filibuster then I highly reccomend starting. I just started mysef, and as of this posting have watched about 13 minutes. I am deeply disappointed with the majority of Republicans for going along with Obama on the drone program, and with his attempts to establish martial law in general. However, I am starting to warm up to Rand Paul. He seems like he might be on the level.
I have a question for Barack Osama & friends, if he hasn’t killed anyone yet, and does not plan to (as he claims), then what does he need such laws and procedures for? The “War on Terror” is a complete crock. One cannot win an undeclared and undefined war. The ultimate purpose of that “war” is to establish martial law domestically, and all of our soldiers that are getting killed and mutilated overseas are getting killed and mutilated for nothing. Fighting for freedom for some other place while our own country become PROGRESSIVEly less and less free is no kind of victory.
I understand the need for going into Afghanistan (assuming that 9/11 was not an inside job), but Iraq, Libya, Syria, and all that other meddling was/is entirely pointless and counterproductive. The best government that any North African or Middle Eastern country (aside from Israel) can hope for is a secular dictator like Sacha Baron Cohen’s character from “The Dictator.” Admiral General Aladeen or whatever his name was. Tampering with those backward countries only makes things worse. Christians in Iraq and Egypt have it so much worse as a result of US meddling. They are always the first people the Muslims will mess with when they get angry or overly bored. Let them have their countries while we have ours. We won’t go to their countries, and they don’t need to come to ours. This isn’t rocket science.
But I digress. Obama and the Dems want to be able to kill citizens at any point for any reason. Maybe they will blow up a whole restaurant to get one guy (as Rand Paul suggested). Maybe they will use drones to deal with political dissent and people who list rational objections to bad government policy. I really hope this garbage anti-American legislation is overturned.
Anyways, watch the video:
Comments (8)
I wish someone had filibustered ObamaCare.
@ImNotUglyIJustNeedLove - Yes, I don’t understand why no one did. Any ideas? Is it possible they didn’t filibuster because they were counting on Obama getting voted out?
“Obama and the Dems want to be able to kill citizens at any point for any reason”
The thought of Diana Fienstien pointing her finger as some commoner in the audience while she giving a speach….declaring “off with his head” as two black hooded dudes carry the screaming guy away made me laugh.
@Ambrosius_Augustus_Rex - Perhaps you do not remember but Senator Al Franken provided the 60th vote which gave Democrats the ability to win a Cloture vote to end debate and go to a vote.
That being said, the Senate had gotten lazy at doing talking debates. Moreover, minority leadership may have been betting on SCOTUS ruling it unconstitutional or changing it via regulatory implementation. But as history teaches us, those were bad bets.
@tendollar4ways - You never know…
@districtofcalamity - It is a great tragedy, and you know, it’s incredible that a complete clown like Al Franken was even able to get elected. It’s a serious endictment against our culture that he was.
@Ambrosius_Augustus_Rex - While I disagree with Franken’s political takes (and the way Norm Coleman’s re-election was stolen from him by voter fraud), Franken has not been a clown while in the Senate. I can think of house members like Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX 18th) who qualify as jokes but not the junior senator from the Minnesota Farm and Labor Party
@Ambrosius_Augustus_Rex - Well if comedians are elected, at least we might laugh at more of this, believing it’s all a joke.