Rand Paul Filibuster in the Senate LIVE on CSPAN re:Drone Strikes in US
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Are you a phag for Rand Paul or something?
Not until yesterday. He deserves a little head for his trouble.
He is the next best thing we have next to this guy
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holy shit... it worked.
Obama responds to Rand Paul:
now all we need to do is force every future administration to answer the question. Or we could just like... you know... follow the Constitution man.
Obama responds to Rand Paul:
now all we need to do is force every future administration to answer the question. Or we could just like... you know... follow the Constitution man.
Like most politicians and their lapdogs, Eric Holder is a slippery SOB. From a 2012 speech given to Northwestern University:
Well, no wonder they targeted this young man...
From Junod's blog series on the topic from 2012 (a decent read, by the way):
Glenn Greenwald, as usual, cuts to the chase:
As you implied, just because Holder sends a craftily-written letter that seems to state U.S. citizens won't be assassinated on U.S. soil, he is not believable.
Here is another good piece by Greenwald on the assassination bit...
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
And a good one by Tom Junod at Esquire from 2012.
And let's also not forget the incremental march toward this insanity e.g. Bush the younger Justice Department council John Yoo's torture memos penned for the CIA declaring that torture is just peachy, including dragging detainees around by their penises with ropes and raping them with batons and battery acid, and they can't get in trouble because it's not on us soil and the Geneva Conventions don't apply because oh look Janet Jackson's nipple.
Yoo acting in front of actors, and more if you can bear watching
This same war criminal was lovingly given immunity from prosecution a while back in the only milquetoast legal result of that entire debacle. And the icing on the cake is Yoo criticizing Paul for his 'extreme positions' as though the word extreme is foreign to Yoo's temperament. Fucker.
Yoo acting in front of actors, and more if you can bear watching
This same war criminal was lovingly given immunity from prosecution a while back in the only milquetoast legal result of that entire debacle. And the icing on the cake is Yoo criticizing Paul for his 'extreme positions' as though the word extreme is foreign to Yoo's temperament. Fucker.
Like most politicians and their lapdogs, Eric Holder is a slippery SOB. From a 2012 speech given to Northwestern University:
Well, no wonder they targeted this young man...
From Junod's blog series on the topic from 2012 (a decent read, by the way):
Glenn Greenwald, as usual, cuts to the chase:
As you implied, just because Holder sends a craftily-written letter that seems to state U.S. citizens won't be assassinated on U.S. soil, he is not believable.
Here is another good piece by Greenwald on the assassination bit...
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
And a good one by Tom Junod at Esquire from 2012.
Glenn Greenwald is a god amongst men. That fucker has been tireless in his writing on these issues and completely non-partisan.
And kudos to Rand Paul for forcing the administration to bow down and put that shit in writing. It may be slippery language but thanks to the filibuster I think he single-handedly changed the conversation on drones like nobody else has up to this point.
I think Rand Paul knows it's a lie. He knows where they are headed. What he wants though is a public quote he can point back to when they cross the line. He wants something to use to make them squirm.
I believe he also knows when they cross this line and he points back to the quote and says "WTF, I thought we had agreed" - they will just come up with some BS reasoning to justify it. But that's the game. His job is to make them squirm and come up with BS reasoning, in public. The more squirming he makes them do, and BS reasoning he makes them use, the more people see it and the more people wake up to the thought of hey this isn't right.
I believe he also knows when they cross this line and he points back to the quote and says "WTF, I thought we had agreed" - they will just come up with some BS reasoning to justify it. But that's the game. His job is to make them squirm and come up with BS reasoning, in public. The more squirming he makes them do, and BS reasoning he makes them use, the more people see it and the more people wake up to the thought of hey this isn't right.
Graham 19000 likes 6000 people talking about this
Mccain 800k likes (most are aged presidential likes) 650 talkin about this
paul 744,000 likes 129,000 people talking about this
"virtually everybody in the country agrees" - That's some nice hyperbole and/or wishful thinking. Much of the American public would love to have a reality tv series where they get to play judge, jury, and drone strike executioner for people like Casey Anthony.
Pawlenty: Obama’s drone strikes ‘don’t go far enough’ | The Raw Story
Internet activity is still "youth" dominated, but the youths are also still the least likely to vote, especially in primaries. I recall exit polls for state Republican primaries in 2012 where 85% or so of the voters were over age 40. It's not a stretch to say that a lot of that demographic agrees with Pawlenty, even though they don't make it known on Twitter.
John McCain is so stupid, he insulted everybody that was supporting Paul by calling them kids in their dorm rooms.
He obviously hasn't learned from the election and continues to alienate entire groups of people. Old white people are no longer the majority of voters. If the republican party are lead by people like him and Graham, they are going to continue to lose every election.
He obviously hasn't learned from the election and continues to alienate entire groups of people. Old white people are no longer the majority of voters. If the republican party are lead by people like him and Graham, they are going to continue to lose every election.