Rand is awesome. He has gone essentially rogue in the Senate and does things no other Senator would dream of. He is just as likely to piss off John McCain as Barbara Boxer. Many times he acts alone to object to bills set to pass under suspension, so that there is debate and roll calls. He filibusters, tacks on crazy amendments to stall statist legislation and induce debate, excoriates statist agency people in Senate hearings, rails against foreign aid, the patriot act, the TSA, overreach by the EPA, aggression without a congressional declaration of war, writes anti-state books, proposes budgets that balance in 3 years, votes against debt ceiling increases, warrantless searches and wiretaps, quotes novels and famous philosophers, makes frequent references to specific sections of the constitution, has said ALL regulations should sunset regularly and then have to be justified in order to be reinstated, has said on national T.V. that he feels he should return his salary to the taxpayers since the Senate does so little work and with no debate, he introduces bills for no reason other than to underscore hypocrisy, and last but not least, he claims to eat lots of sushi. He is just one guy and can't do it all alone. But looking at him work, you almost wouldn't know it. He has evolved into a top notch speaker, thinks well on his feet, and can dumb down the message for the lower information voter when necessary.
