Rand Paul filibustering Brennan nomination on Senate floor

Thank you Rand, you're already growing numbers and forcing them to see the way the tides are changing. We're all fed up.

Man, it feels good to win, but let's not let the inevitable speed bumps slow us down. There will still be plenty of them and work to do, but liberty and truth will prevail.

It's crazy to think that people might actually be almost ready to listen (I'll let you know if I still think that when the hangover, literally and figuratively, sets in tomorrow)
 
gotta love the two naysayers here -- glad to know people like you guys still hang around to shit all over everything.

guess what though? you're transparent as all get out. that filibuster was INCREDIBLE.
 
this might have been posted earlier in the thread but i thought this was kind of cool, no matter what you think of code pink

CODEPINK and Others Deliver Thanks to Rand Paul’s Office for Filibuster on Drones, Will also visit offices of Democrats to Object to Brennan as head of CIA

March 6, 2013

Contact: Medea Benjamin, [email protected]
Noor Mir, [email protected]

CODEPINK and Others Deliver Thanks to Rand Paul’s Office for Filibuster on Drones, Will also visit offices of Democrats to Object to Brennan as head of CIA

When: Thursday, March 7, 1pm
Where: Senate Russell Building #208, Washington DC

In light of Senator Rand Paul’s heroic filibuster to challenge the Obama administration’s drone program, CODEPINK and friends will visit Senator Rand Paul’s office to give thanks and bring a “filibuster survival kit.”

CODEPINK, a peace group, has been working against killer drones for several years. They are inspired by Senator Rand Paul’s determination to use the CIA confirmation of John Brennan as an opportunity to get a response to the simple question, “Is it constitutional for the US government to use drones against a non-combatant US citizen in the United States?” They will also encourage the Senator to speak out more against the many non-US civilians who have been killed overseas with US drones.

“We are delighted to see Rand Paul taking on the Obama administration’s illegal, immoral drone program,” says CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin, author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. “We’ve been waiting for years for someone to step up and say no to extrajudicial killing, especially of US citizens.”

After visiting Rand’s office, the group will visit the offices of several key Democrats who have been supporting the President on drones and the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA.
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I'm not a naysayer, but I think everybody here has worked for over 24 hours before.

13 hours is a disappointing and easily forgotten filibuster.

What have you done for liberty lately?
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Two months in the freezing cold at occupy, jail, shit like that.
 
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UWDude said:
sorry. 13 hours ain't shit.
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That's more hours than what most people spend at work each day. The guy just stood up for 13 hours straight (unplanned), had little to no water or food, while probably having to have spent the last 5 hours of this filibuster trying to forget that he had to pee, all because he was fighting to make sure that you don't get on Obama's drone strike list without due process. Show some respect.

I was always sketchy on Rand (for a few reasons) but what he did today, how he did it (and for the most part alone), how he didn't care if the Liberal news outlets made a joke out of him (like CNN's "rand drones on and on... and on." comment) it really showed me something. It showed me that he's willing to defend our rights while no one else in the house will.
 
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UWDude said:
I'm not a naysayer, but I think everybody here has worked for over 24 hours before.
13 hours is a disappointing and easily forgotten filibuster.
Two months in the freezing cold at occupy, jail, shit like that.
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u did know that the current rules did not let him go to take a leak ?!
holding it for 13 hrs, that is a feat in itself !
but the thing is why he was doing it.
 
Josalyn said:
That's more hours than what most people spend at work each day. The guy just stood up for 13 hours straight (unplanned), had little to no water or food, while probably having to have spent the last 5 hours of this filibuster trying to forget that he had to pee, all because he was fighting to make sure that you don't get on Obama's drone strike list without due process. Show some respect.

I was always sketchy on Rand (for a few reasons) but what he did today, how he did it (and for the most part alone), how he didn't care if the Liberal news outlets made a joke out of him (like CNN's "rand drones on and on... and on." comment) it really showed me something. It showed me that he's willing to defend our rights while no one else in the house will.

I'm very proud of him and I'm even more proud to be a Kentuckian right now. If he keeps this up, I might just vote for him if he runs in 2016.
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nicely said, i liked him on some issues and not on others, but he did earn my respect today.
 
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