Rand Paul filibustering Brennan nomination on Senate floor

[green73]

Here are some of the options.

God I hope so.

 

[acptulsa]

Hopefully there will be some highlight clips of this later. I missed most of it. Sounds like he's been doing an amazing job from what I'm reading though.

We have been covering the highlights. There is a lot of reading from good articles.

Unanimous consent request now. Looks like it's over. He shoved it into prime time, and now...

Resolved that it is the Sense of the Senate that to use drones to bomb American citizens is... unConstitutional.

I want all of you here... All of you who stayed on and kept pushing after 07/08 and were dedicated to making this a true revolution and not just one campaign... I want all of you to stop what you are doing and think back to all those times you thought you were wasting your time and thought about leaving and giving up. THIS is why you stayed and THIS would not have happened without you. THANK YOU!

I voted for his dad in '88. This is miraculous. Libertarianism just hit Prime Time.

 

[rubioneocon]

Rand is right . . .

what about when - not if - other nations follow the example the United States is setting with President Obama
someday . . .

stop it all now President BO

Rand asks for the resolution to be voted on tomorrow then followed by the Brennan vote tomorrow . . .
gets objected by Sen. from Illinois

 

[TokenLibertarianGuy]

Erin Burnett covering this leading off. She says Rand was supposed to be on the show but is still talking on senate floor, then went to an empty shot of a camera setup in capitol building, lol.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I wanted to watch Erin and Rand.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Oh shit...

Basically just set the dems up to Ethier vote against drone use or have a vote for Brennan

 

[presence]

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“I’m here to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination to be director of CIA”

“I will speak for as long as it takes.”

"I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan's nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court,"

7 HOURS!!! and counting...
The President cannot be judge, jury, and executioner.
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The filibuster is a powerful parliamentary device in the United States Senate, which was strengthened in 1975 [SUP][42][/SUP] and in the past decade has come to mean that most major legislation (apart from budgets) requires a 60% vote to bring a bill or nomination to the floor for a vote. In recent years the majority has preferred to avoid filibusters by moving to other business when a filibuster is threatened and attempts to achieve cloture have failed.[SUP][43][/SUP] Defenders call the filibuster "The Soul of the Senate."[SUP][44][/SUP] Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless "three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn"[SUP][45][/SUP] (usually 60 out of 100 senators) brings debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster#Senate

John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; officially his title is Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] His responsibilities include overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he meets with the President daily
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The senate was set to vote on Brennan's nomination on March 6th, 2013. However, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul began a Senate filibuster of the vote, citing President Barack Obama and his administration's use of combat drones, stating “No one politician should be allowed to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual, and to execute an individual. It goes against everything that we fundamentally believe in our country."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O._Brennan

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[TokenLibertarianGuy]

Do you have Harry Reid being shut down? You'd make my day, as well as the others who have missed it.

Anyone know which hour this happened?

 

[green73]

Krauthammer on Rand's filibuster: "Stroke of political genius"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDhvE6gV-k

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Anyone know which hour this happened?

About 4:45 pm et.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Anyone know which hour this happened?

It was around hour four to four and a half. If you had the whole thing I could find it and give you a time so you can edit it.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

Go Rand Go! We got your back!

 

[SL89]

The Harry Reid Clip:

 

[dskalkowski]

AND HE GOES ON!

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Democrats object to constitution

 

[hammy]

MAN I COULD GO THROUGH A DAMN WALL RIGHT NOW. LET'S GO. FREEDOM FOREVER.

 

[mac_hine]

Rand: "I'm disappointed the Democrats, this is a resolution saying we believe in the constitution it doesn't change the law"

 

[bunklocoempire]

 

[kcchiefs6465]

AND HE GOES ON!

They can't even vote that they support that the president cannot kill non-combatants in America. What a sad day in our Senate.

 

[tsai3904]

Anyone know which hour this happened?

Reid appeared at 4:44 pm ET.

 

[green73]

https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/309455502918680576