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And the answer was exactly what you knew it would be. Grandstanding by the reactionaries and libertarians, nothing else.
Weren't you one of the ones arguing that the answer was obviously "yes" earlier?
Weren't you arguing yes earlier? I wasn't it. The argument was that if armed American citizens were posing an imminent threat, then, yes, they were fair game. That is exactly what Holder's answer meant.
Please don't play the reactionary game of falsehood: you are better than that.
Rand Paul didn't get much, did he?
He finally got his answer. You mad?
Well, the question he asked wasn't the right one, so outside the tin foil hat brigade he continues to look at best just a bit off, but aside from that he's sheer genius walking.
Nah, the question was intentionally misframed so he could start a mudfight. What he did not count on was coming out smeared to more than 75% of the population. BHO, like Clinton and Reagan, is almost Teflon proof, and that is not going to change. The re-election is proof of that.
Nah, the question was intentionally misframed so he could start a mudfight. What he did not count on was coming out smeared to more than 75% of the population. BHO, like Clinton and Reagan, is almost Teflon proof, and that is not going to change. The re-election is proof of that.
By SAHIL KAPUR
Sen. Rand Pauls (R-KY) epic 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan for CIA director finally came to an amicable resolution Thursday, but not before sparking a battle within the Republican Party hierarchy the latest in a series of internal struggles the party has faced since the election.
On Pauls side is the right-wing apparatus and their darlings in Congress notably Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), who joined the filibuster. They were delighted by Pauls highly public confrontation with the White House and cheered him on until the very end.
One the other side are the GOP neoconservatives, led by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who are Washingtons chief guardians of broad executive power when it comes to dealing with the countrys enemies.
They were furious with Pauls attacks on President Obamas drone policy.
To somehow allege or infer that the President of the United States is going to kill somebody like Jane Fonda, or somebody who disagrees with the policies, is a stretch of imagination which is, frankly, ridiculous, McCain said Thursday morning on the Senate floor.
He read from a scathing Wall Street Journal editorial declaring that if Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. He needs to know what hes talking about.
That angered the wealthy conservative activist group FreedomWorks, which called McCains remarks rude and out of line, and slammed him for schmoozing with President Obama over dinner while Paul was mounting his courageous filibuster.
Rand Paul's self-serving spectacle only appealed to the radical right.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday went after Sen. Rand Paul's talking filibuster of CIA director nominee John Brennan, calling the Kentucky Republican's claim that the U.S. could have hypothetically conducted a drone strike on Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War "ridiculous."
Funny, I could have sworn you guys were claiming the GOP was having a civil war for years.
Funny, I could have sworn you guys were claiming the GOP was having a civil war for years.
Ts the only thing they talk about ,endlessly day in and day out, the GOP is this the GOP is that ,its like they are trying to convince themselves.
Who gives a shit what McCain and Graham says? Nobody appointed them the Kings of the Republican party...
That angered the wealthy conservative activist group FreedomWorks
Funny, I could have sworn you guys were claiming the GOP was having a civil war for years.
Ts the only thing they talk about ,endlessly day in and day out, the GOP is this the GOP is that ,its like they are trying to convince themselves.
Hardly. It's like all you have to do is watch all the back-stabbing and infighting.
It did spark a GOP Civil War, you are right. It also started an underground Civil War in the Democratic Party.
This is the start of the Authoritarians and the Libertarians in both Parties starting to unite and battle against each other.
