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American Guts: #StandWithRand

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Rand Paul took the floor of the Senate around noon today for a good, old-fashioned filibuster. Spot on. The purpose is to find out just where the 5th Amendment line is on drone strikes on Americans on American soil. The direct effect of the filibuster is to threaten a delay of a vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA chief.

The last time this happened was, for a quick Google, Bernie Sanders in 2010.

Paul has been joined by Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Jerry Moran, and given support by former Senator Jim DeMint. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has made it bipartisan. Go, webfoot!

Let this be an important symbolic victory, and let it wake up the sleeping giant to the threat parked within our borders.

Live feed: C-SPAN

(h/t Becca)

Update: Soopermexican =>

Update II: linked by That Mr. G Guy. Thanks!

Update III: linked by The Lonely Conservative

Update IV: linked by God’s Own Crunk

Update V: linked by American Glob see also Legal Insurrection for important notes on how the Southern Poverty Law Center tries to smear this patriot.

Update VI: linked by The Camp of the Saints

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Comments

26 Responses to “American Guts: #StandWithRand”

  1. David Van Brunt
    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm

    Amen! I sent a note to my Repube Senator encouraging support.

  2. SooperMexican
    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:25 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:32 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:37 pm

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    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm

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  9. Shawny Lee
    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm

    Yes!!!

  10. jdean1969
    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm

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  11. Kerry Dar-Du
    March 6th, 2013 @ 4:57 pm

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  13. DaveO
    March 6th, 2013 @ 5:10 pm

    Even better: all the kids out there are learning that a filibuster means ‘obstructing by talking,’ and doesn’t involve nuclear bombs, the sacrifice of living children (or, very-very-late-term-abortion), or drinking imported beer.
    I expect Journolist will come out with a suitably inane social issue, like Nikki Minaj has a wardrobe dysfunction to distract all the kids.

  14. Becca Lower
    March 6th, 2013 @ 6:08 pm

    Thanks for the H/T, Smitty. In the 5pm hour, Paul referenced an Atlantic article by Conor Friedersdorf and two from Wired magazine. Still watching…

  15. BeccaJLower
    March 6th, 2013 @ 6:15 pm

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  26. el_polacko
    March 7th, 2013 @ 12:40 am

    sen. rand goes to washington. i watched hours and hours of his important speech today (without a teleprompter!). the man has the knowledge, the passion and the balls that have been so lacking in our government officials. my local news program tonight though didn’t find it worthy of a mention.