Mr Paul goes to Washington...and beats the crap out of Obama

By Correctamundo 

EDITORS NOTE: AS OF 4:44 PM EST, RAND PAUL WAS STILL AT IT.

EDITORS NOTE #2: AS OF 5:06 P.M EST, MIKE LEE & TED CRUZ HAD JOINED IN ON THE FILIBUSTER.

EDITORS NOTE #3: AS OF 6:37 PM EST, RAND PAUL WAS STILL GOING LIKE THE ENERGIZER BUNNY.  I HOPE MARCO SENT HIM A CASE OF WATER.


Finally....a conservative voice in the wilderness has spoken.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) began speaking just before noon Wednesday on the Senate floor in opposition to the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA, saying that he planned to speak “for the next few hours” in a rare talking filibuster.

Preach it, Brother Paul!

“I will speak until I can no longer speak,” Paul said. “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.”

Paul began his filibuster at 11:47 a.m. Eastern time. Around the one-hour mark, he acknowledged “I can’t talk forever” and said his throat was getting dry.

Speaking the truth will do that. You drink water, Obamaramadingdong drinks gin. Your buddy, Marco, has some water for you.

Paul’s comments from the Senate floor come as he’s raised objections in recent weeks. Paul first threatened to filibuster the Brennan nomination in late February, when he sent a letter to administration officials asking whether the U.S. government would ever use a drone strike to kill an American on U.S. soil.Paul called Holder’s refusal to rule out drone strikes within the United States “more than frightening.”

On Wednesday, Paul elaborated on his concerns: “When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding, an unequivocal, ‘No.’ The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed to be comforted by that.”

The only comfort we will get from anyone in this administration is if 1) we're the enemy; 2) we're a friend of the enemy; 3) all of the above.  

“I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees [speaking of Schmagel & Mrs Heinz Kerry],” Paul said. “But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution. I cannot sit at my desk quietly and let the president say that he will kill Americans on American soil who are not actively attacking a country.

“I would be here if it were a Republican president doing this. Really the great irony of this is that President Obama’s opinion on this is an extension of George Bush’s opinion.”

Most everything that Obama touts as an accomplishment is usually someone else's idea....actually, his failures are always someone else's idea and fault, also. 

Paul also said that he was “alarmed” at the lack of definition over who can be targeted by drone strikes. He suggested that many college campuses in the 1960s were full of people who might have been considered enemies of the state.

“Are you going to drop … a Hellfire missile on Jane Fonda?” Paul asked.

Of course not - she's the enemy and thus a friend of the WH. See my 3 conditions above for who will get comfort.

On this same subject, Eric Holder has made it clear that Obama has the power to do whatever he wants.

Mr. Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mr. Obama will deliver a speech in the near future laying out the issues at stake and asking for a public debate on the underlying principles.

Mr. Holder also said, though, that he is not sure Congress could ban the president from using drones to kill Americans on U.S. soil.

He said that would likely run afoul of the Constitution’s grant of powers to the president in Article II.

Mr. Paul described the legal situation as one in which one person — the president — holds the power to be the accuser, the judge and the executioner, since terrorist-designation proceedings are all contained within the executive branch and done generally in secret.

“Are we so afraid of terrorism, are we so afraid of terrorists that we’re willing to just throw out our rights and freedom?” he said.But Mr. Holder disputed Mr. Paul’s warning of executions of those sitting in cafes or at home, saying that the government cannot use lethal force against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil unless that person is deemed to be an imminent threat to security. He said that goes for normal law enforcement and the military, even in time of war.


So after Fast&Furious and Benghazi Gate, we're just going to believe everything that Eric the Terrible says? Now the question is: what does Obama and Holder deem an imminent threat? The devil is in the details, which is what they don't expound on.

Here's a short clip of Rand Paul today.

Did you just hear that noise? That was the Founding Fathers, sitting up and high fiving each other. That was the sound of liberty. That was the sound of freedom and democracy and truth.  It's a refreshing sound, is it not?