Everyone should be enjoying the mellow tones of Sen. Rand Paul
(R-Ky.) from the Senate floor as he gives props to Lysander
Spooner, slams Oliver Wendell Holmes and Herbert Croly, praises
Obama for saying he believed in curbing executive power and slams
him, and his CIA nominee John Brennan, for believing in the power
of summary execution of Americans. Sen. Paul is asserting boldly
that the U.S. is not a battlefield worthy of martial
law.
See it on
C-SPAN2 now.
He will have to go on
for nearly nine hours to beat a Bernie Sanders
speaking-filibuster record for this century, though. Can he do
it?
Paul admits, as he speaks to an empty floor and a nation in
front of their computers and TV sets, that he’s almost certainly
not going to beat the Brennan nomination. But he’s unique, alas,
among modern politicians in believing that standing up for the
rights of Americans to not be summarily murdered is worth doing, at
whatever political cost.
UPDATE: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweets in apparent support of
Paul’s point, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) plans to join him on
Senate floor–and in fact has as I type.
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Rand Paul Breaks Three Hour Mark on Filibuster of Brennan Nomination
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