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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 =>

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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

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  • www.facebook.com/people/Shawny-Lee/100001989148504 Shawny Lee

    Yes!!!

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  • DaveO

    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.

  • twitter.com/BeccaJLower Becca Lower

    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…

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  • el_polacko

    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.

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