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Rand Paul ends filibuster against CIA director nominee after almost 13 hours
CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | March 7, 2013

Posted on 03/07/2013 12:06:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Rand Paul ended his self-described filibuster against the confirmation of President Obama's nominee to lead the CIA early Thursday - at 12:39 EST -- just short of thirteen hours after the Kentucky Republican and tea party favorite began speaking.

But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, said he would continue to oppose Brennan's confirmation and try to keep the debate going.

After Paul yielded the floor, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., filed a motion to cut off debate on Brennan's nomination and bring it up for a vote....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 113th; defeated; drones; filibuster; fillibuster; gopefail; obama; randpaul; sad; senate; teaparty
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

nobama: “So he talked for 13 hours. And?? So what?”

What real, concrete difference did Sen Paul’s filibuster make?


21 posted on 03/07/2013 4:52:17 AM PST by upchuck (nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; ColdOne; DesScorp; ...
From the article:Now that we've heard from the queer lobby, I guess we can turn out the lights and go home.

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22 posted on 03/07/2013 4:58:08 AM PST by upchuck (nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
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To: Gene Eric
"Politicians are too lazy to perform that kind of show. What Paul and Cruz are doing is for real."

What you said!

23 posted on 03/07/2013 4:59:47 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: EBH
Where was the rest of the party is what I want to know...

A bunch were standing with Rand Paul like Senator Cruz and Congressman Gohmert.

24 posted on 03/07/2013 5:13:51 AM PST by mnehring
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To: upchuck
What real, concrete difference did Sen Paul’s filibuster make?

For crying out loud, the man stood up in the Senate and did exactly what we've been demanding for years---fight back----and here we have some people on this board who are actually trying to diminish his effort.

Jeez, give me a break!

25 posted on 03/07/2013 5:16:12 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: EBH

I can’t hear it anymore.


26 posted on 03/07/2013 5:21:51 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: upchuck

“It could never happen here (even though people are trying to make it LEGAL to happen here)” is a brain-dead argument, because that is the one belief that would actually ALLOW it to happen here.

Lindsey Graham, tell me exactly what would happen if Obama performed assassinations through the use of drones - especially if they were medical assassinations as it appears may have been the case with Andrew Breitbart. A drone shoots a heart attack dart at John McCain, down he goes, the coroner says it’s a heart attack. Then what? What exactly would keep this from happening in the USA, Lindsey Graham?

I’m going to have my female exam this morning. What gets found out there will go directly to the government. If they wanted to, what would prevent them from using that information to decide which carcinogen to put in a dart and deliver by drone? I’m not saying I think they’re going to do that to me at this point; I’m small beans. But the fact that the provisions they are making right now would allow this to be done WITHOUT ANY MEANS OF INVESTIGATING OR GETTING REDRESS FOR THE GRIEVANCE OF POLITICAL MURDER should be alarming to everybody.

The only way you make sure this can’t happen wholesale in this country is if you require the processes to all be transparent, specifically restrict access between the agencies/people who would have to work together on something like that, give people defensive capabilities to protect themselves, AND ensure that incorruptible law enforcement holds all the players accountable for murder if it would happen. IOW, there is no way to ever ensure that this could never happen. The only way to ensure that assassinations by drone would not happen in the US is if somebody immediately shot down any drone flying over the US.

The best defense against terrorism - whether it be by crazed gunmen (including teenage hoodlums), pre-meditated terrorist attacks, mafia, or corrupt government - is a population where any gathering of people (including in planes or other public transportation) is likely to have at least two people who are capable and armed with enough force to counteract the force of the terrorist (2 so that if one is hit immediately the other can take out the aggressor before any more lives are lost). But drones and medical assassinations are a whole different level of aggression because there may not be any way to know that the attack has occurred or to shoot down the attacker.


27 posted on 03/07/2013 5:26:38 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: cripplecreek
Yet, government drones in our sky are now established as acceptable. Why?

Cruz and Paul have lost us more liberty with their stunts. Why not go to the heart of the matter - unwarranted government surveillance.

28 posted on 03/07/2013 5:35:53 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Timber Rattler

Thanks for condemning what I wrote and not answering my query.


29 posted on 03/07/2013 5:40:25 AM PST by upchuck (nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
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To: montag813

He is now ....RANDO.

Hagel is a wounded veteran enlisted republican....not gonna get better than that from odumbi.

Brennan is a lover of the Islamic religion. I know that RANDO says it isn’t so much against Brennan, but I believe it is.

If the Government could go after American Citizens on U.S. soil with snipers and TANKS in Waco, drones is certainly not going to be a problem.


30 posted on 03/07/2013 5:41:28 AM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: upchuck
Your "query" was an attack on him for finally standing up and sticking it to the Senate.

So shove it.

31 posted on 03/07/2013 5:43:28 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler
For crying out loud, the man stood up in the Senate and did exactly what we've been demanding for years---fight back----and here we have some people on this board who are actually trying to diminish his effort.

I'm with you brother!

32 posted on 03/07/2013 5:47:09 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EBH

Where was the rest of the party is what I want to know...

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Don’t know about the all the rest of the party but it’s reported that a dozen had dinner with Obama Wed. evening during the time that Paul was speaking.


33 posted on 03/07/2013 5:47:42 AM PST by deport
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To: 1010RD; Jim Robinson
Cruz and Paul have lost us more liberty with their stunts.

That's the most ridiculous statement I've seen on this forum (outside the Palin threads) in a long time.

34 posted on 03/07/2013 5:48:19 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: TomasUSMC

“Brennan is a lover of the Islamic religion.”

And this Arabic-speaking lover of Islam was educated by the far-Left coven at the University of Texas in Austin. That he will be heading the CIA is a nightmare.


35 posted on 03/07/2013 5:48:47 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul certainly didn’t get much support.

A few republicans helped him out but the majority of the senate, republicans and democrats, seem to be okay with Obama deciding which American citizens he can order killed with drone missles right here on American soil.

After all Obama wouldn’t really go after Bitter Clingers, would he?

The US Constitution means nothing to these people.

I would bet that most senators and congressmen have never even read the US Constitution all the way through.


36 posted on 03/07/2013 5:49:27 AM PST by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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To: traditional1
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37 posted on 03/07/2013 5:50:15 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: traditional1
There is no turning back now. Deal with it,

Yup I was saying that before the 2012 election. IF Americans aren't awake on Nov 6, 2012, they never will be. Thanks commies for taking over our school system and media - now live with it America.

Whatever you want Barak Oclaus will provide.
38 posted on 03/07/2013 5:56:34 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: traditional1

As I said from the beginning; it was all for show.

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Ditto!


39 posted on 03/07/2013 5:59:40 AM PST by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: upchuck
Not all Republicans were so enthusiastic about Paul's performance. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the prospect of drones being used to kill people in the United States was "ridiculous" and called the debate "paranoia between libertarians and the hard left that is unjustified."

Our government would never attack their own citizens.
Well, maybe once in a while.
Waco and Ruby Ridge come to mind.

The fact that Holder wouldn't say "never" is all we need to know.

My kudos to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Senators from Utah and Kansas. Marco Rubio snuck in also.

40 posted on 03/07/2013 6:00:09 AM PST by Vinnie
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