Posted on 05/31/2015 5:03:12 PM PDT by Biggirl
Sen. Rand Paul burst back into Washington on Sunday evening making clear that he is not relenting in his battle to hobble the Patriot Act. “Are we going to so blithely give up our freedom? Are we going to so blindly go along and take it?” the Kentucky Republican and presidential candidate said from the Senate floor, raising his voice to reach the approximately two dozen supporters wearing “Stand with Rand” t-shirts in the chamber gallery.
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“Are we going to so blithely give up our freedom?
Are we going to so blindly go along and take it?”
Answer: YES... McConnell will see that we do...
The Senators just RE-ELECTED him.. to make sure that we do..
No matter how “pissy faced” Rand Paul gets..
Problem is; Rand Paul knows it.. and is posturing..
He hit a raw nerve with the drones and this. Add to that his willingness to question wars, and he's set himself apart.
Don't underestimate how fed up most US citizens are with DC.
Network was a good flick, and I loved the Howard Beale rants.
“Are we going to so blithely give up our freedom?Sounds familiar.Are we going to so blindly go along and take it?”
What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
A one-trick pony that will struggle to stay relevant now.
I kinda agree with his prognosis. All this spying on citizens has to stop - if a few more people die, so be it.
“The Senators just RE-ELECTED him..
....Problem is; Rand Paul knows it.. and is posturing.”
Mitch and Rand are buddies, for some reason.
He’s just using this issue at this time to put the spotlight on himself since the primary is just starting.
Cruz has been fighting in the trenches since day one.
Are there any Washington insiders who are against it?
YES! Now where's my government check???
“Where is he on the myriad efforts of the EPA taking away private property rights?”
He was fighting, even back in March before it became news.
http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/234685-epa-water-rule-is-blow-to-americans-private-property-rights
Mitch and Rand need to be buddies. They share the same voters that they represent.
What other issues are more important than a government bent on tyranny?
Bingo!
He obviously loves our Country contrary to the MB there now. AT THIS POINT LOVE OF COUNTRY TRANSLATES INTO LOVE OF CONSTITUTION. This trumps all else and time to bring in the dhows and banana boats to send the rest home - they don’t all have to make it....self edited...
He's on the wrong side of the issue here. He's been on the wrong side of a few issues lately.
Where is the legislation to block the EPA rules he spoke of?
Getting on a soapbox to rant about it for campaign consumption is a very overdone tactic that often goes without any substance coming form it.
Sorry to be cynical - but we’re tired of rhetoric and false hopes being offered by men who want to be our leaders and representatives.
Notwithstanding the fact that in a despotic tyranny such as we live now - Congress has made itself irrelevant, and the dictatorship can ignore anything it chooses to ignore and pass laws by decree without any input from anyone but itself.
What does Rand Paul or the Ruling Class Oligarchs in Congress plan to do about any of that?
Nothing is the obvious answer - except bloviate about it to fill campaign war chests.
Sometimes it seems like Rand get it. Sometimes not.
RU nuts? Rand Paul is the only guy in the entire GOP trying get back your personal freedoms. That’s the kind of one trick pony I like. As a Ted Cruz supporter my only comment to him tonight is “where the eff were you Ted?”
I couldn’t vote for Jeb even with me holding my nose with two hands.
Looks like Rand is finding himself taking it up the *s* just like McConnel has given it to every other Republican in the country (except the Rinos, of course)
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