[SoConPubbie]

Sort of like tilting at windmills.

Lot of smoke, no fire!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well at least it gives Paul hours to explain in a hundred ways why the Patriot Act is an unconstitutional theft of our personal freedoms. So its all good.

[rrrod]

Rand really is his daddy’s little boy LOL.
Listening to Paul followers is like listening to Scientologist explain L Ron Hubbard! Geeeeez

[concernedcitizen76]

At least one senator has the guts to stand up against the Patriot Act, the most despicable abridgement and violation of the Constitution in the history of the republic. Without liberty, nothing else matters.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm not following...

So this is really the appearance of doing something that actually does nothing?

-PJ

[onyx]

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[Enlightened1]

Politico is a Leftist joke. Why does Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives loves this left wing propaganda is beyond me?

Politico wants to keep the so called “Patriotic Act” that targets all Americans. Remember this is coming from the same people that refuse to secure the border (pre 911 approach), and say they cannot stop ISIS. Furthermore, it validates that giving them more money was a waste. Oh they do not even consider ISIS or Al Qaeda the number #1 enemy.

So who does the “Patriot Act” says is their #1 enemy via DHS? Mainly returning veterans, gun owners, Tea Party and conservatives. In other words this bill targets Patriots. Remember the Leftist were against it until they realized they could target their political enemies, by pass the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, and send them UN Constitutionally to Kangaroo Courts that are hidden from public agree with the government almost 100% of the time.

For those that are still confused... If Politco loves it, then by default......, you should be against it. Politico is a leftist rag that hates the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, gun owners, Tea Party, returning war Veterans, etcc...

[Plummz]

He's not technically filibustering the USA PATRIOT Act right now. but if he goes long enough into tomorrow, McConnell won't be able to file for cloture on the bill to authorize bulk-data-collection general warrants less than 30 hours before the scheduled recess.

So that should be enough to delay the works so Congress goes home without passing anything to reauthorize PATRIOT Section 215 which is due to expire on June 1.

So it's a long speech that should have the real procedural effect of killing a bill to "renew the PATRIOT act," even if it's not technically a filibuster.

The only possible way around Sen. Paul's gambit would likely be for McConnell & Boehner to break their own rules, cancel the recess, or both.