I'm sure most everyone is at least somewhat familiar with Sen.Rand Paul's recent old fashioned 13-hour filibuster. But apparently Sen. Rand Paul’s lesson in filibuster wasn’t all that well received by some of his Senate colleagues. Almost exactly 24 hours after Mr. Paul began his information-seeking filibuster against John O. Brennan, everybody's two favorite RINOs, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, took to the Senate floor to denounce his demands and say he was doing a "disservice" to the debate on drones. Sorry, but when it comes to doing any kind of a disservice, these guys are the champs.
"The country needs more senators who care about liberty, but if Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. He needs to know what he’s talking about," said McCain, our loser of a presidential nominee from back in 2008. Oddly enough McCain apparently views himself as being one of those who care about liberty. But the sad fact of the matter is all that the only thing McCain really cares about is, McCain. He's done more to damage liberty than just about anyone else on our side of the aisle.
Strangely though, it was the Democrats who praised Mr. Paul for his using Senate rules properly in launching his filibuster, while McCain actually described it as being nothing more than an abuse of rules that could actually hurt the GOP in the long run. "What we saw yesterday is going to give ammunition to those who say the rules of the Senate are being abused," was how McCain chose to frame things. He described Sen. Paul's efforts as being at best absurd, and at worst simply, "not helpful." Imagine that, McCain accusing someone of being "not helpful." Now is that ironic, or what?
Mr. Paul said he was filibustering in order to get some form of statement from our current administration to affirm that it won’t kill non-combatant Americans in the U.S. — and his effort was joined by more than a dozen other senators who said they, too, supported his effort to get answers. And in providing us all an indication that he must be nearly as naive as he is stupid, Graham actually said asking whether the president has the power to kill Americans here at home is a ludicrous question. "I do not believe that question deserves an answer," Mr. Graham said. It most certainly does, especially by THIS president!
McCain, proud member of any number of various "gangs" that have occasionally sprung up and that are usually specifically designed to undermine his own party, also said "I don’t think that what happened yesterday is helpful to the American people." He made his idiotic comments after reading aloud a Wall Street Journal editorial that characterized Sen. Paul’s concerns as "ridiculous." "To allege that … our government would drop a drone hellfire missile on Jane Fonda," he continued, "that brings the conversation from a serious discussion about U.S. policy to the realm of the ridiculous." Right, ridiculous!
You know, I sure am glad that McCain possesses such a high level of trust when it comes to things that he thinks Barry "Almighty" will or won't do. But let's face it, Barry is, without a doubt, the most corrupt president in U.S. history. And, personally, there is not one thing that I would put past our current chief executive, and that includes using drones to kill innocent American citizens. And the fact that McCain claims that to think such a thing could actually happen, is ridiculous, doesn't do anything allay any of my fears that such a thing COULD happen. Look who we're talking about here!
Graham agreed with McCain, saying, "This idea that we’re going to use a drone to attack a citizen in a cafe in America is ridiculous." Later, while speaking on the Senate floor, Graham continued his criticism of Sen. Paul. "I don’t remember any of my GOP colleagues coming here to say Bush would kill Americans with a drone," said Graham. "The chance of you being killed by a drone because you went to a Tea Party rally … is zero." So now this dope is comparing Barry to Bush? Actually, if I remember correctly, there were, and mat still be, those in Congress who claim that Bush was behind 9/11.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Graham said he defends Mr. Paul’s right to ask questions and seek answers, but said the filibuster has actually pushed him to now support Mr. Brennan. Mr. Graham said he had been inclined to oppose the nomination because he’d found Brennan to be qualified for the job but also "arrogant, kind of a bit shifty." He said he wasn’t going to filibuster him but would have voted against him on final passage, but now he’ll vote for him. "I am going to vote for Brennan now because it’s become a referendum on the drone program," he said. Typical Graham logic!
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is up for re-election next year and hopefully will face a primary challenge in the deeply conservative state. He also took the time to fire back against anyone who would question his decision to meet with Barry "Almighty," saying, "If I can’t go have dinner with the president of the United States to talk about the problems that face our nation, I shouldn’t be running." He added, "If you want to elect me and for me to promise you I’ll never talk to any Democrats or to the president about solving our problems, you’re voting for the wrong guy."
Look, there's no question that he's the wrong guy. His preferring to hobnob with Barry at a swanky, high-dollar restaurant instead of remaining in the trenches with Sen. Paul, makes that painfully obvious. Both McCain and Graham are pretty piss-poor excuses for conservatives, but of course the only time they ever refer to themselves as such is around election time. Because conservative they are NOT. Because if they were truly concerned about where this country is now headed, the very last place either of them would have been is at the same table as Barry. Where they would have been, and should have been, is standing shoulder to shoulder with Sen. Paul.
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