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Rand Paul’s Filibuster

by Phantom Ace ( 182 Comments › )
Filed under Free Speech, Republican Party at March 7th, 2013 - 8:00 am

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Rand Paul ripped apart the Obama Regime in a real Filibuster that lasted 13 hours. He was joined by 13 Republicans that included Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and Democrat Ron Wyden who supported his filibuster. In his 13 hours, Paul ripped every Obama policy for the last 4 years. Paul stressed the Un-Constitutionality of every action of the Obama regime.

Senator Rand Paul took over the Senate floor Wednesday with a old-fashioned, talk-until-you-drop filibuster against John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director vote, delivering a protracted speech on civil liberties and President Barack Obama’s abuse of executive power for nearly 13 hours.

“I will speak until I can no longer speak,” Paul began Wednesday morning, at 11:47 a.m. “I cannot sit quietly and let [the President] shred the Constitution.”

It didn’t end until 12:39 a.m. Thursday morning, when he wrapped up to thunderous applause.

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Paul became the first Senator to use the “talking filibuster” in more than two years. He was joined several of his Senate colleagues around the three-hour mark, and the group had grown to 13 Republicans and one Democrat — Sen. Ron Wyden — by the end of the filibuster.

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After more than three hours at podium, Paul was relieved by Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

“You’re standing here like a modern-day ‘Mr. Smith Goes To Washington,'” Cruz told Paul admiringly. “You must surely be making Jimmy Stewart smile.”

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Florida Senator Marco Rubio, another GOP darling, joined the filibuster briefly around the fifth-hour mark.

Taking the floor, Rubio joked to Paul: “Let me give you some advice — keep some water nearby.”

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A little before 8 p.m., Cruz came back to the floor and began reading tweets that in support of Paul. Saying he was “getting a little tired,” Paul thanked Cruz for “bringing news of the outside world,” because electronic devices are not permitted on the Senate floor.

And shortly after 10 p.m., Cruz returned again to the floor, armed with more supportive tweets.

“You da man. That would be ‘d-a-m-a-n,'” Cruz said, reading off one of the tweets.

Rubio then came back to the floor, making a memorable speech in which he cited rappers Wiz Khalifa and Jay-Z and also quoted several lines from “The Godfather.”

Rand Paul really believes in what he is fighting for. He is true American Patriot. Unlike other Republicans, he’s not beholden to the House of Saud or the Muslim Brotherhood. Rand Paul’s loyalty is to the Constitution of the United States. I salute the 13 Republicans and the 1 Democrat who supported Rand Paul. They are true patriots who believe in our freedom.
Here is Rand’s first hour.
Hour 2:
Ted Cruz really nails it in Hour 4.

Justin Raimondo attacks Rand Paul’s support of Israel and anti-Islamist stance

by Phantom Ace ( 83 Comments › )
Filed under Uncategorized at February 20th, 2013 - 7:00 am

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Ron Paul attracted kooks like Justin Raimondo because of his anti-Israel and Pro-Islamist stances. Rand Paul has rejected his father’s lunacy and has adopted a the traditional realistic foreign policy approach of the pre-George W. Bush Republican Party. This stance has angered  fans of his father like the vile vicious America hater, Dennis Raimondo.

The vile Dennis “Justin” Raimondo writes a nasty hate fill rant against Rand Paul. He also takes shots at Israel, Evangelical Christians and accuses Rand Paul of selling out.

Sen. Rand Paul wants to be taken seriously – as a presidential candidate, as heir to the energetic youth-oriented movement founded by his father, and as a foreign policy Deep Thinker. This last goal was supposed to have been approached, if not reached, by his much-anticipated foreign policy speech delivered at the Heritage Foundation the other day, which was supposed to give wonkish heft to his presidential ambitions.

Barely twenty minutes long, Sen. Paul’s peroration was two thirds Glenn Beck, and one third Robert Taft – with a dash of George Kennan thrown in for good measure. Right off the bat, however, he made the point he wanted to make: I am not my father. To which one can only add: you can say that again.

“Foreign policy,” averred Paul the Younger, “is uniquely an arena where we should base decisions on the landscape of the world as it is . . . not as we wish it to be. I see the world as it is. I am a realist, not a neoconservative, nor an isolationist.”

What is telling about his opening shot is how deftly he utilizes the language of the War Party to define – and restrict – the parameters of the foreign policy debate. As paleoconservative foreign policy analyst Daniel Larison has tirelessly pointed out, there is no such thing as “isolationism” in American politics: not today, not yesterday, and not ever. No one believes the US should isolate itself from the world and turn this country – connected to the rest of the globe by innumerable ties of trade, sympathy, and kinship – into the Western equivalent of the Hermit Kingdom. “Isolationism” is an epithet rather than a description of anyone’s real views, meant to stifle discussion rather than advance it.

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While in Israel, Sen. Paul gave his blessing to the government’s aggressive “settlement” program, and attacked his own government for trying to interfere with this thinly disguised ethnic cleansing campaign.

One would think a supposed “libertarian” would be standing there right by the Palestinian olive groves as the IDF bulldozes them, along with privately owned Palestinian homes, defending the property rights of the dispossessed, and speaking out against this brazen exercise of eminent domain – as he would if it happened in this country.

But no – because that doesn’t fit in with the theology of those who paid for the good Senator’s trip. They believe Israel must be unconditionally supported on the grounds that it’s God’s Will. Israel has a special place in their hearts because the ingathering of the Jews to their historic homeland is seen as one more sign that we are truly living in the End Times – and war between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness is imminent.

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Here is a rhetorical jambalaya that combines all the themes of the backwoods born-gain types with the more sophisticated paranoia of the Israel lobby’s neoconservative intellectuals. Never mind that it makes no sense to conflate Iran with Egypt’s Sunni radicals: this dish, served up piping hot, is what Sen. Paul and his claque hope will whet the appetite of far-right activists for Paul in 2016.

This was a hate fill rantings of a mad man. Dennis “Justin” Raimondo is a Jew hating Islamist apologist who is no better than a roach. Like all roaches, you have to shine the light on him occasionally.

Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy speech at the Heritage Foundation

by Phantom Ace ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Conservatism, Republican Party, Special Report at February 6th, 2013 - 11:14 pm

At one time, the Republican Party’s foreign policy was based on caution and American interest. After 9/11 Bush and the Wilsonian Progressives made nation building and democracy spreading the central tenet of the Republican Party. Any Conservatives who challenged this view was called an isolationist or anti-Semite. But many on the Right are no longer afraid and are speaking out.

Ran Paul outlined his foreign policy vision at the Heritage Foundation. He rejects nation building, wars for humanitarian purposes and staying out of conflicts not in our national interest. He rejects the choice in foreign policy is between Neoconservatism and Isolationism. This is a speech that Coolidge, Ike and Reagan would applaud.

Republicans should adopt Rand Paul’s foreign policy views.

Marco Rubio discusses 90’s Rap Music, today’s Pop culture and current events with Buzzfeed

by Phantom Ace ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Republican Party at February 6th, 2013 - 8:18 pm

When Obama made appearances on shows like Pimp with a Limp, many Conservatives either attacked him for it or made fun of him. Well Obama had the last laugh as youth turnout was higher than expected and he got 60%. Both Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have no qualms appearing on pop culture shows or doing interviews outside of the Conservatives bubble.

In this case, Marco Rubio gets interviewed by Buzzfeed which is a Lefty outlet. In this wide ranging interview, Rubio discusses 90’s Hip Hip, today’s pop culture, Football injuries and other subjects.

Kudos to Marco Rubio to try and reach a new audience. More Republicans should emulate what Rubio and Rand Paul do and reach out to new audiences.