If Sarah Palin wants a presidential candidate with "Tea Party principles" and "who can take on both sides of the aisle," maybe she'd ought to suggest drafting Senator Rand Paul.
The Kentucky freshman has given his own party fits this week by holding up the debate over extending the Patriot Act. Senator Paul wants gun records exempted from scrutiny. And he's not above calling out the dogs even on his own state's senior senator, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (who wasn't keen on there being a Senator Paul in the first place).
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Can you say Nutsy Cuckoo!! The whole lot of the republicans!!!
could u get a message to Ed Shultz For me? I know Im nobody important but I feel it needs to be said
I think he was 100% in the RIGHT Laura Ingraham is a slut a republican slut.... she does and says what ever will get her paid! I also think that he only apologized because it would have gave MSNBC a Black eye if he didn't and Ed Loves his job and he wanted to let everyone know his feelings were not shared by MSNBC..
Bluntly, you are wrong. An insult that associates "women having 'too much' sex" with "women being wrong" perpetuates the ideas that 1) sex is a bad thing, and 2) women can have only so much sex before they too become bad. And THOSE ideas are at the root of hate and discrimination towards women. Ingraham is a racist and many other vile things. "Women having sex" are not vile and you are wrong to support that association.
The slut that Ed refers to is sort of a, well... he was right. I cannot imagine anyone thinking he was wrong. But he is a good person and apologized to a sl--I mean ultra conservative @!$%#. I like that word. It describes her better and is not so nasty as slut.
Say what you want about Rand Paul's other crazy ideas, he is right about this and the Democrats are wrong.
I don't agree with much of Rand Paul's politics but I can agree with him here. Both McConnell and Reid are in the wrong.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- B. Franklin
So, you will give up your gun rights (Temporary safety) for the essential liberty of life (Not being killed by some crazy carrying a gun)? Great, thank you.
So if his gun amendment makes it in, does that mean Rand Paul will actually vote FOR the extension then?
I think it is strange that he is holding up a bill that infringes on all of our liberties because it may infringe on the rights of gun owners. Who may or may not be terrorists.
Or maybe I am just more confused than usual today...
Looks like the Paul amendments are getting voted on today, but not the Leahy-Paul amendment- via @daveweigel.
The way I understand this amendment is that Homeland Security cannot look at registered gun owner records while investigating terrorist activity. I think the point of the amendment is to stop investigations into the citizen militias which usually have registered guns.
So then the Patriot Act will not allow investigations of home grown nuts and only be allowed to investigate foreign terrorists?
Still not quite clear on why we treat some people who are trying to kill us differently from other people trying to kill us. Seems kind of bigoted in a way.
Oh well, just as long as they all have gun rights not to worry :)
That is the way I read it. Homeland Security will not be able to look at gun ownership for domestic terrorists, just foreign terrorists. Makes no sense to me. Although, our homegrown nuts are not likely to use guns. They are more prone to do what McVeigh did because it creates bigger headlines.
unless the telephone numbers are private, why are they blacked-out? if they are office numbers, they are a matter of public record, and thus, should not be blacked out.
It passed. With 73 votes. (How does anything this big pass the Senate with 73 votes?!) Our civil liberties have been taken away and the constitution violated for another four years in the name of security. It would be a huge exaggeration to say this is an Orwellian police state, but it's certainly a step in that direction. With no proven actual real world advantages. It's just more data being shuffled around the massive, disorganized bureaucracy that is the DHS and its hundreds of agencies. Is there a single known case of PATRIOT Act provisions making us safer?
Meantime, Harry Reid tried to smear Rand Paul saying that his opposition shows that he doesn't care about national security. How utterly Republican of him.
I hate to say this, but Rand Paul is right and Harry Reid is wrong.
This is a travesty.
Rand Paul was showboating with amendments that not even the NRA supported and had no possibilty of passing.
In one of the rare moments when bipartisan support exists for what is labeled a national security priority he threatens to derail it for what reason?
And by the way, I don't even support this bill.
He was against the bill as a whole. And offered up a dozen different amendments. The gun one got the attention for being a major sticking point, but that wasn't all he was doing.
And not everything that gets bipartisan support is a good thing. Consider the F-22. They're just afraid they'll look weak on national security.
Now I am even more confused.
The NRA opposed Rand Pauls gun protection amendment.
Most people don't realize that the NRA is mostly a gun control proponent. They are usually on the side of the government when it comes to things like background checks, gun owner registries, etc.
You know, even families like the one in Texas Chainsaw Massacre have family members that they unchain and take out of the basement only on special occasions and holidays because they are embarassing? Yeah, its kinda like THAT with Rand. They are problably fitting him for chains as we speak.
Ever notice how much Rand Paul sounds like a stoned Owen Wilson?
Thank God the Obama administration and the Democrats stood up against the Patriot Act. The 4th Amendment is alive and well. See, there really is a difference between the two parties. This proves it!
You guys, do you read bills? The amendment was so that it required a warrant to look into your records. Not just for guns that was just one things. Also library records, banking records, internet records, a bunch of other things read up on it it's important! Really just overall he was just looking for a return to the constitution- requiring that we get warrants and don't snoop on people without a judges approval.
I'm sure this has been suggested before, and probably many times, but bears asking again: Why is it that the United States Government (and therefore, "we the people") could so easily bail out the banks and Wall Street, but now that The Government needs help, no one from Wall Street or Bank of America or AIG or any of the companies that got bailed out has stepped up to pay it forward, or actually, pay it back?
I'm just sayin............
Its a fair cop.
Being from KY, I'm suspicious of any legislation 'Randy' (yes 'randy' as in...) proposes. In a word, he's nutty as a fruitcake! When he was running for election, he denied Eastern KY had a prescription drug problem (Hello??? Oxycontin Express runs right thru KY!) Nope, don't trust anything he proposes.