Rand Paul Rocks the Senate!

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Jon Stewart EXCELLENT Piece on the New American Detainee Bill in Congress

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Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee's Colloquy on Senate Floor - 12/08/11

Balanced budget amendment is not a cure all, but it is a step in the right direction.
Much stronger solution is Honest Money Constitutional Amendment because it prevents deficit spending the old fashion way: you cannot print gold!

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Rand Paul Guest On CBS 'The Early Show'

Rand is AMAZING. He is beating these shills at their own game! Awesome!

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Rand Paul Returns $500K in Office Budget to Treasury

Freshman Sen. Rand Paul is making good on his promise to cut federal spending. The Kentucky Republican and tea-party favorite said Thursday he’s returning $500,000 to the U.S. Treasury -- money from his operating budget that his office never spent.

The half million dollars represents about 16 percent of Paul’s annual budget, and he contends no senator has returned as much to taxpayers.

“I ran to stop the reckless spending. And I ran to end the damaging process of elected officials acting as errand boys, competing to see who could bring back the biggest check and the most amount of pork,” Paul said at a news conference in Louisville, where he presented taxpayers with a massive mock check for $500,000.

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You can tell Rand was raised right by his dad!

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Harry Reid
US Senate Majority Leader
Democrat
Nevada


In my book is an apostate member which should be excommunicated.

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Rand Paul's new END THE TSA Bill!

"Senator Rand Paul has a plan to get the government out of your pants and the TSA out of your life.

His END THE TSA bill will fully privatize the TSA, getting the government out of the airport entirely.

And Campaign for Liberty has a plan to force action on this bill in the coming months, but to make this happen, we must have your support today.

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Please Sign the Petition here!

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Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul and Rand Paul are different!

Lew: "You CAN'T change the Regime from the inside, any more than you can change the Mafia from the inside!"



Amen!

Let me get this straight: You despise Romney's principles but you endorse him because of the party? That is the definition of party over principle philosophy. This is what is wrong with Washington! And you are doing it now!

But I am not too surprised. I knew that Rand is miles apart from his father in understanding and respect for true principles of liberty. This is why I never fully trusted Rand anyway! I was right.

Ron Paul is head and shoulders above his son as far as integrity and understanding of correct principles is concerned!

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I never trusted Rand anyway!

Huh? Then why have you spent two pages posting articles and clips of Rand doing great things in the Senate?

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I never trusted Rand anyway!

Huh? Then why have you spent two pages posting articles and clips of Rand doing great things in the Senate?

Because I give credit where credit is due. If Shawn Hannity, or any other partisan hack did these good deeds, I would mention them too! I have always affirmed that Rand and Ron Paul are hundreds of miles apart as to their understanding of true principles of liberty! Rand is not even in the same neighborhood as his father! But Lew Rockwell, for example is! I love that guy! I think he is utterly brilliant and is a true friend of Freedom!

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Rand Paul calls for Revolt After Health Law Ruling

“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so,”

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"Rand" is a strange name.

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Printing (counterfeiting) trillions of dollars out of thin air and giving it to one's buddies, is even more strange.
Torturing people is strange.
Indefinitely detaining US citizens without a right to trial, or even after their acquittal is strange.
Warrantless spying on US citizens is strange.
People sworn to uphold the Constitution, but instead trampling all over it, is strange.

Compared to all that, the name Rand (and he is against all these abominations) is not that strange.

Cheers, and welcome!

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"Rand" is a strange name.

It's short for Randal. His full name is Randal Howard Paul.

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Thanks Stella!

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Rand Paul Tries to Have Abby Martin Fired From RT For Daring To Ask Him Questions

(WAC NYC) Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s attempt to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials for asking him tough questions in the Capitol building. A week after our video with Abby Martin came out on YouTube, the RT office, where Abby works, got an ominous phone call from the Senate Media Relations Committee. The Committee was acting on behalf of Rand Paul and threatened both Abby and the entire RT news organization. The threats included ambiguous “charges” for violating the rules of the Committee floor, Abby’s possible arrest and the termination of her and the entire office’s press credentials. After a month of meetings and deliberation, the Senate Media Relations office backed down and did not make good on any of their threats.

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Wow! Thanks, L! Great post!

I never fully trusted Rand, I always thought he was "a little bit pregnant" with statism, and now his belly is showing!

Sad but true. Rand and Ron are MILES apart. (Ron is also imperfect, but he is a better man by a mile!)

Senator Rand Paul's True Colors

Rand Paul Confronted on Mitt Romney Endorsement

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I don't like Rand and I don't trust him. But inasmuch as he does good I'll keep posting to this thread.

Rand Paul single-handedly tries to stop NDAA

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I still wouldn't vote for him as a president (because he believes in taxation a.k.a. theft) but he did a really good job on this filibuster! Go Rand!

Stand with Rand! Sen. Rand Paul takes determined stand against insanity of Obama’s claimed power to kill Americans





It’s now clear: Obama intends to use drone strikes to kill American journalists and political enemies


Rand Paul and the Filibuster
Ryan W. McMaken
Lew Rockwell Blog

March 7, 2013

People who follow me on Twitter know that I criticize Rand Paul. I do this not because I think he should be a clone of his father, and that he’s somehow “betrayed” Ron Paul’s followers. On the contrary, as I’ve noted before, I think Rand has always been quite up front about his non-libertarian views. I don’t think he’s attempted to deceive anyone on this.

My primary motivation in criticizing Rand is to illustrate the reality of his positions to many of his followers who seem to think that the libertarian movement should view Rand Paul as the next Ron Paul. They should not, regardless of the last name of the Senator from Kentucky, because Rand Paul is not, in my view, enough of a consistent defender of liberty. Nor is he enough of a known commodity to warrant all of the uncritical and blind support I see coming out of the so-called, and oxymoronically named, “libertarian conservatives.”

However, I have to give credit where it’s due, and Rand Paul’s filibuster today is good for at least two reasons.

First of all, it’s good because it’s a filibuster. The claim that the US Senate is “the world’s greatest deliberative body” has long been laughable. The Senate mostly rubber-stamps the edicts of the president when he’s in the same party as the Senate majority. Even when the majority is in a different party than the president, rarely is anything more than token resistence offered to the president’s appointments and treaties. This is made obvious by the fact that filibusters are so incredibly rare as are any actual rejections of the president’s nominees. The Senate was created as a check on both the foreign and domestic policy of the president, yet, we see virtually no such thing ever out of the Senate.

The fact that Senator Paul is willing to stop the government in its tracks for a few hours with a filibuster is a credit to him and probably stems from a decent understanding of what the Senate is supposed to do. Not only is the filibuster a good thing because it can obstruct the will of both senators and presidents, but it is also good because it serves to empower minority rights over the majority. This speech by the late Senator Robert Byrd, delivered back when it was the GOP that was trying to kill the filibuster, explains how the filibuster stands as a bulwark against the tyranny of the majority and outlines many of the filibuster’s virtues.

Secondly, this particular filibuster is good because it has been specifically used to oppose and discredit one of the worst abuses of the presidency in many years. And that’s saying a lot, since the history of the presidency is primarily a history of usurpation. If presidents can claim the right to kill anyone they want at any time, as the current president has indeed done, then we have entered the final phase of complete lawlessness. I think Rand Paul is sincere in his opposition to this, and the fact that he is laboring nearly alone in his efforts to discredit this practice illustrates just how utterly useless and immoral the US Senate actually is. (I should note by the way, that I do not think the opposition to drone killings offered today by Sens. Rubio and Cruz is sincere.)

Moreover, Paul’s filibuster is simply an embarrassment to the regime which counts on -and gets!- nearly unanimous and bipartisan support of all its most horrible abuses from TARP to NDAA.

I’m glad that Rand Paul has finally found the issue that he is willing to go to the mat over. For all his inconsistencies and caving to the neocons on Iran and other issues, he’s still apparently one of only a tiny handful of politicians in Washington who is willing to say much at all about the final destruction of the Bill of Rights. While Paul may be conventional on many issues, his peculiarity and commitment on this issue is laudable. And, the fact that he stands nearly alone should frighten anyone who is still uninformed enough to think there is a functioning system of checks and balances in Washington. Paul’s stand should also serve as a source of everlasting shame to the so-called Progressives who obviously care not one iota for human rights, democracy or decent government at all, as long as one of their own is the current elected dictator.

Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning