OT – Rand Paul’s private war today

[spdrun]

He’s filibustering against Brennan becoming CIA director, due to Brennan’s support of drone strikes. Lots of respect for Congressman Paul today.

[poorgradstudent]

I don’t agree with him on many issues, but I respect him for actually talking during his old-timey filibuster. Clever move to draw attention to his political position.

[UCGal]

[quote=poorgradstudent]I don’t agree with him on many issues, but I respect him for actually talking during his old-timey filibuster. Clever move to draw attention to his political position.[/quote]
I agree. Rand Paul and I don’t see eye to eye on much of anything. But this is an important issue, and the fact that he’s respecting the Senate by having gone old school with a talking fillibuster ups my respect for him.

[paramount]

I’ll take the “Rand Stand” one step further:

RAND PAUL 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CA renter]

Agree that Rand Paul is doing the right thing here. I think people are starting to wake up to the drone issue, so this is also a very smart political move on his part.

[CardiffBaseball]

Really the Rand Paul/Ted Cruz type libertarians are the future. The NeoCon types are the dinosaurs at this point. McLame and Graham ripping him for grandstanding is so typical.

If you watched any of this, you’d see very coherent arguments for forth for ending the Bush-Obama incursion on our individual liberites. Even the ACLU backed him on this issue, but like I said if you watched there are a whole host of things that will be questioned. TSA, attack on the Bill of Rights, as it pertains to due process, unwarranted wiretapping etc. I do think the young bucks are the wave of the future.

[mike92104]

Here Here!!! It’s darned nice to see a senator that is actually AGAINST taking away your rights. seems like a very rare thing on both sides of the aisle.

[paramount]

Newt on Rand Paul:

[jpinpb]

I was so admiring what Rand Paul did and his filibuster. It was great.

Unfortunately, that admiration was short-lived and fleeting when he proposed “fetal personhood” legislation that would completely outlaw abortion in the United States.

[spdrun]

Then again, he just introduced a bill to reduce mandatory Federal prison sentences. Two good actions, one not so good.

[CA renter]

[quote=jpinpb]I was so admiring what Rand Paul did and his filibuster. It was great.

Unfortunately, that admiration was short-lived and fleeting when he proposed “fetal personhood” legislation that would completely outlaw abortion in the United States.[/quote]

I’m pro-choice no matter what, but it would greatly help the case of anti-abortionists if they (only the anti-abortionists, not taxpayers) would commit to **fully supporting** the children and mothers who would be affected by anti-abortion laws. We’re talking about 100% of the housing, feeding, and care of both the mother and children until the child turned 18 or graduated from college.

Additionally, they should volunteer to pay the medical costs for the women who seek illegal abortions and end up with potentially fatal infections and other medical problems that would result from such a law. Once they’ve done this, then they might have a better chance of convincing others that we should outlaw abortion.

[CA renter]

[quote=spdrun]Then again, he just introduced a bill to reduce mandatory Federal prison sentences. Two good actions, one not so good.[/quote]

Reducing mandatory sentences is NOT a good thing if we’re talking about the worst criminals who are almost guaranteed to return to a life of crime when they are released. I’d rather pay the taxes to keep them off our streets.

The worst criminals chose to go to jail, often for life, when they engaged in their crimes. Many would argue that the “Three Strikes” law is behind the reduced crime rates over the past couple of decades. The faster and more permanently we can get these parasites off the street, the better.

Note: I am not talking about “victimless” crimes; my position is that violent criminals, particularly those who commit crimes against innocent people, do not deserve any sympathy and should be locked up for as long as possible.

[jpinpb]

CAR good point. And they won’t provide the support. Because they are pro birth. Not pro life.

[CA renter]

Yep, pro-birth and anti-welfare, and they don’t even see the irony.

[all]

Steven Levitt in Freakonomics makes a good case that the drop in crime rate in 90’s is in large part due to legalization of abortion in 70’s.

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