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McCain & Graham Attack Paul on Filibuster

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Never failing to take advantage of an opportunity to attack any congressman with the last name Paul, John McCain and Lindsey Graham go on offensive against the filibuster.
WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate's leading hawks, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), took to the Senate floor Thursday to fire back at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), saying the Kentuckian's rant against extrajudicial drone killings was "simply false."
Rand Paul's Filibuster Belittled By John McCain As 'Simply False'
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Gotta love this battle between Tea Party Repubs vs. Establishment Repubs.
 
Geoist said:
Never failing to take advantage of an opportunity to attack any congressman with the last name Paul, John McCain and Lindsey Graham go on offensive against the filibuster.


Gotta love this battle between Tea Party Repubs vs. Establishment Repubs.
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Already posted this.
 
Geoist said:
Never failing to take advantage of an opportunity to attack any congressman with the last name Paul, John McCain and Lindsey Graham go on offensive against the filibuster.

Gotta love this battle between Tea Party Repubs vs. Establishment Repubs.
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Finally, some common sense.
 
madman said:
They're all the same.
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While some policies and views overlap, there are clear differences between the two. I shouldn't have to elaborate them but if you honestly don't know I will.
 
Geoist said:
Never failing to take advantage of an opportunity to attack any congressman with the last name Paul, John McCain and Lindsey Graham go on offensive against the filibuster.


Gotta love this battle between Tea Party Repubs vs. Establishment Repubs.
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i would not call it love. It is more interesting than the same old obama slam. besides, this is paultard 2.0. this one has yet to get the giant boot imprint from washington permanently indented in his butt. I wish he wouldn't interrupt the Senate's daily nap with his blathering. nothing good can come from all those idiots doing ****. kicking around the pauls is something americans can all join together in. We have so few things we can all do together, and i agree we should enjoy those things that bring us together as a nation.
 
tererun said:
i would not call it love. It is more interesting than the same old obama slam. besides, this is paultard 2.0. this one has yet to get the giant boot imprint from washington permanently indented in his butt. I wish he wouldn't interrupt the Senate's daily nap with his blathering. nothing good can come from all those idiots doing ****. kicking around the pauls is something americans can all join together in. We have so few things we can all do together, and i agree we should enjoy those things that bring us together as a nation.
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I was a bit slow on the sarcasm for a sec lol.
 
Geoist said:
While some policies and views overlap, there are clear differences between the two. I shouldn't have to elaborate them but if you honestly don't know I will.
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I would say a majority of the policies and views overlap.
 
IMO - Rand Paul isn't half the man his father is.

I don't often agree with Dr. Paul, but I respect him for speaking out against the wild spending of his own party, particularly on military spending and endeavors.

Yesterday was a joke, a sad piece of political theater. Nothing more.
 
tessaesque said:
If you think he was being sarcastic you haven't been around long enough.
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And it is so outlandish and silly that it can be interpreted as nothing more than sarcasm.
 
Geoist said:
And it is so outlandish and silly that it can be interpreted as nothing more than sarcasm.
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I know it certainly seems like the only logical possibility is sarcasm, but trust me when I say he was serious.
 
madman said:
wow! that was clever.

again, sorry for your loss.
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We didn't lose. We still kick your tail on a daily basis. It's just that now, we can't employ you, too.
 
madman said:
Delusional.

You just keep telling yourself that. :rofl:rofl
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You do the same. People who run things and build things and pay all the taxes don't have "very liberal" next to their name. They don't associate, nor can they relate, to such.
 
McCain and Graham need to take a pill......
 
madman said:
I would say a majority of the policies and views overlap.
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There really are no establishment Republicans anymore. They're moribund. It's going to be all tea party weirdness all the way down soon. McCain is hated by the rightwing noise machine because he deviates into sense now and again, so this is his last term.

The tea party golem will eat the remaining moderate republicans alive.
 
Erod said:
We didn't lose. We still kick your tail on a daily basis. It's just that now, we can't employ you, too.
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I'll just say this: Sen. Rand Paul was barking up the wrong tree on this one. While I agree that it was important to get a declarative statement from the Obama Administration concerning drone attacks on U.S. soil against American citizens, his attempt to block Brenner's confirmation using the filerbuster was a boneheaded move. Why? Because as CIA Director, Brenner would have nothing to do with drone strikes on US soil. His attempt to get an commitment one way or another from the Obama Administration would have had legs IF he had filerbustered Hagel's confirmation instead. Atleast the SecDef has some say in the use of drones domestically or abroad in combat situations.
 
tererun said:
i would not call it love. It is more interesting
than the same old obama slam. besides, this is paultard 2.0. this one has yet to get the giant boot imprint from washington permanently indented in his butt. I wish he wouldn't interrupt the Senate's daily nap with his blathering. nothing good can come from all those idiots doing ****. kicking around the pauls is something americans can all join together in. We have so few things we can all do together, and i agree we should enjoy those things that bring us together as a nation.
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Ron Pauls was my congressmen and I guarantee if he was President the Fed wouldn't be making the "rich get richer " while almost 90 million people are out of work.

I just wish BO would have let us in on his plan to prop up the banks and wall street while ignoring the working class in his campaign.
 
mr4anarchy said:
IMO - Rand Paul isn't half the man his father is.

I don't often agree with Dr. Paul, but I respect him for speaking out against the wild spending of his own party, particularly on military spending and endeavors.

Yesterday was a joke, a sad piece of political theater. Nothing more.
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Perhaps, but that also applies to pretty much our entire political culture and more or less everything Washington does. If someone wants to be a fool for some perceived liberty instead of the grossly abused privileges of the socio-economic elite, more power to them.
 
Erod said:
You do the same. People who run things and build things and pay all the taxes don't have "very liberal" next to their name. They don't associate, nor can they relate, to such.
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I don't suppose you have any evidence to back that up. At all. However, I'll wait for you to prove such a ridiculous claim.
 
This escalates...

Paul fires back: Sens. McCain, Graham think the 'whole world is a battlefield'

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted fellow GOP Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday, saying the two “think the whole world is a battlefield.”

Paul criticized the hawkish senators for thinking the laws of war should take precedence over the Bill of Rights. The two had criticized Paul’s statements about drone policy during the Kentucky Republican’s nearly 13-hour filibuster on Thursday.

“They think the whole world is a battlefield, including America, and that the laws of war should apply,” Paul said in an interview on Fox News about McCain and Graham, who had described Paul’s comments about drones as “ridiculous.”​
 
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