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March 06, 2013

Overnight Open Trehead (3-6-2013)
— Maetenloch

UPDATED UPDATE: Yeah comments are down - we have Top Men working on it.
New hamster - crisis averted.

UPDATE: You can watch the filibuster live here. Never mind - it's over now.

Well maybe not law-laws but violating them will certainly get you snarked and mocked.
And that's on the Bingo and Quilting forums - the rest of the Internet plays a bit rougher.

Poe's Law
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
i.e. humor doesn't naturally pass through the intertubes without assistance.

Godwin's Law
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Cohen's Law
"Whoever resorts to the argument "whoever resorts to the argument that. has automatically lost the debate" has automatically lost the debate."

Skitt's Law
"Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself."

The Law of Exclamation
"The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters."
i.e. THIS!!!! is the sign of the liar/kook.

And then you have the Rules of the Internet.

No 'Stand Your Ground' Hearing for Zimmerman

But there may be a logic to his foregoing the hearing since the burden of proof is different and if he loses, it might hurt him in the trial as well.

The burden of proof does shift between the pre-trial hearing and the trial. At the hearing, the pre-ponderance of evidence must support a self-defense claim; at trial ,the prosecution must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that self-defense was not in play. So conceivably, the same set of facts could lose in a hearing but lead to acquital at trial.

And if the defense is worried that the political pressure on the judge will weigh against dismissal, the pre-trial hearing might result only with the defense tipping its hand in order to generate headlines such as "Judge Rejects Zimmerman Self-Defense Claim". That sort of pre-trial publicity might not be helpful (I am not a high-priced jury consultant, but that is my guess).

Also Trayvon's girlfriend has been caught lying about her age and whereabouts after the shooting.

The High Cost of Being Arab

The long standing weaknesses of Arab militaries are really just a manifestation of the deep problems in the Arab culture. When everything is run by connections and no one takes responsibility, well nothing really works including the military.

For example, Arabs in general don't care for the Western custom of establishing minimum standards for, say, fighter pilots. It's long been known that it is very difficult to wash out an Arab pilot who is well connected (especially a member of a powerful local family). There are some very good Arab pilots but they are a minority. The rest get by. As long as they can take off and land, they can stay in a squadron. During combat exercises, especially with American squadrons, it's understood that the low overall performance of Arab pilots is not to be discussed with the Arabs, or anyone else. Junior American officers get irked by this but it is career suicide to disobey orders on this point.

...The problem extends to ground crews, who don't take responsibility seriously and have to be constantly hounded by their foreign advisors and specialists hired to make sure the aircraft are flyable. And when something goes wrong, the foreign experts are expected to take the blame.

It comes down to a different cultural attitude towards taking responsibility for your actions. It's human nature to avoid failure or taking responsibility for a mistake. Thus we have the concept of "saving face." One reason the West has made such economic, cultural, military, and social progress in the last five hundred years is because they developed a habit of holding people responsible for their actions and giving out the rewards based on achievement. In the West, this sort of thing is taken for granted, even if it is not always practiced.

But in much of the rest of the world, especially the Arab world, things are different.

Brett Kimberlin Still Harassing Aaron Walker and Lee Stranahan

The mystery witness who took a photo of Aaron Walker outside a Howard County, Maryland courtroom last week has been revealed to be serial bomber Brett Kimberlin, according to a comment on the BreitbartUnmasked blog by "Texas Tim", a frequent commenter that appears to be a fake persona.

Sadly NOT the Onion

Every single story at The Ononeon is absolutely true even if it sounds like it came from The Onion.

So When Is Human Baby Season?

In the US it's July, August, and September but in Europe it's mainly in the Spring. Scientists have looked at various factors but the strongest one seems to be light and latitude:

If we evolved to be more fertile at certain times, chances are good that photoperiod would be the signal for that timing - and, in fact, the data seem to agree. Birth seasonality is strongest at extreme latitudes where photoperiod is most extreme, and an Italian study found that day length and temperature (which are hard to separate) explained 40% of the variability in seasons of birth.

The Leviathan is Hungry

And your 401(K) fund is delicious and filling with a crunchy revenue-y shell:

Pressure is growing to change incentives for retirement savings as U.S. lawmakers look for revenue, and top earners may pay the price.
The budget challenges confronting the federal government are leading to scrutiny of tax-advantaged savings accounts such as 401(k)s because they're among the costliest tax breaks.
...The benefit for 401(k)-type plans is the U.S. government's third-largest tax expenditure, behind only the mortgage interest deduction and exclusion of employer contributions for medical insurance. It is estimated to cost about $429 billion in forgone revenue from 2013 through 2017, according to the administration's latest budget proposal. IRAs will cost about $100 billion over the five-year period.

Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy

And by homophobia they mean that he doesn't support gay marriage. Not that anything related to the issue even appears in his stories. He just has the wrong opinion and that cannot stand.

3 Exotic Necktie Knots

I don't wear a tie much these days but I'd sure like to rock a Trinity at the next parole hearing.

Teh Tweet!

Yahoo group. That is all.

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1 White House petition asking Obama to respond... https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/respond-senator-rand-paul-drone-strikes/Kq6d9S3l (Not that it'll make a big difference, but every signature there is visible public support for Rand Paul.)

Posted by: discontinuity at March 06, 2013 06:08 PM (tLn51)

2 Keep it up, Rand!

Posted by: knob at March 06, 2013 06:10 PM (H1bc7)

3 Interesting times.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 06, 2013 06:10 PM (DoZD+)

4 Obama the Merciless does not deign to lower himself to respond to petty (i.e. all) petitions.

Posted by: Al at March 06, 2013 06:13 PM (V70Uh)

5 High stakes between RP and the JEF....this could go ugly early.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 06, 2013 06:13 PM (DHBCd)

6 The Orson Scott Card story is especially stupid in light of the fact that he penned a homoerotic novel. Once again, the cognitive dissonance of the PC crowd is amazing.

Posted by: Saber Alter at March 06, 2013 06:14 PM (8V74Y)

7 "tax expenditure"? No, no, Fuck You.

Posted by: Brendan at March 06, 2013 06:15 PM (2jQGY)

8 g'evenin', 'rons watchin' the Rand Show...Cruz is reading tweets on the floor of the Senate...mostly from the #StandwithRand hashtag

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:16 PM (JMmQ9)

9 -One reason the West has made such economic, cultural, military, and social progress in the last five hundred years is because they developed a habit of holding people responsible for their actions and giving out the rewards based on achievement. - And amazingly as the West has stagnated, one glance at leadership among those countries seems to show they are moving toward the "no responsibility" thinking and leadership choices. I'd be more sad but really, how many people get to see a world wide decent into a second dark ages?

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at March 06, 2013 06:17 PM (8kIXE)

10 Six hours at a track meet in ungodly wind today/tonight. FML. Evening, you guys.

Posted by: NCKate at March 06, 2013 06:18 PM (4FeFx)

11 I wonder how the Feds define "top earners"??

Posted by: puddleglum at March 06, 2013 06:18 PM (15w2J)

12 RE: Poe's Law

I have learned that often what I write is not what is read. . and I have no control over it. It's like being ....Zen.

What is read depends on the point of view of the reader.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 06, 2013 06:18 PM (6iAkQ)

13 in before the troll

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 06, 2013 06:18 PM (GVxQo)

how many people get to see a world wide decent into a second dark ages?

In HD too!!!

Posted by: puddleglum at March 06, 2013 06:19 PM (15w2J)

15 RE: The high cost of being Arab

It's the Will of Allah, so failure is not my problem.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 06, 2013 06:19 PM (6iAkQ)

16 I caused Skitt's Law.

Posted by: Never leared to type or spellchech at March 06, 2013 06:20 PM (u82oZ)

17 @14
Ok, now I feel guilty.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 06, 2013 06:20 PM (6iAkQ)

18 I have to agree with Larry that my sister's stepson's grandmother made over $57 in one month while sitting at home just by threatening seniors and

Posted by: Lacey Wig at March 06, 2013 06:21 PM (+paCV)

19 How the fuck is someone keeping the money they legally earn a fucking "expenditure"? We are truly lost.

Posted by: Timon at March 06, 2013 06:22 PM (hHlaS)

Excellent ONT, Maetenloch. There is another law, though:

The more that Obama speaks, the more I need a drink.

Posted by: In Exile at March 06, 2013 06:23 PM (0401c)

21 Kasumi of DOA vs Chun Li of Street Fighter!!

http://www.cosplay.com/photo/3358194/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2013 06:23 PM (QNagW)

22 I think rule #1 of the internet is People Have To Change Shit Because Potato. For example, "There are no girls on the internet" has been #30 for freaking ever. It is, in fact, on the original Rules of the Internet. 37 concerns dividing by zero.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 06:23 PM (bxiXv)

23 That Bing chameleon looked into my soul.

Posted by: nip at March 06, 2013 06:23 PM (11Tdq)

24 The Filibuster. Listen for the shot at the end.

WE WIN!

http://tinyurl.com/b6v2z3w

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:23 PM (wR+pz)

25 Stand with Rand.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2013 06:24 PM (l3vZN)

26 I think rule 2 is No One Checks Anything On The Internet. In this case, I'm following the new rule #1, because neither #1 or #2 are correct.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 06:24 PM (bxiXv)

27 Confiscation of 401Ks and IRAs is the line in the stand. I didn't save that money to give to others. I need that money to support my family as I get older.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 06, 2013 06:24 PM (u82oZ)

28 Userpers!

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 06, 2013 06:25 PM (UrENZ)

29 Remember when ORSON SCOTT CARD wrote that book about BUGGERS and ENDER KILLED THE BUGGERS and it was really an antiwar book and antimilitary and it won HUGO AWARDS

Posted by: boulder toilet plover at March 06, 2013 06:25 PM (QTHTd)

30 I think Rand Paul must have installed a catheter and supersized leg bag before going on today.

Posted by: Jeanne of the North at March 06, 2013 06:25 PM (gdYKA)

31 ... we have always been at war with Scottcardasia.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:25 PM (QTHTd)

32 Quoting Atlas Shrugs now.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 06, 2013 06:25 PM (UrENZ)

33 Great ONT. Chock full of goodies.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at March 06, 2013 06:26 PM (n8LUb)

34 I have been banned from the Oberlin campus. Bad week for me and it's only Wednesday.

Posted by: White Blanket at March 06, 2013 06:26 PM (wIgpo)

35 #standwithrand

Posted by: Jeanne of the North at March 06, 2013 06:26 PM (gdYKA)

36 Have #standwithrand going on another tab.

Has been interesting and within 5 minutes realized I was listening to something historic.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 06:26 PM (VMcEw)

37 The second the West pulls out of the Arab countries, their oil rigs shut right the f down.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 06:26 PM (Zd/NW)

38 Palmolive is the best. But that picture looks way too old for it to cost $1.95, and what's with the Denver Book Fair tag?

Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at March 06, 2013 06:27 PM (Sptt8)

39 Arabs are fatalists. They think they have no role in the unfolding drama of existence.

Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2013 06:27 PM (CgiRY)

40 Cruz is now explaining the finer points of Atlas Shrugged on the floor of the Senate

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:27 PM (JMmQ9)

41 Looks like the Blackhawks' streak will go on.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 06:27 PM (+iA5G)

42 >It's the Will of Allah, so failure is not my problem. Inshallah. It was the Will of Allah that the full moon did not render our elite motorcycle troops invincible and thus safe from Iraqi solders at the outpost...

Posted by: Iranian Mullahs at March 06, 2013 06:27 PM (1AAJW)

43 Also Trayvon's girlfriend has been caught lying about her age and whereabouts after the shooting.

Case you haven't been keeping up - Trayvon did not have a girlfriend.
This "DeeDee" and her testimony is a fabrication.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 06:28 PM (JtyGg)

44 Isn't that guy on rule a 35 a young version of Louis from Suits?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 06, 2013 06:28 PM (+bZOu)

45 @25

Now if we could just get someone as honorable as Sen Paine to shot themselves.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:28 PM (wR+pz)

46 When I left the house today, Rand was on C-SPAN. When I came home, Rand was on C-Span. Diggin' it.

Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at March 06, 2013 06:28 PM (Sptt8)

47 #44 If I had a composite girlfriend, she'd look like Trayvon's.

Posted by: president o'bumbles at March 06, 2013 06:29 PM (ORGYc)

48 31 I think Rand Paul must have installed a catheter and supersized leg bag before going on today. Posted by: Jeanne of the North at March 06, 2013 10:25 PM (gdYKA) My sis is a nurse. She says there's a device similar to a catheter. Instead of a tube being inserted, there's a device that is worn over with a tube attached that goes to the bag. Could be wearing that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 06:29 PM (GEICT)

49 War on Women: Ride the Snake The Â“War on WomenÂ” continues unabated, and unsurprisingly, it comes from a state legislator of the same party that brought attacks on a successful female governor, attacks on the rights of women to defend themselves against rapist, and support for men accused of battery and rape: Democrats. The most recent example comes from middle aged Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett. A Seventeen year old girl was talking about how she was shy but was able to get over her fear of snakes, and how she now wants to teach children about snakes and turtles. Rep. HewettÂ’s response was perverted and completely uncalled for. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=1625

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 06:30 PM (Vk2pI)

50 It's on like donkey kong the moment they make a move on 401k's. That would be the fort sumpter incident that would start the 2nd American civil war

Posted by: General Woundwort at March 06, 2013 06:30 PM (zOP5o)

51 Case you haven't been keeping up - Trayvon did not have a girlfriend.
This "DeeDee" and her testimony is a fabrication.
Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 10:28 PM (JtyGg)

Link?

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 06:30 PM (pAlYe)

52 I want to have Paul Rand's completely legal and non-gay love child

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 06:30 PM (BBWjt)

53 lol skandia.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 06, 2013 06:30 PM (GVxQo)

54 er, Rand Paul

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (BBWjt)

55 Has been interesting and within 5 minutes realized I was listening to something historic. Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 10:26 PM Spot on. This seems even bigger historically than the Watergate hearings, which, at the time, seemed HUGE

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (JMmQ9)

56 Mike Lee on Greta said that Rand hasn't left the floor but when others are talking he paces at the back of the chamber to break up just standing in one spot. There have been no potty breaks because he can't leave the chamber (can't sit down either).

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (K+I6z)

57 STAND WITH RAND !!!!!!!! GOD BLESS RAND PAUL AND TED CRUZ !!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (vWecu)

58 My sis is a nurse. She says there's a device similar to a catheter. Instead of a tube being inserted, there's a device that is worn over with a tube attached that goes to the bag. Could be wearing that. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 10:29 PM

Texas catheters are worn like condoms. Rand's may indeed be Texas sized.

Posted by: huerfano at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (bAGA/)

59 This will not end. In the morning it will be epic. The GOP will have to decide, we have balls or are we poodles.

I am betting they will buck up.

I am a fucking optimist. IT WILL GO ON ALL NIGHT!

Gee, funny the NY Slime has NOTHING about the first real filibuster in thirty years.

WONDER WHY?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:31 PM (wR+pz)

60 28 Confiscation of 401Ks and IRAs is the line in the stand. I didn't save that money to give to others. I need that money to support my family as I get older.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 06, 2013 10:24 PM (u82oZ)

By that point, all the other lands in the sand have been crossed, so what fucking difference will it make?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 06:32 PM (Zd/NW)

61 Hi Grumpy Momma Bear!
Good to see you around here again
here is a kitteh for you
http://tinyurl.com/bb5tmpx

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 06:32 PM (BBWjt)

62 Has AP mentioned it?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:32 PM (wR+pz)

63 Good evening. Too bad about Orson Scott Card's getting taken off Superman. The only comic fans left are, apparently, shitty little hipster leftists and Card is adamant in his opposition to gay marriage. Way to punish someone for having an opposing opinion, faggots!

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2013 06:33 PM (LUnTP)

64 Substitute Rand for Jayne, and redo the lyrics.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 06:34 PM (dZnxf)

65 Arabs are fatalists. They think they have no role in the unfolding drama of existence.

*ahem*

the young man runs
but his fated death reaches him
every day brings the fixed term nearer to him
i know that my day will once reach me
and i shall not care for my world anymore
--pre-Islamic poetry, transl. Reuven Firestone

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:34 PM (QTHTd)

66 NY Slime runs a story, 10 hours into the story.

Now that is what I call right on the ball.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:34 PM (wR+pz)

67 58 STAND WITH RAND !!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS RAND PAUL AND TED CRUZ !!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 06, 2013 10:31 PM (vWecu)

Uh...about that. I finally found it on my tv and I think I'm gonna have to say, what happens in my living room watching Mr Cruz is going to stay in my living room Unless I get on a public forum on the internet and tell.

Posted by: Molly k. at March 06, 2013 06:35 PM (rthbQ)

68 The all-time longest filibuster? 24 hours, 18 minutes. Strom Thurmond, filibustering the Civil Rights Act.... Cruz is going all "St.Crispian's Day"

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:35 PM (JMmQ9)

69 Now Cruz is quoting Henry V's "Band of Brothers" speech.

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 06, 2013 06:36 PM (VgkUy)

70 Yeah, baby, we're filibusterin' now!

Reading Shakespeare on the Senate floor.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 06:36 PM (NaNKB)

71 what happens in my living room watching Mr Cruz is going to stay in my living room

umm, Molly K, you know the ONT rules, pics or it didn't happen

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 06:36 PM (BBWjt)

72 Cruz reading Henry V. Better than Netflix.

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 06:36 PM (/0DF2)

73 Ted Cruz just read the St Crispians Day speech. Between him and Rand, all I can think is: I cannot spare this man. He fights.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 06:37 PM (pC72t)

74 Sad news for Canadians: patriotic country and western singer, Stompin' Tom Connors, has died. Americans may know his "Hockey Song".

www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/roll-on.html

Posted by: andycanuck at March 06, 2013 06:37 PM (ORGYc)

That internet law of exclamation is complete bullshit!!! It was made up by the 1% and corporations to deny the 99% a means to get their point across!!!

They may take our exclamation marks, BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR CAPS!!!

Posted by: otho at March 06, 2013 06:37 PM (yBF/9)

76 Heh, Cruz for the Shakespeare fan's Prezzy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (fMgJk)

77 Times says Rand wants tweets. I don't do that shit, light the MFer up!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (wR+pz)

78 I was only the fifth moron to point that out. Awesome.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (pC72t)

79 CRUUUUUUZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

Posted by: L, elle at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (0PiQ4)

80 if this is still going on at midnight, I'm tapping in to the Thursday ration of Val-U-Rite and calling in sick

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (JMmQ9)

81 71 As the Cheeto/booger mix betwixt my keyboard keys solidifies, my leftist talking points devolve into totally shrill incoherency. Posted by: Erg's Law at March 06, 2013 10:36 PM (vbh31) Now THAT'S iambic pentameter!

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (/0DF2)

82 St. Crispy? Sounds like he wants a drone strike

Posted by: King Barack I at March 06, 2013 06:38 PM (BBWjt)

83 And now Patton.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (m2IdD)

84 THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR CAPS!!!

But your ampersands are mine, bitch.

Posted by: Pixyware at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (QTHTd)

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 06, 2013 10:38 PM (wR+pz)

Also write your senator, the more support on the floor the harder it is to ignore!

Posted by: tsrblke (Away) at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (deJeX)

86 Also the internet is the greatest boon to intel organizations ever invented. The analysts watch porn while they download people publishing surveillance of themselves.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (+paCV)

87 Cruz is talking about Patton best C-SPAN EVAH!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)

Molly k. at March 06, 2013 10:35 PM

This IS a public forum. Now talk.

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (wSTfB)

89 The benefit for 401(k)-type plans is the U.S. government's third-largest tax expenditure

The government taking less of your money is an "expenditure". The government flushing money confiscated from you down the toilet is an "investment". The government raising expenditures 85 billion less than planned is a "deep cut in spending"

Actual math however, is immutable

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 06:39 PM (mCvL4)

90 Case you haven't been keeping up - Trayvon did not have a girlfriend.
This "DeeDee" and her testimony is a fabrication.
Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 10:28 PM (JtyGg)

Link?
Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch

Sorry, cannot provide evidence that something does not exist, only that it does.

Prosecution has not provided evidence to the defense that his 'DeeDee' actually exists (such as a real NAME).

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 06:40 PM (JtyGg)

91 You wingnuts support Ted Cruz? You're all a bunch of RACISTS!

Posted by: Some Lefty Douche at March 06, 2013 06:40 PM (LUnTP)

92 Quoting Patton now. I might have to give Mrs. Cicero Kid the high-hard one tonight.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 06, 2013 06:40 PM (UrENZ)

93 Now Cruz is quoting the movie Patton.

Posted by: weew at March 06, 2013 06:40 PM (ElfHn)

94 73 what happens in my living room watching Mr Cruz is going to stay in my living room

umm, Molly K, you know the ONT rules, pics or it didn't happen

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 10:36 PM (BBWjt)

You are very optamistic young man...........It took me pleading for help to find the channel and then I had to figure out which end of the remote to point at the tv..heck before that I had to find the tv! Someday maybe I will get a camera

Posted by: Molly k. at March 06, 2013 06:40 PM (rthbQ)

95 Do Lebowski next!

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 06:41 PM (/0DF2)

96 http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/ you're welcome

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:41 PM (JMmQ9)

97 Your 401ks are already gone.

That you already sold your kids into tax slavery.

Your choice.

/substance of what I heard from a proud Obama supporter

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 06:41 PM (JtyGg)

98 My Stars and my Pearl Necklaces!!!! These conservative fanbois are sullying the Senate and our Church!

Posted by: Brooks and Frum [/i] [/b] at March 06, 2013 06:42 PM (fMgJk)

99 The BH gets home, and you guys sneak another post past me and comment up to 100. I see how it is now.....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 06:42 PM (kaalw)

100 About that catheter thing, it Depends..

Posted by: Vicar of Wakeful at March 06, 2013 06:42 PM (aDwsi)

101 [the cake is a lie]

Posted by: Pixyware at March 06, 2013 06:43 PM (QTHTd)

102 Cruz starting to divide and conquer now.

Posted by: Dave S. at March 06, 2013 06:43 PM (UvR6d)

103 Any word on who cut McCain's meat for him tonight?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 06, 2013 06:43 PM (UrENZ)

104 90 Molly k. at March 06, 2013 10:35 PM
This IS a public forum. Now talk.

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 10:39 PM (wSTfB)

I would love to but all of a sudden I am worn out

Posted by: Molly k. at March 06, 2013 06:43 PM (rthbQ)

105 Job interview tomorrow. Might be climbing out of the toilet. fingers crossed

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:43 PM (QTHTd)

106 A real filibuster. It's about damn time.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 06:44 PM (dZnxf)

107 I see how it is now..... Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 10:42 PM (kaalw) Does it look like MADNESS?

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2013 06:44 PM (LUnTP)

108 good luck bth

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 06, 2013 06:44 PM (+bZOu)

109 107 Job interview tomorrow. Might be climbing out of the toilet. fingers crossed Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 10:43 PM (QTHTd) Good luck!!!

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at March 06, 2013 06:44 PM (FsUAO)

110 Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 10:43 PM (QTHTd) Good luck!

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2013 06:44 PM (LUnTP)

111 Matt Drudge on Twitter: "Obama busy courting Graham, McCain, yesterday's mashed potatoes. #StandWithRand"

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 06:45 PM (m2IdD)

112 Do Lebowski next! Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 10:41 PM (/0DF2) Uh, call me "Dude" or "Duderino" or "His Dudeship"

Posted by: The Dude at March 06, 2013 06:45 PM (Vk2pI)

113 and thanks 'rons :^)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:46 PM (QTHTd)

114 Good luck bth!

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 06:46 PM (dkh08)

115 This has been in the US Navy's Sailor's Creed since 1993;

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and I will obey the orders of those appointed over me.

When one conflicts with the other, which oath do they violate?

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 06:46 PM (mCvL4)

116 #61

"Line in the sand", nor "lands". F'n auto correct.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 06:47 PM (Zd/NW)

117 Smiley icons piss me off. They're so smug and think they're better than me.

Posted by: otho at March 06, 2013 06:47 PM (yBF/9)

118 gotta go to bed
but this filibuster is great
good night all

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 06, 2013 06:47 PM (BBWjt)

119 109 I see how it is now.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 10:42 PM (kaalw)

Does it look like MADNESS?

Posted by: Robert at March 06, 2013 10:44 PM (LUnTP)

As a matter of fact, it looks like LUnacy covered with TP.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 06:48 PM (kaalw)

120 the Cape Knot is kinda a reverse (or rather inverted) Double Windsor The Trinity Knot looks cool

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:48 PM (JMmQ9)

121

Watching Mr Cruz I must say....I AM TWITTERPATED.

Posted by: Molly k. at March 06, 2013 06:48 PM (rthbQ)

122 I hope Rand recites the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 06:49 PM (dZnxf)

123 good night all

ALMOST a haiku . . .

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:49 PM (QTHTd)

124 Uh, call me "Dude" or "Duderino" or "His Dudeship"

Posted by: The Dude at March 06, 2013 10:45 PM

What if we're not into the whole brevity thing?

Posted by: otho at March 06, 2013 06:49 PM (yBF/9)

125 Columbia river salmon runs go up and down in roughly eleven year cycles. So do sunspots on the sun. Do sunspots cause salmon? Do salmon cause sunspots? Is there a lurking Z that makes salmon eager to spawn AND causes the sun to boil?

Posted by: Kenneth Trentadue at March 06, 2013 06:49 PM (e8kgV)

126 @ExJon Here comes the cavalry. @TPCarney Rubio, Thune, Toomey, and Barasso are on the floor now.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 06:49 PM (GEICT)

127 @Anna Puma:

Why is it annapuna.blogspot.com ... ?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 06, 2013 06:50 PM (7um7O)

128 Someone wanted the elements?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8

(It's safe, chemjeff's gone)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:50 PM (QTHTd)

129 Lucky to get the damn tie knotted at all. Usually at a traffic light with not-yet-established necessary caffeine level.

Posted by: Vicar of Wakeful at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (aDwsi)

130 Is there an endgame here? Will they stop this asshole's nomination?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (+bZOu)

131 105 Any word on who cut McCain's meat for him tonight?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 06, 2013 10:43 PM (UrENZ)

Cindy, but they put the fat scraps into a "maggie bag" to take home to Meggie Mac.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (Zd/NW)

132 "When one conflicts with the other, which oath do they violate?"

That's the Sailor's Creed, not the actual oath of enlistment or re-enlistment.
One is window dressing, one is a real oath.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (Tgggp)

133 The High cost of being Arab>>

Odd how well those descriptions fit Washington DC which is Midway up the eastern coast.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (qo244)

134 Eeep. Bold fail.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (7um7O)

135 Or, are they just threatening to confiscate our 401Ks, in which case everyone would cash them in in a panic, thus resulting in immediate taxation on that money? Instant Revenue!!!!!

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (79AXR)

136 I bet Ebola sends in the FBI to break it all up.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 06:51 PM (dZnxf)

137 I hope Rand recites the Periodic Table of the Elements. Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 10:49 PM and right after that, a three hour long dissertation on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:52 PM (JMmQ9)

138 How much ya wanna bet that Harry Reid and the Dems change the Senate rules to disallow filibusters once Rand is done with his? The Precious must be protected!

Posted by: Waiting for the Burning at March 06, 2013 06:52 PM (DFGPG)

139 129 @ExJon Here comes the cavalry. @TPCarney Rubio, Thune, Toomey, and Barasso are on the floor now.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 10:49 PM (GEICT)

No freaking way..............the 60 pound 6 footer is actually part of this game? Now I am flabbergasted/ and also out of big words. I think I will record the rest

Posted by: Molly k. at March 06, 2013 06:52 PM (rthbQ)

140 Exactly, Ted Cruz. Mitt Romney gave people cancer. What if he had power?

Posted by: Dave S. at March 06, 2013 06:52 PM (UvR6d)

141 I would get up and read The Killer Angels.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (+bZOu)

142 Someone wanted the elements? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8 (It's safe, chemjeff's gone) Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 10:50 PM (QTHTd) Better animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7hO-1ItqXw

Posted by: The Chemical Hat at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (Vk2pI)

143 Why is it annapuna.blogspot.com ... ? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 06, 2013 10:50 PM she's sneaky, like that

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (JMmQ9)

144

Go Cruz, Go!

Posted by: garrett loves a good filibuster at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (tGe1y)

145 Another reason for age limits in Congress is to end this nonsense "geriatric filibuster" - you know, the non-filibuster so the old folks don't get hurt. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (OKRMc)

146 As a matter of fact, it looks like LUnacy covered with TP. Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 10:48 PM (kaalw) Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: Robert ina astraightjacket made of Charmin at March 06, 2013 06:53 PM (LUnTP)

147 and right after that, a three hour long dissertation on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Ace for Senator!

Fuck it, I got Bennet and Udall, I'll order two ace's

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 06:54 PM (QTHTd)

148 I hope Rand recites the Periodic Table of the Elements.>>

What will he call out for W? The old Wolfram or the New Tungsten.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 06:55 PM (qo244)

149 Do you know why these Senators sound intelligent and sensible? Because they are not limited to trying to answer "gotcha" questions by biased moderators at "yourtube" debates.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 06:55 PM (Vk2pI)

150 Cruz and Paul....proof positive that Karl Rove should go fuck himself daily.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (HDgX3)

151 Divine right of SCOAMF

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (LRFds)

152 hey, are we back? is the blog fixed up?

Posted by: L, elle at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (0PiQ4)

153 Comments are back!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (2yngH)

154 yay comments!

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (QTHTd)

155 Back to work, hamster scum!!! [cracks whip]

Posted by: andycanuck at March 06, 2013 07:09 PM (ORGYc)

156 138 Or, are they just threatening to confiscate our 401Ks, in which case everyone would cash them in in a panic, thus resulting in immediate taxation on that money? Instant Revenue!!!!!

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at March 06, 2013 10:51 PM (79AXR)

About 10 years off. The Dems float a trial ballon, wait for talking heads to chat it up on shows, wait for Hollywood to make movies about plan, work it into pop culture, then go for it. It's what they did for Obamacare, it's how they will do this.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (Zd/NW)

157 And we're back! Btw, "@ChadPergram House R's in Senate chamber to back Paul: Burgess, DeSantis, Gosar, Bridenstine, Huizenga, Gohmert, Rothfus, Barr, Massie. #filibuster"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (GEICT)

158 Whoot!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (Tgggp)

159 That was close

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (8sCoq)

160 Oops! Just kidding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DItgw1mU9Us

Posted by: Stephen Stucker at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (IDypm)

161 159 jeremiah GDAWSP,

I'm a bot....the being known as Sven is on hiatus, but I'm here for all your posting needs.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 06, 2013 07:10 PM (LRFds)

162 The tie knots are pretty cool

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:11 PM (piMMO)

163 Or, are they just threatening to confiscate our 401Ks, in which case
everyone would cash them in in a panic, thus resulting in immediate
taxation on that money? Instant Revenue!!!!!>>

My question is will the 10% hit now be less than the rates to follow?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 07:11 PM (qo244)

164 Those comments being down for 14 minutes are minutes I will never get back.

I blame Bush.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:12 PM (Zd/NW)

165 Cole's Law: Shredded cabbage. That is all.

Posted by: speedster1 at March 06, 2013 07:12 PM (yeM7r)

166 Who is that standing behind Rand?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:12 PM (GEICT)

167 whilst the comments were down, Cruz read most of Reagan's A Time For Choosing

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:13 PM (JMmQ9)

168 I don't know about you 'ettes, but if there is any fapping in my immediate future, the ghosts are gonna get a real good look at Ted Cruz.

Thanks, Pixy!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:13 PM (AJM+z)

169 Paul: "we need to be dictating the law to the President."

Woah.

Somebody who groks the structure of the United States federal government.

WITCH! BURN HIM!

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:13 PM (NaNKB)

170 It's settled. Whoever the '16 GOP nominee is, they must insist in "Lincon-Douglas" style debates with only a timekeeper (no moderator).

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:13 PM (Vk2pI)

171 Wiz Khalifa? Really?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:14 PM (GEICT)

172 Rubio is in the mix

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:14 PM (JMmQ9)

173 Wiz Khalifa? Really?

I know, right?

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:15 PM (AJM+z)

174 172 Who is that standing behind Rand?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 11:12 PM (GEICT)

Likely Congressmen who came over to stand in solidarity. They're also standing because there are no places for them to sit on the Senate floor. If they wanted to sit they'd be up in the gallery.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 07:15 PM (K+I6z)

175

Filibuster.

It's what's for dinner.

And dessert...

and it'll be on your plate for breakfast, too.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:15 PM (CFXE2)

176 McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor. About time!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:16 PM (wGY3d)

177 Case you haven't been keeping up - Trayvon did not have a girlfriend.
This "DeeDee" and her testimony is a fabrication.
Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 10:28 PM (JtyGg)

Link?

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch

Sorry, cannot provide evidence that something does not exist, only that it does.

Prosecution has not provided evidence to the defense that his 'DeeDee' actually exists (such as a real NAME).
.
.
.
Apologies, let me amend that, according to
WWW Talk Left dot Com /story/2013/3/6/5418/05480
whoever "DeeDee" is she is to be deposed by defense in a few weeks.

Nonetheless, you are right that she has been caught lying about her age and whereabouts after the shooting. The press characterizing her as "girlfriend" has always been questionable. But I am an atheist in this matter.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 07:16 PM (JtyGg)

178 Marco Rubio just went Godfather...

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:16 PM (GEICT)

179
My question is will the 10% hit now be less than the rates to follow?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 11:11 PM (qo244)

The 10% hit now will be better. They don't want to tax the 401K's, they want to confiscate the 401k's, but they will guarantee you a rate of return.

Chances are your rate of return will suck, then be dropped even further because the govt needs the scrilla. Then the govt will start "means testing" on it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:16 PM (Zd/NW)

180

McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor.

He's bringing the bong.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:17 PM (CFXE2)

181 McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor. About time!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 11:16 PM (wGY3d)

Little late to the party, eh, Mitchy-pants?

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:17 PM (AJM+z)

182 Rubizzle is in the hizzayyyyy

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:17 PM (8sCoq)

183 I kinda liked that comment breakdown. Kept me from falling behind reading the comments.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 07:17 PM (+iA5G)

184 Where can you find a list of who is present in the chamber during the fillibuster? Not just those speaking, but everyone.

Posted by: Pentangle at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (Mdryr)

185 I have a quibble with "Poe's Law." A lefty ~~friend~~ acquaintance told me about this after he couldn't determine if a Burma Shave - style church message board was legit, or dummied-up. From what I gather this idea is from left-wing sites, where the other lefties can't tell if wingnut Bible-thumping is "authentic," or if it's a fellow lefty playing around. Whenever such a lefty comes to AOSHQ, it is instantly apparent and he's called out.

Posted by: Steck at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (RL7U1)

186 Rubio is now quoting from "The Godfather"

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (Vk2pI)

187 Rubio is running for VP in 2016

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (JMmQ9)

188 182 McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor. About time!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 11:16 PM (wGY3d)

_____________

Did he finish desert with Barrack?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (HDgX3)

189 When Republican Senators bust out a Wiz or a Jay-Z reference you know things are a getting strange in DC...

Posted by: Tony253 at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (3yMFT)

190 I've had this filibuster going in the background since around 9. I can't believe how on point they've been, amazing they've been going almost 12 hours now. Rand is very impressive. I wish these fucks would just filibuster every damn thing, obviously they're capable.

Posted by: mugiwara at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (hpYnL)

191 So what broke the blog a little bit ago? Did Ted Cruz melt it with his hawtness?

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (dkh08)

192 I just watched the Weather Channel interviewing a few federal workers who got the day off due to weather without the slightest appreciation of the irony

Tons of hacks didn't go to work today, yet the citizens did not mill around in confusion or riot in the streets.

Mail even got delivered. Who knew

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (mCvL4)

193 I see Rubio is trying to appeal to the LIVs.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (6zgse)

194 Rubio quoting pop culture..AND asking what would the response be if Bush stonewalled. I hope tfg's head just exploded.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at March 06, 2013 07:18 PM (53riN)

195 Wiz Khalifa, Godfather, Bush, Jay Z......as JohnE. said on twitter: "Big tent bitchez"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (GEICT)

196 187 176
It's settled. Whoever the '16 GOP nominee is, they must insist in "Lincon-Douglas" style debates with only a timekeeper (no moderator).

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 11:13 PM (Vk2pI)

____________

1000 fucking times AMEN!!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (HDgX3)

197 >Did he finish desert with Barrack?

No, he's had his nap

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (8sCoq)

198

There has been a palace coup of the Republican Guard tonight. Bout time

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (Dnbau)

199 I knew voting for Cruz was the right decision. Imagine if Dewhurt would have won!! Obama must be beating Michelle by nowÂ…. White House will need a clean up crewÂ…..

Posted by: redguy at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (oKH8p)

200 I hope someone at least reads the lyrics to Maiden's Two Minutes to Midnight at the appropriate time.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (CFXE2)

201 They are not going to confiscate 401ks, they are setting their sights on writing off the federal bonds that most retirees hold.

That or their grand kids tax slavery.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 07:19 PM (JtyGg)

202 "It snowed too much today and maybe the answer department was shut down.." I. love. this. man.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (53riN)

203 205 There has been a palace coup of the Republican Guard tonight. Bout time House next!!!!

Posted by: redguy at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (oKH8p)

204 McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor. About time!
***
It is interesting to see what happens now that one of the conservatives - Paul - has broken through the RINO leadership.

Could this be a sign that the Republicans will stop rubber stamping everything Obama wants?

Also, how many LIVs are going to hear about Obama wanting the right to execute Americans, in America thanks to this filibuster?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (zPVBH)

205 Doesn't the Law of Exclamations have a corollary about eleventy?

Posted by: John the Libertarian at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (jKf/K)

206 Cruz was awesome. I will follow him into battle

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (Dnbau)

207 With Rubio, Cruz and Rand in the senate, I have a glimmer of hope for the future. Mike Lee as well.

We need another batch of young conservative senators like this. No more fucking McConnells or McCains.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (HDgX3)

208 Rubio was the first one back from the dinner with TFG. McConnell got caught in traffic. McCain will show up around 1:15 AM

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:20 PM (JMmQ9)

209
Obama must be beating Michelle by now
___
It doesn't quite work like that around here.

Posted by: barack Obama holding frozen peas up to his black eye at March 06, 2013 07:21 PM (zPVBH)

210 Obama must be beating Michelle by nowÂ…. Posted by: redguy at March 06, 2013 11:19 PM (oKH8p) Um, I think it's the other way round.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:21 PM (6zgse)

211 Old n busted: McConnell, McCain

New hotness: Paul, Cruz

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:21 PM (8sCoq)

212 Mr. Moo Moo>> McConnell did not go to dinner with BO. He wasn't invited.

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:21 PM (wGY3d)

213 And up next, Cruz will ask a question in the form of "It's a Hard Knock Life" as performed by Dr. Evil.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (bxiXv)

214

>>Obama must be beating Michelle by now

I don't think Reggie Love's dick goes by 'Michele'.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (CFXE2)

215 400 Bad Request Illegal cookie name _trp_hit_6005/12301_728x90 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 581, in respond self.process_headers() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 653, in process_headers raise cherrypy.HTTPError(400, msg) HTTPError: (400, 'Illegal cookie name _trp_hit_6005/12301_728x90') Powered by CherryPy 3.1.2

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (s+8Vv)

216 its about the liberty, stupid

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (Dnbau)

217 The lyrics to Judas Priest's "Tyrant" would be cool, and "Electric Eye" would be apropos.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (OKRMc)

218 Law of Insufferable Hipster Geeks: anyone who intentionally mangles the language to seem cool, such as: "Can I has more Internet?"

Posted by: John the Libertarian at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (jKf/K)

219 Cruz was awesome. I will follow him into battle

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 11:20 PM (Dnbau)

yup, even if I had to crawl . . .

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (AJM+z)

220 @217. Mediocre minds think alike.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (6zgse)

221 He's bringing the bong.

That would be THE Aqua Buddha?

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:22 PM (NaNKB)

222 Usual hour long commute took less than 30 minutes with snow, slush and rain. Federal Government, please stay the fuck closed.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (sqp6o)

223 seems to be alot of people there now

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (Dnbau)

224 It's settled. Whoever the '16 GOP nominee is, they must insist in "Lincon-Douglas" style debates with only a timekeeper (no moderator).
***
I'm not sure we'll need a debate for 2016 at this rate.

We've got a leader who isn't afraid to fight.

I haven't seen spirit like this since 1994...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (zPVBH)

225

Rand Paul's tie is red.

Like, dog dick red.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (CFXE2)

226 It's a good thing Rand has natural bags under his eyes, so he doesn't look too tired.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (6zgse)

227 What will he call out for W? The old Wolfram or the New Tungsten. He won't. After moving from Ag to Au he'll need to take a cigarette break and get cleaned up.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (X9Mnx)

228 226 Law of Insufferable Hipster Geeks: anyone who intentionally mangles the language to seem cool, such as: "Can I has more Internet?"
Posted by: John the Libertarian at March 06, 2013 11:22 PM (jKf/K)

Double colon: Violation of Skitt's Law!!!!!

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 07:23 PM (pAlYe)

229 192 I have a quibble with "Poe's Law." A lefty friend acquaintance told me about this after he couldn't determine if a Burma Shave - style church message board was legit, or dummied-up.

From what I gather this idea is from left-wing sites, where the other lefties can't tell if wingnut Bible-thumping is "authentic," or if it's a fellow lefty playing around.

Whenever such a lefty comes to AOSHQ, it is instantly apparent and he's called out.

Posted by: Steck at March 06, 2013 11:18 PM (RL7U1)

--An addendum to Poe's Law would be the difficulty in distinguishing between libtard cant and parodies of said cant.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (+iA5G)

230 I can't believe he's still speaking coherently. Wow.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (6zgse)

231 "the fifth amendment is not optional"

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (Dnbau)

232 "The 5th Amendment is not optional."

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (PlzOe)

233

Ladies and Gentleman,

Mr. John Thuuuuuuuuune!

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (CFXE2)

234 Not sure if Cohen's Law is a paradox ...

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 07:24 PM (RVKHf)

235 Thune is up

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (GEICT)

236 Sen. Thune could walk into any newsroom in America and get the 11:00 anchor job.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (HDgX3)

237 The lyrics to Judas Priest's "Tyrant" would be cool, and "Electric Eye" would be apropos. Posted by: SFGoth at March 06, 2013 11:22 PM (OKRMc) More sequestor relevant, Type O Negative's "Prophet of Doom" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puukSFM8xz8

Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (Vk2pI)

238 are other Republicans supporting Rand and the others??

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (LVtr+)

239 #StandWithRand Hey JEF, Answer the fuckin question.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (VMcEw)

240 should be easy for Thune since Cruz tenderized the record by beating it to death with his dick

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (Dnbau)

241 Thuneman, snarkin' on the "woo hoo, got a paid day off today" federal suckerfish.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:25 PM (AJM+z)

242 The Fifth Element is not optimal?

OK, bigger boobs wouldn't hurt, but that seems harsh.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (RVKHf)

243 Thune/Paul 2016!!!! This man looks like a president.

Posted by: Timon at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (hHlaS)

244 best tweet of the night.

Paper Gold Warrior ‏@jackmcoldcuts

Apparently, Rubio's got 99 problems and an unconstitutional drone strike is one. #standwithrand

Posted by: BallOfHate at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (ydcw9)

245 So this is where you bitches went.

*snit*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (UOM48)

246 Rand Paul's tie is red. Like, dog dick red. Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 11:23 PM (CFXE2) I prefer my dog well done... no red left inside.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Canine Connoisseur at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (Vk2pI)

247 Where is the JEF anyhow? Cocksucker wakes up at 10.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:26 PM (sqp6o)

248 Obama's not beating anyone but he's probably extremely pissed at his magic mirror right now.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at March 06, 2013 07:27 PM (yJYwC)

249 the JEF is still patching together his asshole from the reaming he just got

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:27 PM (Dnbau)

250 Perhaps the lyrics to Dirty Deeds Done Cheap? But with a slight change...

If you got a lady and you want her gone
But you ain't got the guts
She keeps naggin' at you night and day
Enough to drive you nuts
Pick up the phone, leave her alone
It's time you made a stand
For a fee, I'm happy to be
Your back door man hey

Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
(Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap) yeah
(Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap)
(Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap)
(Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap)

Drone Strikes, assassinations, TNT
(Done dirt cheap)
Neck ties, contracts, high voltage
(Done dirt cheap)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2013 07:27 PM (zPVBH)

251 99 problems is still a fuck load of problems

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 06, 2013 07:27 PM (NzBQO)

252 And the libs think Republicans are stupid. Compare this to the words of wisdom imparted to us by the (dis)honorable Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Harry Reid....

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (6zgse)

253 JohnE noted something on twitter. It appears the chamber is filling up.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (GEICT)

254 So I can hunt human babies in July?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (SkyIE)

255 The Fifth Element is not optimal? OK, bigger boobs wouldn't hurt, but that seems harsh. Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 11:26 PM (RVKHf) Leeloo Dallas Multipass. Drone strike big bada-boom.

Posted by: Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (Vk2pI)

256 I've been fully turgid for well over 4 hours now. Alas, I also have to do work now. *elastic tuck*

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (pC72t)

257 I think Rubio is trying to reach LIVs on the west coast. I cannot get over that the White House could have issued a one-liner response killing this whole thing, saying yes, it is unconstitutional, won't happen, nothing to see here, and avoided this whole thing. Instead they have given the Tea Party hours of airtime to make their case resulting in a bipartisian twitter explosion of outpouring of reverence for the Constitution. Their silence on this is deafening. What a huge, huge miscalculation. Just unbelievable.

Posted by: goldilocks at March 06, 2013 07:28 PM (/y6zs)

258 dammit, you guys, if this goes on and I keep suckin' the cheap swill, i will have to fake a "poor kitteh had an asthma attack, had to go to the vet" late to work tomorrow. of course, i will really be fapping to Ted Cruz!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (AJM+z)

259 BTW, seeing lefty acquittances saying things like, "I can't believe I'm agreeing with Rand Paul."

Why the hell haven't Republicans been pushing "wedge issues" like this since 2008?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (zPVBH)

260 Of course the USA.gov will come for the 401ks and the IRAs. They gave us permission to keep our own money in the first place, so of course, they can revoke it.

I am just explaining to you how these mendacious cock soakers think. Not that I agree with any of that.

Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (CgiRY)

261 I don't think I've ever heard Thune speak. This guy's not bad. And looks good.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (HDgX3)

262 Thune's tailor should be getting some new clients tomorrow.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (CFXE2)

263 if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks literally

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (KwX0v)

264 I am.....excited

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:29 PM (Dnbau)

265 @ChadPergram I count 54 people in the public viewing gallery of the Senate to watch the #filibuster.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 07:30 PM (YjDyJ)

266 right now, Cruz has his staff culling the bestest lines from the original Red Dawn "All that heat gonna burn you up, kid" "It keeps me warm"

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:30 PM (JMmQ9)

267 Their silence on this is deafening. What a huge, huge miscalculation. Just unbelievable.
___
Dude, I clocked my 8 hours. I'll answer Ron tomorrow.

Posted by: Barack Obama at March 06, 2013 07:30 PM (zPVBH)

268 Thune is Mitt's long lost brother.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:30 PM (Y4TdB)

269 Obama must be furious. I have expect that we will wake up tomorrow to the news that his head exploded from the rage and is all over the walls of his bedroom.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:30 PM (6zgse)

270

Hi 80'sbaby!

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (CFXE2)

271

Thune is not the real deal IMO. He is riding in the wake. Good enough.

This balls thing is catchy

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (Dnbau)

272 Rep Paul Gosar tweets that he's headed over to Senate Chamber. There's apparently over a dozen members of the House now there.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (GEICT)

273 You know who bats her eyes at Thune? Mika the airhead on Morning Joe. Apparently they run together regularly.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (UOM48)

274 I prefer my dog well done... no red left inside. Posted by: Barack Obama, Canine Connoisseur at March 06, 2013 11:26 PM (Vk2pI) All edible with the right Bark-B-Q sauce. (i'll insert my own 'groan.')

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (sqp6o)

275 How can we know if anyone will refuse an illegal order?

You can't. But it sure can't hurt to have some indication that they at least understand the constitution. If they won't answer questions this friggin' simple there is no way to believe they will refuse to follow illegal orders.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (PlzOe)

276 If Mitt Romney made a baby with a mannequin, it'd grow up to be John Thune.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:31 PM (39q3n)

277 >Posted by: goldilocks at March 06, 2013 11:28 PM (/y6zs)

I concur with your assessment

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:32 PM (8sCoq)

278 188
McConnell is on his way to the Senate floor. About time!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 11:16 PM (wGY3d)

Little late to the party, eh, Mitchy-pants?

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 11:17 PM (AJM+z)

Miss Lindsey won't show up until they start handing out "free dicks to suck".

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:32 PM (Zd/NW)

279 McConnell is on the floor.

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:32 PM (8wTle)

280 so looks like Luap Darn got the lead out on brennan?

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 06, 2013 07:32 PM (LRFds)

281 Rep Ron DeSantis says he's there

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:32 PM (GEICT)

282 garrett, FRIENDS is on

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (ZgBZU)

283 282 Hi 80'sbaby!

Hello, Garrett! *waves*

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (YjDyJ)

284 Thune has not earned his place with Rand and Cruz. We'll have to see.

Cruz is the man so far.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (UOM48)

285 I hear that in the cloak room, Harry Reid is hate-fucking a little boy.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (CFXE2)

286 On the left Seth Green, over Thune right shoulder a guy who looks like my cousin, far right - guy got pulled out of a happy hour.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (sqp6o)

287 Most of the grumbling on the lefty blogs has been about the fact that the GOP Senators all voted for, or didn't protest, all of Bush's extraconstitutional moves.

The idiots haven't realized that the major movers and shakers today weren't in the damn Senate for any of those things.

The same clowns who were there are noticeably absent tonight.

As opposed to every single member of the Democratic Party (except Wyden)

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (yVmMc)

288

McCain will complain about Paul's "grand standing" in 3, 2, 1...

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (Dnbau)

289 If Mitt Romney made a baby with a mannequin, it'd grow up to be John Thune.
Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:31 PM (39q3n)

Well Thune does have the Gen III EmotiChip with the Charisma option and you can tell. :-)

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (pAlYe)

290 If the RNC can't convince Thune to run for president they are even more useless than I thought.

Posted by: Timon at March 06, 2013 07:33 PM (hHlaS)

291

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:33 PM (ZgBZU)

Which one?

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:34 PM (CFXE2)

292 >Thune is not the real deal IMO. He is riding in the wake. Good enough.

Thune is why we don't have to suffer Tom Daschle anymore

(btw autocorrect for daschle is 'schlep')

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:34 PM (8sCoq)

293 daylight savings this weekend i hate that shit

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:34 PM (/eLjI)

294 Seems the Chamber filled up. Either they are finished with dinner/drinks, or calls went out and they had to shower and get the hell down there.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (gqEUi)

295 SVENN!!

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (Dnbau)

296 South Carolina's newest Senator, Tim Scott, is there. McConnell on the floor.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (GEICT)

297 hey, mitch, where ya been, buddy??? you got the stuff?

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (AJM+z)

298 BRICKS being SHAT

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (/0DF2)

299 If Mitt Romney made a baby with a mannequin, it'd grow up to be John Thune. Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:31 PM (39q3n) Wasn't that the plot of the movie "Mannequin"

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (Vk2pI)

300
F'ing McConnell almost ruined the filibuster by just starting to talk. bastard.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (p/cQy)

301 McConnell now- stay awake, Pops

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (8sCoq)

302

>>i hate that shit

More or less than you hate fucking monkeys?

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (CFXE2)

303 Their silence on this is deafening. What a huge, huge miscalculation. Just unbelievable.

BO is our best defense against BO. That's what he gets for listening to Val. She is a real piece of work!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (8wTle)

304 McConnell's taken the floor. soothsayer, you're up!

Posted by: discontinuity at March 06, 2013 07:35 PM (tLn51)

305 Hahaha. Imagine Ashley "Puff Mommy" Judd speaking now.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (6zgse)

306 if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks literally Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:29 PM bricks you are shitting now

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (JMmQ9)

307 Keep holding up the podium Mitch. Should have left Old Ebbit a little earlier.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (sqp6o)

308 275
if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks

literally

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:29 PM (KwX0v)

Shitting bricks yet? LOL

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (M1gmo)

309
if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks

Remember....bear down, relax, breathe. Bear down, relax, breathe....

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (eyJh9)

310 >Â§> Which one? The one with Tom Selleck and Phoebe has chicken pox.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (ZgBZU)

311 Preezy's diner with Senate GOP getting upstaged by Rand's filibuster. Love it.

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 07:36 PM (lGu1O)

312 It's obviously past Mitch's bedtime. But it's good he's there.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (6zgse)

313 284 Rep Paul Gosar tweets that he's headed over to Senate Chamber. There's apparently over a dozen members of the House now there.

If a good number of them had not left town earlier today, there would be more.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (YjDyJ)

314 308 ThunderB,

it figures the day I am finally otherwise detained *all* day I miss an honest to goodness bitchslapping old school filibuster...

Last night one of the few things I made known was my awe that brennan was on pace to sail through.

Light 'em up...

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (LRFds)

315 Oh, swell, McConnell's gonna turn into the floor version of "threadkiller." so sad.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (AJM+z)

316 Mitch stuttering all over the floor

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (M1gmo)

317 Four-in-hand, esp. wool challis, or silk foulard bow-tie when I'm being an economist. The rest of you deviants are faggots.

Posted by: Thorvald at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (1V6Pv)

318 My favorite quiet moment of the night: Mark Kirk (R-IL) wanted to participate in the filibuster but was still too weak to get up and speak with the rest...instead he painfully limped with his cane down to the well of the Senate to deliver an apple and a thermos of hot tea to Rand Paul as he spoke, back around 7:00pm. The same two items that Jimmy Stewart used to keep himself going in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (/COnL)

319 It's nice to see Mitch. Lots of ladies needed a cold shower after Cruz and Rubio,.

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (dkh08)

320 #StandWithRand The question is so simple even a retard can understand it.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (VMcEw)

321 From the right sidebar,

Would the criteria for targeting Awlawki have applied to Bill Ayers 40 yrs ago? Why not?

Come on Obama, show some balls, hit him tonight... (you can give Michelle a call and tell her to come home first)

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 07:37 PM (JtyGg)

322

>>if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks

Just let it happen. Don't force it.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (CFXE2)

323 >if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks

All your bricks r belong to us

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (8sCoq)

324 You know, if we needed to keep people awake to continue the filibuster, letting McConnell speak may have been counterproductive . . .

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (yVmMc)

325 McConnell says he'll oppose cloture vote. That's big.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (NaNKB)

326 Rep Rich Hudson is on floor

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (GEICT)

327 Mitch M. gets points for effort.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (UOjzE)

328 Holy Fucking Shit You Guys!

Mitch McConnell showed up for the filibuster!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (BuSM8)

329 Rand Paul tweeted that McConnell has joined him. When does Ashley Judd equate fiilibustering with rape?

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (mCvL4)

330 I am not watching, but I gather McConnell needs to get in the barrel?

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (+iA5G)

331

Looks like McConnel was drunk.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (gqEUi)

332 Oh no! Get McConnell out of there. He will made Rand Paul fall asleep, thus ending his filibuster.

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 07:38 PM (lGu1O)

333

of course, i will really be fapping to Ted Cruz!

And every moron just ran for their bunks.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (3D74W)

334 #StandWithRand now #1 trending topic on Twitter!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (M1gmo)

335 323
if McConnell gets up and joins in, I'll shit bricks

Remember....bear down, relax, breathe. Bear down, relax, breathe....

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 11:36 PM (eyJh9)

Rock back and forth, you can do this. We will help you get through it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (Zd/NW)

336 One nice thing about Rand Paul's filibuster: as long as he keeps going, a Democratic senator is required to preside as President of the Senate. Hence the frequent references to "Madame President," who is an (unknown to me) junior Dem senator probably wishing she were anywhere else right now.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (/COnL)

337 The internet is a pale gloss.

Posted by: Thorvald at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (1V6Pv)

338 Oh, swell, McConnell's gonna turn into the floor version of "threadkiller." so sad.

That's probably his intention.

Time for a Princess Amidala moment from the GOP back bench - "then I suggest that new leadership is needed"

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (QTHTd)

339 You guys are yanking my chain. McConnell? Really? I don't remember the last time I felt pride not shame for the Republicans.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (/v7wy)

340 My favorite quiet moment of the night: Mark Kirk (R-IL) wanted to participate in the filibuster but was still too weak to get up and speak with the rest...instead he painfully limped with his cane down to the well of the Senate to deliver an apple and a thermos of hot tea to Rand Paul as he spoke, back around 7:00pm. The same two items that Jimmy Stewart used to keep himself going in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 11:37 PM (/COnL) Awesome. Let's just hope they can all avoid squishing out between now and the next election (and beyond).

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:39 PM (Vk2pI)

341 My senator!

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:40 PM (6zgse)

342 seems the coup is complete

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:40 PM (Dnbau)

343 coming up on 12 hrs

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:40 PM (8sCoq)

344 S. Tim Scott looks like he may be 'on deck'!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:40 PM (8wTle)

345 355 TPH,

it's within their power to stop everything until Searchlight Stalker passes a budget...

they won't because they love the pork cannon but they could.

Posted by: sven10077-ArkLaTex travelogue and Researcher at March 06, 2013 07:40 PM (LRFds)

346 351

I'm really hoping it's McCaskill being forced to stay up, Jeff.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (yVmMc)

347

TEST. FK. CAP LOCK BROKEN.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (gqEUi)

348 351 One nice thing about Rand Paul's filibuster: as long as he keeps going, a Democratic senator is required to preside as President of the Senate. Hence the frequent references to "Madame President," who is an (unknown to me) junior Dem senator probably wishing she were anywhere else right now.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 11:39 PM (/COnL)

I wonder if it is little Lizzie from Mass? Such awesomeness!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (M1gmo)

349 What's also pretty fascinating is how this has slowly turned into a team effort as it's dragged along. At first it was just Rand Paul, with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee chipping in and Mark Kirk providing moral support. Then Rubio and Toomey and Cornyn come. Then Barrasso shows up (and does more than make an appearance -- he was obviously into it, given how many times he took the floor). Now it's a party!

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (/COnL)

350 Scott and two other guys standing right behind Toomey.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (yVmMc)

351 351 One nice thing about Rand Paul's filibuster: as long as he keeps going, a Democratic senator is required to preside as President of the Senate. Hence the frequent references to "Madame President," who is an (unknown to me) junior Dem senator probably wishing she were anywhere else right now.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 11:39 PM (/COnL)

--I hope it's C*ntwell.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (+iA5G)

352 Looks like the relief force has arrived. I think this filibuster's gonna go on for as long as it takes for Obama to blink.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (NaNKB)

353 I now believe Rand and friends are attempting to keep this going until the morning. The next media milestone is the morning talk shows.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 07:41 PM (UOjzE)

354 Yeah Toomey! Louie Gohmert in the background?

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 07:42 PM (lGu1O)

355 I am SO exhausted but feel guilty about going to sleep.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:42 PM (piMMO)

356 The RNC probably called Mitch to tell him that people are donating to the RNC tonight because of Rand, so Mitch had to go down to the Senate to kill the fundraising.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at March 06, 2013 07:42 PM (Zd/NW)

357
--I hope it's C*ntwell.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 11:41 PM (+iA5G)

God there are so many good choices!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:42 PM (M1gmo)

358 I am SO exhausted but feel guilty about going to sleep.
---
It happens.

Posted by: The Apostles at March 06, 2013 07:43 PM (VMcEw)

359 Mitch M. gets points for effort.>>

It was very useful for a long time senator to say (paraphrasing) The senate is meant for this in depth type of deliberation and it hasn't done any in a long time. Pointing out they haven't been doing their jobs duties and anyone not on the stage tonight should be fired.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 07:43 PM (qo244)

360 I assume Rand must remain on the floor to keep the filibuster going?

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (M1gmo)

361 325 Preezy's diner with Senate GOP getting upstaged by Rand's filibuster. Love it. Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 11:36 PM (lGu1O) Ha. Totally forgot the dinner was tonight. - i know I will be disappointed, but the folks in the background seem like they're realizing that 'Hey, we don't have to roll over every damn time.'

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (sqp6o)

362 Paul, Cruz, etc... sounds like the Tea Party might be about to rise again.

Posted by: mallfly at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (jDjlM)

363 http://preview.tinyurl.com/bu5kpeu "This is why that's NOT anti-Semitic or anti-Israel: because..." שלום עכשיו

Posted by: Thorvald at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (1V6Pv)

364 Are the other Senators and Reps behind Rand allowed.to physically support him, when he finally gets too tired?

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (dkh08)

365

the best part is no one saw this coming. They couldn't frame it, spin it, poll it, or end it

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (Dnbau)

366 I am SO exhausted but feel guilty about going to sleep. I've been sleepy all day and was planning to go to bed soon after I got home, but I think I'm going to lend our guys invisible moral support for a while.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:44 PM (6zgse)

367 Reince Priebus calling for all Republican Senators to get to the Senate floor

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (GEICT)

368 I now believe Rand and friends are attempting to keep this going until the morning.

From your lips . . .

Niedermeyer, good night, babygirl!! Love you!!!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (AJM+z)

369 376 Mitch M. gets points for effort.>>

It was very useful for a long time senator to say (paraphrasing) The senate is meant for this in depth type of deliberation and it hasn't done any in a long time. Pointing out they haven't been doing their jobs duties and anyone not on the stage tonight should be fired.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 11:43 PM (qo244)

McCain/Graham/Murkowski at least.

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (M1gmo)

370 Rand Paul almost blew it a few minutes ago when he handed off to McConnel WITHOUT saying 'without yielding the floor'

Dick Durbin tried to jump on the error, but McConnell was already talking

It was like fumbling but getting the ball back on a lucky bounce

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (8sCoq)

371 What's a "Trehead"?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (RVKHf)

372 I said I'd shit bricks, not have a baby. You guys musta been great in the LeMaas classes.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (jlW3q)

373 Minimize the damage by slowing the process.

AND get some serious face time with the public without the filter/lies by the lamestream media!

Posted by: carolina at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (8wTle)

374 I admit, I was worried Kirk would be a RINO in the Senate. Really glad to see him stepping up

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (QTHTd)

375

Arabs are fatalists. They think they have no role in the unfolding drama of existence. Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2013 10:27 PM (CgiRY)

They certainly seem to think they have a role in ending the existence of Israelis, however.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 07:45 PM (7FqJH)

376 What is an LIV?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (g7q64)

377 I just noticed . . . this is the Overnight Open Trehead.

Trehead.

Not just a Thread, a Trehead. That's like three of them, right?

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (NaNKB)

378 What's a "Trehead"?

Three chicks... at the same time.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (QTHTd)

379 Someone should bring Rand a Pop Tart or two.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (CFXE2)

380 >>>I hope it's C*ntwell.

According to Senate tradition it's almost always a junior Senator. Therefore it could well be Fauxcahontas or Heitkamp (the only newly-elected female Dem senators from 2012), but also possibly McCaskill, Shaheen, Hagan, or Klobuchar. It probably isn't an older veteran like Cantwell, Murray, Feinstein, Boxer, etc.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (/COnL)

381 LIV = low info voter

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:46 PM (6zgse)

382 Low Information Voter.

Posted by: Piercello at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (E/6f0)

383
I thought he had to stay on the floor, but he was allowed to go take a wiz earlier, so that must be allowed or bathrooms are considered part of the floor.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (p/cQy)

384

McConnell is the minority leader in the Senate. His support gives the weaker tits permission to join the fillibuster.

The tide, she is turning

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (Dnbau)

385 Trehead is what you have after you've been trepanned.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (m2IdD)

386 The RNC probably called Mitch to tell him that people are donating to the RNC tonight because of Rand, so Mitch had to go down to the Senate to kill the fundraising. **** Skip the RNC. Donate to RandPAC.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (piMMO)

387 Reince Priebus calling for all Republican Senators to get to the Senate floor Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk

Nice! I do like that guy. Even if I won't send him a damn dime until shit changes in a very major way. Good for him!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (AJM+z)

388 >Someone should bring Rand a Pop Tart or two.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 11:46 PM (CFXE2)

He was pounding down Bite Size Snickers earlier tonight

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:47 PM (8sCoq)

389 He can kill with a drone, while his wife gobbles fries

He can ruin your faith with his Obamacare lies

And he only reveals what he wants you to see

He hides like a child, but he's always a tyrant to me

He can lead you to ruin, he can take you or leave you

You can ask for the truth, but he'll try to deceive you

And he'll take what you give him as long as you pay the fee

Yeah, he steals like a thief, but he's always a tyrant to me

CHORUS

Ohhh... he takes care of himself

He can wait if he wants, 'cause it's on your dime

Ohhh... and he never gives a damn

And he never gives in, he just golfs all the time

And he'll promise you more than the garden of Eden

Then he'll carelessly raise taxes and laugh while you're bleeding

But he'll bring out the angriest and the worst you can be

Blame it all on Barack 'cause he's always a tyrant to me

CHORUS

He's infrequently kind and he's suddenly cruel

He can do as he pleases, he's a socialist tool

And he can't be convicted, the press lets him off scott free

And the most he will do is throw hellfires at you,

But he's always a tyrant to me

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (xKC/c)

390 This is fascinating to watch through you guys, you guys. Good tactical politics, too.

Posted by: Piercello at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (E/6f0)

391 ...but guys are horny ALL the time!

Posted by: Thorvald at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (1V6Pv)

392 Passed the 12 hour mark

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (GEICT)

393
"They certainly seem to think they have a role in ending the existence of Israelis, however."

Yeah, how goes that?
I rest my case.

Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (CgiRY)

394 According to Senate tradition it's almost always a junior Senator. Therefore it could well be Fauxcahontas or Heitkamp (the only newly-elected female Dem senators from 2012), but also possibly McCaskill, Shaheen, Hagan, or Klobuchar. Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 11:46 PM (/COnL) Or Moocowski. Oh wait, she's a "Republican"? Huh.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (6zgse)

395 Every R Senator who cant drag his overfed ass back to the Senate for this needs to face some really hard questions. And maybe a primary challenge. This is an all hands evolution.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (pC72t)

396 212 This thread needs a HOT GINGER with NICE RIPE MELONS!! http://tinyurl.com/d23w7nn Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 06, 2013 11:20 PM (+OTLF) I hate you.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (d3+X3)

397 This is so frigg'n awesome. Been listening via 'putor with another opened window, while making my web rounds since 4'ish. Guess Harry will have to rethink his sched for tomorrow now that Rand Pauls back up singers arrived.

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (lGu1O)

398 Niedermeyer, good night, babygirl!! Love you!!! *** You too, dear girl. But I think I'm gonna hang bit longer. We're watching something quite special I do believe.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:48 PM (piMMO)

399 >I thought he had to stay on the floor, but he was allowed to go take a wiz earlier, so that must be allowed or bathrooms are considered part of the floor.

An empty Big Gulp off-camera will do

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:49 PM (8sCoq)

400 You leave a trehead open overnight, infection's liable to set in.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 07:49 PM (m2IdD)

401 Not answering question is SOP. FnF has a bunch of them. Benghazi has a bunch.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 07:49 PM (VMcEw)

402 Did everyone email your senator and ask them why someone from Kentucky has to ask whether the government can murder citizens of your state?

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 07:49 PM (PlzOe)

403 When Is John McCain coming to the podium? *** I'm sure he'd LOVE to get up there and negotiate an end to the #filiblizzard

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:49 PM (piMMO)

404 I'm just sorry that I couldn't watch all of the filibuster speeches.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (Vk2pI)

405 Now the less than principled Senators hit the floor, riding in on the coattails of Rand and Cruz...Their staffs must have seen Twitter blow up and nudged them into action after dinner with TFG. This is setting up as a battle of wills now. The admin can't back down now and Rand has forced them into a corner where even the libs have to disagree with TFG.

Posted by: Tony253 at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (3yMFT)

406 Did everyone email your senator and ask them why someone from Kentucky has to ask whether the government can murder citizens of your state? *** I texted the hell out of AND spoke to a staffer in Rubio's office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (piMMO)

407 Ummm, I'm off to bed. This is weird.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (UOM48)

408 DrewM had an interesting point on Twitter: 4 high profile but very junior minority party Sens just picked a fight w/ POTUS over his CIA nominee and pulled the GOP into the fight.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (GEICT)

409 @423. Yeah, I wish I had tuned in earlier.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:50 PM (6zgse)

410 We're watching something quite special I do believe. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 11:48 PM (piMMO) That's what I get. But am fully ready for the let down Damn it feels good pushing back.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (sqp6o)

411 IT'S A PAULNIGHTER

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (8sCoq)

412 We're watching something quite special I do believe.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 11:48 PM (piMMO)

I know, me, too. Fuck it, I already missed Survivor. Want a beer? I still gots lots.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (AJM+z)

413 Rand's filibuster got its own Twitter account: https://twitter.com/RP_Filibuster

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (Vk2pI)

414 What is an LIV? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 11:46 PM Low Information Voter

Posted by: AltonJackson (new content up) at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (JMmQ9)

415 When Tomey used the words "...use lethal force within the territory of the United States..." I thought of scene in Bourne Legacy with that drone strike in Alaska. Perhaps Obama and Co. are worried about terrorist training camps in ANWAR.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (UOjzE)

416 I'd love to get a transcript of the entire filibuster.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:51 PM (Vk2pI)

417 I texted the hell out of AND spoke to a staffer in Rubio's office. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 11:50 PM (piMMO) What did they have to say?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:52 PM (GEICT)

418 Why are the Republicans allowing jackoffs to be yucking it up behind each speaker? WTF?

Posted by: sherlock at March 06, 2013 07:52 PM (qIFL7)

419 Dan McLaughlin (aka BaseballCrank) on Twitter with the line of the night: "So, political leaders, if you train your kid as an eye doctor, maybe he'll be Rand Paul, and maybe he'll be Bashar Assad."

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:52 PM (/COnL)

420 I know, me, too. Fuck it, I already missed Survivor. Want a beer? I still gots lots. *** One sip of alcohol and I'd be a goner tonight!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:52 PM (piMMO)

421 397 Someone should bring Rand a Pop Tart or two.

*****

Just hook him up with some internet pron. Who has time to eat or sleep when there is internet porn.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 06, 2013 07:52 PM (SkyIE)

422 I wish they would tie this drone thing in with what Obama was NOT willing to do-send in the drones to protect Americans who were being attacked-in Benghazi- They have a golden unfiltered opportunity to air out that dirty laundry, and tie in the trampling of the video guy's First Amendment rights to the world, and give Hilary! a shout out for that Pakistani commercial apologizing for our First Amendment, and both of them lying to the country and the families, in front of the damn coffins. And then TFG jetting off to Vegas. I am still beyond pissed about that-that shitshow should have lost him the election, no question.

Posted by: goldilocks at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (/y6zs)

423 423 I'm just sorry that I couldn't watch all of the filibuster speeches.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 11:50 PM (Vk2pI)

CSpan's website has a video library and the speeches end up there pretty soon after they're given.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (K+I6z)

424 >I'd love to get a transcript of the entire filibuster.

The Congressional Record

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (8sCoq)

425 398 According to Senate tradition it's almost always a junior Senator. Therefore it could well be Fauxcahontas or Heitkamp (the only newly-elected female Dem senators from 2012), but also possibly McCaskill, Shaheen, Hagan, or Klobuchar. It probably isn't an older veteran like Cantwell, Murray, Feinstein, Boxer, etc.

Sen. Brian Schatz

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (YjDyJ)

426 Starting to think Sen. Paul is keeping this filibuster gong because he knows the JEF has a drone outside waiting for his "cracka ass"

Posted by: BallOfHate at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (ydcw9)

427
I am glad these other guys are showing up for support, but it was alot funner to watch when it was just Paul, Cruz, Rubio and a couple of others quoting the Alamo, Godfather and Ayn Rand.. As well as reading tweets, which was awesome.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (p/cQy)

428

Man, Rand Paul is going to get SO laid at CPAC....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 06, 2013 07:53 PM (kdS6q)

429

ahem. Isn't this the issue that Beck said would be a game changer yesterday? Just sayin. Wonder if Paul told him what he was going to do

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:54 PM (Dnbau)

430 Bigger loser tonight besides TFG: Pat Leahy or Dick Durbin?

God, how those two HOWLED about the so-called atrocities of Bush.

Partisan pussies.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:54 PM (yVmMc)

431 Threadjacking of lefties hash #WhyRepublicansNeedToGo in progress, join in when you can and add #StandWithRand

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 07:54 PM (mCvL4)

432 319Hahaha. Imagine Ashley "Puff Mommy" Judd speaking now.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 11:36 PM (6zgse)

BWahahahahaha! Puff Mommy is a keeper.

Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2013 07:54 PM (CWlPF)

433 It would be funny as hell if somebody brought Rand a hate shake to the podium.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (qo244)

434 Durbin Dick

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (8sCoq)

435 Shocker: Dick Durbin now on the floor (?!)

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (/COnL)

436

I emailed Ron Johnson's office earlier tonight and asked why the hell my senior senator was dining with the dog-eater rather than giving Rand support at the Capitol.

I like Johnson. I'm disappointed in him today.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (7FqJH)

437 aaaaahhhhhh!!!!

go fuck yaself, DICK!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (AJM+z)

438 Damn, that's twice that Rand almost screwed up. And he was saved by.....Durbin????

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (GEICT)

439

HELP. CAP LOCK STUCK.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (gqEUi)

440 Durbin trying to hijack the filibuster now.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (NaNKB)

441 Oh great. Dick dick. What a fuckface.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (PlzOe)

442

'Suck a bag of cocks, Senator Durbin.'

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 07:55 PM (/qkOw)

443 Come to think of it, it could be Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) presiding.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (/COnL)

444 If waterboarding enemy combatants comes up, I'm all in you guys.

Posted by: John McCain at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (m2IdD)

445
Awww. Dickless wants to get his scrotized face in front of the camera again.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (eyJh9)

446 418 >I thought he had to stay on the floor, but he was allowed to go take a
wiz earlier, so that must be allowed or bathrooms are considered part of
the floor.

An empty Big Gulp off-camera will do

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 11:49 PM (8sCoq)

I've done it with less.

Posted by: N. Novak at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (+iA5G)

447 turd durbin showed up.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (iqWMW)

448

ughhh

Durbin must be hearing from his constituants from Dearbornistan

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (Dnbau)

449 >>>I emailed Ron Johnson's office earlier tonight and asked why the hell my senior senator was dining with the dog-eater rather than giving Rand support at the Capitol.

>>>I like Johnson. I'm disappointed in him today.

He's in the chamber right now, preparing to speak, from what I'm reading.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (/COnL)

450 Durbin filibustering the filibuster. This is pricelessly funny.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (NaNKB)

451 of course, i will really be fapping to Ted Cruz! Yay!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Fapping Ghosts at March 06, 2013 07:56 PM (AJPw5)

452 Durbin bringing up 911, what a fucking loser!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 07:57 PM (vgd4f)

453 Turbin Durbin want to disarm U.S. citizens, but give preezy cart blanc to blow U.S. citizens or cities to bits?

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 07:57 PM (lGu1O)

454 Durbin is going to invoke 9/11 to support domestic drone use

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:57 PM (8sCoq)

455 show us your tits, Sen. Durbin. we know you got 'em . . .

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 07:57 PM (AJM+z)

456 Does Dick Durbin always look this constipated?

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 07:57 PM (dkh08)

457 If you've got a point, Dickie boy, feel free to make it sometime this century . . .

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (NaNKB)

458 You can almost see Jarrett's hand up Durbin's back. Is this the best they've got?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (QEUX+)

459 If you had listened for any 5 minutes at any point today, you Dick, you would've known that Rand had no problems with Bush potentially shooting down Flight 93 and that it has nothing to do with the issue today

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (yVmMc)

460 The last Democrat from Illinois who wasn't a complete crook was probably Paul Simon.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (m2IdD)

461 Durben is trying to use 9-11 as an excuse. Remember when it was evil war-mongering neo-cons that did that?

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (Vk2pI)

462 stinkers

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (OWQ+e)

463 What did they have to say? *** It was an hour or so before Rubio spoke and I spoke to a guy in Orlando because the D.C. office was closed. The number was jammed so I called the D.C. number and got transferred. I told him that I am a constituent and wanted to know if Rubio would be joining Paul on the floor in a show of support. The staffer said "Well, I don't think the Senator will be able to speak because Rand Paul is filibustering." To which I responded that Lee and Cruz had seen fit to make the effort. He said he'd pass along my message along with all the others he was receiving. I gt the feeling that Rubio, of his own volition, had no intention of joining Rand.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 07:58 PM (piMMO)

464 Durbin - When an the US use lethal force against citizens? --- Good question - it seems to me it's ALL lethal force, depending on how far you want to take it. A traffic stop is eventually lethal force, if you refuse to stop.

Posted by: Whatev at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (A7Wh1)

465

are we going to be hearing from Schumer now too?

gonna be pretty hard for the MFM to embargo the fillibuster with them dem heavy hitters filling their pants on the senate floor

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (Dnbau)

466 474 how long till he says bushes fault Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 06, 2013 11:56 PM (+OTLF) Yep, that was my first thought when he came up. But, but, but.....BOOOOOOSSSSSHHH!!!11!!!@!! And of course, like his lord mangod Obama, he's creating strawmen. I hope no one has a lighter in there.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (6zgse)

467 390 I said I'd shit bricks, not have a baby. You guys musta been great in the LeMaas classes. Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 11:45 PM (jlW3q) Didn't Sterling Mouse win the Le Maas one year?

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (d3+X3)

468 Durbin, an asshole, has completely missed Rand Paul's point

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (8sCoq)

469 385 Reince Priebus calling for all Republican Senators to get to the Senate floor

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 11:45 PM (GEICT)

Bad move on his part. If Rand really wants to keep this going, he'll need rested people in the AM to help him out. If there is a shred of coordination going on behind the scenes, then hopefully there are GOP Senators who are sleeping now who will be on the floor in the morning to provide relief for those who were up all night with Rand.

Posted by: joejm65 at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (UZuc4)

470
Fuckin Durbin trying to totally ignore what Rand has been saying all day: NONCOMBATANT, DUMBASS.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (p/cQy)

471 Thanking The Lord for the Mute button .... Somebody Please get Durbin Away from the microphone !!!!!

Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (vWecu)

472 When a tidal wave comes, or when a shark bites off your arm, you have to ask, "What else don't we need to surf?" "I don't need easy. I just need possible." -Bethany Hamilton, soul surfer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KlpD6dr7Qw The best surf movie ever, even better than "Monstertorsdag" (2004)!

Posted by: Thorvald at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (1V6Pv)

473 Fuck you Turban Durbin. Can he or another end the filibuster?

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (sqp6o)

474 Why is Dick Durban speaking?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (BuSM8)

475 Too bad your colleagues spent 4 years calling Tea Party terrorists.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (iqWMW)

476 395 I just noticed . . . this is the Overnight Open Trehead. Trehead. Not just a Thread, a Trehead. That's like three of them, right? Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 11:46 PM (NaNKB) ----- You forgot to include a tpyo.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 07:59 PM (wk9P4)

477 Durbin's making the case for Paul. This whole argument is about under what circumstances drone use on citizen would be Constitutional. "Immediate" threat dumbass.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (GEICT)

478 Durban: that dog won't hunt.

You're saying that you believe that yes, you Democrats have the absolute right to kill innocent American citizens whenever the hell you want to.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (NaNKB)

479 Can he do this? Was he given the floor, and if so, by whom?

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (vgd4f)

480 452 Threadjacking of lefties hash #WhyRepublicansNeedToGo in progress, join in when you can and add #StandWithRand

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 11:54 PM (mCvL4)

--Is there a linky summarizing that?

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (+iA5G)

481 he knows people are tired and want to go nitey-nite. he is trying to facilitate that. somebody needs to throw a half-nelson on him. i nominate Rubio, since he was all quoting Whiz Kaleefa (sp?) and all. or somebody could cut a bitch. just get somebody on there who won't induce a coma in those of us who are staying up late, drinking our asses off, to support the effort.

cripes.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (AJM+z)

482
Does Dick Durbin always look this constipated?

Little Dick is trying to shut down Rand Paul.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (eyJh9)

483 its a drag

we should force it

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (OWQ+e)

484 no straight men ever tied a tie with one of those knots. he may not have know he was gay but he was / is.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (Z9EHQ)

485 Durbin is a fucking caaaahhhkk.

Posted by: Berserker at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (FMbng)

486 So Dick Turban's admitting that 9-11 was, in fact, NOT an inside job? Do his constituents know?

Posted by: Dante at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (0m62M)

487 You forgot to include a tpyo.
Nobody's prefect.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (NaNKB)

488 Durbin, he already said that was legitimate.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (iqWMW)

489 Durbin's attempting to redirect the discussion.STFU.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (QEUX+)

490 Apples and oranges, you puffy little shit. Crawl back into your bottle of Stoli.

Posted by: Pug Mahon what is Serious You Guys at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (6rcHp)

491 Presiding Officer is now Heidtkamp.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 08:00 PM (YjDyJ)

492 Seriously you guys. Why is Dickie Durban speaking? Did Rand yield for a question?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (BuSM8)

493 If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to other Americans with remotely piloted drones, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis in anti-partisan sweeps, Soviets in East Prussia, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of American civilians.

Posted by: Little Dickey Durbin at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (Q9qpj)

494

>>>I like Johnson.

Preach it, sister!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (83cdG)

495 Way to completely miss the issue, Senator Dick.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (6zgse)

496 Durbin is trying to give the MFM clips so they can falsely frame the debate that Crazeee Rand/Ron Paul wants to make us helpless in the face of terrorism

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (Dnbau)

497 The last Democrat from Illinois who wasn't a complete crook was probably Paul Simon. Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 11:58 PM (m2IdD) Too bad he quite the Senate and joined up with Art Garfunkel. Some nice tunes, though...

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (Vk2pI)

498 Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 06, 2013 11:48 PM (xKC/c)

Bravo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2013 08:01 PM (673KB)

499 Can he do this? Was he given the floor, and if so, by whom?
Paul yielded to him for a question.

Something he didn't actually have to do.

If Durbin continues to be a dick (heh) about it, expect the Republicans to ignore the hell out of him as this goes forward.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (NaNKB)

500 The Liberal Dick is trying to get Rand off his game and lose the floor while he is tiring...

Posted by: Tony253 at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (3yMFT)

501 518 Seriously you guys. Why is Dickie Durban speaking? Did Rand yield for a question?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 07, 2013 12:01 AM (BuSM

Yes.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (K+I6z)

502 Rand, on his feet for 12 hours, is more coherent than Durbin. The hell?

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (dkh08)

503 485 Durben is trying to use 9-11 as an excuse. Remember when it was evil war-mongering neo-cons that did that? Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 11:58 PM (Vk2pI) And Paul is tearing it apart.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (sqp6o)

504 484 The last Democrat from Illinois who wasn't a complete crook was probably Paul Simon.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at March 06, 2013 11:58 PM (m2IdD)

--and wasn't he played on SNL in the '80s by . . . Al Franken?

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (+iA5G)

505 i love her officer, you know whats best

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:02 PM (OWQ+e)

506 521 Way to completely miss the issue, Senator Dick.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 07, 2013 12:01 AM (6zgse)

This!

And he must have drawn the short straw, you know he is pissed that he has to be there!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:03 PM (vgd4f)

507 442 I wish they would tie this drone thing in with what Obama was NOT willing to do-send in the drones to protect Americans who were being attacked-in Benghazi- Exactly. And it seems easy to bring up fast n furious given the theme of overreach. And the 2nd amendment. Then again, Rand is being carefull (even after 12 hrs) , to stay on issue.... Which is probably best. Drive the wedge. Make it THE hill!

Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at March 06, 2013 08:03 PM (X3xYu)

508

>>he quite the Senate and joined up with Art Garfunkel.

Whom I've seen naked.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:03 PM (83cdG)

509 Little Barry O wants to go to bed and he can't sleep because Rand Paul speaking extemporaneously without a teleprompter.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:03 PM (iqWMW)

510 now gonna say something like "the Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:03 PM (Dnbau)

511 Rand grows his hair out a bit more, and he's Kramer from Seinfeld.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (Q9qpj)

512 522 Durbin is trying to give the MFM clips so they can falsely frame the debate that Crazeee Rand/Ron Paul wants to make us helpless in the face of terrorism Posted by: thunderb at March 07, 2013 12:01 AM So true.

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (/0DF2)

513 Ok, kids, gotta go. Hope to see the filibuster going strong when I'm sucking down my morning coffee in the, er, morning.

Posted by: filbert at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (NaNKB)

514 I remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth over Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was sent to Gitmo and held indefinitely.

First part was fine, second part was wrong. But at least he was arrested.

TFG would want to shoot the guy walking down the streets of Chicago (a normal circumstance nowadays, but I digress).

THAT is the issue

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (yVmMc)

515 is there some kind of rule they have to keep their ties on? cause, it is already tomorrow there and, if I were Rand, I'd be all, ima go put on my ratty sweats, y'all, brb. you never want to underestimate the power of the ratty sweats constituency. we are a force to be reckoned with.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (AJM+z)

516 513 You forgot to include a tpyo. Nobody's prefect. Posted by: filbert at March 07, 2013 12:00 AM (NaNKB) ---- What are you, some kind of nut?

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (wk9P4)

517 The only thing Durbin is doing is giving Think Progress, TPM, KOs, and Media Matters footage of why Rand is an obstructionist. Hell, even the folks over at DU are evenly split that the D's should be standing w/ Rand.

Posted by: sybilll at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (YhIjB)

518 Sen. Dick, English - do you understand it?

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (6zgse)

519 And durbin got his journalist talking points in his hands, sheesh, it should not be that difficult to beat these assholes!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:04 PM (vgd4f)

520 Dicky Durbin, the token dem.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (gqEUi)

521 And who is Madam Secretary?

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (sqp6o)

522 Durbin shut him down earlier.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (iqWMW)

523 I kind of don't like Dick Turbin

Posted by: Pug Mahon what is Serious You Guys at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (6rcHp)

524 Time to hit the hookers with my buddy Bob.

Posted by: Dick Turban at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (m2IdD)

525 I love telling others what to do

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (OWQ+e)

526 This is starting to get under the skin of the Dem's if Durbin's resorting to this.

Posted by: AD at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (Qxqlx)

527 And there's the next Dem talking point, courtesy of Durbin: We need to have more hearings on the subject, study it more.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (K+I6z)

528 Paul just chewed up Durbin

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:05 PM (GEICT)

529 Hey Durbin, we don't want our 'cafe experience' ruined by a stinking drone, get it.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:06 PM (iqWMW)

530

is there some kind of rule they have to keep their ties on? cause, it is already tomorrow there and, if I were Rand, I'd be all, ima go put on my ratty sweats, y'all, brb. you never want to underestimate the power of the ratty sweats constituency. we are a force to be reckoned with.

LOL. Have mine on.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:06 PM (gqEUi)

531 I want a Stand With Rand t-shirt, the one that says "community organizer for the constitution"

Posted by: The littl shyning man at March 06, 2013 08:06 PM (PH+2B)

532 Dick Durbin, senior member of the Juicebox Mafia?

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:06 PM (yVmMc)

533

Durbin picked up his talking points from Mika

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:06 PM (Dnbau)

534 Rand grows his hair out a bit more, and he's Kramer from Seinfeld.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 07, 2013 12:04 AM (Q9qpj)

you owe me a keyboard, buddy, and you're damn lucky I didn't upset my can of beer when I lost my shit laughing at that.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (AJM+z)

535 You can almost see Jarrett's hand up Durbin's back.

Now THERE's an image I didn't need

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (QTHTd)

536
The Liberal Dick is trying to get Rand off his game and lose the floor while he is tiring...

Yep. He's offering some meetings, and investigations....while refusing to accept a simple non binding resolution that states that killing U.S. citizens that do not pose an immediate risk is wrong.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (eyJh9)

537 Durbin just gave his opponent in the next election a metric-shit-ton of fodder for LIV commercials.

Posted by: BallOfHate at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (ydcw9)

538 542 Yep. And if Padilla's underage kid were killed along with him, TFG would shrug and say "yeah sucks to have a shitty father".

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (dkh08)

539 Ah, the budget.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (gqEUi)

540 @guypbenson If Durbin agrees with Paul, why does he object to voting on the non-binding "sense of the Senate" resolution?

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (YjDyJ)

541 555 And there's the next Dem talking point, courtesy of Durbin: We need to have more hearings on the subject, study it more.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 07, 2013 12:05 AM (K+I6z)

Yeah, lets do a study to decide if obama can murder American citizens at will..

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:07 PM (vgd4f)

542 Ron Johnson is right!

Posted by: garrett JOhnson at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (83cdG)

543 raykon alert

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (QTHTd)

544 The entire Senate debate over the AUMF for Iraq in 2002 lasted 10 hours.

A handful of GOP senators, led by Rand Paul, have shown more sense and backbone today than the entire US Senate (especially Dems like Hillary~! and Breckboy Edwards) did back then.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (yVmMc)

545 LOL. Have mine on.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2013 12:06 AM (gqEUi)

You're wearing a TIE???

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (AJM+z)

546 thats my song

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (OWQ+e)

547 Why is Durbin speaking? Can he use that for a parliamentary maneuver? If there's another DemonRat on the way, can he move to adjourn and get a second?

Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (CWlPF)

548 543 is there some kind of rule they have to keep their ties on? cause, it is already tomorrow there and, if I were Rand, I'd be all, ima go put on my ratty sweats, y'all, brb. you never want to underestimate the power of the ratty sweats constituency. we are a force to be reckoned with.

Posted by: Peaches at March 07, 2013 12:04 AM (AJM+z)

Ties are required, yes. String ties became acceptable after Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) was elected to the Senate.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (K+I6z)

549 >Can he or another end the filibuster?

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 11:59 PM (sqp6o)

Only Paul can end it, by yielding the floor.

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (8sCoq)

550 And keep in mind that Rand hasn't peed in 12 hours.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:08 PM (piMMO)

551 Exclamation points and caps, oh my. And then there's Comic Sans font (in docs). See "I am Comic Sans, A$$hole"
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (QEUX+)

552 Hey Dick can we expect a President to make those decisions you brought up even after saying "I will not target US citizens". And let the citizens and judiciary make the decision whether he should be submitted to prosecution due to that statement? Which is the same I have to make shooting an intruder in my family's home. I'd like to think the president is willingness to forfeit himself for America is at least as passionate as mine is for my family.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (qo244)

553 Wish Rand Paul would have said to Durbin if use of drone would have been justified against Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood "work place incident" killer. What a shame the families of those killed or those injured were denied combat pay or death benefits, because of the designation of "work place incident."

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (lGu1O)

554 "Mr. Phil I. Buster calling for Barack Obama, please pick up the white courtesy phone..."

Posted by: Pope Cavil I, Cylon Catholic Church at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (mbxHg)

555 Durbin picked up his talking points from Mika Posted by: thunderb at March 07, 2013 12:06 AM (Dnbau) Nah. Yeah, what he said was dumb, but I didn't hear any hmms, ahs!, huhs or see any inquisitive head tilts. Plus as strawy as his points were, he did convey them in full adult sentences.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (6zgse)

556

Durbin, an asshole, has completely missed Rand Paul's point Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 11:59 PM (8sCoq)

No, he didn't. He's just trying to do what the Dems always do - lie in order to make Rand look "extreme."

Fortunately, since this is a filibuster and not "Meet the Press" Rand has plenty of time to answer him.

That's what I'm loving about this -Candy Crowley can't jump in to rescue Barry.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (7FqJH)

557 572

The more exciting and media-driven the Senate floor is, the more privacy the Searchlight Strangler has in choosing and attacking his underage victims.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (yVmMc)

558 Only Paul can end it, by yielding the floor. *** However, if he yields to a willing party, I believe they can continue their own filibuster. Right?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (piMMO)

559 Mind you, at the time Colorado sent the nighthorse to the Senate, the 'horse was a (D). Bless him, he later saw sense

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:09 PM (QTHTd)

560 waging a war on Americans

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (Dnbau)

561 Johnson hammering the Dem led Senate as dysfunctional and not doing their job.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (GEICT)

562 I like that they crush the whole package. I love that.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (iqWMW)

563 Rand Paul is a fairly young guy. He looks fit. I think he should go for Thurmond's record. I also think Dick Durbin's attempts to throw Paul off his game and capture incriminating soundbites are short-sighted from a strategic perspective. There's an opportunity here for both parties in the Senate to show the public that they're a serious legislative body working in the interests of the country, to restore the dignity of the Senate. Instead, Durbin (no doubt under orders from his party and the White House) is going for the gotcha.

Posted by: troyriser at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (ptcFO)

564 580 "And keep in mind that Rand hasn't peed in 12 hours."

Actually, I've seen him walk up behind Ted Cruz after yielding to a Cruz question, presumably headed to the men's room.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (yVmMc)

565 547 And durbin got his journalist talking points in his hands, sheesh, it should not be that difficult to beat these assholes! Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 12:04 AM (vgd4f) LAG, my thoughts exactly. We have reps without note cards losing to people that have note-cards saying 170 million jobs will be lost, that Guam will tip over, and we had a human mission/visited Mars. Idiocy is a badge nowadays.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:10 PM (sqp6o)

566 You're wearing a TIE???

Posted by: Peaches at March 07, 2013 12:08 AM (AJM+z)

Yes, my Raiders tie. lol. Ron Johnson bring some game.

brb, need another beer.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:11 PM (gqEUi)

567 Robert, you out there?

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 08:11 PM (+9AX9)

568 1 White House petition asking Obama to respond... https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/respond-senator-rand-paul-drone-strikes/Kq6d9S3l (Not that it'll make a big difference, but every signature there is visible public support for Rand Paul.) Posted by: discontinuity at March 06, 2013 10:08 PM (tLn51) ---- You must register in order to sign, and wait for an email response to complete the registration. I'm still waiting; in the meantime I'm wondering if the reason I haven't received the email is because they don't want any more signatures.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:11 PM (wk9P4)

569 sounds like Johnson has had a drinky or three with TFG tonight

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:11 PM (Dnbau)

570

>>No where in site during what is arguably the most exciting night in senate history since who the fuck knows.

He rather enjoyed the last Boy Scout troop that visited.

He spent forever showing them around the Senate locker room and showers.

Posted by: Crichton at March 06, 2013 08:11 PM (CYY40)

571 Johnson just said "every member coming down here for support". Did I hear that correctly?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:12 PM (GEICT)

572 589 Mind you, at the time Colorado sent the nighthorse to the Senate, the 'horse was a (D). Bless him, he later saw sense

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 07, 2013 12:09 AM (QTHTd)

Forgot about that. Thanks!

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 08:12 PM (K+I6z)

573 Well, gotta catch a plane in the morning or else I would stay up for the fun. See you guys later!

Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2013 08:12 PM (CWlPF)

574 nickgillespie ‏@nickgillespie

Durbin's "question" = George Costanza's Jerk Store comeback. Just not working, friend #standwithrand

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:12 PM (yVmMc)

575 Is it just me, or does that Ron Johnson seem like a backstabber?

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 08:12 PM (pC72t)

576 The more exciting and media-driven the Senate floor is, the more privacy the Searchlight Strangler has in choosing and attacking his underage victims. Posted by: The Q at March 07, 2013 12:09 AM (yVmMc) Shit. I didn't consider that.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 08:13 PM (UOjzE)

577 I wanted to smack Durbin's smarmy smirk off his fat face.

Reminds me of "that guy". The one at the office or work who's so sure they have the answers and so sure that you don't but he'll entertain your discussion so that he looks fair by allowing you an opportunity to present your stupid and ineffective ideas.

THAT guy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:13 PM (qyv02)

578

As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 07, 2013 12:11

You're not one of the useless idiots.

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 08:13 PM (+9AX9)

579 593 I like that they crush the whole package. I love that.

Posted by: madamex at March 07, 2013 12:10 AM (iqWMW)

Ooo, do tell!

Posted by: Kal Penn at March 06, 2013 08:13 PM (+iA5G)

580 isn't he a tea partier? the dude from SC?

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:13 PM (Dnbau)

581 Only Paul can end it, by yielding the floor. Posted by: Jones in CO at March 07, 2013 12:08 AM (8sCoq) That's what I thought. But the bathroom break had me worried.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (sqp6o)

582 LAG, my thoughts exactly. We have reps without note cards losing to people that have note-cards saying 170 million jobs will be lost, that Guam will tip over, and we had a human mission/visited Mars.

Idiocy is a badge nowadays.

Posted by: RWC at March 07, 2013 12:10 AM (sqp6o)

Is it just me, or did that last republican give the dem talking points? I think Johnson was his name..

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (vgd4f)

583 Big data, the mastas are coming for you

Her I come

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (OWQ+e)

584 My 582 argument really boils down to why is the President allowed Castle Doctrine immunity for anyone just in his yard and the rest of us aren't

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (qo244)

585 Tim Scott starting strong

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (GEICT)

586 Who's the blonde who just walked by in the background?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (RVKHf)

587 Tim Scott. lol. CBC is shittin.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (gqEUi)

588 Oh Dem's gotta hate Tim Scott speaking against "The One."

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (lGu1O)

589 Sen Tim Scott just said stand with Rand, Love this so much!!!!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:14 PM (vgd4f)

590 #StandWithRand still #1, #filibuster #5, conservatives bashing Dick Durbin's twitter account moves it to #3.

HAHAHAAA!!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (M1gmo)

591 571 Ron Johnson is right!

Posted by: garrett JOhnson at March 07, 2013 12:08 AM (83cdG)

====

So is Olaf Johnson about garrett Johnson being right about Ron Johnson being right!

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (PlzOe)

592 You know all footage of Sen. Scott will be embargoed by the MFM. Or they'll show footage with the sound off and put "Sen. Tim Scott (D-SC)" on the screen. And say that he was arguing against Sen. Paul.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (6zgse)

593 Okay, this guy's not a Republican, is he? Cause, hullo, this just got ramped up a notch, imho.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (AJM+z)

594 Anyone else calling out their no-show Representatives and Senators on Twitter?

Posted by: Country Singer at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (CgcOa)

595 This is the first time Tim Scott has spoken on the Senate floor since he was appointed to replace DeMint.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (K+I6z)

596 You know who Durbin was crying over, in that instance, Detainee 603, the 20th Hijacker, that would have crashed Flight 93, into Washington. he was also a source for the Courier.

Posted by: archie goodwin at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (Jsiw/)

597 It'd be interesting to see if Durbin is on record as outraged over Bush and Cheney evesdropping and monitoring everyone's library checkouts. I'll bet my leftnut he is.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (KeJAW)

598 Raciisitttt. Clearly a corn-bread brother

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (Dnbau)

599 Anybody want a drone strike on noncombatants, I got one right here under my desk.

Posted by: Tim Scott (R-SC) at March 06, 2013 08:15 PM (Q9qpj)

600 I saw the blonde too, I did.

Posted by: A-Hole at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (wsGWu)

601 580 And keep in mind that Rand hasn't peed in 12 hours. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2013 12:08 AM (piMMO) ---- Hopefully he's prepared with a leg bag.

Posted by: Dave S. at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (UvR6d)

602 puppehtoff

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (CYY40)

603

609 Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 07, 2013 12:13 AM (+OTLF)

Ha!! Good comeback!

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (7FqJH)

604 589 Mind you, at the time Colorado sent the nighthorse to the Senate, the 'horse was a (D). Bless him, he later saw sense Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 07, 2013 12:09 AM (QTHTd) ------ My sister-in-law was his press secretary, and quit when he switched parties. saying as a Republican, he wouldn't be able to uphold abortion rights well enough. He was kind of unusual, since he favored some abortion restrictions designed to protect the health of the mother and reduce likelihood of a women being coerced to abort.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (wk9P4)

605 Major problem with Rand though, besides his whack job daddy. His hair is not at all presidential.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (pC72t)

606 The jerk store called, they ran out of you!

Posted by: Dick Turban at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (yJYwC)

607 Big data should scare even the simple

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (OWQ+e)

608 Actually, I've seen him walk up behind Ted Cruz after yielding to a Cruz question, presumably headed to the men's room. *** jamie Dupree cited the rules and said that since he holds the floor, he cannot sit nor can he leave the chambers even while someone else is speaking.,

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:16 PM (piMMO)

609 who is the supernaturally tan ginger

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (Dnbau)

610

Pretty sure Candy Crawley can't physically JUMP. The Laws of physics clearly state that you need a supplementary power source to boost that much mass against gravity that quickly.

LMAO.

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (+9AX9)

611 TIm Scott, what did the GOP promise him some chicken and watermelon or fried chicken and waffles? (I'm a liberal, i can say that.... But RACIST!!!)

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (sqp6o)

612 OMG the mushy republicans are lining up to kiss the dem mushy asses, Fuck them!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (vgd4f)

613 Major problem with Rand though, besides his whack job daddy. His hair is not at all presidential. *** Not to be nasty but, I couldn't give a shit less.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (piMMO)

614 This is the first time Tim Scott has spoken on the Senate floor since he was appointed to replace DeMint.

And it's something that matters. Best starting speech evar

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:17 PM (QTHTd)

615 Yum. Jeff Flake.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (piMMO)

616

I am hearted be all of the support Rand is getting.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (gqEUi)

617 Is Jeff Flake cognitively delayed?

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (CYY40)

618 Oh my God, this guy has a great tan. *sob sob sniffle sob*

Posted by: John Boner at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (rdy8w)

619
Amazing how busy the Senate got in the last couple hours. For most the day, there have been just a few people....Paul, Cruz, etc. Now there's people all over the place. I love seeing the support.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (eyJh9)

620 When Rand just yielded to the "senator from Arizona," we all knew who wasn't going to be talking next.

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (yVmMc)

621 And it's something that matters. Best starting speech evar

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 07, 2013 12:17 AM (QTHTd)

can I get a "hell, yeah?"

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (AJM+z)

622 >However, if he yields to a willing party, I believe they can continue their own filibuster.

Right?

Paul can yield to a fellow Pub, because they will then yield back to him

But he will 'take questions' from a Dem, without yielding the floor- and he has to say so in those words

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (8sCoq)

623 remember all that phony outrage over evesdropping? the left actually said Cheney was listening to people's phone calls but drones? today? no problem

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (+oin+)

624 Pretty sure Candy Crawley can't physically JUMP. The Laws of physics clearly state that you need a supplementary power source to boost that much mass against gravity that quickly. Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 07, 2013 12:13 AM (+OTLF) Laughed so hard I choked.

Posted by: Closing time at March 06, 2013 08:18 PM (/0DF2)

625

jamie Dupree cited the rules and said that since he holds the floor, he cannot sit nor can he leave the chambers even while someone else is speaking.,

Somebody find him a bottle to pee in.

Posted by: harleycowboy at March 06, 2013 08:19 PM (+9AX9)

626 Joe Scarborough hardest hit, . No Mika pie for you, Joe.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:19 PM (dZnxf)

627

Go Mr Lee. Rand lookin tired. Needs another five hour energy

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:19 PM (Dnbau)

628 Rand looks like he can go all night. He probably can. The guy is a doctor. He pulled plenty of late nights and long shifts studying and working during medical school.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:19 PM (BuSM8)

629 White paper! RAY-CISSSS!!11!11!1eleventy!!!1

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:19 PM (6zgse)

630 Damn, I need to go to bed, but I love watching this. I feel like I'll be missing out on history if I go to bed.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (7FqJH)

631

Hell yea! Cheers.

*tink*

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (gqEUi)

632 We have lots of quotes from Democrats from those days reeling over the Patriot Act. Why aren't we digging them up and throwing them back in the Democrats' faces?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (xIzGn)

633 650 Oh my God, this guy has a great tan. *sob sob sniffle sob* Posted by: John Boner at March 07, 2013 12:18 AM (rdy8w) I lol'd.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (6zgse)

634 580 And keep in mind that Rand hasn't peed in 12 hours. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2013 12:08 AM (piMMO) I'm sure the senator has found a way to relieve himself, one way or another. I mean, they've invented adult diapers. No shame in it. A little discomfort and perhaps a slight amount of embarrassment is a small price to pay for going old-school on a dictatorial White House.

Posted by: troyriser at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (ptcFO)

635 Speaking of Cheney, I bet he's got a ragin' boner tonight. God love him (I know I do).

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:20 PM (AJM+z)

636 49 31 I think Rand Paul must have installed a catheter and supersized leg bag before going on today.

Posted by: Jeanne of the North at March 06, 2013 10:25 PM (gdYKA)

As a commercial diver I only have one word

DependsÂ™

Posted by: Birkenstock Cowboy at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (wnZ4S)

637 Big data

Do you know what I know? I can use it to sell you products or use it for nefarious purpose

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (OWQ+e)

638 One unrelated point: Colorado may be currently trending blue, but it has been blue before. Don't forget Gary Hart

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (8sCoq)

639 I suppose it wouldn't have been decorous to go wee all over Durbin's shoes

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (QTHTd)

640 It's 12:20 am. Has anyone seen Harry Reid? Last seen driving his rape van down Massachusetts Avenue.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (Q9qpj)

641 Its like the Miss America pageant,Im rooting for another state, alas, heller can kiss my big red Nv ass...

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (vgd4f)

642 Rand has been going for almost 13 hours by my count. Keep it up!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:21 PM (BuSM8)

643 What the hell????!!! Osama bin Laden????

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (6zgse)

644 610 As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 07, 2013 12:11 You're not one of the useless idiots. Posted by: harleycowboy at March 07, 2013 12:13 AM (+9AX9) ---- Occasionally useless, occasionally an idiot, but my heart's in the right place.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (wk9P4)

645 Rand Paul should just go Nick Novak:

http://youtu.be/3nOnppJh5mM

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (+iA5G)

646
Durbin still totally missing the point.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (p/cQy)

647 Not a US citizen.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (QEUX+)

648

Jounalist sending questions to Dick Durbin

Durbin drops mike, walks away, after grabbing his crotch. Pimping is hard.

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:22 PM (Dnbau)

649 I didn't realize Osama bin Laden was a US citizen on US soil, Dick

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (yVmMc)

650 Dick Durbin is an imbecile.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (JtyGg)

651 Durbin is an idiot. Bin Laden was an enemy combatant, and not a US citizen.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (CgcOa)

652 And Bin Laden wasn't killed by drone. Red herring.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (QEUX+)

653 #StandWithRand Rand slams attorneys.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (VMcEw)

654 Big data

Says STFU, nitwit.

Posted by: death at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (Q9qpj)

655 I sent an email to Deb Fischer hours ago to get her ass down there to support Rand Paul.

She ain't there...

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (BuSM8)

656 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZx7DBKzPY

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (QTHTd)

657 Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you Durbin. Asshole thinks he's a witty fucker. Cruz, put your boot up his ass.

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:23 PM (sqp6o)

658 Big data, stupids, want me to show you how?

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (OWQ+e)

659 Here is the pulse.

Here is Dickless's finger, far from the pulse, jammed directly up his ass.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (RVKHf)

660

Did I miss something. Was OBL a citizen of the US?

Na, Durbin just racing to the camera.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (gqEUi)

661
durbin trying to do everything he can to bring this to terrorism.

not going to work.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (p/cQy)

662 Durbin is just trying to get clips for the MFM, thats all

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (Dnbau)

663 I think the person commenting on Rand's hair was either a stupid sock or some liberal fool.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:24 PM (g7q64)

664 There ain't no imminenting going on here.

They claim that only if action is imminent and then say imminent doesn't mean immediate.

imÂ·miÂ·nent
Adjective
About to happen: "imminent danger".
Synonyms
impending - impendent - forthcoming

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (qyv02)

665 Um, besides the fact he wasn't a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, it's probably worth pointing out Bin Laden actually did declare war on us.

Posted by: AD at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (Qxqlx)

666 Again, I ask. Sen. Dick, English - do you understand it?

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (6zgse)

667 Bin Laden=Hitler in this filibuster.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (qo244)

668 Ted Cruz is about to bust into 'Heat of the Moment'.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (CYY40)

669 Three minutes later...

Dick Durbin is still an imbecile.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (JtyGg)

670 I wasn't even in the U.S. I was six thousand fucking miles away, on the other side of the planet.

Posted by: Osama Bin Laden at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (Q9qpj)

671 Ok Ted Cruz has a sort of Bill Murray look going for him, damn, tea party men are just so cute!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (vgd4f)

672 I like Rand's curly hair.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:25 PM (6zgse)

673 Rand just needs to say, Listen Dick, this is about Amercians, not foriegners.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:26 PM (gqEUi)

674 Remember, as always, that when a Leftist says "Osama Bin Laden" they really mean "white Christian redneck".

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:26 PM (QTHTd)

675 Osama was taken out by a 5.56 mm drone, wingnuts!

Google it!

Posted by: Dickless, Brainless, Witless Durbin at March 06, 2013 08:26 PM (RVKHf)

676 695
durbin trying to do everything he can to bring this to terrorism.

not going to work.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2013 12:24 AM (p/cQy)

Yeah, he was fonzie on waterskis!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:27 PM (vgd4f)

677 705 Ok Ted Cruz has a sort of Bill Murray look going for him, damn, tea party men are just so cute!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 12:25 AM (vgd4f)

Lol. You're right. He's kind of got a Bill Murray Stripes after he joined the Army haircut. He's got something poking up in the back.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:27 PM (BuSM8)

678 Ted Cruz is gonna drag this over the finish line. Damn, I love him.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:27 PM (AJM+z)

679 Dick's Law "As a senate filibuster grows longer, the probability of an imbecilic Dem senator making a non-sequitur comparison involving Osama bin Laden approaches 1."

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:27 PM (6zgse)

680 Wait if the US citizen is in a Starbucks in DC I might change my mind on this.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:27 PM (qo244)

681 Cruz , speak s-l-o-w-l-y for Durbin.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at March 06, 2013 08:28 PM (yJYwC)

682 Dick Turbin,

Article Three, Section Three,

An alien cannot commit treason and is not illegible to those protections.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:28 PM (JtyGg)

683 I'm so glad that I got to vote for Cruz and he won. I may be in Austin but its still part of Texas. At least I have a senator I can be pround of and support unlike my congress-nut , Dog-it.

Posted by: LindaFell at March 06, 2013 08:28 PM (PGO8C)

684 Cruz , speak s-l-o-w-l-y for Durbin.

This probably calls for some handpuppets, actually.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 08:28 PM (RVKHf)

685 I think Dick Durbin knows the progressives are turning against him and the president and is trying to bring up red herrings to sooth their consciences and keep the focus on the sequester cuts. The talk shows are all going to talk about this as well as the news services. Especially if they go all night.

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:29 PM (M1gmo)

686 Great. I go to war with the greatest military power in human history, conceive and direct the deadliest terrorist attack ever, and where do I end up?

As an excuse for some fucking guy who can't string three words together without a teleprompter to go all Skynet on Tea Party marches. FML.

Posted by: Osama Bin Laden at March 06, 2013 08:29 PM (Q9qpj)

687 Girls I have a record of everything you have ever said

Big data and I know how to tie it all together

For advertising purposes only of course

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:29 PM (OWQ+e)

688 Dick dick is a fucking dick.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (PlzOe)

689 *Knocks* Sen. Paul? Candygram!

Posted by: Not a Drone, Really at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (Vk2pI)

690 How about a drone can give an American a wedgie? In the spirit of compromise.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (dZnxf)

691

>>Dick's Law

I didn't notice the apostrophe the first time and I read that as 'Dick Slaw'.

I thought we were about to get another recipe thread going.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (CYY40)

692 Twitter:
Worldwide Trends

    #StandWithRand
    #ICanHonestlySay
    #MentionYourFavoriteFollower
    #WhitePeopleActivities
    #filibuster
    Stompin
    Jeff Flake
    Mike Lee
    Ron Johnson
    Tim Scott

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (M1gmo)

693
Dick Durbin is an imbecile.

Dick is just trying to derail Rand Paul. He, and by extension, the left, is unprepared for this....it's obvious in his 'questions' that he doesn't have a handy sheet of pre-prepared talking points to refer to. CNN will hook him up by tomorrow morning when he starts making the rounds of the morning shows.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (eyJh9)

694 Imminate Threat ain't got nothing to do with it either.

Quite accepting made up shite.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:30 PM (JtyGg)

695 Cruz , speak s-l-o-w-l-y for Durbin. This probably calls for some handpuppets, actually. Posted by: Waterhouse at March 07, 2013 12:28 AM (RVKHf) I don't lend out the handpuppets... or the candy... that I entertain children with...

Posted by: Searchlight Strangler at March 06, 2013 08:31 PM (Vk2pI)

696 And the guys behind Cruz fist bumped, conservatives are so dorky!! But thats ok!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:31 PM (vgd4f)

697 lol. In the suburbs of Chicago. Take it to him Cruz.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (gqEUi)

698 Anyone see any Trinity knots on any of the Senators?

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (RVKHf)

699 Yeah, I really want to listen to some mealy-mouthed leftist shitheel who thinks American troops are like NAZIs, KGB, or Khmer Rouge troops. I agree that he's trying to provide rhetorical cover with deliberately false or irrelevant quotes. Tomorrow the second-tier leftist media will be playing the whole thing up as about Awlaki or Bin Laden, confusing the issue. THEY LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING. People need to be shouting down lying-ass "reporters" whenever they appear in public.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (bxiXv)

700 DErp! DErp! DErp! Big Data! DErp! DErp! DErp!

Posted by: Dumbest Internet Poster Ever at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (Q9qpj)

701 hasn't anyone woken up Schumer? Its not like him to miss a camera or a microphone

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (Dnbau)

702 Girls I have a record of everything you have ever said

Big data and I know how to tie it all together

For advertising purposes only of course

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (OWQ+e)

703 Proof Right Here: http://tinyurl.com/a3bza2l Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 07, 2013 12:29 AM (+OTLF) Really want to click the link, but am 99 percent sure it would go to 'Two goats, one cup, strap on, amd a prayer rug.'

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (sqp6o)

704

So, the only weasel that dined w/ Obama to come #StandWithRand has been Ron Johnson? I'm disappointed in him going to that dinner at all, but the rest can pound sand.

Posted by: sybilll at March 06, 2013 08:32 PM (YhIjB)

705 this thread is quite lively- but East Coast morons will be running out of gas soon

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (8sCoq)

706 Thank the good Lord for conservative WOMEN, `specially the `ettes, they will be our saviors.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (uOxBm)

707 I'm tempted to tweet Meghan McCain and ask if her dad brought her leftovers from the Obama dinner when he should have been supporting Rand.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (KvKOu)

708 Wow, I guess my snark about Rands hair fell flat. Oh well, not the first time.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (pC72t)

709 Rand is East Coast...

Posted by: A-Hole at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (wsGWu)

710 Emailed Sen. Portman. Said I expected him to stand up and support Sen. Paul.

Posted by: Tuna at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (M/TDA)

711 742 this thread is quite lively- but East Coast morons will be running out of gas soon

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 07, 2013 12:33 AM (8sCoq)

I can go all night. Only 9:33pm on the left coast here!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:33 PM (M1gmo)

712 do it Emile

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (QTHTd)

713 It's a shame the government pays retired 7-star colonels who have served in the Antarctic so much that they can troll ONTs.

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (+iA5G)

714 I would have come to the shindig after, but I simply swooned in the presence of himself tonight.

Posted by: Miss Linday Graham at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (Q9qpj)

715 Imminent

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (8sCoq)

716

I guess that baby/sky blue ties are in this Spring.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (CYY40)

717 Rand knows that Brennan is a Muslim. That's why he saved his juice for this.

Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (Su0W2)

718 Damn this thread is flying.

Posted by: buzzion at March 06, 2013 08:34 PM (GULKT)

719 745 Wow, I guess my snark about Rands hair fell flat. Oh well, not the first time. Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 07, 2013 12:33 AM (pC72t) I chuckled.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (GEICT)

720 I will #StandWithRand in my dreams. I'm out.

Posted by: sTevo at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (VMcEw)

721 can we call him Durbin Dick instead?

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (8sCoq)

722 I think Thune of SD was at the dinner with TFG, as well as Johnson - WI. No word from McCain and Graham. fuckers

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (Dnbau)

723 719 I'm so glad that I got to vote for Cruz and he won. I may be in Austin but its still part of Texas. At least I have a senator I can be pround of and support unlike my congress-nut , Dog-it.

Posted by: LindaFell at March 07, 2013 12:28 AM (PGO8C)

Jealous! Dont want to take your stuff like a dem, but, yeah, jealous you get him for a Senator!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (vgd4f)

724 No fuckin' way, they're quitting?

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (AJM+z)

725 Red Bull!

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (dZnxf)

726 Is he ending it??

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (M1gmo)

727 oh nos is it about to end?

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (pPtoA)

728 Seems like Paul is winding up now.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (/COnL)

729 lordy he is not quitting is he?

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:35 PM (Dnbau)

730 Don't give up Rand. Nooooooooo.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (gqEUi)

731 It's over.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (iqWMW)

732
He's wrapping it up.....

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (eyJh9)

733 Sounds like he's about to end it though. Damn just when I can get home to watch it.

Posted by: buzzion at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (GULKT)

734 Shit, Rand Paul saying goodnight, son of a bitch!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (vgd4f)

735 754 Rand knows that Brennan is a Muslim. That's why he saved his juice for this. Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 07, 2013 12:34 AM (Su0W2) ----- I did not know that.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (wk9P4)

736 Pussy . . .

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (AJM+z)

737 Paul sounds like he's winding it down.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (GEICT)

738 #StandWithRand #ICanHonestlySay #MentionYourFavoriteFollower #WhitePeopleActivities #filibuster Posted by: NWConservative at March 07, 2013 12:30 AM (M1gmo) White People Activities?!?! Why, I'm so offended by that, I'm going to have to step away from my computer and cook some macaroni and cheese. Maybe have a glass of root beer.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:36 PM (bxiXv)

739 730

Dick is just trying to derail Rand Paul. He, and by extension, the left, is unprepared for this....it's obvious in his 'questions' that he doesn't have a handy sheet of pre-prepared talking points to refer to. CNN will hook him up by tomorrow morning when he starts making the rounds of the morning shows.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket

So what you are saying is his job is to to be the monkey throwing random turds into the fan and see if anything will stick.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:37 PM (JtyGg)

740 Well, it's not like they are gonna vote tonight. The Searchlight Strangler already is out doing his thing.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 06, 2013 08:37 PM (Q9qpj)

741 Maybe he is not ending it after all...

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:37 PM (M1gmo)

742 I wish he would continue until the morning, but I can't fault him too much. I think what Rand has best done is given us some hope.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:37 PM (pPtoA)

743 I like his statement about there being things you just don't compromise on.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:37 PM (6zgse)

744 I just tried to send an encouraging email to Rand Paul through his Senate site but it was rejected for some error. Maybe they don't want out of state people sending messages?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (BuSM8)

745 I hope it's not ending. Maybe they have someone new to come in and ask a 12-hour question. Rand can sleep in a chair.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (bxiXv)

746 Paul is winding it down...you can tell how tired he is.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (/COnL)

747 Well, *that* was interesting.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (kaalw)

748 772 754 Rand knows that Brennan is a Muslim. That's why he saved his juice for this. Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 07, 2013 12:34 AM (Su0W2) That's what I said, and I got yelled at. :-(

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (iqWMW)

749 773 Pussy . . .

Posted by: Peaches at March 07, 2013 12:36 AM (AJM+z)

Yep, we are fucked, really. Could have got the entire house and senate republicans there, but taking it up the ass again, God I am so sick of this shit!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (vgd4f)

750 Rand has to take a shit.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (CYY40)

751 he is quiting because he has to pee

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (Dnbau)

752 Paul hinting he has TO GO

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:38 PM (8sCoq)

753 I hope this emboldens other people in the GOP. It's given me a faint glimmer of hope.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (6zgse)

754 I dont know why people are so cautious with my links. I get them from google just like the rest of you. Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka wright's Sock Puppet at March 07, 2013 12:37 AM (+OTLF) Asked... and answered.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (bxiXv)

755 Can't blame him.. The Americans is coming on

Posted by: BallOfHate at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (ydcw9)

756 who?

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (OWQ+e)

757 I'd pisss on the floor.

Guess Rand has not been in the service.

And it is NOT in Obama's heart.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (JtyGg)

758 If they quit, they will have lost all good will they've gained.

Paul's a fool if he is stopping the filibuster.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (qyv02)

759 Dang!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (QEUX+)

760 With the Modern Media and sound bites hasn't he already done all he can do short of a Guinness record?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (qo244)

761 Rand just yielded the floor.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (Vk2pI)

762 fuck no Durbin gets last word

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (Dnbau)

763 It is extra cool to do a filibuster on the day Hugo Stalin went tits up.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (dZnxf)

764 Just stopped the filibuster

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (M1gmo)

765 Closing statement to go wee wee.

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (lGu1O)

766 It's over? Shit...

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (BuSM8)

767 Fuck.

Posted by: Bunkerintheburbs at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (X3xYu)

768 and that's all, folks.

Posted by: c-span2 at March 06, 2013 08:39 PM (OMIyU)

769 Republicans blinked again.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (qyv02)

770 Fuck Durbin and pee in a cup. Good run but dissappointing.,

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (gqEUi)

771 But he's only a few minutes from 13-hour mark.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (UOjzE)

772 What just happened?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (p/cQy)

773 So i go upstairs and it's fucking done?!?

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (sqp6o)

774 Hopefully they have something on the calendar for the morning that will let them start up again. That would be funny.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (bxiXv)

775 >>>If they quit, they will have lost all good will they've gained.

Paul's a fool if he is stopping the filibuster.

Jesus Christ, people have human physical limits.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (/COnL)

776 A cup?

Durbin is speaking here... mouth wide open.

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:40 PM (JtyGg)

777

so they are voting.

point was made. I wish it could go on.

fuck the JEF

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (Dnbau)

778 Paul yielded the floor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (g7q64)

779 That was awesome

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (8sCoq)

780 And now all bozos chime in

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (Q9qpj)

781 great, thanks for the half-assed effort, spawn of luap nor. i wanted to wake up tomorrow and find that it was still going . . . would have kicked a few sheckels to brother Priebus.

and, not to be debby fuckin' downer, but can someone tell me why it took them four-plus years to run this play?

{spits}

God bless us, every one.

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (AJM+z)

782 Object. Someone should obaject and pick up the torch.

Posted by: garrett at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (CYY40)

783 Damnit.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (gqEUi)

784 Well, I've watched them put sprinkles on this shit sundae, and then watched them added fudge topping.

Rand Paul just put the cherry on the top.

No Republican will ever get a vote from me again.

There would be no point to it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (qyv02)

785 783 I just tried to send an encouraging email to Rand Paul through his Senate site but it was rejected for some error. Maybe they don't want out of state people sending messages? Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 07, 2013 12:38 AM (BuSM

----- I got through earlier today. Maybe traffic is too high right now.

Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (wk9P4)

786 i missed it

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (OWQ+e)

787 Who here has a right to complain? He did great.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (dZnxf)

788 Every time I heard Rand say "the senior Senator from Illinois" I think of Carlin's bit about how when a politician says "my esteemed colleague" he really means "this cocksucker over here" Also, nice work by Sen Paul. 13 hours. And gave me some hope.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 08:41 PM (pC72t)

789 Adjourned until tomorrow

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (M1gmo)

790 Fuck You Durbin... Let's do this every week.

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (/7Xis)

791 I'm sad its over, but I respect the good fight that Paul waged today.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (pPtoA)

792 I have had 18 and 24-hour shifts. Not without bathroom privileges, but I think there are ways around that - there's a space he can't leave but I think there are spaces he can go unobserved. One of those folding camping toilets.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (bxiXv)

793 > fuck no Durbin gets last word

Posted by: thunderb at March 07, 2013 12:39 AM (Dnbau)

you kidding? everybody in America just turned it off

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (8sCoq)

794 What are the odds someone else picks up the torch tomorrow and runs with it?

Posted by: BallOfHate at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (ydcw9)

795 >>>great, thanks for the half-assed effort, spawn of luap nor. i wanted to wake up tomorrow and find that it was still going . . . would have kicked a few sheckels to brother Priebus.

If this is serious, then go fuck yourself. The man just spoke, standing, FOR THIRTEEN STRAIGHT HOURS. What, was he supposed to piss and shit himself right there on the floor of the Senate?

GOD, it's amazing how you people turn on a fucking dime sometimes.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (/COnL)

796

Think we were played? The rest of them just showed up for an hour.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (gqEUi)

797 I couldn't stand there for 12 hours-much less five. Let's see if they can get something going again in the morning. P.S. Cruz was great.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (g7q64)

798 "Expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the senate."

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 08:42 PM (oCdqI)

799 795 Can't blame him.. The Americans is coming on Posted by: BallOfHate at March 07, 2013 12:39 AM (ydcw9) I can't believe Nina got caught. Stupid stupid stupid. (and I'm kidding. I missed the episode.)

Posted by: RWC at March 06, 2013 08:43 PM (sqp6o)

800 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

The Republicans aren't providing any solutions just acquiescing to whatever they can excuse themselves to agree with Democrats.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:43 PM (qyv02)

801 God Bless him. He put up a valiant fight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:43 PM (piMMO)

802 Good Job Rand Paul.

Now we will be talking about this for the next few days and NOT THE SEQUESTER!

Posted by: NWConservative at March 06, 2013 08:43 PM (M1gmo)

803 13 hours is a damn good run and I don't think it's over yet

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:43 PM (QTHTd)

804 813 So i go upstairs and it's fucking done?!?

Posted by: RWC at March 07, 2013 12:40 AM (sqp6o)

Yep just like the fucking republicans to do this shit. Yeah, live in DC, go ahead and fuck the taxpayers, go eat 15,000 dollar meals and fuck your bosses, the American people. Same ol same ol. New guy same as the old guy!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (vgd4f)

805 >>>No Republican will ever get a vote from me again.

You're a liberal troll, right? You can't actually be a conservative. Again, what was done wrong here? He spoke for thirteen straight hours. He was not allowed to even SIT DOWN once during that time, much less go the bathroom. And this is suddenly a betrayal?

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (/COnL)

806

well we learned something today

we are not impotent

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (Dnbau)

807 806 It's over? Shit...

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 07, 2013 12:39 AM (BuSM

Rand Paul wasn't specific. Could be he had to shit or just pee.

Whatever ended this filibuster, it was historic, enjoyable and kept many up way past their bed times.

Posted by: Deli LLama at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (lGu1O)

808 Posted by: Jeff B. at March 07, 2013 12:42 AM (/COnL)

You should for elected office as a Republican.

Seems you have all the qualifications needed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (qyv02)

809 just tried to send an encouraging email to Rand Paul through his Senate site but it was rejected for some error. Maybe they don't want out of state people sending messages?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis

That happened to me, too. Now I'm totally cool with it. I always put in their district office address. Worked with Ted Cruz. He even robo-sent me a thank you. I heart him. I'm going to go heart him in a more meaningful way. Nighty-night, fellow fappers!

Posted by: Peaches at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (AJM+z)

810 Jeff B. we aren't turning, just looking for hope. Where there may be none. Let it play out tomorrow.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (gqEUi)

811 If this is serious, then go fuck yourself. The man just spoke, standing, FOR THIRTEEN STRAIGHT HOURS. What, was he supposed to piss and shit himself right there on the floor of the Senate?

WHAT?

You never did that (maybe not in the Senate) -
Rand just was not in it 100%.

That isAll

Posted by: Obamao at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (JtyGg)

812 How did Strom Thurmond manage to ignore his bladder for 24 hours? It's superhuman.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at March 06, 2013 08:44 PM (8cOY0)

813 Call Cruz' and Pauls in the morning and tell them to go on with it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (g7q64)

814 I just tried to send an encouraging email to Rand Paul through his Senate site but it was rejected for some error. Maybe they don't want out of state people sending messages? *** I sent and email through the system earlier today.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (piMMO)

815

I bet Barry won't have nearly as good a night's rest tonight as he did the night of the Benghazi attacks. After all that was only Americans getting killed. Tonight, his real enemies - the few GOPers with balls - are challenging the Divine Right of Kings. I like imagining him tossing and turning and wishing he could drone Rand Paul.

Good night, morons and ettes.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (7FqJH)

816 Kudos to Rand Paul. I wish he could have gone on till morning, but the human body (and voice as was apparent in his case) has its limits. How many times do Repubs stand up to Obama? This was a nice change.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (6zgse)

817 Well, if the Debbie Downer brigade is gonna take over, I think I'll watch some Archer on Netflix or something. Maybe even do some work.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (pC72t)

818 828 God Bless him.

He put up a valiant fight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2013 12:43 AM (piMMO)

Nope, should have kept going until he could not, like our military, then someone new could start a new filibuster, fuck these guys.

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (vgd4f)

819 "How did Strom Thurmond manage to ignore his bladder for 24 hours? It's superhuman." It's called a "leg urinal". Back in the old days, when we had live-action traffic cops at intersections, they were called "policeman's friends".

Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (Ale7o)

820 Jeff B i believe 13 hours is .5 short of what is necessary to escape RINO filibustering territory trucons would've taken a leak on the Senate floor while flipping off the cameras like a bawse

Posted by: JDP at March 06, 2013 08:45 PM (8HhF2)

821
Nobody blinked, nobody lost anything. That was f'ing awesome of Rand Paul and the young cohorts. Just Awesome.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (p/cQy)

822

I maintain what I said 8 hours ago. We witnessed a changing of the guard of the GOP senate today. That is a good thing.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (pPtoA)

823 Okay, it's a *little* funny when trolls get into a fight with each other.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (bxiXv)

824 Good on him, a little disappointing to end it now. I wish someone else had taken over and we just keep it going. Sigh..

Posted by: Andrew at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (HS3dy)

825 ??? Why didn't Rand put on some NASA assassination-poop-your-pants-skivies to just let nature go in your pants and keep the debate going so the MSM-state media couldn't ignore the fillibuster in the a.m.??

Posted by: NASA Yip at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (/jHWN)

826 "...and Paul just put the cherry on the top. No Republican will ever get a vote from me again. There would be no point to it." Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 07, 2013 12:41 AM (qyv02) What the fuck is your problem, sunshine?

Posted by: troyriser at March 06, 2013 08:46 PM (ptcFO)

827 Nobody but die hards were watching anymore (a debate that they no one outside could have watched until somewhat recently). Newspapers are not the media of old anymore. Tomorrow we will see what soundbites were pulled from 13 hours. And there are only 2 members that will definitely be pulled. All Rands slips and Durbin unfortunately.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:47 PM (qo244)

828

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:47 PM (OWQ+e)

829 He wrapped it up right after I clicked over. Ah, my bad.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 08:47 PM (oCdqI)

830 Remember, all trolls are Average Joe, who sucks the barbs from Stan's cock by choice

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:47 PM (QTHTd)

831 Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2013 12:46 AM (ptcFO)

Most of you all haven't watched 40 years of this.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:48 PM (qyv02)

832 Did folks really expect the filibuster to last indefinitely? Did folks think this one good act was going to defeat the Democrats and Liberalism? Senator Rand did a great job.

Posted by: eman at March 06, 2013 08:48 PM (dZnxf)

833 Dont shit on the fact that I have data

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 08:48 PM (OWQ+e)

834 844 Well, if the Debbie Downer brigade is gonna take over, I think I'll watch some Archer on Netflix or something. Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 07, 2013 12:45 AM (pC72t) People are just practicing their Bipolar Disorder impressions so they can do street comedy for pocket change when the inflation wave hits and we're all out of work.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:48 PM (bxiXv)

835 Some of you, people I normally like, are beclowning themselves. Goodnight folks.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 06, 2013 08:48 PM (GEICT)

836 "Tomorrow we will see what soundbites were pulled from 13 hours" tomorrow on MSNBC: Rand Paul referencing Strom Thurmond's filibuster time was a secret dog whisssssstltlle ah fuggit.

Posted by: JDP at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (8HhF2)

837 I wonder what magical jujitsu the MSM will do in the morning to twist and ignore Rand's words. I would take a stab at guessing but I'm too tired.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (6zgse)

838 NOW I understand that the Republicans have gauged their true constituency perfectly.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (qyv02)

839
Also, nice work by Sen Paul. 13 hours. And gave me some hope.

Rand Paul won, Obamao lost. Obama never answered...like Dicky Durbin, and that puts him, and the 'Crats on record as supporting the extrajudicial assassination of Americans that he suspects are 'up to no good'.

Also, CSPAN2 cut over immediately to some greasy haired scrunt whining about how evil America is. I think I dislocated my index finger clicking on the "close" button.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (eyJh9)

840 Most of you all haven't watched 40 years of this. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 07, 2013 12:48 AM (qyv02) I've been around a while. 40 years of what, exactly? Your reaction doesn't jibe with events.

Posted by: troyriser at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (ptcFO)

841 848
Nobody blinked, nobody lost anything. That was f'ing awesome of Rand Paul and the young cohorts. Just Awesome.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2013 12:46 AM (p/cQy)

Oh, ok because I saw dick durbin show up, and then we quit, thanks for that..

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:49 PM (vgd4f)

842 Some of you, people I normally like, are beclowning themselves. Goodnight folks. *** I'm right behind ya, dude.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 06, 2013 08:50 PM (piMMO)

843 Hat Tip to Senator Paul. You have my gratitude.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:50 PM (gqEUi)

844

Hidey ho morons... I saw Durbin on C-SPAN; is the filibuster over?

Posted by: zeera at March 06, 2013 08:50 PM (3dXwx)

845
Listen, nobody could take over for his filibuster. It goes over to the dems after he gives the floor. And they then called it a night.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (p/cQy)

846

Wow. I wonder if they sell 'em on ebay.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (8cOY0)

847 Come on, peeps, let the trolls argue with each other.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (bxiXv)

848 >>>NOW I understand that the Republicans have gauged their true constituency perfectly.

Again, I submit that you're a liberal troll doing an impression of an "angry conservative," and not actually one of us at all. This is ridiculous, and you can't even back it up with substance.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (/COnL)

849 Those saying they might continue tomorrow, I don't think they can. They closed debate and the next business is the vote. They could filibuster the next item up for debate I suppose, but might be off topic.

Posted by: Andrew at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (HS3dy)

850 Geesh, some of y'all need a nap worse.than Rand. He put up a good fight but the battle had to end sometime. There's more war to be fought,.

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (dkh08)

851 862 I wonder what magical jujitsu the MSM will do in the morning to twist and ignore Rand's words. I would take a stab at guessing but I'm too tired.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 07, 2013 12:49 AM (6zgse)

They wont mention it. dinner with obama reaching out/buying dinner for republicans top story tommorow!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (vgd4f)

852 Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2013 12:49 AM (ptcFO)

You want to see it thru rose colored glasses, I see it for what it truly is.

A symbolic gesture meant for political consumption but without making any real changes and causing this President to justify himself and be made to understand his power has limits.

This mini-filibuster did none of that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (qyv02)

853 I do wish someone would fully explain all the filibuster rules to me. What can be said, can't be said. Do you have to stand, stay in chamber. Can you piss in a pot off camera? Can someone take over. Etc.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (pPtoA)

854 @852 Roger that. Maybe the entire space suit. That would put CSPAN 1 in its slot.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 08:51 PM (oCdqI)

855 brennen confirmed tomorrow.

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (vgd4f)

856 "A symbolic gesture meant for political consumption but without making any real changes" headdesk

Posted by: JDP at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (8HhF2)

857 >>>Come on, peeps, let the trolls argue with each other.

I sure hope you aren't referring to me as a troll, because I'm no mood for that kind of bullshit right now. I just saw the first piece of good news (politically) since November and people are trying to crap on it here because they didn't get unicorns or something.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (/COnL)

858 I'm appalled at anyone who says Rand caved. When was the last time you stood without a bathroom break for 12 plus hours and he spoke for much of that time. Wanna do something. Stop bitching at Rand-call your Senators tomorrow and send or call a specific thanks to Rand and Cruz asking them to keep it going. P.S. I'm a registered Democrat who didn't vote for Obama in 2008 and 2012 after 30 plus years of voting straight Dem. I let my HOPELESS Dem Senators they should be supporting Rand.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (g7q64)

859 846 "How did Strom Thurmond manage to ignore his bladder for 24 hours? It's superhuman."

It's called a "leg urinal".

Back in the old days, when we had live-action traffic cops at intersections, they were called "policeman's friends".

Posted by: SCOAMF Search Committee at March 07, 2013 12:45 AM (Ale7o)

I'm going to guess that the filibuster rules were changed to disallow leaving the floor for bathroom breaks? Any clue on if Thurmond got to go to the little boys room?

Posted by: buzzion at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (GULKT)

860 You want to see it thru rose colored glasses, I see it for what it truly is.

"Bitter Clinger" 's glasses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAwdixodjw

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (QTHTd)

861 Agreed Jenny, thanks.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 08:52 PM (gqEUi)

862 Too bad he didint make to 14.25... that would've bumped Robert Bird to ninth place.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 08:53 PM (UOjzE)

863 So this filibuster is the best Rand Paul can do. Meh, just another RINO.

Posted by: Consevative Purist at March 06, 2013 08:53 PM (vfB2N)

864 Posted by: Jeff B. at March 07, 2013 12:51 AM (/COnL)

Ad hominem attacks; a true sign of a liberal.

Rave on you all. You know this was a loss but you can't bring yourselves to face it so you take your anger and fear out on someone else.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 06, 2013 08:53 PM (qyv02)

865 >>>This mini-filibuster did none of that.

THIS WAS THE THIRD-LONGEST FILIBUSTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Only Huey Long and Strom Thurmond went longer. "Mini" my ass.

Again: what was Rand Paul supposed to do? He said "I will speak until I cannot speak any more...and he did just that."

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:53 PM (/COnL)

866 Symbolic gestures for political consumption aren't always a bad thing. The Doolittle raid was one.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 08:54 PM (pPtoA)

867

Did folks really expect the filibuster to last indefinitely? Did folks think this one good act was going to defeat the Democrats and Liberalism? Senator Rand did a great job. Posted by: eman at March 07, 2013 12:48 AM (dZnxf)

This.

Posted by: Donna V. at March 06, 2013 08:54 PM (7FqJH)

868 All right, drama's over.

Have a good night, y'all!

Posted by: logprof at March 06, 2013 08:54 PM (+iA5G)

869 I think we'd all be a lot happier if we expected principled stands but not absolute perfection from our politicians. Put not your trust in man.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:54 PM (6zgse)

870 Posted by: As long as Mindy's little Barry-Boo is happy, that's what matters at March 07, 2013 12:36 AM (wk9P4) . Saw this a couple of years ago. http://tinyurl.com/a8bgvbg Since then, I was sure.

Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 06, 2013 08:54 PM (Su0W2)

871 I sure hope you aren't referring to me as a troll, because I'm no mood for that kind of bullshit right now. Posted by: Jeff B. at March 07, 2013 12:52 AM (/COnL) First of all, on this issue, I'm on your side, so be chill. Then unchill, because you are a troll, you're the crown prince of purists who love to call other people purists. So, kind of half and half today. Be lukewarm.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 08:55 PM (bxiXv)

872 Working a long shift is *nothing* like what Rand Paul just did. He was able to argue complex issues, *not* make any ordinary human slip ups for the press to attack, and remember procedures, facts, persons and places for 13 frickin hours. On top of that he was standing - not walking around (much, much easier!) - and while he might be young for a senator, he's already in the arthritis brigade. In the brief moments he had to rest while others spoke he had to remember their question, (my question, madam president....), get briefed by aids on what was going on elsewhere, read tip sheets and "try this approach" docs.
Damn near superhuman if you ask me. I wasn't all that on board with him before, but he's got my attention and my respect now.

Posted by: Pentangle at March 06, 2013 08:55 PM (Mdryr)

873 >You want to see it thru rose colored glasses, I see it for what it truly is.

No, you just want to beat your chest about how awesomely hard core conservative you allegedly are. You're like those libertarians on a Reason comment thread who bash other libertarians for not being libertarian enough.

In conclusion, go fuck yourself.

Goodnight friends!

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 06, 2013 08:55 PM (8sCoq)

874 Oh, ok because I saw dick durbin show up, and then we quit, thanks for that.. Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 12:49 AM (vgd4f) I do not understand these negative responses to what was a solid showing of Republican resolve (for once). Paul and other GOP members of the Senate took the initiative and managed to put the President and his people on the defensive on a straightforward, no-bullshit issue anyone could understand. Most importantly, they did an end-run around and through the MSM, which--try as it might--won't be able to spin this away, not completely.

Posted by: troyriser at March 06, 2013 08:55 PM (ptcFO)

875 Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 07, 2013 12:54 AM (Su0W2) I wonder if he's ever said anything remotely similar about Christianity.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:56 PM (6zgse)

876 Hi everyone.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 08:56 PM (+/Fsp)

877 >>>A symbolic gesture meant for political consumption but without making any real changes

Okay, who wants to be the guy that explains to Bitter Clinger that the entire point of a filibuster is as a "symbolic gesture?" Or am I misremembering history and Strom Thurmond really did manage to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act by talking for 24 hours?

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 08:56 PM (/COnL)

878
eh, don't worry, 99% of us know how excellent it was, made national and international news.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 08:57 PM (p/cQy)

879 You got it, Chique! Psalm 146: Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. But I thought the new guys did valiantly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 08:57 PM (g7q64)

880

he was never going to be able to stop the nomination for all time, or compell an answer from the JEF

grow up. He did good with what he could do.

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:57 PM (Dnbau)

881 The 13 hours of constitutional education that might leak out were worth it. A lot of discussions tomorrow at the water cooler will be about points long forgotten while we have walked the constitutional/political desert these last 40 years.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 08:58 PM (qo244)

882 I think we have a lot of not-only-is-the-glass-half-empty-the-water-is-poisoned people here.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 08:59 PM (6zgse)

883

the Alamo was over run too. Losers.

sarc

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 08:59 PM (Dnbau)

884
Buddhist Monk = likes to peacefully meditate
Aqua Buddhist Monk= likes to bitchslap a SCOAMT

Posted by: Rand Paul at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (rdy8w)

885 I am being sarcastic btw. I thought he did a great job staying on point for so long. But the more I think about him crapping in a space suit opposing drone strikes I like it. Wedge issue with the benefit of being a critical discussion on the limits to government's monopoly on military force. Rand won by using the time well. Simply blocking longer would still ultimately fail.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (oCdqI)

886 You gotta believe the press will dog the admin to answer Rand Paul's question. They HAVE to. Can't ignore what went down today.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (UOjzE)

887 Ace is pissing his self i suspect

Posted by: life at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (OWQ+e)

888 Buddhist Monk = likes to peacefully meditate Aqua Buddhist Monk= likes to bitchslap a SCOAMT Posted by: Rand Paul at March 07, 2013 01:00 AM (rdy8w) Don't piss off the AquaBuddha!

Posted by: Aqua Buddha at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (Vk2pI)

889 If you've ever given a two hour talk, you're pretty drained usually by the end . Now imagine doing the exact same thing 6x in a row.

I swear some of the people here are so dedicated to enjoying their misery that they couldn't even enjoy a free blowjob.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 09:00 PM (XkotV)

890 I swear some of the people here are so dedicated to enjoying their misery that they couldn't even enjoy a free blowjob. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 07, 2013 01:00 AM (XkotV) Not I, of course...

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 06, 2013 09:01 PM (Vk2pI)

891 You gotta believe the press will dog the admin to answer Rand Paul's question. They HAVE to. Can't ignore what went down today. Posted by: Serious Cat at March 07, 2013 01:00 AM (UOjzE) I dunno. They managed to ignore the deaths of a US ambassador and 3 other US citizens. They'll find a way.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:01 PM (6zgse)

892 908 Bingo.

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 09:01 PM (dkh08)

893 907 I think we have a lot of not-only-is-the-glass-half-empty-the-water-is-poisoned people here. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 07, 2013 12:59 AM (6zgse) Actually, as usual, I think we have A Few Who Like To Talk An Awful Lot. Most arguments here are either "a few on each side and a lot that don't care," or "a few against everyone else but they just post a lot more."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 09:01 PM (bxiXv)

894 Obama is no Christian. If he were he would not allow his DOJ to try to deport a German Christian family (the Romeike family) who came here to homeschool because Germany doesn't allow it. That will be one of the things Obama will attempt to do during his term-disallow all homeschooling to better indoctrinate the young-but it's all for the children, mind you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 09:02 PM (g7q64)

895 913 If you've ever given a two hour talk, you're pretty drained usually by the end . Now imagine doing the exact same thing 6x in a row. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 07, 2013 01:00 AM (XkotV) Actually, I didn't see how much he drank, but I can't imagine he didn't urinate several times. I drink like a fish when I give a presentation.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 09:02 PM (bxiXv)

896 Anyone who does not think "this was good" fu. I`ve been hoping for a glimmer of light and someone with a set since the election. We just got a stand up nationwide in the Senate. Whether it means anything to the ones who are not LIV remains to be seen, I sure some took notice.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 09:03 PM (uOxBm)

897

Don't piss off the AquaBuddha.

Nope, not a good idea. Maybe this will motivate some other Senators to do the right thing.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2013 09:03 PM (gqEUi)

898 777 772 754 Rand knows that Brennan is a Muslim. That's why he saved his juice for this. Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 07, 2013 12:34 AM (Su0W2) That's what I said, and I got yelled at. :-( Posted by: madamex at March 07, 2013 12:38 AM (iqWMW) I got called crazy for lots of stuff I said about BHO before he was elected, and 99 percent of it turned out to be true. I'm still holding back some things I believe about him.

Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 06, 2013 09:03 PM (Su0W2)

899 Consensus - most conservatives appreciate the effort very much. As always, there is a minor few in which nothing will satisfy them.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 09:03 PM (pPtoA)

900 I've had to talk two hours without a break and that's exhausting-much less 12 plus

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 09:04 PM (g7q64)

901 I know someone already said this, but imagine the SCOAMT trying to speak for more than two minutes with no TOTUS-binky or notes. People would give in to what he wanted just to shut him up.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:04 PM (6zgse)

902 All in all a great touch of conservative / libertarian thinking. I wish he could have crapped himself and continued till tomorrow, but it wasn't neccessary. For anyone who watched, as I did, it was a singular moment. Cruz and Rand are the future of our GOP. I thoroughly embrace the singularity to come... of constitutional reverence and a GOP with a spine. May it be so.

Posted by: Yip at March 06, 2013 09:04 PM (/jHWN)

903 William Wallace was defeated and executed by the English. Pussy

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:05 PM (Dnbau)

904 I got called crazy for lots of stuff I said about BHO before he was elected, and 99 percent of it turned out to be true. I'm still holding back some things I believe about him. Posted by: baldilocks on iPad at March 07, 2013 01:03 AM (Su0W2) I'd bet "will claim he has the unilateral right to kill Americans in the US without due process" wasn't even one of them.

We did our homework - and as we learned in high school, doing your homework makes you a pariah!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 09:05 PM (bxiXv)

905 Let's not forget that the major filibusters of our time have been reading bullshit - books, letters, etc.

Rand Paul did about 11 hours of straight talk on the issue at hand. Others, like Cruz, read Tweets, but everything Paul said was lucid and on-topic.

With that in mind, this may have been the best filibuster in US history

Posted by: The Q at March 06, 2013 09:05 PM (yVmMc)

906 902 Posted by: Jeff B. at March 07, 2013 12:56 AM (/COnL) I think I would rather explain to you that, I think, Bitter clinger expected more in terms of fortitude. It is arguably subjective, but I am also disappointed on ome level as well. Rand is my senator, and while I appreciate the effort, I am torn as to the effectiveness. Short of making it a pain and delaying the vote for another day, or full-on making a statement by breaking a filibuster record, not sure of the effect. Then again, I understand new elements of trending on Twitter and havivg MSM write articles which nearly seem to be unbiased for once (or at least that do not portray Rand as a nutjob)' is helpful to the cause. So, you know, leave Bitter clinger alone, we all have our own opinions.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 09:05 PM (+/Fsp)

907 In the end it really was just 13 hours of why can't Obama answer a simple question yes or no. If we had a real press it would never have needed to be done.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:06 PM (qo244)

908 I agree Mirage... mixed feelings for sure

Posted by: Yip at March 06, 2013 09:06 PM (/jHWN)

909 I do not understand these negative responses to what was a solid showing of Republican resolve (for once). Paul and other GOP members of the Senate took the initiative and managed to put the President and his people on the defensive on a straightforward, no-bullshit issue anyone could understand. Most importantly, they did an end-run around and through the MSM, which--try as it might--won't be able to spin this away, not completely.

Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2013 12:55 AM (ptcFO)

A solid showing of republicans? r u kidding?

Top Story tommorow, OfuckingBama bought dinner for republicans, and they have to work with him because!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:07 PM (vgd4f)

910 Pfft. Done already. What a puss.

Posted by: marathon runner who crosses the finnish line with crap dribbling down their leg at March 06, 2013 09:07 PM (rdy8w)

911 Any bets on how long until Reid and Durban tries to change the rules?

Posted by: Andrew at March 06, 2013 09:07 PM (HS3dy)

912 A lot of people are acting like this is over. The event isn't over, how useful it was will depend on what is done tomorrow, the day after, etc. Admittedly, this is why some people are Surrendering To The Great Despair Demon That Lurks In The Water Pipes, because the track record, she is not so great. But, you know, don't stroke out over it. See if there's a way you can personally keep the conversation going, something metaphorically like the stickers on gas pumps thing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 09:08 PM (bxiXv)

913 Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 01:07 AM (vgd4f) How would the story be any different even if Rand talked longer? Remember, this is the MBM we're talking about. I think you should consider cutting him some slack.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:08 PM (6zgse)

914 I admire Rand Paul, but what did we gain? Brennan will be confirmed tomorrow and obama is still free to launch drones on American citizens...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at March 06, 2013 09:08 PM (9+ccr)

915 936 Any bets on how long until Reid and Durban tries to change the rules? Posted by: Andrew at March 07, 2013 01:07 AM (HS3dy) I think they've tried and failed a couple of times.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 09:08 PM (bxiXv)

916 George Washington was defeated and retreated all through New Jersey one winter and nearly lost all his men. Coward

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:09 PM (Dnbau)

917 939 - Think longer term. Perhaps because of this other repubs will grow a set. And perhaps not. But this was a step in the right direction.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:09 PM (6zgse)

918 932 In the end it really was just 13 hours of why can't Obama answer a simple question yes or no. If we had a real press it would never have needed to be done.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2013 01:06 AM (qo244)

rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up! Churchhill would have told him to shove it up his ass!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:10 PM (vgd4f)

919 I admire Rand Paul, but what did we gain? Brennan will be confirmed tomorrow and obama is still free to launch drones on American citizens... Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at March 07, 2013 01:08 AM (9+ccr) Lucid expression of beliefs and principles of what we can but hope is the future leadership in the Senate? The opening speeches for the '16 GOP nominations?

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 09:10 PM (Vk2pI)

920 Whether it means anything to the ones who are not LIV remains to be seen, I sure some took notice. That's exactly who this was meant for, they were quoting J-zee.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 09:11 PM (iqWMW)

921 Way to surrender... Mademoiselle Paul.

Posted by: the French at March 06, 2013 09:11 PM (rdy8w)

922 we gained a principled stand and a debate of conservative ideas that will get out. More importantly, other republicans may be encouraged by this example. This is a shot across the bow

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (Dnbau)

923 One of the things I admire about conservatives is that they are so much likely to feel entitled.

That is why I get so frustrated by people who feel entitled to the perfect candidate, who is the perfect conservative, who agrees absolutely with exactly what they think (and nothing else), who will outwork anybody, and spend their own family into bankruptcy, and put up with massive rations of shit -- just to serve -- all the while yelling about other people because they feel entitled.

I do not feel entitled to watch a grown man shit his pants to make a point. 13 hours of standing on a marble floor is enough. The point is made.

Maybe if more people felt less entitled, he would have had the votes to actually make the outcome be different.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (PlzOe)

924 942 939 - Think longer term. Perhaps because of this other repubs will grow a set. And perhaps not. But this was a step in the right direction.

I wish I was as optimistic as you. We had Republicans dining at a fancy dinner with Obama tonight kissing up to him. Sorry if I'm pessimistic at this point...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (9+ccr)

925 Survivors Fans vs. Favorites. All the people on the fans tribe suck.

Posted by: buzzion at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (GULKT)

926 rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up! Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 01:10 AM (vgd4f) My recollection is different. He addressed some of Dick's questions, and then later, with his voice cracking, yielded the floor. I did not witness a "cave" to anyone.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (6zgse)

927 I missed a lot of it. Was Brennan ever asked whether it was constitutional to drone attack Americans on American soil without it being an imminent threat. Write your Senators to vote NO on Brennan tomorrow. They'll party line vote but at least you will have done something.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (g7q64)

928 I think they changed the filibuster rules.

Posted by: madamex at March 06, 2013 09:12 PM (iqWMW)

929 939 Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at March 07, 2013 01:08 AM (9+ccr) But but but... They invited Paul to testify at the drone hearing thing they now say they want to have or something

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 09:13 PM (+/Fsp)

930 839How did Strom Thurmond manage to ignore his bladder for 24 hours? It's superhuman.

"Thurmond also had visited the Senate steam room to get liquids out of his body so that if he drank during the filibuster, he would not have to go to the bathroom."

"Though most Southerners did not help him, Northern senators at times asked Thurmond questions so he could rest his voice. Some minor infractions of Senate rules also were overlooked so he could keep the floor. He was allowed to sit while others made short remarks. During one interruption, Thurmond even gobbled a sandwich in the cloakroom."

http://fxn.ws/do9pIB

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 09:13 PM (YjDyJ)

931 911 You gotta believe the press will dog the admin to answer Rand Paul's question. They HAVE to. Can't ignore what went down today.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 07, 2013 01:00 AM (UOjzE)

hahahahaha, stop please, i AM HAHAHAHA

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:13 PM (vgd4f)

932 posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 01:12 AM (PlzOe) Well said!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2013 09:13 PM (g7q64)

933 How would the story be any different even if Rand talked longer? Remember, this is the MBM we're talking about. I think you should consider cutting him some slack.>>

Maybe not his strategy but all he had to do was talk till after the 10 o'clock news. 90% of Americans will only know he Filibustered a long time (filibuster being a word they'd have to look up but won't) and whatever their favorite talking head says about it. Rands brilliance was making it such a simple yes or no question that might go viral.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:14 PM (qo244)

934 come on lou, 13 hours on your feet is not caving. somebody on our side actually did something for once, give him credit. and never depend upon the media to advance any story to the right of center, they will not.

you think they would advance the Paul story when they totally ignored F and F and Benghazi?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 09:14 PM (p/cQy)

935 957 posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 01:12 AM (PlzOe) Well said! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2013 01:13 AM (g7q64) Seconded.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:15 PM (6zgse)

936 951 rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up!
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 01:10 AM (vgd4f)

My recollection is different. He addressed some of Dick's questions, and then later, with his voice cracking, yielded the floor. I did not witness a "cave" to anyone.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 07, 2013 01:12 AM (6zgse)

Oh, well I stand corrected, thanks.

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:15 PM (vgd4f)

937 #FeatsRandPaulDoes hashtag created

KBDaBear ‏@kbdabear

#FeatsRandPaulDoes Rand Paul melts drones .. WITH HIS MIND!KBDaBear ‏@kbdabear

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2013 09:16 PM (mCvL4)

938 rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up!
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 01:10 AM (vgd4f)

My recollection is different. He addressed some of Dick's questions, and then later, with his voice cracking, yielded the floor. I did not witness a "cave" to anyone.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 07, 2013 01:12 AM (6zgse)

I beat that Dick like it owed me money.

Posted by: Rand Pail at March 06, 2013 09:16 PM (rdy8w)

939 an Australian general who was roundly critisized for his performance at Gallipoli later changed combat forever by use of his innovative tactics in WWI. Dullard

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:16 PM (Dnbau)

940 RON PAUL IS A RINO HE SHOULD HAVE PISSED ON THE FLOOR SHIT ON THE RUG SMOKED CRYSTAL METH AND GONE ON FOR 97 HOURS NOW OBAMA WILL LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH

Posted by: SUPERCONSERVATIVE!!!1! at March 06, 2013 09:17 PM (bcA4R)

941 >>>Rand Paul did about 11 hours of straight talk on the issue at hand. Others, like Cruz, read Tweets, but everything Paul said was lucid and on-topic.

>>>With that in mind, this may have been the best filibuster in US history.

This. What we just saw may have been the greatest filibuster, in substantive terms, in the U.S. history: 13 hours without a teleprompter, speaking about the issue, without reading the phone book or discoursing on his favorite rock groups or even talk about budgets and deficits or other political issues. ALL ON THIS ONE ISSUE.

Posted by: Jeff B. at March 06, 2013 09:17 PM (/COnL)

942 Goodnight all. This was a great, heartening night.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at March 06, 2013 09:19 PM (6zgse)

943 Rocky Balboa went 15 rounds with heavyweight champion Apollo Creed and then lost by a split decision. Pussy.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 09:19 PM (XkotV)

944 @939 I question any president's authority to launch any military action inside the US against US citizens absent an actual imminent threat of such a nature to require an airborne strike from a drone. Not impossible to imagine, but almost. Unless the suspect is armed with a tank, nuke, something thankfully still unusual on US streets.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 09:19 PM (oCdqI)

945 Abraham Lincoln lost his first election. Dumb shit

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:22 PM (Dnbau)

946

For many reasons this was a great filibuster.

1. I suspect it is much harder to pull off the talking filibuster today.

2. He stayed on topic.

3. We saw 4 junior senators assert themsevles. Are they perfect, no (though Cruz may be), but they are certainly more conservative than the senior senators. Two of them caused the senior senator to make an appearance. The four of them will collectively move the GOP Senate to the right.

4. We see a glimmer of hope in that there are a few who will stand up to Obama.

Bravo.

Posted by: SH at March 06, 2013 09:22 PM (pPtoA)

947 943 932 rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up! Churchhill would have told him to shove it up his ass!

* Durbin had been sitting in the chamber for hours.

* Cruz essentially told him that.

* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a great movie but the ending is highly unrealistic.

* Sen. Paul is a human being.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 09:24 PM (YjDyJ)

948 Can we compare the tape of Rand's and Strom's performance? I'm Guessing Strom's was such a rambling piece of crap and would be so racist today it would embarrass any dem that had a soul (so none).

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:24 PM (qo244)

949
That guy that ran 50 marathons in 50 days. Wimp. coulda done it in 49.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 09:24 PM (p/cQy)

950 I'm extremely proud of Rand Paul for this. He brought out the best in some of his fellow Senators and taught a lesson how things can be done. I hope they follow his lead in the future.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at March 06, 2013 09:25 PM (sId8y)

951 Some former governor lost the 1976 nomination to Gerald Ford. Gerald 'effin Ford! What a loser.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 09:25 PM (XkotV)

952 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a great movie but the ending is highly unrealistic.>>

IIRC wasn't that some commie light crap?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:25 PM (qo244)

953 Some former governor lost the 1976 nomination to Gerald Ford. Gerald 'effin Ford! What a loser. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 07, 2013 01:25 AM (XkotV) To be fair, at least Reagan received an electoral vote in '76.

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 09:26 PM (Vk2pI)

954 Jesus, the guy filibusters for 13 hours and some people here are bitching about it?

Posted by: Warden at March 06, 2013 09:26 PM (0DlnM)

955 Oh, and I've got a new post up if anyone cares.

Posted by: Warden at March 06, 2013 09:27 PM (0DlnM)

956 969 Posted by: Beagle at March 07, 2013 01:19 AM (oCdqI) This administration, especially, has absolutely ignored posse comitatus at every manufactured turn. The proliferation of DHS and clear gearing up for business against the American people on US soil, is the most disturbing. Discussion of the drone issue helps us get at the gameplan, somewhat... Or at least forces a policy stance out of his majesty's administrative flunky, Holder.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 09:27 PM (+/Fsp)

957
The people that should be hammered are the other repubs that finally were shamed at coming over in the 12 hour. Hammer them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 09:27 PM (p/cQy)

958

Shit sorry i did not agree, the republican house and senate was showing up and Rand Paul conceded, sorry if you want to make fun of me, I dont care!! I appreciate what he tried to do, , he should have babbled like a drunk ass lou's a girl on the ont, and the media would have to cover it, now, not so much!

Top story, obama reaches out to republican senate, buys dinner!

Durbin was last speaker of the night!

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:28 PM (vgd4f)

959 BTW Maet, it was a great ONT, hope you didn't mind us completely ignoring it to talk about/tear down Cruz, Paul and all the rest.

Posted by: Jenny on the phone at March 06, 2013 09:29 PM (6lN9T)

960 the media would have to cover it<<<<

You keep saying those words, I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at March 06, 2013 09:30 PM (p/cQy)

961 rand paul caved the minute durbin showed up! Churchhill would have told him to shove it up his ass!

Durbin was there for quite a while he just wasn't on camera. He had to be there to block the 'sense of the Senate' resolution Rand was trying to pass.

While I remain skeptical that this changed the momentum, or whatever language you prefer, one thing Rand did accomplish was demonstrate that he will filibuster for real, so the next time he threatens it, he'll be taken seriously. We'll have to wait til then to evaluate what that's worth.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2013 09:30 PM (hO9ad)

962 he should have babbled like a drunk ass lou's a girl on the ont, and the media would have to cover it, now, not so much!>>

So he should have fed them the sound bites they could use against him. Brilliant stategery.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:30 PM (qo244)

963

Well, I liked it.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 06, 2013 09:30 PM (1Y+hH)

964 Night all. In honor of Rand, here is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmY-btMbuE

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 06, 2013 09:31 PM (Vk2pI)

965 the media are on the east coast. He spoke until almost one in the morning. He put them on notice. This is a start, not an end

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:31 PM (Dnbau)

966 Posted by: lou's a girl at March 07, 2013 01:28 AM (vgd4f)

===

I'll believe you really mean that if you go down to the strip, walk out into the busiest part of the plaza near the fountain, shit your pants, and then give a couple hour speech.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 09:32 PM (PlzOe)

967 I'll believe you really mean that if you go down to the strip, walk out into the busiest part of the plaza near the fountain, shit your pants, and then give a couple hour speech. Posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 01:32 AM (PlzOe) Done and Done

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 06, 2013 09:33 PM (Vk2pI)

968

I still am impressed with Ted Cruz reading tweets of support. That was a brilliant move. It might even show others that if they want to be celebrated and supported, do what Rand did! The base/Tea Party will be happy to #Stand with you, too.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at March 06, 2013 09:33 PM (sId8y)

969 Damn Rand, that weren`t enough. Let`s git em all in hyar tommorry so`s wee can hosswhup em.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 09:34 PM (uOxBm)

970 Hey it's the ONT. My life is a failure. Oh and there's a new post you might want to check out.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 06, 2013 09:35 PM (xjpRj)

971 he should have babbled like a drunk ass lou's a girl on the ont, and the media would have to cover it, now, not so much!>>

From here on out 13.5 hours is the Lou's a Girl Line. If you can't get above it, you're just a pussy.

Posted by: Mætenloch at March 06, 2013 09:35 PM (XkotV)

972 97 IIRC wasn't that some commie light crap?

It contained some pro-Democrat propaganda but I would not call it "Commie light". What I was specifically referring to was the scene in which Sen. Paine (Claude Rains) feels so convicted that he tries to commit suicide outside the chamber, then confesses on the floor. It sounds silly to say this but that only happens in the movies.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 09:37 PM (YjDyJ)

973 take heart, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. G'night

Posted by: thunderb at March 06, 2013 09:37 PM (Dnbau)

974 884 --- "I'm going to guess that the filibuster rules were changed to disallow leaving the floor for bathroom breaks? Any clue on if Thurmond got to go to the little boys room?" Posted by: buzzion at March 07, 2013 12:52 AM (GULKT) --------------------- IIRC, he had his aides get a bucket and a blanket. They held up the blanket to give him some privacy while he peed in the bucket. And supposedly he kept right on talking during the whole procedure, reciting poetry. Or maybe that was Huey Long. Hmmmm. One of those guys. Of course, they didn't have cameras on the floor then.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 06, 2013 09:38 PM (C8mVl)

975 Is he still going? The link is playing something else.

Posted by: Mark at March 06, 2013 09:40 PM (lYTz5)

976 I sent an email to Rand Paul:

"Thank you so much for standing up for the constitution. You earned my respect in a time when I thought I had none left."

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 09:40 PM (PlzOe)

977 Mirage, Disobeying a direct order from a superior officer is almost always a bad idea, unless they call in a hellfire on the Starbucks. Then I would think about refusing and asking for a lawyer. Obama is just president, not Zeus. Some orders are illegal.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2013 09:41 PM (oCdqI)

978 1000 Mark Good evening. No, he stopped a while ago.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 09:41 PM (+/Fsp)

979 1000 posts ends my filibuster for the night.

Good night wimps and pussies. You should have done better.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2013 09:42 PM (p/cQy)

980 996 he should have babbled like a drunk ass lou's a girl on the ont, and the media would have to cover it, now, not so much!>>

From here on out 13.5 hours is the Lou's a Girl Line. If you can't get above it, you're just a pussy.

Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at March 07, 2013 01:35 AM (XkotV)

Attack attack,attack, lous a girl, easy target.

But tommorow, Top Headline is Obama reaches across the aisle.

But go ahead and dog on me..

Posted by: lou's a girl at March 06, 2013 09:43 PM (vgd4f)

981 It contained some pro-Democrat propaganda>>

The plot was he wanted money for a boys camp on the fed dime and it interfered with some land the evil capitalists wanted. I was being kind with commie light.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:48 PM (qo244)

982 983 Durbin was last speaker of the night!

The Democrats control the Senate and Durbin was filing cloture.

Cloture: "The cloture ruleÂ–Rule 22Â–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster. A filibuster is an attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter. Under cloture, the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours of debate."

http://1.usa.gov/12sik1

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 09:48 PM (YjDyJ)

983
"Thank you so much for standing up for the constitution. You earned my respect in a time when I thought I had none left."

Posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 01:40 AM (PlzOe)

Roger that. Howdy jc

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 09:48 PM (uOxBm)

984 Mirage, I guessed as much. Thanks for confirming.

Posted by: Mark at March 06, 2013 09:49 PM (lYTz5)

985 Hey rightly,

Long time. How ya been?

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 09:49 PM (PlzOe)

986 But go ahead and dog on me..>>

Well that sounds like an offer I can't refuse. Oh wait the y is missing after dog never mind.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:50 PM (qo244)

987 As crude as 1011 was it is the ONT so I have immunity.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 06, 2013 09:51 PM (qo244)

988 1002 Beagle While I do agree with you, I think the issue is that DHS is not the military, and they seem to have a different set of rules they are playing by, and no one actually has a copy. Herein lies the problem with a parallel pseudo militarized police force beholden to no one but the administration. Our actual military would take heed, but if I am not mistaken, military officers are now educated/trained to believe civilians are no different than terrorists. At what other time in our history has it been that reverance of the Constitution, limited government and patriotism... Makes you a prime example of what they now call a terrorist? Much like them moving the posts on what is "Moderate" politically, they have decided that if you aren't for the bs, you are then a terrorist. So, while we could once be okay with thinking that an "inappropriate" attack is such due to the Constitution, they have been busy little beavers rewriting they rules as well as trying to rewrite the rules of engagement here on US soil.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 09:56 PM (+/Fsp)

989 Doing okey dokey jc. Jest haven`t messed around on the ONT in awhile.Lurking in the evenings usally. Hows tricks up your way (besides the election)?

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 09:58 PM (uOxBm)

990 Agree Mirage.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 10:02 PM (uOxBm)

991 Hows tricks up your way (besides the election)?

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 07, 2013 01:58 AM (uOxBm)

====

nutter day, nutter dollar. million days, million dollars. So, at 365 days/year, I only got a half bazillion years to go.

starting to seem like spring is coming around here, so that's nice. best time of the year to play.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 10:03 PM (PlzOe)

992 1006 The plot was he wanted money for a boys camp on the fed dime and it interfered with some land the evil capitalists wanted. I was being kind with commie light.

Committing graft via an appropriations bill is not capitalistic.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 06, 2013 10:06 PM (YjDyJ)

993 Tell me... Would any of you NOT destroyed this thing that someone sent into your house without your permission? This crap is out of hand. http://tinyurl.com/c3dtomw

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:07 PM (+/Fsp)

994 Tell me... Would any of you NOT destroyed this thing that someone sent into your house without your permission?

This is me not typing something bannable in hopes of reminding everyone else to think before they type.

Just in case we're all thinking it.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2013 10:13 PM (hO9ad)

995 Launch something into my house. };>

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:14 PM (+/Fsp)

996 Goodnight jc and all, Ima goner. Sleep tight and dont let the skeeters bite.

Posted by: rightlysouthern(aim low boys, theys ridin ponies) at March 06, 2013 10:14 PM (uOxBm)

997 Posted by: Mirage at March 07, 2013 02:07 AM (+/Fsp) Well I'm not drunk and shooting up my neighborhood, either.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 10:15 PM (bxiXv)

998 1019. Methos Sorry. Not trying to get folks into trouble. Just semed a teensy bit... Irritating they are nw trying to get him to pay for damaging their toys on top of it.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:16 PM (+/Fsp)

999 1022 Merovign "...shots were fired inside a bedroom in a home and that the homeowner had more guns and was threatening others." So not really a seemingly imminent threat to the community at large, but could have been yet another domestic tiff. He shot the thing with a "small caliber pistol." Odd since he had reportedly had "more guns". It is this type f thing we could send drones in for, instead, if the robot thing gets upgraded.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:22 PM (+/Fsp)

1000 It was a very impressive display by Senator Rand. I listened on a streaming link. I never once thought that I was listening to a diversion or some other mindless filler. Rand was on it the whole time.

Posted by: navybrat at March 06, 2013 10:24 PM (CgiRY)

1001 Sorry. Not trying to get folks into trouble. Just semed a teensy bit... Irritating they are nw trying to get him to pay for damaging their toys on top of it.

NP. Just acknowledging the temptation. But, yeah, not a shock that the government is being petty. The whole point of sending robots in is that they're replacable.

On another note, found this charming link over at Barnhardt's blog

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4646

On Saturday afternoon, Yale hosted a Â“sensitivity trainingÂ” in which students were asked to consider topics such as bestiality, incest, and accepting money for sex.
...
"People do engage in some of these activities that we believe only for example perverts engage in,Â” she said. Â“What the goal is is to increase compassion for people who may engage in activities that are not what you would personally consider normal.Â”

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2013 10:27 PM (hO9ad)

1002 So not really a seemingly imminent threat to the community at large, Posted by: Mirage at March 07, 2013 02:22 AM (+/Fsp) Drywall is not a safe backstop. Besides, everyone knows you *Tase* robots.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 06, 2013 10:33 PM (bxiXv)

1003 1026. Methos I saw the Yale thing the other day, though I cannot remember where. It is even more charming than the Army sex training http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/bizarre-sex-action-in-todays-army-training/ And the sexfest week at Univ Cicago last month http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/13/Sex-Week-At-The-University-Of-Chicago Wow, we are like *so* evolving as a culture, aren't we? Maybe, if we are lucky, we will get that hoor, Lena Stanley Dunham Obamau to ring in!!!11!!!eleventy!!!!1!!

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:36 PM (+/Fsp)

1004 Long time, no comment . . . Hello ONT.

Rand Paul Paul's heroic performance today/tonight did something that no one here's touched on yet. He cornered a subject everyone will agree is an abhorrent specter; the feds drone striking Americans on U.S. soil. Sure that's oversimplified, that's the point.

Sen. McConnell showing up was smart. 'The Republicans' are leading the charge against BigBrotherDroneStrikes.

With all due respect to the complainers, you're just wrong on this one . . . IMO.

To those who wish I'd have disappeared forever, I'd prefer not to fight, but if its
to be axes, swords and knives . . . I'm ready.

Posted by: viking at March 06, 2013 10:37 PM (AaIjD)

1005 1027 Methos Drywall does not 'cover' make, either, lovey. I hear robots are a little like Wicked Witch of the East, so maybe water is the answer, though nothing sterilizes like fire, imho.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:38 PM (+/Fsp)

1006 Well I could not sleep until I got this post out of my system.

http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2013/03/drone-debate.html

Good night all.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2013 10:41 PM (QNagW)

1007 I don't know if Billy Graham actually said it or not, but

If God doesn't judge this nation, He owes Sodom and Gamorrah an apology.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2013 10:42 PM (hO9ad)

1008 Anna you know you need to fix your url link in your name.

Posted by: buzzion at March 06, 2013 10:42 PM (GULKT)

1009 Wow, thanks buzzion. Its fixed now. Am on the laptop right now.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2013 10:45 PM (QNagW)

1010 1029 viking Howdy

"Rand Paul Paul's heroic performance today/tonight did something that no one here's touched on yet." Yeah, I kinda did, actually, but that's okay. "Sen. McConnell showing up was smart." He needed the good PR, even if for 2 minutes "'The Republicans' are leading the charge against BigBrotherDroneStrikes." Not as if the lockstep Dems will! "With all due respect to the complainers, you're just wrong on this one . . . IMO. To those who wish I'd have disappeared forever, I'd prefer not to fight, but if its to be axes, swords and knives . . . I'm ready." I've been meaning to get an axe, I have 3 swords (though I am a bit loathe to use them, antiques and all, you can have at 'em), I have a few knives, but I'm not much of a hand-to-hand girl.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 10:49 PM (+/Fsp)

1011 Sorry, Mirage if I missed your comment in support of Rand Paul's filibuster. Good to know others also see the efficacy of taking the stance as he did.

Gotta disagree about McConnell's motivation, I think he's much more of a company man than you you see him.

Sheesh, I don't recall meeting you before so I don't think you're part of the hive that descends . . . hold on to your weapons though, you never know when you'll need them.

Posted by: viking at March 06, 2013 10:58 PM (AaIjD)

1012 DErp! DErp! Durbin! DErp! DErp! Paul gave up! DErp!

Posted by: lou's a troll at March 06, 2013 11:03 PM (Q9qpj)

1013 1036 viking To be fair, I believe my statements were more loquacious and nuanced, but though I did feel somewhat disappointed in some regards, I am pleased in others. I tend to not be very demonstrative, either good or bad, as it regards behavior of those I view as allies. I do recognize that most here are actually on the same side, though they may lose track of that at times. I am not highly impressed with McConnell, but he does recognize when to try to cash in on good PR when he can get it. 2014 will be a battle for him. I am very new posting here, though have been a lurker for a while now, via two different states. I do not descend, I lay in wait and only engage if there is something to say. I am not much of an attacker, but can generally dish back as well as I can take. I have a life, so, you know... The people in my computer tend o not push my buttons too much.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:09 PM (+/Fsp)

1014 Congress authorized the President to use military force against Al-Qaeda. If you imagine this military force must be conditional on respecting the due process rights of Americans...then...every single operation must have a due process mechanism to ensure that no Americans are likely to be targeted. A review of the military history of the United States shows this was not done any of the times the US Navy engaged ships of foriegn registry. That is, having sighted a British warship, the American commander took no action at all to determine whether or not he'd be firing into American citizens serving on board. And considering the US Army, which most of the time fought on US soil, there's no record of a flag of truce passing between the lines so the American commander could ask all American citizens to sit it out. In fact once the US Army found it was fighting a battalion of American deserters in Mexico, it hanged every one of them with no civilian trial or appeal. From this I conclude that either Rand Paul shut up and allow the CIA to fire onto Al Qaeda as John Paul Jones shot into British ships of war manned with some pressed Americans, or, he can work to yank the wartime authority granted to Barack Obama.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 06, 2013 11:09 PM (QFvpm)

1015 Lou's good people. She just got her hopes up too high tonight. There's no need to pile on.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 11:10 PM (PlzOe)

1016 "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." It was a totalitarian state. They believed there was a superior National Socialist method to do EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 06, 2013 11:15 PM (QFvpm)

1017 Oh Mirage, you sound like a lovely person!

First, the politics. Yes McConnell wants re-election and this won't hurt but only help. Yet, I don't think he'd put his re-election eggs into this 'stunt' (cynical) if he didn't see it as a favorable to the R brand as a whole. I think Boehner and McConnell get eviscerated from our side more out of frustration with the way things are than their own job performance. But that's just my read on it.

I was new commenting here, once, about a year or more ago. It was great until I made a bad mistake. I apologized for it. A lot. For a long time if I commented anything, a certain group of commentors would swoop in and it was a full on attack. It became tedious and gross to try commenting at all about anything. I left off it.

Now, I'm back,

Posted by: viking at March 06, 2013 11:26 PM (AaIjD)

1018 Posted by: lou's a troll at March 07, 2013 03:03 AM First, no she isn't. Second, I disagree with lou about Rand. I didn't see any quit it him tonight. Third, and this is important, fuck. you.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at March 06, 2013 11:27 PM (pC72t)

1019 1039 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 03:09 AM (QFvpm) Police, DHS, National Guard, US Military... Obama & Co. Have bee working hard to blur the lines of posse comitatus. The police forces are now militarizing with tactical gear and military vehicles, DHS with their 2700 MRAVs, 7000 fully automatic AR-15 "personal defense weapons"' Natl Guard being insinuated into events where they should not be (Austin Texas Kite Festival), US Military working with local police at different major cities in "co-operations for training", 1.6 billion bullets bought all while trying to disarm the American people... White papers stating that the field of combat includes the Homeland (US soil)... I think it is a rather good thing someone like Rand Paul is at least trying to take them to task and ask the questions regarding if they think they can eliminate our right to due process and kill us in our sleep. Just me, but I would like my senator to ask, and he did today.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:27 PM (+/Fsp)

1020 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 03:09 AM (QFvpm) WTF?? I thought the issue was using drones to target Americans on American soil?

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2013 11:27 PM (j7iSn)

1021 1043 viking To be honest, I am not all that lovely, but I try to be truthful. Just ask the hubby, seriously, he must love me because there is NO other reasoning why he keeps me! Sorry to hear you managed to rub some folks the wrong way. I would hope they would see you attempting to peacefully integrate... Though sometimes, admittedly, online stuff is difficult. We miss things like speech inflection, tone and facial gestures...the media this way on boards/blogs, etc. has not changed in 20 years. Just stick it out while you enjoy it, and once you no longer enjoy it, move on.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:36 PM (+/Fsp)

1022 1046 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 03:09 AM (QFvpm)

WTF?? I thought the issue was using drones to target Americans on American soil?

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 03:27 AM (j7iSn)

===

Of course it was. That is why they said that specifically about 72 million times today. But you will hear people trying to change the subject lots of times over the next 10 days.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 11:37 PM (PlzOe)

1023 BignJames,
WTF, the issue is using drones to target Americans on American soil.

Posted by: viking at March 06, 2013 11:38 PM (AaIjD)

1024 Of course it was. That is why they said that specifically about 72 million times today. But you will hear people trying to change the subject lots of times over the next 10 days.

Posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 03:37 AM (PlzOe)

Well, you wouldn't expect the average obama cum guzzler to do anything other than change the subject, blur the conversation, and bring up 1000 unrelated fucking arguments that don't amount to a mosquito dick, would you?

Posted by: Berserker at March 06, 2013 11:41 PM (FMbng)

1025 Hey Bers.

No, I don't suppose I would. But it sure is weird. How can anyone be so partisan that they willingly give up the protections of the Bill of Rights?

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 11:43 PM (PlzOe)

1026 1030 1027 I wrote this to Methos, but intended Merovign. Bad, naughty me. Sorry. 1032 Methos, I totally have to agree with whoever said it. I've been meaning to get that book, Isaiah 9:10, do you know anything about it?

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:48 PM (+/Fsp)

1027 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 03:09 AM (QFvpm)

Dude, no one's looking to defend Al Qaeda. I doubt many on our side are much looking to defend muslims generally.

The problem is this administration, while scrubbing "islamic terrorism" from the national lexicon has been absolutely obsessed with veterans and constituionalists. That is too say, us. Clear enough?

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2013 11:51 PM (hO9ad)

1028 1051 jc Pardon me for interrupting, but I think the answer involves Kool-Aid spiked with crack with just a hint of bath salts for good measure. You're welcome.

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:51 PM (+/Fsp)

1029 Hi Bers and jc, nice to 'see' you! Don't mean to say Hi and run but my dog needs to go out. He is saying so. Insistingly. Be back shortly.

Posted by: viking at March 06, 2013 11:51 PM (AaIjD)

1030 1055 Hi Bers and jc, nice to 'see' you! Don't mean to say Hi and run but my dog needs to go out. He is saying so. Insistingly. Be back shortly.

Posted by: viking at March 07, 2013 03:51 AM (AaIjD)

===

Well, your dog can't do a filibuster then.

Posted by: jc at March 06, 2013 11:54 PM (PlzOe)

1031 No, I don't suppose I would. But it sure is weird. How can anyone be so partisan that they willingly give up the protections of the Bill of Rights?

Posted by: jc at March 07, 2013 03:43 AM (PlzOe)

Because they think they'll be protected while hiding under obama's nut sack..They're the same class of douchebags who voted in the nazis. stalin, mao, and on and on and fucking on. They never learn

Posted by: Berserker at March 06, 2013 11:57 PM (FMbng)

1032 #facepalm FL bill would require anger management course every 10 years to purchase ammunition Really?

Posted by: Mirage at March 06, 2013 11:57 PM (+/Fsp)

1033 Afraid not, Mirage, beyond the obvious

Â“The bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone;
the fig trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.Â”

...so hope for the future, after the burning, I guess.

Posted by: Methos at March 07, 2013 12:04 AM (hO9ad)

1034 Alright. I can hardly see, I'm so bleary-eyed. I must concede and sleep. You will not miss me, and I'm okay with that, but while I want you all to have a great night, if that's too much pressure, make it mediocre. Bye for now~~~

Posted by: Mirage at March 07, 2013 12:06 AM (+/Fsp)

1035 1059 Methos Well, Isaiah 9:10 Judgement is a book that speaks to some prophecy (yes, related to the exact isaiah 9:10 verse), but it is more than that. Anyway, just thought to ask. Have a good night.

Posted by: Mirage at March 07, 2013 12:10 AM (+/Fsp)

1036 Sorry, I don't mean to be dismissive, I just hadn't heard anything about it. Pleasant dreams...despite the DOOM and all.

Posted by: Methos at March 07, 2013 12:14 AM (hO9ad)

1037 Okay, pooch and I are back home. I never sa the Isiah 9:10 Judgment documentary thing but I did read the book. It was an interesting and compelling read, to me.

Posted by: viking at March 07, 2013 12:17 AM (AaIjD)

1038 Oh jc, just saw your joke! No Hans would not do filibuster unless on command . . . and I would not do it to him. But get any body of any kind into shape, he'd be ON it!

Posted by: viking at March 07, 2013 12:19 AM (AaIjD)

1039 If you don't like how the elected President uses the wartime authority Congress repeatedly gives him, you can yank the wartime authority. Or impeach the President. What doesn't happen is inventing phony limits on wartime authority for this or that President. And acting as judge, jury and executioner is one of his powers. He is not constrained to get a warrant to fire on Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is a declared enemy of the United States. If there's a serious problem trusting Barack Obama with the decision "who is Al Qaeda" then wtf was Congress doing continuing to authorize the war on Al Qaeda?

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 12:44 AM (QFvpm)

1040 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 04:44 AM (QFvpm) I know he's declared war on the the US...I just wish he'd formalize it.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 12:57 AM (j7iSn)

1041 Why, that's the same horseshit argument OFA and Media Matters will front tomorrow! See it here first, confounding ordinary war powers with posse comitatus and ignoring the distinction between enemy combatants and citizens and foreign soil with US soil. That's pretty much how the left has argued from day one. "Don't look at this hand, look at that hand! Flash of smoke, the coin has disappeared. And it's SCIENCE!!!"

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s] at March 07, 2013 01:11 AM (bxiXv)

1042 I could take Chris Balsz's argument seriously if they all didn't spend 8 long years arguing the exact opposite position when the eeeeeeeeevil George Bush was in charge.

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 07, 2013 01:23 AM (BBWjt)

1043 He's not making an argument....he's parroting the party line.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 01:28 AM (j7iSn)

1044 1068 + 1069 You really are idiots. For the same reason I supported Bush taking away the "law enforcement" approach I will not have it watered down just because you don't trust the CURRENT President. The next president should have the same authority that Bush inherited since the Founding. If you don't like it I suggest you end the war or impeach the President, NOT playing "living constitution" and pretend we can have a safe war that we aren't going to win. 1067 There is no distinction between a citizen and an enemy combatant. As Congress has declared Al Qaeda to be an enemy of the US, all AQ is an enemy of the US. Regardless of citizenship. It's not the first war where US citizens are enemy combatants. It would be pointless to say "Obama can't kill US citizens with drones" and then say "But he can kill Al Qaeda when he doesn't know whether US citizens are present". Therefore, before he can bomb on Al Qaeda, he'd have to take sure steps to make certain no citizens were present, no? But since when has any wartime president pretended to take the trouble?

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:19 AM (zQGsa)

1045 I suppose it's good Nixon didn't betray America by dropping a 500 lb bomb on Jane Fonda in 1972. Cause that would have violated her rights or something.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:22 AM (zQGsa)

1046 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 06:22 AM (zQGsa) Get a clue dickbreath....nobody's said a goddam thing about Aq...got it?

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 02:27 AM (j7iSn)

1047 Oh yes we did, we're talking about drone strikes on Al Qaeda in the United States. You're saying, never.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:30 AM (zQGsa)

1048 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 06:30 AM (zQGsa) Drone strikes were never mentioned in that context to my knowledge...got a link?

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 02:38 AM (j7iSn)

1049

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 06:19 AM (zQGsa)

How about this instead: we hold Obama to the same standard that the left held Bush to. Remember those dark, dark Bush years when Bush rushed through the Patriot Act in the midst of a national tragedy, with little debate, so that Bush could fulfill his agenda of plunging this nation into the depths of totalitarian tyranny and goose-stepping fascism where the government had the power to trample all over your rights and do whatever it wished to citizens using the "war on terror" as a mere pretext? Of course it was all bullshit. But hey, that is the narrative that the left built against Bush and it was pretty successful in getting the man demonized as some sort of evil monster. I say, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And for God's sake, Obama actually IS more dangerous than Bush ever was, Obama is the one who has bragged about "kill lists" and who has ramped up drone strikes to unprecedented levels - what was Bush's big civil libertarian crime? supposedly spying on granny's phone calls to Europe? well at least grandma wasn't drone-striked! - PLUS Obama doesn't have an adversarial press to call him out on his bullshit or abusive tactics so he is literally unchained from any scrutiny. So yeah I have no problem co-opting the narrative building techniques that the left used successfully against Bush, plus it is even more justified with this man than it was with Bush.

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 07, 2013 02:38 AM (BBWjt)

1050 Drone strikes were never mentioned in that context to my knowledge...got a link?<< 1046 1048

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:42 AM (zQGsa)

1051 "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." The 2001 AUMF is express authorization by Act of Congress.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:43 AM (zQGsa)

1052 "PLUS Obama doesn't have an adversarial press to call him out on his bullshit or abusive tactics so he is literally unchained from any scrutiny. So yeah I have no problem co-opting the narrative building techniques that the left used successfully against Bush, plus it is even more justified with this man than it was with Bush." That can't be turned on or off like a tap. Revoking the AUMF can. Even Holder wants to say, if they found AQ here they'd prefer to capture them than blow them up from the sky. That is not a dodge of the question. That is what they prefer. However, Congress decided to greenlight military force against AQ and they have that as a lawful, constitutional option.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 02:46 AM (zQGsa)

1053 And no, I don't support any president having the legal authority to drone-strike Americans, because that power is just too easy to abuse. At least with the old-school jackbooted thug tyranny, the jackboots actually had to show up at your door in order to get you to submit to their will, in which case there was a chance that the noncompliant citizen might actually defend himself and shoot back. There is actual physical danger to the jackboots. There is no such possibility with drone strikes.

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 07, 2013 02:48 AM (BBWjt)

1054 1076 Drone strikes were never mentioned in that context to my knowledge...got a link? 1046 1048 Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 06:42 AM (zQGsa) I'm sorry....I don't see Al Queda mentioned in either of those posts...fuckin' idiot.

Posted by: BignJames at March 07, 2013 02:53 AM (j7iSn)

1055 Drone strikes just lessen the costs to the government of police state formation, and that is the last thing I want to do - make it easier for them to continue stealing our liberties.

And no it is not necessary to completely repeal the AUMF, just modify it to clarify that drone strikes against Americans are not allowed.

Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at March 07, 2013 02:53 AM (BBWjt)

1056 >I'm sorry....I don't see Al Queda mentioned in either of those posts...fuckin' idiot.< Then why'd you ask about "drone strikes" and not "Al Qaeda"? I don't think anybody on Capitol Hill is pretending the US Govt is going to fire a drone at people on the grounds "They need a droning, bad". Furthermore, when I mention war on Al Qaeda, the sentence "Nobody is talking about Al Qaeda" becomes false. Because I mentioned it. Finally, what state are you in? I feel we should meet so we can see if you can pronounce "dickbreath" and "fucking idiot" properly.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 05:56 AM (oAnuZ)

1057 " At least with the old-school jackbooted thug tyranny, the jackboots actually had to show up at your door in order to get you to submit to their will, in which case there was a chance that the noncompliant citizen might actually defend himself and shoot back." Actually during a general strike in Austria in 1935, their dictator fired field artillery into apartment buildings; and General MacArthur used gas shells on the Bonus Army in 1932. So that's been off the table for some time. "And no it is not necessary to completely repeal the AUMF, just modify it to clarify that drone strikes against Americans are not allowed." That would also be correct. Maybe they could draft legislation?

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 05:59 AM (oAnuZ)

1058 Cohen's Law "Whoever resorts to the argument "whoever resorts to the argument that. has automatically lost the debate" has automatically lost the debate." If that made any sense, I'd try to adhere to it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at March 07, 2013 06:28 AM (7ObY1)

1059 Finally, what state are you in? I feel we should meet so we can see if you can pronounce "dickbreath" and "fucking idiot" properly.

Posted by: Chris Balsz at March 07, 2013 09:56 AM (oAnuZ)

Grow the hell up. This is the Internets, not a grade school playground. Do you honestly believe anyone is going to drive cross country to LA or wherever in order to...what, exactly? Engage in a pugilistic exhibition in accordance with Marquis de Queensbury rules?

And since you're possibly using your real name, you might want to consider the legal implications of issuing thinly veiled threats via an interstate transmission.

Maybe you're just young, but here's the thing: if two grown men fight, one or both is likely to get hurt or even killed. One or both could go to jail. Responsible adults don't do that sort of thing. If I'm in a fight, for example, it means I've been attacked and I'm in a fight for my life. I'll keep going until whoever is attacking me is down or I am. It's serious business, so cut that shit out.

Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2013 06:42 AM (vtiE6)

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