Posted on 03/07/2013 3:50:30 PM PST by montag813
The Amnesty Twins disgrace themselves yet again.
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by John Hill
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I am disgusted. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are despicable, and must be run out of office. Here's why.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led a 13-hour filibuster against the confirmation of CIA nominee John Brennan yesterday, in response to a merely to try and get an answer to a single question for Barack Obama and Eric Holder: “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?”
This followed a stunning comment from Attorney General Eric Holder suggesting that the president has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil - without trial or even arrest.
"The president could conceivably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland," Mr Holder said.
Americans from across the political spectrum were rightly outraged by Holder's statement, and Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians alike praised Paul for his filibuster, once Holder and Obama refused to answer his simple question. Even left-wing media outlets criticized most Senate Democrats for not participating in the filibuster in defense of civil liberties.
Joining Paul were 15 of his Senate colleagues, including Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and one Democrat, Ron Wyden (D-WA) - all demanding an answer to Paul's question. And today the question was finally answered, as Holder reversed himself, through White house Spokesmouth Jay Carney said: "The answer is no" - a clear reversal of Holder's prior statement, and a victory for all Americans who do not blindly trust their government to safeguard their civil liberties.
But according to John McCain and Lindsay Graham, the question should never have been even asked.
They attacked Sen. Paul for his filibuster. McCain called Paul's question and filibuster "ridiculous"; that it was merely a "politcal stunt" to "fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms".
Graham was even worse. To Paul, his colleagues and outraged Americans demanding to know if the president believed he had the authority to drone-kill citizens on U.S. soil, Graham said the question "offended" him and that “I do not believe that question deserves an answer.”
Disgraceful.
And where were the amnesty-pimping twins while the epic filibuster was ongoing? With Obama, of course. McCain and Graham were dining with the President whose A.G. had claimed drone-kill authority.
Just as the two had lunch with Obama on the very day DHS released thousands of criminal illegal aliens onto American streets - which outraged the entire Republican party - but curiously did not seem bother McCain or Graham one bit. They merely said:
"We had an excellent meeting with the president and the vice president this afternoon during which we discussed our effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation this year. We were pleased to hear the president state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal."No concern about criminal aliens on the loose after a lawless release by Obama's DHS. No concern whatsoever about the civil liberties of Americans amid the introduction of weaponized Federal drones in this nation.
Do these poor excuses for public servants represent you? They sure don't represent me. Arizona conservatives had a chance to ditch McCain in 2010, but failed by putting forward a deeply-flawed, infomercial huckster against him in the primary, against whom McCain unethically used millions in leftover 2008 Presidential funds to thrash his opponent in spending 20:1. We won't get another shot until 2016.
But we don't have to wait long at all to fire the disgusting Lindsay Graham - he is up in 2014. Let's make sure it is his last term in any office.
To remind you of just how vile Graham is, let's recall his appearance in front of radical ethnic pressure group National Council of La Raza ("The Race") during the last amnesty battle (which he lost) in 2007. Here is Graham telling La Raza how he would handle YOU...
Both of these RINOs are exactly what is wrong with the GOP, today.
I sure hope and pray that the people of their respective states can get their act together enough to retire the twits.
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Go Tea Party
McQuueg and Linda...Useful Idiots at best..they make me ill.
If you get on Graham and McCain’s FaceBook pages, they are being eviscerated.
Whoops! Mc Queeg that is.
Go Tea Party
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As far as I’m concerned the Republican Party is past tense. The Tea Party is the only option left.
For over four years now, every damn time ANYONE asks a simple question of President Obama, it’s deemed RACIST and OFFENSIVE. - SO, he always gets his way; to the tune of SIXTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT and growing rapidly. - We are kept off balance by this man’s ever changing remarks; and daily we’re threatened by his thin-skinned rhetoric. It’s no wonder we’re suspicious of his regime’s gluttonous ammunition purchases. A bunch of globalist Marxists with BIG plans.
McShame and Grahamnesty are disgraceful excuses for U.S. Senators.
He also, in the past, went on the floor, and called citizens concerned about war in Libya, US debt ....Hobbits and isolationists
McCain and Graham will be on CSPAN2 at 8:00. http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/
Bottom line: How did Rand Paul vote today when Brennan was CONFIRMED? If he voted ‘Yea” or abstained, then the 13 hours WERE POINTLESS, and merely a brazen fraud to impress some knuckleheads who think he should run for POTUS in 2016.
True, however Rand is showing himself more and more to be a Liberaltarian.
It seems Liberaltarians are attempting, with some success, to co-opt the name Conservative.
I don't think most Conservatives will fall for it but it looks like many will..
The schedule was changed. Maybe their earlier performance can be viewed on Youtube.
He sure did. And the night he did that, the Repugs called me wanting money. The person on the other end got an earful.
“A bunch of globalist Marxists with BIG plans.”
If you can envision Cambodia, Pol Pot and the Killing Fields, you will be getting close to what Jugears, et al fantacize and salivate over.
John Mcidiot ain’t no war hero, a POW yes, We are almost lucky he didn’t win, not sure anything would be any different
They are worse than useless.
Go Tea Party indeed.
These two grow more reprehensible each and every time they open their mouths.
Jeez, dude. Can you (and conservatives) join a Libertarian when he’s defending your right to life?
Or does (R) mean more to you than R.I.P.?
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