Rand Paul: I Will Not Sit Quietly and Let Obama Shred the Constitution - Senate Filibuster 3/6/2013

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is on the Senate floor trying to block the nomination of John Brennan as the next CIA director.

Paul is angry over the Obama administration's controversial drone policy that officials now say may authorize the president to use a drone strike against an American citizen inside the United States.

In the clip below, Rand Paul says, "This is not about partisanship. I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees, but I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution. I cannot sit at my desk quietly and let the president say that he will kill Americans on American soil who are not actively attacking a country."

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[althmanne]

He'd still be two years more experienced in 2016 than Obama was in 2008.

[Wyatt C]

RAND PAUL 2016

[feralbigdog]

if I may add the following: get out the nanny state, let teachers spank an unruly child with no fear of lawsuits, reinstate the pledge and prayer in schools, end political correctness, and let common sense take over, repeal hr1913 and all laws requiring arbitration, cancel ALL foreign aide until America has a surplus of 20trillion dollars, and pass a law that forbids any aid that would lower this nation to less than said dollar amount, and bring jobs back to America again!

[kde439]

The American people need to take the Fed government back.Down size it & throwout any Oath Breakers in office.Run the United Nations out of America, end the Fed reserve,Downsize the TSA & DHS.Lets get this country back on track & make it a government for the People, by the People, not the ultra rich & Banksters.

[wamyx8Nz]

The sad thing is that all the people criticizing Rand for doing this would be clapping and cheering if it were a senator Obama filibustering a president McCain over his illegal use of drones.

[Scott Humphreys]

The constitution was written to be understood by normal people. Anybody claiming to be a constitutional lawyer should be dragged into a field and shot.

[Susan Knisely]

Tell Harry Reid that I hate his state of Nevada for harming (murdering) my family.

[AgainstTheWind001]

the true divide in this country should be over

power vs. liberty,

not Team Red vs. Team Blue.

- Rand Paul

[AgainstTheWind001]

"who are not actively attacking a country"

The problem here is, what is their definition of...... "actively attacking a country"

and "who"

Drones are just one of the problems.

PNAC (NeoCon) quote.....

Rebuilding America's Defenses "And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."

[Cashstock Moneybags]

Fox news is crap aside, Go Rand Paul!!! I still feel like Gary Johnson would be a better President, but man... Rand Paul is really gaining some ground with me for a 2016 run...

[Imnon00b5]

Thanks for wasting precious time you disgrace in politics