Rand Paul Breaks With His Party & Announces He Will OPPOSE Extending PATRIOT ACT

Segami

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:14 AM
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Rand Paul Breaks With His Party & Announces He Will OPPOSE Extending PATRIOT ACT

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" On Wednesday, the House of Representatives rebuked both the White House and the House Republican leadership as a majority of House Democrats joined with 26 insurgent Republicans to defeat the extension of highly controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Because the vote was moved to the floor under suspension rules, the extension was killed because it lacked a 2/3 majority. The House is expected to once again begin debate on the measure as early as today, with the extension expected to pass with a simple majority in favor.

The legislation will then move on to the Senate, which has to pass the three controversial �provisions that would be extended by the bill� which are currently set to expire on February 28. While the PATRIOT Act has had strong bipartisan backing since its inception, it has primarily been Democrats who have pushed to amend the legislation to make it less harmful to civil liberties. Now, one newly-elected prominent GOP senator is breaking with his party and announcing that he will vote against any extension of the bill.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has posted a seven minute long video on his Senate YouTube account announcing that he plans to vote against extending the bill, explaining that his view is that the Founders of the country would have opposed it as well. Citing the Bill of Rights and Thomas Jefferson, Paul said he does not �wish to unchain government from the bindings of the Constitution.� He concluded that he thinks it is about time that �Congress took a serious look at our obligations to stand up for the rights of those we are supposed to represent, rather than casting the politically easy votes�:

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/rand-paul-patriot-act/

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chimpymustgo

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:15 AM
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1. Well good for him!!! Wish our DEMS would get on the right side of history.

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Pab Sungenis

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:16 AM
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2. Can we find 39 Democrats

who would join him in a filibuster?

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villager

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:23 AM
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4. Sadly, no. Most of them will do what they're told to.

n/t

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bullwinkle428

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:24 AM
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5. Well, since Wisconsin got rid of Russ Feingold, I'm guessing

that nobody from our side will have the guts to stand up. Maybe Bernie...

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jmowreader

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Thu Feb-10-11 09:08 PM
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10. Why would we need a filibuster?

For God's sake, man, just don't give the shit a rule and let it die on the Senate steps.

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quinnox

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:21 AM
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3. One of the few issues he is correct on

Edited on Thu Feb-10-11 11:22 AM by quinnox

Maybe some Senate Democrats will join him.

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loudsue

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Thu Feb-10-11 11:53 AM
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6. This is one of the things I agree with the teapartiers on. There are a couple of others:

repealing the part of the health care bill that mandates people BUY insurance from the murderous insurance industry, and then fines them if they don't. Hell is going to freeze over before they are allowed to make people do that.

The tea party whackos are on the right side of these issues.

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quinnox

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Thu Feb-10-11 12:07 PM
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8. Same

I agree with that.

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Orsino

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Thu Feb-10-11 12:01 PM
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7. ...and has the tiniest shred of consistency on. n/t

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krabigirl

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Thu Feb-10-11 12:08 PM
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9. Good for him.

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