{"id":17813,"date":"2013-03-07T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:15:51","slug":"mr-paul-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17813","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Paul Goes To Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/rand-paul-yields-the-floor-ending-nearly-13-hour-long-filibuster-over-obamas-drone-strikes\/\">Mediaite<\/a> story posted this morning, Senator <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rand Paul\" href=\"http:\/\/paul.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rand Paul<\/a> ended his filibuster in the Senate at 12:39 this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bqEIMxGroUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">YouTube<\/a> posted the video of the Senator&#8217;s closing remarks:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqEIMxGroUA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">During the half-day-long filibuster session, Paul was joined by fellow Republican Sens. <strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ted Cruz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Ted Cruz<\/a><\/strong> (R-TX), <strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Marco Rubio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Marco Rubio<\/a><\/strong> (R-FL), <strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Saxby Chambliss\" href=\"http:\/\/chambliss.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Saxby Chambliss<\/a><\/strong> (R-GA), <strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mitch McConnell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/strong> (R-KY), and <strong>Mike Lee<\/strong> (R-UT). Despite his support for Brennan\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.951796,-77.146586&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.951796,-77.146586 (Central%20Intelligence%20Agency)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">CIA<\/a> nomination, Sen. <strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ron Wyden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Ron Wyden<\/a><\/strong> (D-OR) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/democratic-sen-ron-wyden-joins-rand-paul-for-historic-bipartisan-filibuster-over-drone-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">joined the effort<\/a>, voicing his concerns about the Obama administration\u2019s authority to assassinate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> citizens without congressional oversight.<\/p>\n<p>America needs to have this discussion. I don&#8217;t even like the idea of Americans being killed based on congressional oversight. In a country where the Biblical view on gay marriage may be considered hate speech and those in the the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Catholic Church\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Catholic Church<\/a> are not allow to practice their religious beliefs outside of their church, who determines who or what is dangerous? When we arrested the underwear bomber after an obvious attempt at terrorism, we read him his Miranda rights and allowed him to hire a lawyer. Now the President seems to think he has the right to kill American citizens on American soil without the benefit of either a lawyer or a trial. The problem here is very simple, &#8220;Who determines who is a danger to the country?&#8221; Depending on who holds the office of the presidency, we might see Bill Ayers being called a threat or we might see Glenn Beck declared a threat. Politics could easily influence these decisions. There is a reason we have a court system. It is not perfect, but it is better than the idea of the government being able to kill American citizens at will.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=755faead-6b9b-459f-afb4-6c31bd00732b\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Mediaite story posted this morning, Senator Rand Paul ended his filibuster in the Senate at 12:39 this morning. YouTube posted the video of the Senator&#8217;s closing remarks: The article reports: During the half-day-long filibuster session, Paul was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[659,5118,214,734,2244,5119,1557,4233,3838,462],"class_list":["post-17813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-domestic-drone-use","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-rand-paul","tag-ron-paul-senate-filabuster","tag-ron-wyden","tag-saxby-chambliss","tag-ted-cruz","tag-united-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17818,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions\/17818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}