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99th_Monkey

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48. The really sad thing about Paul's filibuster

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 06:24 PM

Mar 2013

is that it illustrates how wholesale the entire Democratic Party has
swung to the far right on civil liberty related issues. It takes a fucking
LIBERTARIAN anymore, to get outraged at the sinister over-reach of
draconian 100% saturation surveillance, kill lists, endless drone wars
that create far more new "terrorists" than they eliminate.

My own US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or) was I think the ONLY Democrat
to stand in support of Sen. Paul's filibuster.

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The party of civil war re-enactors is having a civil war. JaneyVee Mar 2013 #4

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Agreed. A Paul-backed primary challenger would end Graham. Skip Intro Mar 2013 #53

The really sad thing about Paul's filibuster 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #48

What's sad is the support for a paranoid driven publicity stunt of a "fillibuster" great white snark Mar 2013 #51

Your vapid indignation is duly noted. 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #55

Because he doesn't give two shits about it. Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #57

Thanks DI. great white snark Mar 2013 #60

"fooled in to buying it" <--hardly 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #61

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"Obama is this reactionist asshole" <-- YOUR words, not mine. 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #63

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I'm glad we're both having a good laugh. 99th_Monkey Mar 2013 #66

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Go get 'em, teabillies! Deep13 Mar 2013 #69