Rand Paul: Filibuster prevents ‘extremist’ Maddow from being Supreme Court justice

[davidthegnome]

31. Much as I despise Republican Obstructionism...

He's not wrong about the reason for the existence of the filibuster - the thing is that he and others have used it in a petty, demeaning manner in order to obstruct, impede, and damage the current administration in any way possible. My concern is that any changes in filibustering will come back to hurt us in the future, under republican administrations.

The line about Maddow and the one about Sharpton are absolutely frigging ridiculous, and I'm quite sure that Paul knows this. He's just attempting to spin it in the most outrageous way possible to get dittoheads and tea party nitwits raging and thumping their chests.

That having been said, let's flip the coin for a sec... imagine what sort of people someone like Dick Cheney would nominate. This is part of the reason why we need the filibuster to remain a strong tool. Read the Audacity of Hope - we came close to losing it under the Bush administration, and the consequences would have been disastrous.