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RINO Lindsey Graham Slams Rand Paul’s Filibuster As “Ridiculous”


lindsey grahamLast night, while watching the “Rand Paul Filibuster Show” on C-SPAN, I discovered the well known Republican Senators were having dinner with Barack Hussein Obama at the White House. I presume it was to go over how he would get some of the RINOs in the Senate to go along with the Continuing Resolution. Then I had a different thought and tweeted (Yes, I’m learning Twitter well now and even began #DiningWithObama last night) the following:

Well lo and behold, look what I discovered. H/T GatewayPundit

The Senator and RINO from my State, Lindsey Graham decided that instead of supporting Rand Paul and his stand on the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, that he would mock it.

Graham stated,

“The drone program he (Obama) has utilized overseas, I think has made us safer. This idea that we’re going to use a drone to attack a citizen in a cafe in America is ridiculous and I think the American people need to understand the threat we face.”

Well apparently I was right. Graham is taking up for Obama in this endeavor instead of demanding a straight answer from Brennan and the White House like Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have done.

However, we shouldn’t be surprised at Graham’s response. This is a man that had no problem steamrolling the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights of American citizens on U.S. soil in backing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act with its indefinite detention provisions.

This is the same man that stood on the floor of the Senate and said that people taken under those provisions in the NDAA are to “Shut up! You don’t get a lawyer!”

How can he say “we’re going to use a drone to attack a citizen in a cafe in America is ridiculous,” when the administration and the man nominated to head the Central Intelligence Agency won’t say that they won’t?

Brennan has been asked point blank about this many times by Senator Paul and his unwillingness to answer the question is what lead to the 13 hour filibuster yesterday. In fact, those thirteen hours were for educating the American people on just how far we have descended into tyranny and it was thirteen hours of Rand Paul calling upon the White House and Barack Obama to answer the question, which is Constitutional and does potentially impact every person on U.S. soil.

Instead of manning up and answering, Obama was feasting at our expense with turncoat Republicans at the White House.

While Paul tried to be gracious and say that he believed Obama wanted to do the right thing in his heart, I completely disagree. If he wanted to do the right thing, he would do the right thing. Instead, I think Paul’s point about the fact that Brennan and the White House have dodged this issue is because they don’t want the answer to be made public.

I’ve got a little tip for any public officials at the local, State, or Federal level. Take a look at what Senator Paul did last night. If that type of stand on the issues is not in your blood, then if you are up for re-election in 2014, don’t count on staying in your position.

Rand Paul did what his father has done and that is to try and stand for the law of the land. He did something last night that the GOP presidential nominee couldn’t do, and that is defend the Constitution and rally real American patriots to his battle cry. People wouldn’t sit for thirteen hours listening to Mitt Romney like that and Paul was only dealing with one issue! However, Paul was able to communicate in such a way, primarily because he is not a lawyer, that it reverberated from coast to coast.

I was sorely disappointed in his confirmation vote of Kerry and Hagel. However, Rand Paul’s stand yesterday was a breath of fresh air and I believe will be remembered as a historical event in our nation. May God bless his efforts in this matter.

UPDATE: RINO John McCain was also at the dinner with Obama and he too, has attacked Rand Paul.

“Calm down, Senator,” McCain said, in an apostrophe to Paul. “The U.S. government cannot randomly target U.S. citizens.”

Business Insider reports,

“McCain, a staunch foreign policy hawk, said Thursday that Paul’s warnings that the U.S. could target “Jane Fonda” or “people in cafes” bring the debate into the “realm of the ridiculous.”

“If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids,” McCain said, adding: “I don’t think what happened yesterday is helpful to the American people.”

Hey McCain, Paul was taken seriously for 13 hours! You weren’t taken seriously in 2008 and you haven’t been for a long time. With this latest stunt it’s unlikely that you will ever be taken seriously.



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  • radjul

    Thank You Rand Paul for devoting time to the people of this country. Instead of spending every cent we have and borrowing the rest, you took time to educate the right, or whats left of it on the future of this country if we cant get answers get rid of them. As for the Rhinos out with them and the damned left idiots. The Senate needs a complete overhaul. They haven’t done their jobs in over 4 years. I would much rather vote for someone with principals and sticks to them then rhinos who have been in too long and started to smell like the swamp of washington DC.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jerry-Boyd/1213745850 Jerry Boyd

    A few less Lindsey Grahams and a few more Rand Pauls may help America survive !

  • J J

    I was very disappointed in the response from both Graham and McCain. They basically dismissed the possibility of Obama taking the law into his own hands and doing what he pleases – which he has already done without confrontation or consequences. These “old” guys need to retire – their judgement is flawed!!

  • mrookergolf1

    RINO Graham and his joined at the hip mate McCain should both be shown the door into retirement from the political scene. Nikki Hailey would be a far better choice to be in the Senate than Graham is. Both of these guys are part of the problem, not the solution.

  • http://www.facebook.com/noel.buckley.5 Noel Buckley

    Graham has his head up his ass on this one. The idea that we would blow up targets (including absolutely innocent people who happen to be in the vacinity) in a cafe or other public place, is unconscienceable REAGARDLESS OF WHICH COUNTRY IT OCCURS IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it is a compund or terorist camp that is a different story. No damned wonder the rest of the world hates us. If we are unable to single out someone and take them out is the result of the liberal morons who have handcuffed the CIA and curtailed black ops.

  • Linda Miskolci

    GRaham is another obama lackey. God bless Rand Paul.

  • http://twitter.com/GoldbergAllen Allen Goldberg

    Exactly what Lindsay G and john Mcstupid ought to be retired by the voters…both are exactly what is needed by the Democrats to maintain their liberal strategies and when the drones startt targeting Americans, then these two ought to be used as shields. Both are a disgrace and ought to step down immediately. But of course their egos would never allow them.

  • America First

    I am truly disappointed by the response of both Sen Lindsey Graham and Sen John McCain, to the gallant and courageous stand taken by Sen Rand Paul. Sen Paul, in his filibuster not only was standing up for the Constitution and Bill of Rights but was spotlighting a well known fact about Obama and his chicago style administration, which is that they have lied about and covered up so many things on a continuous basis, they can’t be trusted with anything they say or their motives in what they do. Graham and McCain should have been doing the same thing Paul did and setting an example for the newer members of Congress instead of acting like Democrats in Republican clothes. This is a new day!! Americans want honesty in gov’t and giving in to the Democrats when they are wrong and demonizing the grassroots Tea Party will not get Republican sheep representatives re-elected. Americans are waking up thanks to the Congressmen like Sen Paul and are ready to rid DC of the elected who care more for themselves than for America. We will no longer tolerate deception, lying and loss of our Constitutional rights. If new gun laws get past, that make criminals out of law abiding citizens, I fear the rise of violent civil disobedience, riots, another Revolution, martial law and Americas decent into 3rd world status is our fate

  • bull57

    I recall years ago as a VP for a mid sized const. Company I had to negotiate and purchase several hundred cell phones. Graham reminds me of the cell phone salespeople. They tell you all the great things they will do, but not many would write it on he contract! They always said, no need to worry. Well if its in writing I won’t worry. Why are they so concerned about putting the stipulations about Americans in writing if there’s nothing to worry about!!!

    • Daisysue

      The fact that they wanted such a thing put into law is telling what their intentions are..If they have not thought to use it why would they need it????? B.S.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Elizabeth-Danuser/698607027 Mary Elizabeth Danuser

    Graham is on the wrong side of this issue.Liz

  • http://www.facebook.com/govlarry Larry Shirley

    What a Dick………well he likes but stays in closet!!

  • WATCHER

    Gramnesty is the Republican Bonney Fwank. He is devoid of principle and 2014 should finish his useless career. He sold our for a dinner at the WH and isn’t man enough to admit it.

  • The Reader

    Graham and McCain can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine-because that is what they said to the American people.

  • john

    graham is only upset the paul had the balls to do it and he didn’t!! spineless coward!!

  • tom nogaro

    lindsey girl is a cheap date.

  • tncdel

    How did RINOs like Graham, McCain and Rubio get effective control of the GOP?

  • notanobamaliar

    Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. RINO media Sunday talk show darlings are they? They are working hard to become Obama’s new BFF. These two clowns are absolutely worthless and if the Republican party had one once of courage they would kick these good-for-nothing pompous fools out. People like them are the reason the Senate has not done anything worthwhile in decades for the American people. All they care about is a lifetime tenure in their little get along – go along club. Seems like they would get tired of being lap dogs for the Democrats but then some people have no self respect.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Geiger/1723310890 Stephen Geiger

    Lindsey Graham is certainly not the man Rand Paul is and he never will be. Lindsey is too busy trying to take care of himself to care about this country and its citizens.

  • biker

    Don’t send the GOP another DIME! That’s the message we can send to these RINO’s Graham and McLame. Both of these idiots need to retire and go away. They and the GOP is dead until deadwood like these guys are gone…

  • deafy2

    to be honest … it is still very troubling …. the answer “no” is to “‘Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?”

    What if this American was a patriot combating a tyrannous US government, which Obama is certainly a head of?

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