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04-09-2013, 04:31 PM
Rand Paul's Defining Moment
Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013 04:54 PM
By Doug Wead
It has only been a little more than a month since Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster on the floor of the U.S. Senate. But it is looking more and more like a defining moment in American politics. It may be a defining moment in American history.
The dramatic sight of Rand Paul standing all alone, in the well of the Senate on March 6, 2013, speaking up for the U.S. Constitution, asking the questions that the media and the power establishment was too busy or too indifferent to ask, is a picture that will be forever burned into the psyche of many Americans.
And the key point here was that he was alone. The rest of Washington, D.C., the politicians, the television producers, the White House staff, had scattered across town to posh restaurants enjoying their cocktails, regaling each other with tales of the day's successes and making their deals for tomorrow, smugly content that they had put another day of work behind them.
That afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul had begun what would be a 13-hour filibuster, promising to hold up confirmation of the new director of the CIA until the president answered this simple question. “Does the president’s newly assumed power to kill a U.S. citizen, without arrest or trial, apply to non-combatants here in the United States?”
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http://www.newsmax.com/DougWead/Rand-Paul-Senate-Filibuster/2013/04/09/id/498640
Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013 04:54 PM
By Doug Wead
It has only been a little more than a month since Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster on the floor of the U.S. Senate. But it is looking more and more like a defining moment in American politics. It may be a defining moment in American history.
The dramatic sight of Rand Paul standing all alone, in the well of the Senate on March 6, 2013, speaking up for the U.S. Constitution, asking the questions that the media and the power establishment was too busy or too indifferent to ask, is a picture that will be forever burned into the psyche of many Americans.
And the key point here was that he was alone. The rest of Washington, D.C., the politicians, the television producers, the White House staff, had scattered across town to posh restaurants enjoying their cocktails, regaling each other with tales of the day's successes and making their deals for tomorrow, smugly content that they had put another day of work behind them.
That afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul had begun what would be a 13-hour filibuster, promising to hold up confirmation of the new director of the CIA until the president answered this simple question. “Does the president’s newly assumed power to kill a U.S. citizen, without arrest or trial, apply to non-combatants here in the United States?”
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read more:
http://www.newsmax.com/DougWead/Rand-Paul-Senate-Filibuster/2013/04/09/id/498640