Evening Links Round Up | 3.6.13
Rand Paul Filibuster 2013
- Rand Paul
is conducting an old school, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-style filibusterconcluded his filibuster against Obama’s nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director. What set him off? The threat of drone strikes on American soil. In other news, Ann Coulter apologized for everything ever and joined the Park Slope Food Co-op. - We talked a bit about this on #TWiBRadio, apparently Roger Ailes thinks President Obama is “lazy” because he earns public money. Does Mr. Ailes not understand how government works?
- Also on #TWiBRadio, the Department of Justice finally addressed their conduct during the Aaron Swartz case. Apparently, when the DOJ reported that he could spend up to 35 years in prison, they didn’t really mean it.
- Called the “Human Heartbeat Protection Act,” this law “represents the worst abortion restriction in the nation — cutting off women’s access to legal abortion services well before the point of viability, which is typically around 24 weeks of pregnancy — and it is the first “fetal heartbeat” abortion measure to go into law.”
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Just reading this is making me angry.
I “rage wrote” the bulk of that.
I think that is how they should have to filibuster anything they should stand and actually hold the floor talking verbally he is scared his home might be hit while he is sitting on the couch playing angry birds.
Word. Don’t block with the FEAR of a filibuster. Go and not pee for 15 hours.
So apparently, if you earn “public” money, you’re not actually employed. Sorry teachers, cops, firefighters, sanitation workers, mayors, comptrollers, public defenders, city council members, senators, congressmen/women, etc….Your jobs aren’t “real” jobs, not like being a corpulent, shiftless, media mogul. Looks like you’re SOL on career legitimacy, Dacia.
See? Now you get it @Randle-aubrey! Public Money = Shiftless Lazy Negro. #Words2LiveBy
Oh, the coded language is nothing new in my book. Take Scalia’s claim that Section Five of the VRA is “racial entitlement”; in other words, “what’s the deal with all these uppity Negroes thinkin’ they’re so special?”
A couple of months ago, @aaron-freeman talked on TWiB about an “honesty initiative, where we encourage people to say what they mean instead of wrapping it up in euphemisms and coded language. I’m with it, 150%. This country needs a truth enema, big time.
Oh, and you’ve got to love the fact that Rand Paul compared himself to Strom Thurmond in filibuster record-breaking. Y’know, THE GUY WHO FILIBUSTERED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. Way to up your good ol’ boy cred, Rand. I see a bright future for you in the white-robed, pointy-hooded set.