#standwithrand: Principle or Politics?
I'll be the first to admit that the Obama Administration has a horrible record on the issue of civil liberties. But it's also true that for eight years of the Bush Regime, Congress -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- stood by and did nothing as civil liberties were trampled and the Constitution was shredded. So you'll have to forgive my skepticism about Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of the nomination of a CIA director over the issue of drone strikes on US soil.
If Senator Paul really feels so strongly about the issue, why doesn't he introduce a bill to outlaw domestic drone strikes? How is the issue relevant to a presidential nomination? I have a feeling that if a Democratic senator had pulled such a stunt when Bush was president, Republicans would have bashed that senator to hell and back.
What Senator Paul is saying sounds good, but I question how much of it is principle and how much is more of the same "Oppose Obama at every single turn" mentality we've seen from Republicans since this President took office. It seems to me that Republicans only became passionately against domestic drone strikes -- which, I must point out have never occurred -- after all of their other desperate attempts to find an issue failed.
If Senator Paul really feels so strongly about the issue, why doesn't he introduce a bill to outlaw domestic drone strikes? How is the issue relevant to a presidential nomination? I have a feeling that if a Democratic senator had pulled such a stunt when Bush was president, Republicans would have bashed that senator to hell and back.
What Senator Paul is saying sounds good, but I question how much of it is principle and how much is more of the same "Oppose Obama at every single turn" mentality we've seen from Republicans since this President took office. It seems to me that Republicans only became passionately against domestic drone strikes -- which, I must point out have never occurred -- after all of their other desperate attempts to find an issue failed.