Excuses Excuses

Saturday 9 March 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

Democrats finding excuses for sitting out Paul’s filibuster, then proclaiming support for his cause.

After just one Democrat participated in Rand Paul’s filibuster Wednesday — a thirteen-hour stand against the nomination of John Brennan over administration drone strikes — Senate liberals defended their absence from the floor, calling the filibuster a “distraction” that wouldn’t “move this issue forward.”

Spokesmen for two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, referred BuzzFeed to Wednesday’s hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder, where members of the committee from both parties condemned the secrecy around the president’s drone program.

“Senator Coons has publicly called for a rethinking of the United States strategy on drones and remains committed to being an active part of that discussion,” said Ian Koski, his communications director, “but in his two years in the Senate, he’s seen dozens and dozens of filibusters and didn’t believe another filibuster would help move this issue forward.”

Yeah. Public debate amongst our nation’s lawmakers, the supposed “most deliberative body in the world” isn’t a good enough forum to discuss drones and the administration’s stance on their use on American citizens.

So if debating in public, on the record, isn’t the right time, when the fuck is? If you supported his cause, you would have et the American public know it. Instead you collectively decide that private meetings in back rooms is better.

Unprincipled senators gonna unprinciple.

2013-03-09  »  madlibertarianguy