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Watch live: Rand Paul filibusters Brennan nomination for CIA director
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday took the the Senate floor to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “I’m here to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination to be director of CIA,” Paul explained. “I will speak for as long as…
Sen. Rand Paul ‘not familiar with the details’ of anti-abortion bill he sponsored
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Wednesday claimed to be ignorant of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, even though he sponsored the legislation twice. At a press event in Kentucky, LEO Weekly asked Paul why he supported the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, but not the Violence Against…
Maddow blasts ‘space cadet’ Rand Paul’s conspiracy theories
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the mainstreaming of paranoid, right-wing conspiracy theories, and how politicians like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are taking these wild-eyed fantasies off of the Internet and talk radio and bringing them to bear in national politics. She began by discussing…
Sen. Rand Paul lambasts government spending in tea party response to State of the Union
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s tea party response to President Obama’s State of the Union primarily focused on criticizing the president and Washington in general on the debt and deficit, arguing at one point that the sequester — which the Congressional Budget Office said would halve economic growth in 2013 —…
Watch live: Sen. Rand Paul gives the Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s State of the Union
Watch Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) give the official Tea Party rebuttal to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union, courtesy of Tea Party Express. [Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) addresses the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. Photo: Flickr user Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons licensed.]…
Rand Paul to give tea party response to State of the Union
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will deliver the tea party’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, scheduled for Feb. 12. The Tea Party Express began issuing their own responses to the annual speech in 2011 with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Sen. Paul is the son of former Rep.…
Rand Paul praises Reagan in call for containment of radical Islam
In a much-anticipated speech on radical Islam, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky praised Ronald Reagan and advocated a policy of containment. The potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate on Wednesday sought to frame himself as a realist when it came to foreign policy. Paul’s speech at the Heritage Foundation provided…
Maddow: Rand Paul and other whack-job conservatives eroding U.S. standing in the world
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed how the clownish antics of conservatives on Capitol Hill are beginning to affect the standing of the U.S. in the world. She touched on recent conspiracy theories from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) about the raid on the U.S. consulate…
Maher: Rand Paul’s questions to Clinton a result of ‘horsesh*t’ he heard on TV
On Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, the host discussed Obama’s inauguration speech and the congressional hearing on Benghazi this week. Maher said he agreed that the inauguration speech was partisan and that he’d “never heard an inauguration speech like that,” but asked, “Didn’t they kind of drive him…
Rand Paul backtracks on Clinton criticism: Iraq war actually worst tragedy since 9/11
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) toned down his criticism of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday afternoon, admitting on CNN that the Iraq war was a greater tragedy than the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. At a hearing on the attack in Benghazi earlier that day, Paul…
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