Somacandra: Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As long as "the minority would have to remain on the Senate floor and speak in order to impede passage of a vote" I don't have a problem with it. The longest effort ever recorded of this nature was Strom Thurmond and Co.'s 24 hour marathon. The non-talking threats of filibuster leave bills and nominees in limbo for months at a time. That's the shiat that must not stand.

Precisely.  Working as intended.

Lionel Mandrake: Success?

In wot respek, Charlie?

All of them.

Going to be fun when another GOPer wants to fillibuster and the press asks why they arent talking like RAND PAUL did. Probably why McCain/Graham were so upset.

Let the Congressional derp begin!

I'm sure a number of jobs will be created thereby.

Somacandra: Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As long as "the minority would have to remain on the Senate floor and speak in order to impede passage of a vote" I don't have a problem with it. The longest effort ever recorded of this nature was Strom Thurmond and Co.'s 24 hour marathon. The non-talking threats of filibuster leave bills and nominees in limbo for months at a time. That's the shiat that must not stand.

Totally.

And just this morning I heard a story on NPR about how the GOP is blocking 68 high-level Cabinet appointments.

Good.  Cloture is ghey

Well you can blather, on any bullshiat you choose
Until your bladder demands that you let it loose
It doesn't matter, if you can get on the news
It's a Randstand
Randstand

This displeases Aqua Buddha.

And the pee cups can be used for the Republican Senators drug tests.


/Its not illegal to pee in public if its a bag strapped to your leg.

Depends, though..............................

Somacandra: Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As long as "the minority would have to remain on the Senate floor and speak in order to impede passage of a vote" I don't have a problem with it. The longest effort ever recorded of this nature was Strom Thurmond and Co.'s 24 hour marathon. The non-talking threats of filibuster leave bills and nominees in limbo for months at a time. That's the shiat that must not stand.

This, in my humble opinion

The filibuster only works when Rand Paul uses it to wait out a vote or a date rapist uses it to wait out a girl with a high tolerance

GoldSpider: Somacandra: Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As long as "the minority would have to remain on the Senate floor and speak in order to impede passage of a vote" I don't have a problem with it. The longest effort ever recorded of this nature was Strom Thurmond and Co.'s 24 hour marathon. The non-talking threats of filibuster leave bills and nominees in limbo for months at a time. That's the shiat that must not stand.

Precisely.  Working as intended.

I doubt that when the GOP really wants to blackout a piece of legislature and filibuster it, they will spend thirteen hours talking.

They will use the filibuster as they have been, as long as there is no threat of a cloture vote.

Randstanding is an accurate term, because that's all this is: Publicity.  Doing something different to make it on the news.  It's obvious Rand Paul has presidential aspirations like his father.  Expect the next few GOP primary candidates to do this too.  Then expect it to disappear.

Nothing changed.  McCain was actually right for once.  It was a substance-less populist rant.

Consider the administration originally used 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as examples -- immediate threats.  *After* the filibuster, it became a much less stringent qualifier of "combatant."  Which is anyone subservient to an enemy force -- which is hellva lot looser standard that *immediacy.*  You carry a rifle in service of al Qaeda anywhere in the world Mr. Obama and Mr. Paul agree on the powers to terminate you.


Stupidest filibuster evar.

It caused the '94 RepRev! GoRandGo! Palin/Paul2016!

The American public is tired of the political gridlock.......if the GOP wants to be further (and rightfully) blamed for the incompetence let them.

Lionel Mandrake: Success?

In wot respek, Charlie?

Is anyone still talking about the "Friends of Hamas'?

Ace Rimmer: Lionel Mandrake: Success?

In wot respek, Charlie?

Is anyone still talking about the "Friends of Hamas'?

As much as they are about Rand Paul's fetuses-are-people-too bill. They're sweeping it under the rug, with a dismissive, "But aside from that little thing, he's just what the country needs, herp-derp."

Citrate1007: The American public is tired of the political gridlock.......if the GOP wants to be further (and rightfully) blamed for the incompetence let them.

Speak for yourself, I happen to like the gridlock.

Thanks to the "success" of Sen. Paul's 13 hour AW-ing session Actual Filibuster, we can expect more Randstanding Actual Filibusters in the future

Fixed that for you  Subby.

Disagree with the content of it all you want, it's the way filibustering should happen.  Want to delay something in the Senate?  Then you need to be willing to stand there and talk in order to delay it.

Lionel Mandrake: Success?

In wot respek, Charlie?

Free publicity for Rand. That was the whole point of this exercise.

otherginger: I'm sure a number of jobs will be created thereby.

A new pissboy for the Senate?

Well, we all knew he was full of horse exhaust, but standing there with a bag of "PeePee" attached to his leg ,renders a picture of the libertarian mind and bizarre self sufficiency in a way that words can never quite adequately render.

Rand PeeBag
Rand PeeBag

Good. That's what they ought to have been doing all this time.

See, that's the thing. You're shorthanded. That's why you're filibustering. Filibustering is tough, and more often than not it fails, but it still offers the chance at success. If you are that resolute in your convictions, do not hide behind parliamentary procedure and block progress in silence. We want you to get up there and earn it. Start talking, speak your peace, risk saying something stupid (in fact, stupid things are pretty much required to be said when you talk that long). You want a bill dead? Prove it. Prove it through blood, sweat and tears.

As a bonus, if the filibuster fails, if someone's bladder gives out, we get to actually have the vote right then and there, thereby actually making things go faster than they are now.

What will Rand drone on about next time?

You know who else liked to give speeches that lasted for hours on end

He shall now be forever remembered as  Senator PeeBagger!

Frederick45: He shall now be forever remembered as  Senator PeeBagger!

That is usually the endgame of a filibuster. You either have to tagteam and find a way to get off the floor long enough to pee, or you need to find a way to pee in the chamber, or else it's just a matter of time before you have a potty emergency. Your bladder does not give a flying fark about drones or judicial nominees or whatever. Your bladder wants to pee, and it demands to see the toilet concerning such urgent matters.

Really, people need to give the toilet more respect in regards to filibusters. I mean, we give them so much shiat.

It was nice and all, and I'm glad the drone issue got some coverage, but this one was better.

You mean to say that our elected representatives will actually have to show up to the floor to oppose something?

Interesting.

Gosling: Frederick45: He shall now be forever remembered as  Senator PeeBagger!

"Really, people need to give the toilet more respect in regards to filibusters. I mean, we give them so much shiat."

I think someday we will reach the point where even the Senate Toilet just isn't going to take that shiat anymore!

So now they're excited because he sparked a debate? What the fark are they doing when they're debating these faking bills then? I thought that was the point. Now apparently Paul is getting props because he remembered what our legislators are supposed to do.

Punish Congress some more by having Rand Paul keep them there til 1 AM talking about random shiat
The highlight for me was when Ted Cruz popped in to say 'HOLY shiat THE ALAMO'

"With victories such as these," quoth Pyrrhus, "I shall be ruined."

whistleridge: Fortunately, talking for 13 hours is hard. And not fun. So people may try it once or twice, but in general it is not a trend that will continue for long. Which is the whole farking point.

As Jon Stewart once said, "Senators likee the blah blah blah."

AWKWARD! 

Mikey1969: So now they're excited because he sparked a debate? What the fark are they doing when they're debating these faking bills then? I thought that was the point. Now apparently Paul is getting props because he remembered what our legislators are supposed to do.

Actually it is just the opposite. He evidently hasn't the slightest idea what his job is. He didn't filibuster legislation. He didn't propose any legislation. If he wants limits set on how drones can be used he happens to be a member of the branch of government that does just that. Instead of doing his job he attention whored for 13 hours to filibuster, not legislation that grants any powers to the president, but a nominee.

What he did is the exact opposite of doing his job. He wasted congress's time (and thus taxpayer dollars) to start his campaign for president, instead of doing the actual work of a legislator.