http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/03/friday-afternoon-roundup-senator-from.html
THE ROUNDUP
Rusty at The Jawa Report has a comprehensive and well thought out piece on the strategy for Obama and Rand Paul. I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s well worth a read.
Since the majority of the American people have not actually read the Holder memo on drone strikes, they simply do not know that the Administration never asserted a right to assassinate Americans on US soil.
Rand Paul knows this.
What he’s asking the Administration to do is prove that they don’t believe something which they never claimed they believe.
I can’t believe that even he believes the slippery slope argument that he’s making. I’m also not sure the political game he’s playing or what he thinks he’ll get out of this. He’s certainly getting a lot of attention and a lot of support from the Right.
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Which is why Holder’s answer is so puzzling. If the administration wanted to clear the air why didn’t they just tell Sen. Ryan, “No, we can’t do that”?
Isn’t the answer simple? They don’t want to clear the air. They want to keep this political maelstrom going. They want to distract the American people from, well, everything!
$16.5 trillion in debt.
The worst recovery in US history — ever!
Millions of people unemployed or underemployed.
And no end in site of the economic misery. Obama’s failures are simply the new normal.
But, look kids, the Republicans are so nutty!
Rand Paul may be scoring some personal political points by trying to drag this thing out for as long as possible. It may help him with several elements in the base.
Sure. Politicians play to their base. It’s a careerist game. The real story isn’t in what they say, it’s in what they do. Don’t read their lips. Read their votes.