Rand Paul trying to stop the ironically named Patriot Act.

[44nutman]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55547.html


“I think it would be a huge mistake,” Feinstein told reporters. If somebody wants to take on their shoulders not having provisions in place which are necessary to protect the United States at this time, that’s a big, big weight to bear.”
It is great when a Dem uses the ole fear monger arguement.
I guess Rand talks the Libertarian talk and walks the Libertarian walk. Any Tea Partier who votes for the extension is no Libertarian. I would like to disclose, I do like some of the thing the "Paul Boys" stand for and some I think is bat shit crazy. This is one stand I do like.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. --Ben Franklin

[uselesslegs]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  There are some things the Paul's say that catch me and make me go, "Ya know, I'm down with that"...and THEN...they straight up pull an Aunt Lucy and start eating crayons and talking to picture frames.

I guess in over-the-top-ville lies the occasional profound nugget...it's just the rest of the crazy I'd wish they'd loose.

[ekg]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  There are some things the Paul's say that catch me and make me go, "Ya know, I'm down with that"...and THEN...they straight up pull an Aunt Lucy and start eating crayons and talking to picture frames.

I guess in over-the-top-ville lies the occasional profound nugget...it's just the rest of the crazy I'd wish they'd loose.

I think Liberals have a lot in common with Libertarians.. more so than Conservatives do anyway..

think about it... they both want Gov out of their bedrooms, they both want gov't out of their doctor's office, they both want gov't out of their 'weed/drugs'.. neither want wire-taps/rendition/pat act/war and we're both pretty certain we like our privacy as a whole... we both want the right to live our lives without the gov't or our neighbors, telling us what we can and can't do... I'm fairly certain we both are against that whole 'eminent domain' shit.. just to name a few

the GOP is all about getting Gov't to do all of that stuff and then some.. so how is it that Libertarian's are in their camp?  Because of social programs? well, ok.. but I'd still rather give a poor guy food stamps than have the gov't secretly wire-tap him,make his sexual proclivities illegal and take his ancestral land and put a walmart on it...