John McCain and Lindsey Graham slam Rand Paul’s filibuster after having dinner with Barack Obama

  Shortly before noon yesterday Rand Paul took to the floor of the Senate and began a thirteen hour filibuster, holding up Barack Obama’s nominee to be the Director of the CIA, seeking the answer to what should have been an easy question. 

  For quite some time Rand Paul has been asking Eric Holder if he and Barack Obama thought it was constitutional and legal for the president of the United States to order a drone strike on an American citizen on American soil, but he had been unable to get a straight answer from the Attorney General so yesterday he seized the opportunity to bring this issue to light and put pressure on the Obama regime to answer it once and for all.

    Rand Paul did have help in the form of Ted Cruz,  Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, John Barrasso, Jerry Moran, Saxby Chambliss, Pat Toomey, Ron Johnson, Tim Scott, Jeff Flake, John Thune, and Mitch McConnell. At one point in time RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sent out a plea asking other Republican Senators to come to the floor and provide more help for Rand Paul’s fight for the assurance that the president understood the fact that American citizens are guaranteed due process in the Constitution.

But nobody else showed up because they had what they felt was a more important issue to deal with than the Constitution–they were having dinner with Barack Obama.

  This is a list of the Senators who felt a free dinner was more important than the constitution:  John McCain, Tom Coburn, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker, Ron Johnson, John Hoeven, Richard Burr, Mike Johanns, and Dan Coats.

  Sadly, my Senator is on that list and rest assured that I have already sent her an email voicing my displeasure. But two Republican leaders, John McCain and Lindsey Graham did more than just snub Rand Paul; after the dinner these two Republicans slammed him for trying to stand up for the Constitution.

  These two ruling class elitists have been in Washington for a long time and they do not like younger members of the Senate who simply will not go along to get along and they have decided it is time for them to put Rand Paul in his place by publicly humiliating him.

  And this is coming from the party that tells us they are for smaller, limited government and the Constitution? The establishment is the real problem here and these are the people who must be defeated because they care more about holding on to political power than they care about anything else. They would rather chum around with the man they supposedly oppose than stand with the man who is defending due process.

  What John McCain and Lindsey Graham are ignoring in all of this is the fact that Rand Paul won; after days of filibustering himself Eric Holder sent Rand Paul a letter today which stated that it would be unconstitutional and illegal to conduct a drone strike on an American on American soil and that is all Rand Paul wanted to hear in the first place.

  It is quite telling that it took a filibuster of an Obama nominee to get this information–he apparently would not have admitted this without Rand Paul’s filibuster–and it is also quite telling to see the names of the Republicans who didn’t think this was a battle worth fighting.