The anti-Rand Pauls, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, took to the Senate floor this morning to defend killing American citizens at presidential discretion. Graham is doing so live on C-SPAN2 right now, saying that everything you do is a danger to America no matter who or where you are, as long as the U.S. government has decided you have “joined al-Queda,” whatever the hell that means.
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Actually McCain and Graham may have passed the torch and just do not recognize it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDhvE6gV-k&feature=player_embedded
Wacko Birds
McCain calls Paul, Cruz, Amash ‘wacko birds’
By Rachel Weiner
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/08/mccain-calls-paul-cruz-amash-wacko-birds/?print=1
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his
fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA
Director John O. Brennan over drone policy. In an
interview with the Huffington Post, McCain referred to
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as “wackos.”
“They were elected, nobody believes that there was
a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But
I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko
birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.”
Asked to clarify, McCain said he was referencing ”Rand
Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever.”
McCain and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) took
strong exception to the filibuster, saying they support
the possible use of drones to prevent terrorist attacks
anywhere in the world. Some Republicans have privately
worried that the high-profile stand, while garnering a lot
of positive attention, will ultimately be bad for the party.
Amash, who has sparred with McCain on Twitter
before, replied:
Sen McCain called @senrandpaul @sentedcruz & me
“wacko birds.” Bravo, Senator. You got us. Did you come
up with that at #DinnerWithBarack?
— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) March 8, 2013
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus, on the other hand, thinks the filibuster was
“completely awesome.”