Up-dated 9:30 a.m. 3-7-13

Rand Paul’s Fillibuster: The (Inspiring!) Opening Statement

 
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Up-dated 9:00 a.m. 3-7-13

Laura Ingraham summed the day up nicely:

As a gaggle of GOP senators were returning from a cozy dinner with President Obama Wednesday night, the junior senator from Kentucky was in the midst of a marathon filibuster giving CSPAN2 what must have been its best ratings ever. I couldn’t turn it off, and scanning twitter, I saw it was clear that neither could legions of Americans transfixed by something that we hadn’t seen in some time in our nation’s capital–courage and conviction…
 
Rand Paul didn’t eat for much of the day himself, but with his filibuster he fed an electorate hungry to hear from a politician of principle. For almost 13 hours, Paul put the Constitution in the front seat, and his own convenience and comfort in the way back. Let the record reflect the names of those who stood with him in the early hours of his effort–Senators Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. In other words, the tea party spirit is alive and well.

 
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Sorry – can’t tear myself away from C-SPAN today!
 
 

History-making moment! Senators Rand Paul(R-KY), Ted Cruz(R-TX), Marco Rubio(R-FL) and Mike Lee(R-UT) doing the Founders proud.