Dr. Paul Goes to Washington. Anatomy of the First Viral Filibuster

As of this moment, 7:45 PM on Wednesday 3/6/2013, Senator Rand Paul has been filibustering for nearly eight hours on the Senate floor. The subject is the President’s domestic drone policy in the United States and the connected nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA.

It’s likely that this supportive tweet from Campaign for Liberty may have been pivotal in making this go viral. Earlier today, #StandWithRand was the number one trending term on Twitter. Right now, it is number two.

RT if you #StandwithRand in demanding answers from the White House on unconstitutional drone strikes in US.

13 hrs in 120 secs…

— Campaign for Liberty (@C4Liberty) March 6, 2013

 

Here’s hoping that many thousands will move beyond twitter and actually contact their own senators and ask them to support Sen. Rand Paul’s stand for the rule of law. (You can reach your senators and leave a message here.)

Senator Ted Cruz read several tweets to Sen. Paul from the #StandWithRand twitter-storm a few minutes ago:

This filibuster likely has the most diverse support of any in recent history…

Call your Senator now and tell them to stand with #RandPaul‘s filibuster! #filiblizzard

— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 6, 2013

More info on the filibuster. Watch live.

Proud to join @senrandpaul‘s filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination. Here’s part one of our discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=81PmoT…

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 6, 2013