Rand Paul Through the Looking Glass
Today, Sen. Paul launched into his filibuster of John Brennan as director of the CIA, with a lengthy passage from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:
“I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I can no longer speak…They say Lewis Carroll is fiction. Alice never fell down a rabbit hole and the White Queen’s caustic judgments are not really a threat to your security. Or has America the Beautiful become Alice’s Wonderland?
“No, no,’ said the queen. ‘Sentence first; Verdict afterwards.’
“Stuff and nonsense,” Alice said widely — loudly. “The idea of having the sentence first?”
“Hold your tongue,” said the queen, turning purple.
“I won’t,” said Alice.
“Release the drones,” said the queen, as she shouted at the top of her voice…
Apparently, Senator Paul has a taste for varied literature.
“Kelly (his future wife), an English major in college, overheard me discussing Dostoevsky with some friends, decided maybe I wasn’t as young as I looked and we struck up a conversation…”
Interviewed by the Washington Times, he calls “The Brothers Karamazov” and “Crime and Punishment” “two of the greatest novels of all time.” As of this time, the filibuster is still happening.
A pair of comments from the article on The Blaze:
“THIS is what a filibuster is supposed to be. Not like the idiotic nonsense they do these days where somebody simply declares a filibuster.
A real filibuster cannot be stopped with a cloture vote. There is a very good reason nothing is allowed to be voted on if there is still actual debate taking place.
Having said that though, this won’t last long with just one guy doing it. The first time he has to take a bathroom break…debate over, vote taken.”
The following comment:
“That podium is pretty tall …empty water bottle…..;)”