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Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
« on: March 20, 2014, 03:31:37 PM »
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Cheered by a youthful audience in one of the country's most liberal enclaves, Sen. Rand Paul - one of the Republican Party's leading contenders for the White House in 2016 - delivered a scathing rebuke to the U.S. intelligence community Wednesday, calling it "drunk with power."

"I don't know about you, but I'm worried," the Kentucky senator told 400 people who filled a hall at UC Berkeley's International House. "If the CIA is spying on Congress, who exactly can or will stop them?"

Paul's comments come one week after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., took to the Senate floor to accuse the CIA of illegal computer searches intended to hinder her Intelligence Committee's probe of alleged U.S. torture of terrorism suspects.

Paul said Feinstein's allegations had shaken Washington. "I look into the eyes of senators and I think I see real fear," he said. "I think I perceive fear of an intelligence community drunk with power, unrepentant and uninclined to relinquish power." ...
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Berkeley, full of wingnuts obviously ...  :sarcasm:
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Re: Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2014, 03:34:44 PM »
Only because they share an age old enemy, the CIA.

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Re: Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2014, 04:01:15 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 20, 2014, 03:34:44 PM
Only because they share an age old enemy, the CIA.



Bingo.  What I would like to think is that the 'ute are finally coming to their senses and realize that he Democrat party is filled with ugly old white women who remind them of grandma last time they visited her at the home. Republicans have youth, vitality, new ideas, and vision. ::)

I did see a thread at DU bemoaning the fact that our Senior Senator (known as Shaheen the elder since her kid ran for office) was about as stiff as they come.  With Scott Brown in the race it is going to get expensive up here very fast.  Jeanne has already had the Pseudo Sioux, Dizzy Lizzy Warren raising money while she pleads for a cessation of outside funding.  Now the question becomes "Is Scott Brown, who was too conservative for Massachusetts, too liberal for New Hampshire?"  The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.~Jim Hightower

Politics is a blood sport here in New Hampshire. 
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Re: Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2014, 06:26:40 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on March 20, 2014, 04:01:15 PM
Bingo.  What I would like to think is that the 'ute are finally coming to their senses and realize that he Democrat party is filled with ugly old white women who remind them of grandma last time they visited her at the home. Republicans have youth, vitality, new ideas, and vision. ::)

I did see a thread at DU bemoaning the fact that our Senior Senator (known as Shaheen the elder since her kid ran for office) was about as stiff as they come.  With Scott Brown in the race it is going to get expensive up here very fast.  Jeanne has already had the Pseudo Sioux, Dizzy Lizzy Warren raising money while she pleads for a cessation of outside funding.  Now the question becomes "Is Scott Brown, who was too conservative for Massachusetts, too liberal for New Hampshire?"  The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.~Jim Hightower

Politics is a blood sport here in New Hampshire. 


From NY . . . :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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Re: Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2014, 07:20:33 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on March 20, 2014, 06:26:40 PM
From NY . . . :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

You may enjoy this one:

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March 20th, 2014

09:23 AM ET
7 hours ago

Obama: 'Happy if Scott Brown' moves to Texas

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CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser   

(CNN) - President Barack Obama's weighing in on what could turn into the hottest U.S. Senate battle this year.

When asked during an interview Wednesday with New England Cable News whether former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts - who's taken an important step towards running for the Senate this year in neighboring New Hampshire - is the kind of moderate Republican needed on Capitol Hill, the President said he'll wait to comment until Brown formally announces his candidacy.

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But Obama went on to say that "I'd be happy if Scott Brown wants to move down to Texas," adding that "we could always use some moderate Republicans in other parts of the country."

The President also touted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the Granite State's incumbent Democrat, who's running for re-election this year, and who could face a tough race if Brown does formally jump in and wins his party's Senate nomination.


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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/20/obama-happy-if-scott-brown-moves-to-texas/



What I hope all this amounts to is the Democratic Senatorial Committee being bled white. every dime they have to spend here is one that they can't spend somewhere else.  At this point my major concern is voter fraud after the Legislature ok'd changes to the Voter ID law. {link below}

http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/7149595-95/legislature-okays-changes-to-nhs-voter-id-law-despite-opposition-from-conservatives

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