Rand Paul’s Fake ‘Filibuster’ Was Nothing More Than a Sad Political Con Job

Rand Paul’s Fake ‘Filibuster’ Was Nothing More Than a Sad Political Con Job

"Let me say it again, this was not a filibuster - it was just a speech that went on for nearly 11 hours. For him to call it a filibuster is a flat-out lie. For what he did to be considered a true filibuster, he would have had to talk all night and through the scheduled vote on the Patriot Act. For something to be considered a “filibuster” it has to block or delay something – which Paul’s speech didn’t do. All it did was get him the attention he so desperately wanted. People have to understand that he never intended for it to block the Patriot Act. This was nothing but an elaborate campaign ploy to raise money and gain some publicity pretending to oppose something that he never had any intention of blocking in the first place."