Paul filibuster shows Tea Party still strong

Last time I wrote for Florida Voices, I was ready to lay into President Barack Obama on his staggering hypocrisy on sequestration and drones, but was waylaid by the Medicaid expansion.

Fortunately for Floridas taxpayers, the Florida House did the right thing to potentially kill it before it gets started.

I had intended to mock the Presidents flip-flop on sequestration, but the heroic filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul did far more to expose the hypocrisy and the deep divisions on the left by asking some basic questions.

Is a drone strike on Americans on American soil without due process constitutional?

Remarkably, the President and the U.S. Attorney General couldnt formulate a response. Oh, they gave a depends on what the definition of is is response, but lets be honest how hard of a question is that to answer?

For months I have been saying that the Tea Party isnt as dead as folks kept hoping, and Wednesday night (March 6) was a stunning display of what the liberty movement stands for. Alas, at the outset of our movement in 2009 we didnt have the most articulate of Tea Party speakers.

No, wait, thats not true at all.

What is true is the media, acting as the publicity arm of the White House, selectively showed what they believed were the worst elements of Tea Party activists. Democrats, not applying what they believe is their higher intellectual capacity, rushed right in to call us racists.

What the media refused to show was those who stood in town halls and rain-soaked rallies and articulated these very points. Its what has bound us together more that policy issues.

We have expressed a concern that our form of government was slipping into a dangerous form of a benevolent dictatorship, regardless of the name of the President.

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Paul filibuster shows Tea Party still strong

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