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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
Paul may be a twat, but he is genuinely strident from his party on issues like this. The GOP in general though is certainly jumping on the bandwagon for this one, even though they love the idea.
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- Saladin commented on James O'Keefe to pay $100K over ACORN sting 2 months ago
A couple years of salary for illegitimately destroying an important community organizer? I'd say he was the winner in this one. If there was any justice in this country, he'd be...
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- Saladin commented on Republican Hate Overboard 2 months ago
Right, because all those militias and white power groups and McVeigh style domestic terrorists are big fans of the Democratic party. The right wing has long been the home of the dangerous...
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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
Exactly. Idiotic partisanship has made fools of "liberals" on this issue. You can't call yourself a real Progressive if you can't criticize your own movement, or notice when...
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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
That's how filibusters are supposed to be done. It's not a waste to seriously debate the ethics of murdering American civilians in the name of the war on terror.
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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
"Pose no imminent threat to whom?" I hope you know that Paul is using the Administration's own language here. It's the NDAA and Obama's DoJ that use the "imminent... more
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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
The only CONSERVATIVE talking about it maybe. And his opinion on other issue is shitty enough to discount him.
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- Saladin commented on This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
There's no doubt. It frustrates me to no end that real Progressives have to share a party with these center-right, "liberal" losers.
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- Saladin voted up This is the resolution Rand Paul was trying to get passed. How is this even debatable?!?! 2 months ago
I simply do not understand how anyone, let alone a US senator could even disagree with the sentiment of this proposed resolution!! Resolved that it is in the sense of the Senate that:... more
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- Saladin commented on Holder says drone strike of US citizen on US soil would be "Hypothetically legal" 2 months ago
You're allowing your support for Obama blind you to serious Constitutional issues. People on the left, myself included, suggested impeachment for Bush on far less serious issues.
