Sunday, March 10, 2013

Perspectives on the Rand Paul Filibuster

I was trying to write an honest-to-goodness analysis of the filibuster (I meant to include links like this, this, this, this, this, and this in my discussion of how even though I don't agree with Rand on a number of things in general, I was overjoyed to see him "hack" politics and bust out of the business-as-usual DC opacity to engage a much wider audience ... When was the last time you watched C-SPAN in delight while social media exploded as a conversation about civil liberties took off?  Be honest.  Never), but in the end, my congenital inability to resist a joke has overpowered me.  You may enjoy a rather more visual explication, gentle reader?


How Twitter, Facebook, and social media responded:




How Rand Paul fans see him and the filibuster:




How John McCain and Lindsey Graham see Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and everybody else who rallied to Rand:




How McCain and Graham see themselves:




How Rand Paul fans see McCain and Graham:




How C-SPAN sees Rand Paul:




How libertarians hope this conversation about civil liberties, limits of executive power, and government overreach turns out:




How Mad Minerva treated the filibuster as it happened:


2 comments:

Rajesh Dhawan said...

Hilarious. You've outdone yourself.

Mad Minerva said...

How sweet of you to say so! Thank you.