GOP civil war: Congressman goes ballistic on Rand Paul

[DonViejo]

A Republican congressman is beside himself with rage over Rand Paul's recent comments about the NSA.

It may be the holiday season, but that doesn’t mean the GOP’s civil war is stopping any time soon.

ELIAS ISQUITH


Appearing on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Thursday, Republican Rep. Peter King — a vocal defender of the post-9/11 national security state — laid into fellow Republican Rand Paul for his recent criticism of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, whom Paul compared unfavorably to Edward Snowden.

“For Sen. Paul to compare that patriot, Gen. Clapper, with someone like Snowden, who is a traitor, who has put American lives at risk — Sen. Paul should be ashamed of himself,” King railed. ”It’s an absolute disgrace. He disgraced his office and he owes Gen. Clapper an apology immediately.”

Earlier in the week, Paul had said that Clapper’s testimony before Congress, during which the general lied about the NSA’s domestic spying activities, were “probably more injurious to our intelligent capabilities than anything Snowden did.” Paul reasoned that Clapper’s dishonesty shook confidence in the U.S. intelligence community’s forthrightness with the American people. “I’m not sure what to believe anymore when it comes to Congress,” Paul added, before recommending Clapper resign.

But King, who has quarreled with Rand Paul previously, was having none of it. “These are people who are apologizing for America,” King said of Paul. “To me, that is not the Republican tradition, that is not the tradition of Ronald Reagan. It’s the tradition of Charles Lindbergh and the radical left-wing Democrats of the 1960s.”

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http://www.salon.com/2013/12/20/gop_civil_war_congressman_goes_ballistic_on_rand_paul/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Here goes Rand Paul, running off at the mouth, don't know what he is talking about.

James Clapper was ask a question in which he knew he could not answer because of security breaches and perhaps the answer he should have given was he was not able to answer
It is strange so many can remember this answer but can not research enough as to the reason behind Clappers answer. Unlike others in the NSA, Clapper did not reveal things he should not have rebealed

Thanks Peter King for setting the record straight.

[dionysus]

2. lol,proceed...

[BlueDemKev]

3. I have no comment to make on the GOP civil war...

...except that I hope it continues for a long, long time!

[davidpdx]

4. Put them all in a locked cage with some folding chairs and let them go at it

[SharonAnn]

5. Wasn't Charles Lindergh (the aviator) a Nazi sympathizer? Definitely not left-wing.

Or is there another Charles Lindbergh of whom I'm ignorant?

[DFW]

8. No, I think you got it right

And the Republican got it all wrong. (what else is new?)

[libdem4life]

6. From a leftover of the "radical left-wing Democrats of the 1960s.” It's that Empire Thing.

Somebody has to maintain a twinge, even if insignificant and futile, of consciousness about the random killing of various and innocent people who just happen to reside in the path of our Manifest Destiny, now expanded to enable our role as Empire of The World.

And, yet again decades later, we don't Hate America. It's our homeland. We disagree with certain decisions that are made. Because somewhere in some of those founding documents, after much bloodshed and sacrifice, we acquired the right to dissent...without being labeled a traitor or feeling somehow shamed just because the Political Correctness that has emerged, no longer approves of said right or contains the need for a moral component, for certain issues. In fact, I believe that was pretty much the basis of the"raison de etre" for America.

I do not apologize for my long-held, and well-thought out opinions or views whether popular or not, nor should anyone else. Incidentally, that pretty accurately describes a Liberal.

[Impedimentus]

7. The Republican civil war is a distraction ...

created by the plutocrats to keep the left focused on non-issues while the robber barons continue to steal our country and our lives. The entire Republican clown show provides never-ending one act plays to expend energy on so that we won't focus on the evil that is devouring our lives. In reality, what Palin, Hannity, Paul, or Cruz do is just a distraction. They want us to focus on their antics while the international financial interests and the plutocracy rob us of our wealth and your freedom.