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I watched on C-SPAN and a Democrat named Ron Wyden participated and in the process implied he had multiple discussions with Paul about the morality and constitu

I watched on C-SPAN and a Democrat named Ron Wyden participated and in the process implied he had multiple discussions with Paul about the morality and constitutionality of drone strikes. Perhaps I'm naive, but I believe he was standing up for his morals and that it was a sign of Washington actually functioning.

notdrunkatall 14y ago
As Ron Paul's son, I would expect nothing less from Rand.
samolang 14y ago
"It turns out this isn’t just a fleeting alliance. For some time now, Wyden and Paul—along with two other senators, Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado—have been working together to try to curb the broad authorities the Obama administration has asserted in the war on terror. The advent of this group, which calls itself the Checks and Balances Caucus, is certainly not the first time in political history that the libertarian right has allied with the civil-liberties-minded left. Yet at a moment when inter-party cooperation is almost nonexistent in Washington, any bipartisan alliance—especially one that includes some of DC’s most committed ideological opposites—is both unusual and noteworthy." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/26/rand-paul-and-ron-wyden-drone-odd-couple.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/26/rand-paul-a...