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Ayotte, McCain, Graham and Rand Paul’s Filibuster

It seems like such a simple question.  Can the President just kill anyone he wants, based on any criteria he wants, on American soil even if the person is no immediate threat to anyone?  And since this question began related to using drones, the question is really, can the President kill someone, and anyone who happens to be nearby the targetted person, even if there is no immediate or imminent threat to anyone?

What does it mean when it takes SIX WEEKS of questions and a HIGHLY PUBLICIZED FILIBUSTER to get an answer to the question?

What is equally frustrating is the fact that 87 Senators apparently don’t care that the President and his administration have dipped and dodged and misinterpreted answering this question.  What is really disappointing is that our Senator Ayotte apparently doesn’t seem to care.  What was repugnant were the reactions of Senators McCain and Graham to the filibuster.

I think it is appropriate to let our representatives know how you feel about their actions.  Hopefully others have also written them.  My e-mails  follow.  I am not particularly happy about these as they are not very constructive, but they express how I feel.  I suspect these letters will not make it to the Senators.

Dear Senator Ayotte,

I was very disappointed that you did not stand up and support Senator Rand Paul’s filibuster.  He was asking a simple question which should have received an immediate simple answer.  But it took multiple requests, the filibuster, and over SIX WEEKS to get a simple straightforward answer from this administration.

Essentially the simple question that Senator Paul was asking and the administration would not answer was whether the President has the Constitutional right to skip every part of due process, to be accuser, judge, jury and executioner of anyone on American soil that he wants to identify (based on whatever criteria he chooses) as a terrorist even if that person is not actively threatening anyone (and may have actually done or planned to do NOTHING)?

I don’t understand how, as a former, Attorney General, you would not support Senator Paul’s demand for an answer to this question.  I fear the answer is that you have fallen under the spell of Senators McCain and Graham.  If this is the case, I am very sorry for you because there are probably no Republicans in Congress who are more despised by the Republican base than these two Senators.

A disappointed constituent,

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Senator McCain,

What’s the matter, did Senator Paul get more TV time than you?  You poor baby.

After SIX WEEKS OF WAITING, what right did Senator Paul have to demand an answer to whether the President considers himself lawfully to be accuser, judge, jury and executioner of people on American soil who are not threatening anyone?  Apparently you, like most democrats, aren’t bothered by that pesky document called the US Constitution.  You know that “scrap of paper” that you swore an oath to uphold?

Of course, if you still had the same amount of courage as Senator Paul, then you could have done a filibuster to demand information about what actually happened in Benghazi.  But, we all still wait for this information.

There was a time you took that oath seriously and served honorably, and the country respects you for that service.  But the days of your honorable service are apparently long gone.

You have become just another politician who has abandoned all his principles perhaps because standing up for those traditional American principles will not get you the approval you crave from the nearly traitorous media.  So you try to curry favor with them by taking the easy route and by criticizing people of principle and action.

You forget how quickly the media abandoned you in 2008, I am sure they laugh at you behind your back.    With all your money and power, you are a pitiable little man.

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Senator Graham,

Apparently you think the President has the right to be accuser, judge, jury and executioner of Americans on our soil who pose no threat to anyone.  That means that you no longer honor your oath to defend and protect the US Constitution.

You may think that asking the question Senator Paul asked was “ludicrous”, but apparently it was too difficult a question for the administration to answer.  One would have thought that an immediate, simple “No” response would have been forthcoming SIX WEEKS AGO when the question was first asked.  It was not.  This administration dodged and weaved to try to not answer this simple questions.

I watched Attorney General Holder intentionally mis-understand and dodge the simple questions posed by Senator Cruz in the committee hearing.  His answers make clear that the administration did not want to answer this simple question.

The filibuster only happened because the administration’s actions suggested that it felt the President did have the power to ignore the US Constitution and kill peaceful Americans at home at his discretion.

You are not worthy of the people of South Carolina.

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Note:  I found it interesting that not one of these three Senators had a topic for the “Constitution”, “Bill of Rights”, “Presidential Power”, or anything similar.  I had to search to try to find a topic  that came close to this topic.  I was amused to find that Senator McCain does have a topic, “Thank you”…I didn’t select that one.

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