Lawrence O'Donnell just scared the living shit out of me.

[Stinky The Clown]

I won't even paraphrase. Rand Paul has the power to set the world to a Depression and pretty much vowed to do it in his victory speech.

[karynnj]

1. Me too - and Paul seems arrogant and dumb enough to not think of the consequences nt

[Catshrink]

Arrogant enough not to care

or delude himself into thinking it a good thing.

[The Gunslinger]

28. The consequences are a part of the plan

He is well aware of them.

[depakid]

2. Not the world....

Just America and possibly Canada.

[madmax]

3. Yes, he said 'we' are taking the country back

back to the Depression.

[spanone]

4. he's a freshman teashitter, he can't do squat

[Nevernose]

22. As a senator he can

He can just filibuster and put anonymous holds on everything. Because of parliamentary procedure, he can single handedly grind the Senate to a halt. And he's stupid enough and batshit crazy enough to do it, and to be proud of himself afterwards.

[Politicub]

5. Chilling

My mouth dropped.

Rand will capitulate to the GOP when all is said and done, though. But my hope is that he'll be done in by his hubris.

[WestSeattle2]

29. He'll be visited by folks he won't say no to. The debt ceiling will be

raised. Wall Street runs this country; this country will not technically default.

[grasswire]

6. Paul sounded drunk to me.

I spose it's just drunk with power. Made me think of that character played by Andy Griffith in the movie.

[SoCalDem]

7. Time to re-run "Dead Zone" (the tv version)

:(

[grantcart]

8. Seven minutes

[Drale]

9. Me to

now I'm thinking some of the "crazy" horders where right, we might need to be able to be completely be self suffient in a few years if Rand Paul has anything to say about it.

[godai]

10. No, he clarified...Paul will vote no but 51 Senators will pass it.

Repubs won't be close to a majority in the Senate.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. *Any* senator can put a hold or filibuster

It takes just one.

[godai]

19. They won't do that with the debt limit. n/t

[xxqqqzme]

24. The 'new' Congress

should be doin' some serious rule changing and NO compromises.

[eleny]

11. Rand Paul is going to be sat down so hard by Mitch McConnell that Rand is going to taste his own ass

[Dappleganger]

27. +10000

It'll be quite interesting to watch the tea baggers contend with the old guard repukes. May have to get some extra butter with the popcorn with that one.

[LaurenG]

12. That's pretty powerful

no one has that much power but if they did they'd be the anti-christ. :o

[AngryOldDem]

13. Indeed.

I came in late to the discussion but what I heard scared the shit out of me as well.

One man. Just ONE man.

[The empressof all]

14. We need to let this fool Paul, just babble on and on

And the GOP party line will corral him in pretty quickly or he'll refuse to play ball and start calling them out....Either way it could be quite entertaining.

[Generic Brad]

15. How do we protect our 401k's?

Are we just screwed?

[Ilsa]

16. Yep, discussion here, too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9450266

really scary shit.

[deacon]

18. It's hard to get this through peoples thick skulls. These people are nuts. n/t

[cynatnite]

20. I muted Rand Paul...what did he say in his speech? n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

21. Yes! Terrifying

And he's just the sort of egomaniacal, ideological, selfish jerk to do it, too.

[HuskiesHowls]

23. Scared the hell out of me, too!!

And Rand Paul is just DUMB enough to do it!!

[Matariki]

25. Yeah, or maybe the Senate will change their stupid rules and prevent that.

[highplainsdem]

26. The Tea Party troglodytes are likely to be very destructive.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. I do believe that. I do believe they will hold sway, beat back their more moderate leaders and

fuck us in the ass.

That's harsh. But I DO believe it.