Peter King: Rand Paul 'Doesn't Deserve' His Spot In The Senate (VIDEO)

[RandySF]

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) lashed out against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for his opposition to the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs in a Fox News interview on Sunday.

King ripped into Paul for threatening to sue the Obama administration over the NSA's surveillance policies, saying the agency is "doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing."

“Rand Paul does not know what he’s talking about. And, Rand Paul is really spreading fear among the American people," King said. “To me, he’s either totally uninformed or he’s part of that hate America crowd that I thought left us in the 1960s."

"In any event, he doesn’t deserve to be in the United States Senate for spreading that type of misperception and absolute lies to be honest with you," King continued.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/05/peter-king-rand-paul_n_4546122.html

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Maybe Peter King should have a word with Kentucky voters.

[spanone]

2. is king equating paul with the hippies?

[Thinkingabout]

3. King is trying to separate the TP from the GOP in order to get rid of the crazies.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Fight, fight, fight, fight!

KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL!

[Jamaal510]

5. I'm probably in the minority here, but

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for once, I agree with Peter King. Rand Paul does seem to be intent on spreading distrust against our federal government (as usual), and this lawsuit of his will be a waste of time against a legal program that has been going on dating back to the mid-20th century.

It's not like the U.S. is the only country with this type of program, either, so what would we look like if we start dismantling the NSA while other countries like Russia (hello, Snowden) and Germany keep their surveillance programs intact? We need some type of surveillance to keep us safe, and when you think about it, people really don't have anything to be this paranoid about as long as they aren't plotting to commit some crimes or terrorist attacks. In fact, our government doesn't even have the means to go after over 300M citizens at once, anyway.

Similar to the police presence during the Boston Bombings, we basically have the options of being monitored (or in that case, being temporarily unable to leave our homes), but being safe and having the criminals nabbed in a timely fashion, or being "free" and blown to smithereens. People such as Alex Jones decried the police presence there, saying that it somehow infringed on people's "freedoms", but the police were at least able to locate the suspects. Had they not taken those protocols, who knows how long the search would've taken.

Additionally, one question I have for the Paul/Jones/Snowden crowd is this: why the outrage over government surveillance, but none directed towards corporations like Google and AT&T that track our browsing history and our calls? Why do they get a pass?

[tblue37]

6. Uh-oh. St. Ronnie's gonna smite him for breaking that 11th commandment! nt