Rand Paul, unhappy over the budget deal cooked up in secret among Obama, John Boehner, and his very close friend Mitch McConnell,  announced with great fanfare that he is going to filibuster the deal. The only problem is that friend Mitch manipulated the rules of the Senate to make that impossible.  So Paul's "filibuster," comments made on the Senate floor, lasted about 20 minutes. Sen. Rand Paul’s so-called “filibuster” against the budget deal, a move his campaign hyped repeatedly and which the Kentucky senator used as a rallying cry at last night’s debate, wasn’t a filibuster at all. In fact, it wasn’t even a long speech. The presidential hopeful took to the Senate floor at 2:46 p.m. and ended his remarks less than twenty minutes later. But that didn't stop Paul from trying to fundraise off his efforts to bring the Senate to a screeching halt for over 20 minutes, tweeting: #StandWithRand...(Read Full Post)