Salon.com > livestreamers http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:48:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A very modern filibuster http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/a_very_modern_filibuster/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/a_very_modern_filibuster/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:34:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13220966 At the time of writing, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is still holding the Senate floor with a good old-fashioned filibuster to block John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director. Although a traditional tool for parliamentary intervention, Paul's filibuster based on (well-founded) civil liberties concerns about the president's reserved ability to execute U.S. citizens with drone strikes on U.S. soil, is a particularly modern affair.

It's certainly the first filibuster with a Twitter hashtag -- #filiblizzard (in reference to the D.C. snowstorm today, in case you were wondering). And not only did viewers watching live on C-SPAN broadcast Paul's comments, he sent out tweets himself (at least whoever operates his Twitter account did):

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