Ron Paul is mostly a whacky person, with some bizarre theories and beliefs. But, under the rubric of a broken clock is right twice a day, he hooked up with Barney Frank to produce a program to cut fairly significantly into the defense budget and he also had a obsession — a good one that sometimes veered a bit into paranoia — about the secrecy of the Federal Reserve Board. Now, comes his son, Rand, a Tea Party loony generally speaking, and tries to get the country to focus, rightly, on the secrecy around the Administration’s secret drone programs.

I only have a single point to make. The sad thing about his filibuster is this: why weren’t Democrats asking the questions, leaving it to the loony fringe of the Republican Party (I suppose “loony fringe” and “Republican Party” are redundant terms at this point)?