THIS IS PROBABLY WHY JOHN MCCAIN AND LINDSAY GRAHAM HAVE THEIR PANTIES IN A WAD: Rand Paul filibuster energizes Tea Party against GOP establishment.

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And Prof. Stephen Clark emails: “Rand Paul did the unforgivable: He upstaged ‘The Dinner.’ Worst of all, though thinking about it for a while, Paul decided to do it on his way into the Senate yesterday morning more-or-less on the spur of the moment. For god’s sake man, he torpedoed a whole news cycle focused on the two of them and the mysteries of conversations unheard but lovingly hinted at by both McCain and Graham.”