Speaking Thursday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference(CPAC), Rand Paul demonstrated exactly the sort of thinking that really turns on conservatives. But frankly, the crowd seemed so turned on by Paul, that he probably could've called them all arseholes and they would've shouted in agreement.

This month I will propose a five year balanced budget.

My budget eliminates the Department of Education. (10+ seconds of ecstatic applause.)

Rand Paul said it was time to nuke the Department of Education. Not reform it, or change it, but get rid of it altogether. And the conservative crowd went wild.

Lord knows the last thing they want is the public-at-large running around educated well enough to realize that the Republican party is full of crack pots, or that the Earth isn't really flat.

H/T DailyKos

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Highlighting the discord among Republicans over President Barack Obama’s targeted killings policy, two prominent GOP senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, took to the Senate floor to criticize Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s 12-hour filibuster Wednesday.

After 13 hours, nature calls. That’s what Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) learned in the first hours of Thursday morning when his filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan as director of the CIA ended at 12:39 a.m. because he had to use the bathroom. “I’ve discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and I’m going to have to take care of one of those in a few minutes,” he said. But speaking with Glenn Beck on Thursday, Paul said he thought of using a catheter to prevent the necessary bathroom break. “I did think about it,” he said. “I’ve put them in before, but I really decided against it.”

Apologies for that mental image. Happy Thursday.