Whiskey @ 162,

The airborne laser platform only needs to be effective against domestic opponents of the incumbents.

Having achieved this, no further development funding will be budgeted. Or at least, no further budget figures will be seen.

The gummint won’t have another word on the thing until, oh, the next Tea Party Mass Rally.

I can imagine the reports in the New New YorkTimes:

“Belligerent and dangerous anti-Obama Tea Baggers were cleanly converted to component molecules earlier today, when they refused direct orders from EPA agents to cease polluting the public streets with their exhaled CO2. Analysis of volatiles in the remaining crumbs indicates they may have been under the influence of an artificial-trans-fat-induced rage.”

Thanks for the link to the extremely depressing video.

Jeez-o-peez. At Least Clinton got some magic blue pills from the Chinese for all that missile technology.