Why is Steve Green Not Drunkblogging this? Where is our VodkaPundit where there are potentially hundreds of viable drinking games for a political event moving into it's 11th hour?

Steve! We need you!

Why is anybody surprised? It's been a down hill slide on the erosion of protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights following 9-11. Remember the concerns about the Patriot Act and other legislation that grants the government the authority to invade a citizen's right to privacy, to deny due process, to deny habeas corpus, to deny presumption of innocence? Just say the magic word "terrorism" and poof, the government can stick a camera up your ass, and that of your friends and neighbors and co-workers, can seize your property and money, hold you in solitary confinement indefinitely with no one being told, can deny you travel via public transportation, can kill you and those innocents unfortunate to be around you by armed drone on a nod by the President or whomever he hands the kill button to that day, after all you can't expect Obama to hold the button while he's golfing or shooting hoops or calling the Republicans or whomever disagrees with his policies terrorists. But not to worry, the government, meaning our altruistic, honest, rational political leaders assure us that they will only use this power only as a last resort to protect us. And I'm sure the billions of rounds of ammo and thousands of weapons and light armored tactical vehicles being purchased by DHS and other agencies outside of the Defense Department are just a sensible precautionary measure to defend us from the tens of thousands of terrorists lurking in the US waiting for the signal to re-do 9-11. And I'm sure the first American killed by armed drone on American soil will be quickly identified and announced by the press to be the ultra right racist hate spewing terrorist our fearless leader will say he was, while all of the now dead terrorist's family, friends and supporters and those who doubt the legality or morality of our dear leader's actions will be quickly rounded up, their assets taken, and their potential incitement of others to civil disobedience to the government's actions silenced by indefinite detention or the threat of the same. In Hitler's Germany, all it took to get rid of someone was to denounce them as a Jew, a homosexual, or a Communist. Today all it takes in Obama's America is to declare someone a potential terrorist. And worse, there is an ongoing effort by some to expand the definition of terrorist to include all who oppose the tyranny that is our current administration. While I have had the misfortune, as have many other Americans including my children, to lose friends to acts of terrorism, and to have fought against foreign terrorists in foreign lands, in truth, I fear our current government and its arrogant abusive use of the power we gave them, more than I fear the threat of terrorist attacks whether on American soil or overseas. (show less)

go paul go paul go paul ...

the only transparent thing about this admin is the transparent way they are going about getting ready to assault the American people. obi & holder are stooges, and not very smart ones, in somebody else's power play. useful idiots promoted waaaay beyong their pay grade. once things get out of hand they will no longer be of much use to anybody.

i think obi has given up on having an armed civilian force to inflict their agenda, so he thinks he has found a friend in drones. he's been killing guilty and innocent alike overseas in our name. then, again, he refuses to come clean on the details. i also suspect they plan on trying to steal some more elections in '14. once he has both houses and a new s.c. justice or two, this whole thing will erupt. jmho

Given up on his civilian defense force? 7000 M4 "personal defense" carbines for the TSA, swat teams in the Dept of Agriculture, millions of rounds for every Fed agency, if you combine all that seems to me it's a start. The drones and a civilian force could be complementary, but drones would be pretty useless for ground control and harassment.

So Democrats are fine with the federal government killing US citizens? Democrats have a war on Americans!

Did anyone else catch Paul's mention of Hanoi Jane having her picture taken in North Korea during that war? And that under the current drone rules, Obama would have authorized a strike on her.

Now there is a hell of way to make this "whole drone strikes on American citizens on US soil" point!