Corporate Democrats pretend, ludicrously, that Republican obstructionism is the main problem.

[woo me with science]

55. That was breathtaking denial. Really, that was stunning.

1. Nonsense. Of course drones are being proliferated in US skies, as my links and a passing familiarity with the news clearly show. You are denying something that even the MSM does not bother to deny anymore. Invoking Rand Paul and using the words "paranoid fantasy" does not change that.

2. The nationwide brutal and militarized response to Occupy was federally coordinated, as you know very well. Moreover, Wall Street itself participated in the government's surveillance of the protests. The militarization of police departments and the provision of drones to them is happening largely through federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.

DHS & DoD Funding Increases Militarization of Local Police Depts Nationwide
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/dhs-dod-funding-increases-militarization-of-local-police-depts-nationwide/

ACLU Launches Nationwide Police Militarization Investigation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html

3. Nonsense. The payroll tax cut tied SS to the general fund, which was exactly the goal. Democrats held the White House, one house of Congress, and had the potential will and fury of the American people behind them to protect SS and demand a more effective stimulus, if they had chosen to make that argument publicly. They didn't. Republicans repeatedly "hold Democrats hostage" because Democrats choose not to hold Republicans hostage.

4. Of course NDAA passed bipartisanly. That is precisely the point, and precisely the problem.

5. For you to claim Dodd-Frank as immunity for all subsequent dismantling of financial regulations and protections is appalling to say the least. Dodd-Frank was an intentionally voluminous and cumbersome collection of legalese and loopholes crafted by bankers, and much of what was good in it has already been reversed. It has done nothing to slow the financial speculation that is the cancer in this system. If anything, "too big to fail" and financial corruption protecting big banks in Washington have been codified and normalized during this administration, as Elizabeth Warren's recent grillings on Capitol Hill have clearly shown.

6. A public option had overwheming support from Americans as polls at the time clearly showed, and a public option, not single payer, is what Obama promised to work for. Again, he chose not to use his bully pulpit and rally the tremendous support that popular approval would have provided. Instead, he sought a backroom deal providing the insurance companies with an unprecedented mandate entrenching the for-profit insurance companies into our health care system and demanding that every single American purchase their exorbitant middleman product.

7. The budget for the MIC is not actually being cut. Do you think we are stupid?