TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Adam Sewer details the Democratic party’s sudden silence on issues like Guantanamo and wiretapping they found so pressing in 2008:

2008: “We support constitutional protections and judicial oversight on any surveillance program involving Americans. We will review the current Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. We reject illegal wiretapping of American citizens, wherever they live. We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. We reject the tracking of citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war…We will revisit the Patriot Act and overturn unconstitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight years.”

2012: The platform is silent on this issue. This isn’t surprising since, at the urging of the Obama administration, congressional Democrats passed up the opportunity to reform the PATRIOT Act when they had a majority in both houses of Congress. 

Weird world where the GOP embraces Medicare and the DNC is the party of drone attacks, and drone attacks on U.S. citizens no less.