President Obama is not violating his liberal principles by defending the NSA. He is exercising them.

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12. Correct. Want change? Change Congress. They passed it. Obama has asked them to change his powers

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granted under the AUMF, as they can be abused when he leaves office and are a danger to begin with.

THEY WON'T DO IT.

Instead, Congress is passing federal ultrasound law, slashes aid to the poor and children and is ignoring the harm the Sequester is doing to millions of Americans now.

The personhood riders, and ending food stamps, Head Start, TANF, Medicaid and ACA, which civil libertarian hero Rand Paul puts on every budget bill, doesnt ever come up in discussion of 'civil liberties.' So they approve, just as the Infowars crowd approves of all of that.

There is a significant difference in 'civil liberties', 'civil rights' and' human rights', then. Apparently, they are the problems of those other, lesser people that don't matter.

Animal Farm indeed.