A blanket of PR to make you want to hug a drone

In a recent senatorial dustup, Sen. John McCain called Republican colleague Rand Paul one of “the wacko birds” of Congress.

McCain (who sometimes appears not too tightly wrapped himself) was giving Sen. Paul a tongue-lashing for having mounted a 13-hour, old-fashioned, stand-alone filibuster over the possibility that murderous drones could be used for targeted assassinations of Americans right here at home.

McCain said that the Kentucky senator’s talk-a-thon had veered into the “realm of the ridiculous,” adding, “I don’t think (it) is helpful to the American people.”

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