Obama's drone muddle, the stupidity of the Dead Elephant Party's old bulls and the importance of wearing comfortable shoes.

All arrogance, all the time.

What the administration’s recent responses did make clear: Despite questions lingering for years about the increased use of drones, the flurry of attention to the issue this week caught the Obama White House by surprise. The White House appears to have misjudged the downside of its stances on transparency and how it could bend existing legal principles to justify the program — complicated by political miscalculations, fumbles by the attorney general and growing concern among some segments of the public.

“This has been slowly building, and when something is slowly building like this it’s hard to tell whether what has stayed a slow burn and a simmer will never move past that — and when it will suddenly burst into public view,” said Matt Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman.

“I would say they’re somewhat like stunned bunnies at this point,” said Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University and a Hoover Institution fellow.

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Finally, the old establishment Republican bulls express their true feelings about young Americans who dare think the Constitution is worth keeping.

It sounds like the first shots in a war that the crotchety establishment types are destined to lose. And if they don't lose soon, the Republican Party is finished. It might as well just crawl up onto grandpa's bookshelf, plop down next to the Whigs and begin collecting dust.

How Rand Paul did it.

He had no plan, the wrong shoes, and no water.

Before Rand Paul launched his near 13-hour filibuster, Paul had only a few binders of information he planned to reference while he was speaking.

But the Kentucky Republican didn’t go off topic, and he didn’t read from the phone book to sustain his filibuster. Paul barely drank any water to avoid needing to go the bathroom and survived his hunger pangs by retrieving candy from a well-stocked desk on the Senate floor.

What started as just an attempt to make a point and ask questions of the administration became an epic show in the Senate with many of Paul’s fellow Republicans rushing to the floor to support him. In the process, Paul became a cause célèbre and left the floor, his feet aching, a hero to many in his party.

It only occurred to him shortly before his speech to try and do something big, but Paul admitted he had no idea how big it would become. Driving to the Senate Wednesday, morning Paul said he turned to a staffer and they decided they would try to take control of the floor to make a point.

“Well the weird thing is that we didn’t really have a plan,” he told reporters after his filibuster ended. “I hadn’t planned on it. I didn’t wear my most comfortable shoes or anything, I would have worn different shoes.”