Can we start making the Hitler analogies now?

Newsweek:

In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States. Steven Bradbury, acting head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, went to a closed-door Senate intelligence committee meeting last week to defend President George W. Bush's surveillance program. During the briefing, said administration and Capitol Hill officials (who declined to be identified because the session was private), California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Bradbury questions about the extent of presidential powers to fight Al Qaeda; could Bush, for instance, order the killing of a Qaeda suspect known to be on U.S. soil? Bradbury replied that he believed Bush could indeed do this, at least in certain circumstances.

What constitutes being an Al Qaeda suspect? Being a Democrat? A progressive blogger? Disagreeing with Bush policies? If an Al Qaeda suspect is whatever Bush says it is, what's to keep him from deciding that all dissidents are Al Qaeda suspects, rounding us up and executing us? And who on the right will object? Certainly not the Little Green Footballers and some of the people who enjoy visiting here, for some strange reason -- they'd be happy to pull the goddamn trigger.