Reply #24: Oh, shit! There it is!

[sofa king]

Okay, all you doubters, here's the end-game in the multi-dimensional chess match.

Why would it be "tempting" to go it alone, if that's not how our system works?

Because it is how our system works. There is a way to get it done--extra-Constitutionally.

The President is sitting on National Security Presidential Directive 51, written by his gangster predecessors:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-51.htm

In that Directive, President Bush described an emergency which the current situation easily fits, in which the President can then declare an "enduring Constitutional government" in which all branches of government are "coordinated" by the President. Once declared, there is no sunset date, no expiration of any sort, no way to stop it.

Utilizing half a dozen anti-terror laws at the same time, all the tools for a permanent dictatorship are right there, including the ability to enforce the dictatorship through a declaration of martial law and "continuity" provisions.

The President has begun waving the flag. He may not believe in the Constitutionality of the measures themselves, but that does not mean he cannot use them behind closed doors to threaten everyone in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, by reminding them that the Republicans of the 00s already signed the store away to the White House, and this President is now thinking about coming to collect it.

Clearly, none of you will believe me until my own research is duplicated by someone less qualified in the right-wing press. Okay. I can wait. But you heard it here first.