Reply #12: For that to happen, they would simply not leave?

[salin]

Imagine the theater ... it would make the powerplays witnessed during the texas redistricting fiasco look tame.

I think that folks would be GLUED to the tv. Then I think if the WH tried a physical means of removing folks from the Capital building - there would be a general strike/riot. I think there would be a general collapse of the govt. I have no idea what would happen after that. Rather frightening to think about- though not a real scenario.

I am seriously wondering, however, what would happen if the slumbering giant of the public awoke and realized that congress has become a defacto powerless body of govt - meaning the whole idea of a "representational" part of govt would no longer exist.