Reply #43: Why not ask that room about NSPD-51?

[sofa king]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive

Oh look! It turns out that President Bush quietly conferred upon himself the ability to create an "enduring Constitutional government," coordinated by nobody but the President himself, given a state of national emergency.

Think President Obama knows about it? Why yes, it appears he does, because last September President Obama informed Congress that the national state of emergency declared by George Bush in 2001 still exists.

Now, that's not exactly the sort of thing one wants to kick around among a public that still, amazingly, believes there is such a thing as the rule of law in this country, so the President may be saying whatever works to steer the Republicans into conference on this bill, where he can inform them, at his pleasure and in secrecy, that if he doesn't get what he wants he will begin "coordinating" Congress himself.

Who the hell needs the 14th Amendment when the previous idiot handed this President the keys to a permanent dictatorship?