The country is in a Constitutional crisis and our government

[Cleita]

is dysfunctional, and all they can worry about are human cells growing in a petrie dish that have the evolutionary status pond scum? Or, if the flag is going to get burned? Or if Bruce and Dave want to get married?

Beam me up Scotty. This has to be an awful nightmare.

[Solly Mack]

1. keeping up appearances in the middle of a Constitutional crisis

is how I've been referring to it all

Maintaining the illusion that all is well with America's government

See! Look over there - Congress is doing something (never mind how inane)

And over there! There's Bush! He's doing something - (always destructive)

[theHandpuppet]

2. Question for any Consitutional scholars out there

Is there an actual legal definition for what consitutes a constitutional crisis? I can't imagine our forefathers didn't make provisions to prevent what Bush is doing right now.

[Cleita]

6. In Wikipedia

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

I'm not a Consitutional scholar but this explains it pretty well especially the part about violations of the Constitution.

[leftchick]

3. la di da, la di da....

as the world burns. MFers. :grr:

[sweetheart]

4. why?

Before we kick off, we've gotta explain why, as later generations will be lost for how it happened.

Why what? Why a nation of unprecedented wealth and success took its F15 of state, took it up in
to space and then straight back down in to the ground. And even as the nosecone is crumpling
against the concrete, in the nanoseconds before bush's brain joins the all, no recognition that
he's crashed the bird.

No, it wasn't the crash pilot, he was perfect for the job, a failed drunken crash pilot, easily
controlled, all of them, even cheney, controlled and posessed by some demonic force.. and really
demonic. So what then precedes the rise of demons across the place, and what act inside that
beltway opened up the gates for the demon king and his minions. Ravana is back, and lanka is
not ceylon, its north america.

[mmonk]

5. The constitutional crisis is over for now.

We don't one that works, because it's indefinitely shelved. There may be a point of no return since there is no guarantee the new powers won't be attractive to elected officials the rest of the way.

[Cleita]

7. This is so true and I hope someone in Congress wakes up,

sees what's going on and tries to rally the others to doe something about it. I know Conyers has really tried but he's been out there almost all alone. All our legislators who aren't part of the problem need to band together and do something.

[mmonk]

8. Conyers is where my hope lies. If anyone can tackle

the situation should dems regain power, I'm sure it will be him.