Kids, let's not forget the big O has one ace up his sleeve that eveyone has forgotten...

[Rosco T.]

Now, someone correct me if I'm wrong.. but didn't 'fer Brains, right after 9/11, declare a 'national security' state of emergency?
and that has NEVER BEEN RESCINDED.

The current economic situation is a MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY.

- thuggies, you don't wanna play? screw you, executive order putting the stimulus package into effect BECAUSE OF NATIONAL SECURITY.
- don't want to rescind the Shrub tax cuts? NATIONAL SECURITY.. they're gone.
- don't want to raise the Social Security Cap? NATIONAL SECURITY to preserve the Soc.Sec. Fund.
- won't raise taxes on the top 2%, NATIONAL SECURITY to keep the country solvent.
- fight Universal Health Care? NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE to make sure the population is healthy and taken care of.

etc.. etc.. etc.. let the Thugs fight, obstruct, delay, destroy... at a certain point...

NATIONAL SECURITY and they're done.

[whistle]

1. Yes, that is correct

[Occam Bandage]

2. Er, yes, I suppose he could indeed declare himself a dictator.

I'm pretty sure he won't.

[damonm]

3. True, but using that would RUIN the plan...

Because then the "he's being a dictator" card would come out, and would energize the Pukes like nothing else.

His current game of making the Pukes marginalize themselves is working brilliantly.

[Rosco T.]

4. Not a dictator, but a 'provider of the nation'...

and ONLY after the Thuggies have show that they don't CARE about the people, only the corporations. He sets a time limit on things.. say right after the 2010 elections... when we'll have enough Dems that the Thugs will be totally meaningless.

[damonm]

5. And that will get them enough energy to have meaning again.

Patience, young Jedi.
The Force has a strong influence on the weak-minded - Jedi Master Obama will make the Rethugs destroy themselves, so that he has no need to.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. And on what grounds would the 'Pukes object?

Because Obama used for the good of the nation, powers that Chimpy gave himself to do evil?

Yeah, that might play with the 15% who still love Cheney, or maybe even the 24% who still believed the Chimp's bullshit the day he left town. But it wouldn't go any further up the food chain than that.