Recipe for a Bush dictatorship?

[iconoclastNYC]

Say we end up with an election that results in challenges in multiple states (as opposed to just one as in 2000 and 2004).... it doesn't get resolved and the switch over date approaches. Then we get hit with a terrorist attack.

Are you going to tell me Bush isn't going to delcare a constitutional and national security crisis and stay on as President until order can be restored? And what happens if the Supreme Court is the target of the terrorist attack?

[uppityperson]

1. tinfoilhat thought, attack right before elections so call off elections.

[Waya]

2. Wouldn't put it past him........

:crazy:

[Mnemosyne]

3. I won't tell you that icono

"Bush isn't going to declare a constitutional and national security crisis and stay on as President until order can be restored?"

Because I am surprised it hasn't happened yet.

[CrispyQ]

4. Why do they need to call off the vote

when they own the voting machines?

Calling off an election might just drive people to the streets. It's interesting - no one cares that our votes are stolen, but tell them there will be no election & they will be pissed.

...well, at least I would hope they would be pissed!

[iconoclastNYC]

7. Reread my post.

I'm saying they fix it so it's a huge big mess.....and the people and the media are begging for a solution....and in the middle of it there is a terror attack....it's a one-two punch....it's what they'd need to suspend the constitutional (temporarily of course!)

[CrispyQ]

8. Sorry,

meant to respond to post #1.

[flordehinojos]

5. i do believe that bush does not plan to let go of the white house.

i am not sure how he will accomplish that... but he loves power-and-control too much, and his poppy thinks he owns the whithe house, the oval office, camp david, air force one, etc.etc.etc., for them to give up any of it.

[regnaD kciN]

6. The attack won't be against the SCOTUS...

...because that would be a waste of good soldiers Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

I think Bush would be more likely to bank on taking his chances that one other justice (Kennedy?) would side with them in a time of crisis, and issue a precedent-setting ruling endorsing "unitary executive" power that would make him King George for real.

:scared:

BUT...I don't think it would happen just before the election or in the middle of a disputed one. Any such move, IMHO, would be far more likely early on in the 2008 campaign, before anyone has the Republican nomination locked up. Because, if they wait until that has happened, any move to make Bush president "for the duration" will generate a revolt from elements within his own Party, since the presumptive nominee will want a chance at the office himself.

[Amaryllis]

9. See this: there is already a movement to remove term limits;

and the DEMS are pushing it:

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democratic_leader_defends_push_to_abolish_presidential_term_limits_No_Bush_f_0705.html

http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/bush050703a.htm

[iconoclastNYC]

10. I don't see how this is related.

And term limits are a mixed bag sold to us as a panacea.

You know what happens when someone is term limited out of office? They run thier hand picked successor in that district and it's same shit different day.

We need publicly financed elections, a return to the fairness doctrine, instant run off voting, hand counted paper ballots, free media for campaigns, and election day voter registration.

[Amaryllis]

11. This is specifically to remove term limits on the PRESIDENT. So

Bush can be emperor.