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winterbadgerLook familiar?
You know, for a week, or a month, or a year or two; whatever is necessary to get the country back on its feet after, say, an anthrax-laced letter arrives at the White House (if they're smart, they won't use White House stationery) or a bomb goes off at a polling place in Dubuque.
Is this George and Dick?
The Bush administration is reported to be investigating the possibility of postponing the presidential election in the event of a terror attack.
In its latest edition, Newsweek reports that Mr Ridge has asked the Justice Department to examine what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the 2 November election.
You know, for a week, or a month, or a year or two; whatever is necessary to get the country back on its feet after, say, an anthrax-laced letter arrives at the White House (if they're smart, they won't use White House stationery) or a bomb goes off at a polling place in Dubuque.
Is this George and Dick?
Re: No f*cking suprise there
Date: 2004-07-12 01:27 pm (UTC)*This* is the sort of thing that would get many of the officers I know up in arms (perhaps even literally). They take seriously the idea that they swear an oath to defend the Constitution. I'm not *sure*, but I *think* that if Cheney actually tried to suspend the electoral laws claiming national emergency with anything less than a full-scale attack on the national government, that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the commander of the Military District of Washington would politely point out that this was not a legal order and do what was needed to ensure a continuance of constitutional government.
Still a constitutional crisis, though...