Deja Q
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:37 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong; didn't, in May 2008, an executive order was signed that would allow |
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the President to take over all 3 branches of government in the event of an emergency; from which there were months' worth of tinfoil theories about Bush actually putting it into place?
Assuming I'm remembering all that correctly, which I doubt I am, what if:
Obama would use it if the same congressional bullshit keeps happening in government; both sides fighting like toddlers in a sandbox and throwing sand in each others' faces?
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:53 PM
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1. Then he would be a tyrant and would be removed by process or force. |
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Next question?
Seriously... you are talking about establishing a dictatorship in response to what you perceive as ineffective legislative process?
I thought I'd heard it all, but it seems I hadn't.
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:57 PM
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2. Remember FDR did something similar, he asked for extraordinary powers |
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:11 PM
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3. Executive Order 5-4 something? |
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:37 PM
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4. Executive Order 12919. I looked it up on Google. |
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