Reply #12: I think the objective is to move into secret deliberations. [View All]

[sofa king]

Once the bill is in closed conference, the Republicans will have to start taking phone calls from their financial overlords, who are pretty much the only Americans left who have anything to lose from a default. It's not difficult to guess that once the cameras are gone, those pussies will do as they're told.

But what if they don't, you ask? Well, if they don't take whatever deal we offer, the President can remind them that a state of national emergency still exists and has since September, 2001 (and was quietly and purposefully extended by President Obama last September), and those circumstances combined with these allow the President to begin "coordinating" Congress himself, starting whenever he wishes and ending never.

The Republicans won't be in much of a position to argue, since it was they who conferred that authority upon the President--or enough authority for Bush's lawyers to take it, run with it, and create this monster of a Presidential Directive. It's a thinly veiled justification for creating a permanent dictatorship, contingent upon an emergency just such as this one that the Republicans are attempting to create.

Oh, hell no, I'm not kidding even a little bit. All of you need to read about this:

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