Whatever you say, Mr. Dictator. We feel safe now.

[babylonsister]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/30/DDGMGQ18AJ1.DTL

Whatever you say, Mr. Dictator. We feel safe now.

Mark Morford

It's just one of those obscure little unreported conspiracy theory-ready hunks of floating White House detritus, a couple of foul-smelling documents no one really wants to touch and no one knows quite what to make of, probably means nothing, probably being misread anyway, all a bit overblown and strange and not all that important and not all that different than the way things are now.

Unless, you know, it's not. Unless the violent twinge of queasy paranoia crossed with that uncontrolled bout of colon-clenching sighing you experience is deadly accurate and your radar for all things sinister and Rovean is right on target as you read about the delightfully titled National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51 and the Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20, wherein it is calmly and furtively revealed that, in essence, George W. Bush owns your sorry ass.

Or, to put it another way, it looks like the Bumbling One just gave himself ever more power. Power to control and dictate the entire government, power to really spread the gospel of happy GOP incompetence, power to command the entire wobbly American universe should some sort of epic -- or not so epic, as the case may be -- calamity strike the homeland.

It goes something like this: Should any "decapitating event" occur in America that somehow incapacitates the D.C. power structure, should "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions" take place, well then, all power and decision making would devolve to the White House, which would then attempt to orchestrate our very survival and oversee all essential governmental functions with none other than the president himself as, well, Super-Mega Lord Decider. With extra crayons.

You know, a dictator.

more...

[Double T]

1. Looks like the A-hole has figured out how to have a third, forth and fifth term.........

in office; just declare himself dictator anointed by his god.

[Bobbieo]

2. What do the Demos in Congress have to say about these "directives"?

[Double T]

5. ............

crickets in the background.

[Vidar]

3. Cue a nuclear reichstag fire.

[Demeter]

4. There's Only One Decapitating Event I Support and Urge

and it involves Bush/CheneyCo