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To: driftdiver
The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power, much as the executive order signed by President Bush on May 9, 2007, that – as WND reported – gave the president the authority to declare an emergency and take over the direction of all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments without even consulting Congress.

This is what is scary.

6 posted on 02/01/2009 6:44:35 PM PST by luv2ndamend (May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. — Samue)
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To: luv2ndamend
This is what is scary.

As is this broadly written purpose:


18 posted on 02/01/2009 6:54:24 PM PST by callisto (Close your eyes and press escape three times. Do you want to play another game?)
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To: luv2ndamend

After 8 years of watching folks on “our side” cheer this sort of stuff on, I am very pleased to see many Right/Republicans showing signs of regaining their sanity.

Let us not forget to thank the neocons for their role in empowering the domestic tyrants of tomorrow.


20 posted on 02/01/2009 6:54:55 PM PST by M203M4 (Bill Kristol: Piltdown conservative)
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To: luv2ndamend

I’m telling you, they’re trying for the ULTIMATE CONTROL of citizens who don’t agree with them and show any dissent.

Little Hitlers in charge.


33 posted on 02/01/2009 7:06:19 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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