The October/November Surprise Part Three
Few presidents have found themselves in such a massive pickle barely fifteen months into their first terms as President Barack Hussein Obama.
Beset on all sides by Tea Partiers on the right and gays on the left, with more negative news dribbling out just today that surprise, surprise, Obamacare will cost more than health care did in the past, with smatterings of war protestors complaining that we’re still fighting in the Middle East, with Democrats in Congress bailing out, with a prime constituency, the Jewish vote, increasingly discontent over U.S.-Israeli relations, the president should be stressed over the November elections and his own fading hopes for a second term.
Yet, he shows no signs of worry or concern. Now, why is that?
Could it be because of his well-known coolness that he’s not sweating his own and his party’s future? Or, could it be that Obama feels firmly ensconced in the catbird seat, knowing he has an ace up his sleeve that he can and will throw down when the time is opportune and he has no other cards left? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1646)
Showing posts with label posse comitatus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label posse comitatus. Show all posts
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
The October/November Surprise Part Two
The October/November Surprise Part Two
It would be one nasty surprise to awake some morning to find federal troops patrolling America’s streets.
Technically, legally, such a phenomenon could never happen due to the existence of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878–except in a circumstance which is deemed “extraordinary” and, of course, “extraordinary circumstance” is a term open to debate.
The post-Reconstruction Posse Comitatus, literally “the power of the county,” law theoretically prohibits the use of federal uniformed services from exercising the police powers granted to states within the confines of the United States, theoretically since the act’s provisions have been termed more mythical than factual.
The story behind the passage of Posse Comitatus Act reeks with political intrigue and political compromise following the Civil War. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1642)
It would be one nasty surprise to awake some morning to find federal troops patrolling America’s streets.
Technically, legally, such a phenomenon could never happen due to the existence of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878–except in a circumstance which is deemed “extraordinary” and, of course, “extraordinary circumstance” is a term open to debate.
The post-Reconstruction Posse Comitatus, literally “the power of the county,” law theoretically prohibits the use of federal uniformed services from exercising the police powers granted to states within the confines of the United States, theoretically since the act’s provisions have been termed more mythical than factual.
The story behind the passage of Posse Comitatus Act reeks with political intrigue and political compromise following the Civil War. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1642)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
The October/November Surprise Part One
The October/November Surprise Part One
. . . There’s another story out there which, on face value, seems preposterous in our two-century old democratic republic. However, given the recent unconstitutional actions of our congress and given Barack Obama’s demonstrated disdain for our constitution as well as his contempt for solemn pledges and promises, I’m coming to believe the unthinkable is both thinkable and possible.
We’ve been hearing much of late of the probability of major Democrat losses in the coming off-year election in November. Almost always, those predictions are accompanied by a caveat framed as something like, “Those losses are inevitable–barring some national or international event, some catastrophic event, which would cause Americans to unite behind the president and his party.”
The mind boggles and speculation as to the nature of that event runs rampant: a terrorist attack or attacks, a war on our soil, a natural disaster of enormous proportions, a dire constitutional crisis, something yet unimaginable?
How would this administration react to such an eventuality? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1636)
. . . There’s another story out there which, on face value, seems preposterous in our two-century old democratic republic. However, given the recent unconstitutional actions of our congress and given Barack Obama’s demonstrated disdain for our constitution as well as his contempt for solemn pledges and promises, I’m coming to believe the unthinkable is both thinkable and possible.
We’ve been hearing much of late of the probability of major Democrat losses in the coming off-year election in November. Almost always, those predictions are accompanied by a caveat framed as something like, “Those losses are inevitable–barring some national or international event, some catastrophic event, which would cause Americans to unite behind the president and his party.”
The mind boggles and speculation as to the nature of that event runs rampant: a terrorist attack or attacks, a war on our soil, a natural disaster of enormous proportions, a dire constitutional crisis, something yet unimaginable?
How would this administration react to such an eventuality? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1636)
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