July 11, 2008 at 22:45

MzNicky, there is no such constitutional provision. Does that mean that I’d put it past the Bushies? Of course not. But they don’t have the constitution to back them up. There is absolutely no provision for postponing or canceling elections.”

I think that the presidential directive noted below is what people are talking about. It’s pretty scary. I didn’t put the whole document in the comment, just google the title and you’ll get the whole thing. (I have it in Word, but I’m not computer smart enough to make a link, sorry).
The directive leaves the ‘emergency’ pretty open:

White House News

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51
HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20

Is this going to end as the punchline to one of those jokes about the difference between crook A and crook B — both would sell their own grandmother but crook A would deliver?

Of course you liberals will claim it will be because of Diebold / false flag terrorism / teh dum Murrican voters, and yet – I do see the anxiety.

Why are you worried, liberals? Anyone who took his family to a racist church with his family for decades, whose spouse is openly hateful towards whites, whose friends include unrepentant domestic terrorists (the good kind, mind you, on the Left, not the horrible rightist domestic terrorists) and convicted felons – why, such a person is the perfect liberal candidate! Surely the American people must recognize the superiority of liberals and their candidate – right?

You aren’t convinced, liberals, which is why you go after McCain with such fervor. And even so…. you worry…..

That would be the smart thing to do. It’d be even smarter to do it, say, mid-August, so that consumer price declines would be noticeable by the time of the Democratic Convention and even more substantial by the time of the Repub Convention. Then, by Halloween, if it still looks like McStinky is gonna lose.on Nov. 4th, they could do the attack Nov. 2nd, when everybody is still dazed and confused from the sugar buzz and the time change.

This, of course, assumes that they really care that McDoodyhead gets elected and that they’re smart.

Heh.

Got a $20 bet w/ my SO– he doesn’t believe we’ll attack Iran before Bush is out of office. So, so naive.

You’d think MadJack woulda looked a little harder for a bidness person who wasn’t run out of town on a rail…

Many men have no lips. The actor Kenneth Branagh, for example, and the rock star known as Sting. This is inexcusable, of course, but in John McInsane’s case, probably not necessarily the fault of the Vietnamese.

Just wonderin’.

Well, to dickhead cheney, that’s an open door you can drive a combine through…

mikey

Cathy, I think they probably will attack Iran. And when the economy crashes, they can say Social Security and Medicare are no longer affordable and eliminate them.

Shhhhhh . . . stop giving away Teh Heartland’s best money management secrets!

The only thing better would be a group hug of McBush, PuppetBush, and Gramm all together.

Of course, if somebody dug up a photo of Gannon and Rove together, as long as their poses were artful and not just pornographic, it would really be swell.

Yes, but he’s great to have around if you need to clear the room.

Thanks, but I have farts for that. They don’t try to run for President while lying like a bad rug or try to rob me blind.

We get shit for national news and even stinkier shit for international news. Have to go to the foreign press for any real news. And none of said real news is the least bit reassuring.

We really are fucked, aren’t we?

Since I’m Aware Of All Internet Traditions, I have to ask whether this was intentional…

“Shut up and spread your ass-cheeks. Just think how good it’ll feel when I stop raping you.”

I think Freddie and Fannie equity may be toast

No shit. Anybody look at the charts?

I suppose that if they can’t ratfuck Social Security into oblivion, and not from lack of trying, they’ll settle for tanking the FannieMae corner of the New Deal. Then they’ll have the American Taxpayer bled dry reimbursing their buddies for any poor decisions they made.

Charming.

‘Whiners’ remark
draws McCain ire
Good St. John: he’ll protect us from the bad guys in his own campaign.

BTW, Brad, I think the best definition of ‘gaffe’ was the one Mike Kinsley gave after the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond dustup. He said it’s when someone in Washington inadvertently says what they really think.