Who will run the country after the next 9/11? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine

Please read this - it is extremely important we act quickly to prevent a constitutional crisis.

Who will run the country after the next 9/11? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine:

"In other words, in the weasel-speak of NSPD-51, it implies that one or more branches of the government will have to cede power to another. And since everything is to be 'coordinated by the president,' I'm guessing that the members of the Supreme Court left alive and some congressional leaders left alive (How chosen? What party balance?) will in effect have to sit around a big conference table and do a lot of 'ceding' to the executive. ...

In other words, even if you don't believe the most sinister paranoid coup theories, the document does nothing to allay one's fears that it could be used in a sinister way.

I wish I did, but I see nothing in the document to prevent even a "localized" forest fire or hurricane from giving the president the right to throw long-established constitutional government out the window, institute a number of unspecified continuity policies, and run the country with the guidance of the "National Continuity Coordinator" and with the "Continuity Policy Coordination Committee" for as long as the president sees fit.

This order has been issued by executive fiat and has not been subjected to any public examination by the other two branches, which have behaved in a supine way that suggests how they'll behave when comity time arrives and urgent decisions on the fate of the nation and perhaps the world (nuclear retaliation being what it is) need to be made immediately.

The fact that Congress has not scrutinized and challenged the potential here for an emergency-situation power grab is scandalous, unacceptable."

I've heard about these before, but this is the first time it's been well explained to me. Please contact your representatives to shed light on this issue.

Chris Weigant: The Ron Paul Third-Party Scenario - Politics on The Huffington Post

There was this very interesting comment on a blog entry at huffingtonpost - how progressive democrats can't support HC.

Chris Weigant: The Ron Paul Third-Party Scenario - Politics on The Huffington Post:

"'If the DLC succeeds in foising HC on us then its either sit out the election or vote for a viable 3rd party and I certainly consider Dr. Paul more likeable and more in line with progressive views than HC ' Exactly. The DLCers are our parties Neo-CONS. They are pro 'free' trade and open borders so they are essentially AGAINST labor and the working man. They are also pro foreign interventionists as well. The DLCers need to be purged from our party just like the religious whackos and Neocons need to be from the republican party. Pelosi, Rangel, Hoyer, Emanuel and HC are a good place to start. Lets get some real progressives on the ticket and get back to supporting our base and our values. If Hillary is the best we can do - then I go third party or write in as well. Kucinich, maybe edwards or the dream ticket Gore would be my choices then, But Paul would certainly get some serious consideration"

This is very true - Neo-CONS & DLCrs are the bane of our current problems. Even Republicans are growing skeptical of the benefits of "Free Trade" - By a nearly two-to-one margin, Republican voters believe free trade is bad for the U.S. economy (Wall Street Journal).