MARK MORFORD: Bush Declares Self 'Mega Decider'

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Bush Declares Self 'Mega Decider'
New documents ensure Dubya will rule America, should calamity strike. Free balloons!
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

...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...

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...And then boom, the nation goes into lockdown and it's a strict military state and Lynn Cheney starts enjoying sweaty night visions of Dick lumbering purposefully through the White House halls deciding who to nuke next as Dubya quivers in the corner and the flying monkeys prepare the escape pod. Just like in that Will Smith movie! Neat!

Let us now be serious for a moment. Let us hold back the sarcasm and step back and breathe a sigh of relief because I'm sure Dubya's changes to NSPD 51 mean a whole lotta nothing...After all, Shrub only has a year and a half left in office. Plus, his power has been severely truncated by the Dems. Why would he care to try for such a thuggish, cagey power grab now? What would be the point? Except, you know, to savagely tilt the next election and to further the new 'n' brutal neocon agenda of perpetual war and as a desperate, last-gasp move to prove he actually has the cojones to do something so appalling, so perfectly megalomaniacal, it's sure to rescue his rotten legacy from history's compost pile? I mean, besides that.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/30/notes053007.DTL&nl=fix

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1. kick

[physaf]

3. Doesn't anybody care anymore?

I don't know why this is going so unnoticed.

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4. It surprises me as well.

I guess I am just such a HUGE Mark Morford fan and this is such an important topic. Hmm..

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6. I've gotten this to my senators...

What can we do?


edit to add that this is information request, not a rhetorical question.

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2. I wouldn't trust Bush

to wipe my ass if I became incapacitated!:evilgrin:

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5. This gives me chills.

This looks like a getaway car to me.
This (along with the memory of Nine Eleven) tells me W can take down whatever he wants in the eleventh hour of his pResidency.

And shoot us all the bird on the way out.

Under martial law, at war with Iran and Syria and Lebanon, bankrupt, mired in lawsuits and investigations into his administration cronies while he pardons them all, raped in the '08 election with Republithugs Under God in perpetuity, with George Orwell on the new dollar coin, and Greg Palast's head on a pike.