No they wouldn’t have. Perhaps more importantly, Congressional Democrats under Bush wouldn’t have done what House Republicans are doing right now.
Right, you’re just objectively accusing him of stirring up the military, saying he might murder some people, and maybe could overthrow the government. You know, rationality.
I actually found someone who agrees with the OP in the broadest of strokes. You might be surprised who it is. 
I suspect the OP’s thinking runs along the lines of “I don’t think Obama’s a Kenyan-born secret Muslim, like the crazy people do. Therefore, my theory of Obama plotting a military coup is perfectly rational.”
Well, one doesn’t have the lucidity of thought that you do.
I think you suspect a lot of bizarre things.
Where in twenty worlds are you getting that I’m trying to backpedal? I meant exactly what I said.
Your interpretation is what I cannot control/abide, and I wonder where you get these strange thoughts.
Now, you accuse me of ranting, and you come up with some psychological treatise that ‘ranting on lunacy is proof of lunacy.’ Of course, this diagnosis is proof of REAL lunacy! You are going all over the place, and trying to act like I’m the one that’s losing it, and back it up with some made up, lightweight formula for what constitutes lunacy. You need to snap out of it.
I see, also, that you think I’m picking on your beloved because I don’t like him. You are, as usual, incorrect.
Banana republics don’t worry me. Let any President create one-what is that to me? I comment on something that you think you don’t like, and you attack me. You are trying to interpret truth through your own narrow, confused viewpoint.
Your statement was lunacy 3 months ago when you first made it and it hasn’t aged well in the meantime.
Wait, there’s two of these stupid “The US is becoming a banana republic” threads?
Yup.
I came from one Banana Republic and I have spent most of my life here in the USA, and I have to report that no, A banana republic is not coming soon, even half-heartened vigilance is doing a good job of preventing that. What is important is to never forget that there is a good number of Americans that would love to see that happen, like Jim DeMint who even in the 21st century can not see what is bad about a coup d’état. And at the Heritage Foundation to consider Hispanics as just worthy of being peons.
Now, if you had asked that about Arizona… 
Wow. I’ve been put down! Whodathunkit?
It’s ridiculous to suggest the US is turning into a Banana Republic and no amount of hyperbole will change that.
I’m not aware of any country (not a colony or Soviet satellite-type situation, but an actual, independent country) which has gone from “having its shit together” to “becoming a banana republic” without something drastic happening in between like a civil war, getting invaded by someone else, or a crippling natural disaster.
The US might, at some point in the distant future, split into several squabbling Commonwealths/Confederacies/Republics, and some of them might approach what we’d consider a Banana Republic, but between now and then I’d surmise you’d need an event on the scale of an actual, honest-to-deity-of-your-choice Zombie Apocalypse, Alien Invasion or Fallout-style Nuclear War to bring it about.
Look at it this way: if having a black president, legal gay marriage and/or marijuana in several states and the implementation of something approaching universal healthcare hasn’t caused the country to descend into something resembling a cross between Mad Max and The Walking Dead, then I honestly doubt it’s going to happen this side of World War III - or something crazy like the World Bank adopting Canadian Maple Syrup as a global reserve standard for all the world’s major currencies.
In the other thread I linked to a UN report that showed the value of the net asset base for each country. The US was #1 at $118 trillion, Japan was #2 at $55 trillion, etc.
What I found interesting was that from 1991-2008, US net worth increased $32 trillion, and that the size of this increase was greater than the size of many countries 2008 net worth.
For example, the growth of the US in this time period was as if the US added the 2008 equivalent of:
… 5 Australia’s, or
… 4 Brazil’s, or
… 3 Canada’s, or
… 1.5 China’s, or
… 2.5 France’s, or
… 1.5 Germany’s, or
… 5 India’s, or
… .6 Japan’s, or
… 21 Norway’s, or
… 3 Russia’s (the only country (that I’ve noticed) that has lost wealth since 1990), or
… 2.5 United Kingdom’s
To its balance sheet.
Banana Republics don’t do this. They don’t take everything owned by United Kingdom, multiply it by 2.5, and add it to their balance sheet in a 17 year period. They just don’t.
Hope this clears up any misunderstanding you may have, handsomeharry. 
Don’t you live here?