Picking up the Pieces from the Smoldering Ruins: What do Dems do when we take power again?

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Some people were uneasy about Darth Cheney, but no one was really seriously concerned about the end of voting.

These are just the threads I found from Dubya’s first term.

If Bush Were to Suspend the Constitution, What Would WE Do?

Okay, to set the stage, I’m going to take a highly improbable scenerio for how this comes about in order to try and keep this thread from getting hijacked into unimportant areas. In June of 2008, a car explodes near where Bush is speaking. The owner of the car (who is killed in the explosion) is a muslim. Bush immediately announces that it’s obviously the sign of a large Al Qaeda operation in the US and suspends the Constitution in order to take what he deems are the necessary measures to sto…

Postponing Election Day? We Laugh But The Government Considers It

We’ve had threads in the past asking and discussing the topic of a possible postponement of election day. IIRC, most are in the vein of would the Administration postpone, or even cancel, election day. One would have to have their tinfoil hat firmly attached to one’s pointy head that any postponement/delay could even occur, lest we have a backdoor attempt at subverting the will of the People. Well, … Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html This count…

Welp, Democracy was fun.

Hey, guess what? The U.S.'s 230-year-old experiment seems to have run its course. Okay, that’s hyperbolic, I admit it. Still, at least one Republican in charge of a major government voting commission is starting to make preparations for “postponing” the election … just in case, y’know, some big terrorist plot happens. God forbid, of course. linkiepoo (Emphasis mine.) Ha! I’m sure they didn’t comment. Ol’ Soaries opened the lid a little too soon, did he? But … um … canceling the electi…

President Bush wants to become a dictator?

This might be more of an MPSIMS than Great Debate, but I’m putting it in here anyway, because I can see this getting heated. I’ve noticed recently a kind of histeria that some people seem to have when talking about the President and current administration. They seem to be convinced that the administration is not just wrong, but evil, and that if the administration had their way, the President would become dictator for life and take away all our rights. Am I the only one to notice these attitu…

If they stonewall the 9/11 report, can they hold the election?

asked if America will be able to see the report before the Nov 2 election, Mr Kean answered: ‘I have no guarantees.’ – AFP As Crawford lays the groundwork to send americans to the polls in continued blissful ignorance, does this news add any weight to the concerns of those who fear the aborting of democracy via state of emergency, grounded in a real or contrived terror incident? Would they dare to hold an election while sitting on the report? Am I the only person who thinks that would be a f…

Can President Bush suspend the 2004 Presidental Elections?

I’m concerned that Bush will suspend the Presidental Election in november. Can he do this?If he can, what can be done to prevent it from happening?

Is the US trying to become a dictator nation?

Several years ago, I took a fascinating course at Harvard on the history of dictatorship. Comparisons between many societies in which despotism had arisen had been made to creat the course material. One of the points made was that societies ruled by an aristocracy generally fall into despotism when the ruling class loses control of the military. In my opinion, the mamber nations of the UN Security Council unwisely set themselves up after World War II as a kind of “aristocracy” among the nation…

Can elections be postponed in a national emergency?

It’s true that a President saying “the election is cancelled” has no weight of law, but we can postulate a worst-case scenario where a bonkers President starts dispatching federal troops to bust up polling stations and whatnot. Those sorts of shenangians have happened in plenty of places, though I personally doubt the U.S. could ever get that far. Reading some of the Pit threads about Bush and Rumsfeld suggests quite a few SDMB members feel otherwise.