Reply #4: I agree [View All]

but it will make Nixon's hissy fit look tame

Nixon canned people in the Executive branch. this sock puppet doesn't have issues with them - he's got gonzales' mouth firmly affixed to his privates.

Only if Gates were to bolt and side with Congress and/or the generals against bush would we have that scenario

Otherwise, it is a much bigger showdown because it is across branches of the govt

What people don't seem to get when they say that taking the ep claims through the courts will take years is that that does not need to be. Congress can precipitate an emergency. The SCOTUS cleared the decks to hear the florida vote case, and they can do so if it is elevated enough.

That might mean sending the Sgt at Arms to arrest Meirs, but if that's what it takes, they'd better damned well do it. And when they do, that is when bushcheney will pop his cork. He is fundamentally a bully, and won't take it lying down. He'll try to counter using "his boys" and the Constitutional crisis is then upon us - full metal jacket. Ideally, once he makes an outrageous move, removing him will then be swift and (largely) unopposed. It just needs to include both bodies that the bushcheney demon inhabits