*Ø* Blogmanac | GW canceling elections?

[Here's something I've been warning about since GW pulled his first
Executive Powers tricks on September 12, 2001, and practically every
day thereafter. -v]


Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
by Dan Sullivan, Buzzflash

Fellow Americans, beware o' The Ides of September. Of GOP Conventions in mid-town Manhattan, and of World Trade Center Anniversaries.

In the months leading up those events, two questions should be asked and addressed in our public discourse, as well as by Bush Administration officials:

What is being done to secure and ensure the integrity of our Presidential election?

What happens if an election gets canceled?

That's right. Canceled.

Should it appear, by mid-September or early October, that he may be unseated, what's to stop the commander-in-chief, in this era of amorphous war on terror, from postponing our election for political gain, or simply canceling outright? Surely not the Constitution. Or the Supreme Court. Surely not a rubber stamp masquerading as the United States Congress. Popular will? Ha!

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