“I think we are pretty much there Dude. At this point the question is how do we get the republic back?”
If they were around, you could ask the Romans who saw Julius Caesar take power, the French in 1789 before the Terror, the Russians in 1917 before the Bolsheviks took over, or anyone else who lost a republic. I don’t think any of them ever got their republic back. If any of us do, it will be a brand new thing. There is no roadmap that I know of. We’d better get busy.
President Obama: I’ll use whatever power I have to prevent the type of tragedy that occurred in Newtown, Conn.