& The White House declined to comment on the order.
Hummmmmmmm... Indeed, I say, taking a break from the salt mines.
That is always the problem with what this congers up...
If we suddenly found the Islamic Terrorists/North Korea/Hugo Chavez/etc... had nuked DC and a few other cities and/or set off one 100 miles up over the Midwest, causing widespread loss of all power via the nuclear EMP, we would need fast, firm action.
While I do not always agree with W, I would follow his orders whether the Dems cried unconstitutional or not.
A Benign Dictatorship has always been touted as the most efficient form of government even when fully recognizing that absolute power corrupts absolutely...
In that light, I would not blindly obey anything I could not do in my own good conscious. Of course, a lot of what I consider in my own good conscious would make any liberal Democrat squirm, sweat and smell like 5 pounds of manure squeezed into a two pound sack.
That aside, authority like this is only as good as the authority applying it. With just about any Conservative Republican hereabouts, I could follow their lead. However, just about any and all the Dems (outside Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman) and RINOs I consider just a hair above the Islamic Terrorists/North Korea/Hugo Chavez/etc...
The main thing that bothers me about this is the parts I posted above. This was done not in secret, but it was done very, very low key. And neither the Demos nor the Drive By Media have jumped on it. That makes me sweat a little...
What do they know we don't know...
It makes me a little jumpy as I expect we are due another hit. We have not done all we can to either win this war or protect our borders and even with the best of intentions, we have to be 100 percent alert 100 percent of the time and be at the right place at the right time each and every time. Our foes have to be in the right place at the right time only once...
I live 56 miles south of Dallas and during the cold war I knew the prevailing winds would blow the fallout from a DFW nuke blast right down my alley. I am having that same fear once more...
Okay, now I must get back to sorting, packing and whatsnot...
Wonder what Congress would have said about Truman just before the big bomb went off.
How did eels get into the discussion?
Be Ever Vigilant ~ buy lotsa ammo and pray!
But, even in the Cold War, there wasn’t a policy like this. There were plans for the POTUS and members of Congress to evacuate to a secure location to provide at least a Rump version of the three branches. This is something like the old Roman’s had, with out the time limit.