BINGO!
If Obama’s birth was found not to be in Hawaii things would quickly spiral out of control.
All military officers, starting with the Joint Chiefs, take their oaths to the Constitution. You’d have hundreds if not thousands of Major Cooks challenging deployment and other orders.Chaos would reign.
Chaos would also ensue in the civilian sector as you’d have millions who’d refuse to pay federal taxes to a government or obey laws signed by a usurper.
I haven’t researched it, but I’ll bet that the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals take their oaths to the Constitution as well.
To continue your point about taxes, I can see a number of states withholding their taxes from D.C. to a usurper. Talk about a mess!
Obama is making one critical mistake that all despots and egomaniacs make: He believes his personal charisma and “presence” will trump everything with everyone. This is wrong. He has seriously underestimated how much Americans love that whole goofy Constitution thing. If he didn’t know it before, he knows it now, watching the Tea Parties and public protests. Even if he wins this battle, he loses the war, because he’ll have a whole new Congress in 2010.
He reminds me of the guy who batted .335 one single time and then filed for free agency, believing that he’ll be paid like A-Rod. Only to learn his employers are going to view his history and decide that he should be paid like Alvaro Espinoza.
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This would be the narrowest of narrow paths to undo at some point what has been ddone. If he was never POTUS, everything he ever signed is confetti.