[a fool in paradise]

Now there are no checks and balances. At all. Pass it. Sign it. Then determine what it covers by establishing non-legislative governing bodies to implement the full plan.

[andy58-in-nh]

I think there are still some checks and balances available to us. We can vote the offenders out of office and reverse their awful handiwork. We can use the judicial process to challenge the most egregious elements of their plan. And finally, we can elect a President whose entire purpose is not the exercise of raw power and egotistical self-aggrandizement.

True revelation will come with our adversaries' responses: will they consider in good faith a people acting in defense of their liberties, or will they subvert their rights by force or by the threat of force? Are our political adversaries loyal citizens of a free republic, or rather what they increasingly appear to be: the vanguard of something far different, whose character practically excludes Republican democracy?