The only way that might ever happen (suspension of elections) would be a crisis of unprecedented scope and magnitude. It’s very hard to envision, even for this bunch in Washington.
- Bio-attack in a city or two? Poison a few water suppies? Send in just two or three pre-symptomatic carriers of anthrax all over some cities passing around the love? Epidemics? Mass panic? Declare national emergency? Easy, child's play.
- Set off two or three large but conventionally powered EMP weapons and knock out two or three critical grids?
- Get inside and set off one explosion at the right points inside one nuclear power plant with threats to do more?
- Just one dirty bomb detonation with threats of more to come?
- Blow up another Federal building or two, make it look like "right wing fanatics" (even use real "right wing fanatics" the way Iraq used McVeigh, etc.)
- Apparent attempt to assassinate Obama (easy to fake or if done by Obama's handlers who're finished with him, actually successful) - then massive race riots all across the country? Take a look again at the Watts tapes.
- Make sure war breaks out between Israel and Iran? Maybe add in a couple of nuclear exchanges? Accompanied by massive Islamic threats or even actual suicide bombings in the U.S. (So easy it's almost laughably easy in our open society)
- Suddenly a dozen or two dozen of our "Religion of Peace" friends come out of sleeper status and blow themselves up along with hundreds of others in a dozen or two dozen places around the country? (Did you see how two black guys with a rifle in the trunk of one car paralyzed the DC area?)
ALL FOLLOWED INSTANTLY (PRE-PLANNED) BY NATIONAL EMERGENCY, MARTIAL LAW, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Probably, at least another dozen scenarios, all achievable, cheap, highly dramatic --- especially if you have inside collusion. Soros dollars. Or millions from Saudi Wahibi fanatics, along with Iranians, blue-eyed blond left-overs from the Radical Left who love Bill Ayers. Or the Russians who are using surrogates to get even for the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Take a look at Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left, and Radical Islam) I wonder what was in that ship that allegedly "disappeared" a few weeks ago sailing out of Russia, and which led to a massive search by Russian and NATO naval forces ... Or the Chinese whose senior military leaders write openly about conducting "asymmetric warfare" against the U.S.
Maybe the worst would be taking control of the airwaves and giving the mike to Rosie O'Donnell, Jeanine Garofolo and Al Franken for 24 hours a day tag-team. People will beg to be put out of their misery. Surrender all their property and civil liberties just for them to shut up.