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My oft-stated view is that Obama will seize (be granted) enormous emergency powers when the national economy takes a sudden downturn. I think this is likely to happen in August. It can be orchestrated this way: The relief well at Deepwater Horizon fails, and the gusher becomes a bigger emergency, AND the media stops lying about the economy, pretending that we're in a recovery.
In short, we fall off the cliff when the government actually starts telling us the truth, people panic, and congress rushes through some emergency decrees.
Seizing power through lies is a method that works.
Seizing greater power through revealing the truth is pure evil genius.