Will George W. Bush put the kibosh on elections in the United States next year? [says leftist media]

Yahoo news ^ | Sat, Jul 12, 2003 | Ted Rall

[Cicero]

Actually, if you read his emergency decrees, there was good reason to believe that clinton was thinking of suspending rights and making himself President for Life. But the people who worried about that happening had plenty of evidence to put forward, including a while series of emergency Executive Orders, the Waco affair, and the placement of his Arkansas State Police cronies in FEMA.

What precisely does this whiner have to offer as evidence that Bush is thinking along these lines.

Clinton passed a new Executive Order almost every day. Has Bush done the same?

[Senator Pardek]

"dirty bombs" detonate simultaneously in New York and Washington. Government, media and political institutions and personnel lie ruined in smoking rubble and ash

To paraphrase Jackie Chiles: Does this moron even know what a "dirty bomb" is?

[Cultural Jihad]

From your profile page:

I think Bush is an idiot. The word is "nuclear" not "nucular" Vote for anyone but him.

Go back to DU, fool.

[Allegra]

What's this? All of a sudden, everybody wants in on the New York Times Fiction-Presented-as-News Award?

Gimme a freakin' break.

[chiefqc]

If these f'n morons are so upset with our ELECTED president, why don't they just go live in a place where they would be shot for saying such stupid things.

These moronic liberals are so affraid of our ELECTED president, that no lie or smelly garbage is out of bounds for them.

Their president? bent willie the pervert made fools of them and this great country, and they are to stupid to even know that.

[Willie Green]

I wonder if the far far right sounded this crazy during the Clinton years.

Only to somebody who had never heard Klintoon say anything.

[Norse]

When I see comments like that, it just convinces me more and more that this is not a fight between liberals and conservatives...it is more of a fight between good and evil. People like that are absolutely hateful and evil. Thank God there are people like you and others standing up to evil.

Our system doesn't guarantee victory over evil - it just gives the side of good a better chance of preventing their victory.

Fight on friend

[Athwart]

Wow. This is one of the most impressively stupid pieces of leftist lunacy I have ever read. However, even in the midst of this bizarre, drooling, lying rant is a piece of bright sunshine. The thought of leftists fleeing en masse to Europe, full of noisy pretended fear, is most pleasing. May I suggest that the author of this piece lead the migration?

[Paul Atreides]

Is Rall related to Michael Moore? If I did not know that they are two separate people, I would swear, by their rants, that they are the same person.

[Airborne Longhorn]

"Ted Rall is the author of "Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation of Afghanistan..."

It would appear that gas is Rall's primary resource...do you think he's a buddy of Clymer?

[DoughtyOne]

More theater of the absurd from the left.

It's hard to imagine a scenario that doesn't see this and other recent actions by the left,
as exhibiting anything other than desparation and futility in thier inner sanctums.

Try some pepto boys, it's only going to get worse.

[William McKinley]

LOL

[Cultural Jihad]

I only wish these leftists would for once make good on their threats to leave the country.

[Publius6961]

Dear admin...

Why do we allow this crap to remain posted?

[FractalSphere]

Habeas Corpus is being rapidly pushed under the rug in this country. See the articles about "only 50 or so" people being held for almost 2 years without any criminal charges being pressed and no access to lawyers or family (American citizens, no less!). The Patriot act I and II are truly orwellian if you take the time to really dig thru and read them. FEMA regulations have been in place for decades. Most media outlets gloss over the news so much (which is mostly spin nowadays anyway) it's hard to really know whats going on.
Which is why I like FreeRepublic so much. (BTW, I'm glad I'm getting response to this!) ;)
I wouldn't put it past GWB to attempt something like this. Think about it, if there WERE some sort of national emergency like 9/11 again, he would put military personnel into a domestic arena to manage the situation (bypassing Posse Comitatis in the process) and probably declare some sort of local curfews. Then VERY QUICKLY (because of real Americans resentment/protest of those actions) would come martial law. Once that's happned, forget the elections.

I'm not saying this is a likely scenario, but it's possible. Considering all that's happened over the last couple years we need to question our elected leaders more than ever and hold them to the standards and principles that this country was founded on.

[William McKinley]

Ted Rall is the author of "Gas War

He should know about fighting a gas war. He just let some rip here.

[DoughtyOne]

If they truly desire the European model as much as they profess they do, then why don't they just move there? Leave us with a free society and enslave themselves to the whims of the European Union.

[theFIRMbss]

>This is pure, unadulterated, lunacy

Yes, it is, but let
the Left have fun. Remember
our daily fright threads

that Clinton would not
go? That Clinton would declare
martial law to stay?

We had so many,
that -- I'll admit -- some got through
my tin foil jump suit...

[Militiaman7]

The guy who wrote this crap must be smoking some bada$$ weed.

This stuff is totally wacko.

[Jim Robinson]

The far right loves this stuff.