Correct me if I'm wrong; didn't, in May 2008, an executive order was signed that would allow

[Deja Q]

the President to take over all 3 branches of government in the event of an emergency; from which there were months' worth of tinfoil theories about Bush actually putting it into place?

Assuming I'm remembering all that correctly, which I doubt I am, what if:

Obama would use it if the same congressional bullshit keeps happening in government; both sides fighting like toddlers in a sandbox and throwing sand in each others' faces?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Then he would be a tyrant and would be removed by process or force.

Next question?

Seriously... you are talking about establishing a dictatorship in response to what you perceive as ineffective legislative process?

I thought I'd heard it all, but it seems I hadn't.

[dbonds]

2. Remember FDR did something similar, he asked for extraordinary powers

That worked out well.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Executive Order 5-4 something?

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Executive Order 12919. I looked it up on Google.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Establishing_martial_law_in_the_United_States