Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?

[proud2BlibKansan]

by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
July 30, 2007

It is time to think about the "unthinkable."

The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.

The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.

But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.

The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them.

more . . . http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2722

[Captain Hilts]

1. I think I need to put a collander on my head before I read this. nt

[LeftHander]

6. Pull hard and make brainghetti....nt

[Tom Joad]

2. Why? there are a dozen people competing to continue Bush policies.

and they ain't all on the Republican side, either.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Very true

[onehandle]

3. No. nt

[bryant69]

4. I don't know - the Republicans are sure acting like the expect the election

to be held.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[madokie]

7. sure the candidates would but they are not privey to bush* brainfarts

so

[bryant69]

8. Well, I know my Republican Masters haven't mentioned it

But then again, I'm not sure they really trust me.

If President Bush cancels the 2008 elections, he would also have to dismiss Congress, and some of the Judiciary, I would think. Seems like a big step.

Bryant

[madokie]

13. hasn't he pretty much given himself the authority to do that though

and of course your re:puke: masters haven't mentioned it, they don't or wouldn't know it now would they if the smirk didn't tell them. :shrug:

[bryant69]

14. There is a sequence of events that would happen first i suppose

First another 9/11 (assuming you believe the MIHOP/LIHOP fairytale).

Then dismissal of Congress

Then canceling election.

Then Bush Dictatorship. Probably for a long time.

If I were laying odds (since I don't believe in MIHOP/LIHOP), I would place this at pretty long odds.

Bryant

[BootinUp]

9. Even the dodo's would rebel, therefore this is highly unlikely. n/t

[Individualist]

10. With the cabal in control, anything is possible.

[Crabby Appleton]

11. Not exactly, Jeb Bush will win as a write in candidate nt

[NanceGreggs]

12. Unthinkable?

More like undo-able.

[porphyrian]

15. A lot can happen between now and then, so who can say?

It's probably not a bad idea to entertain the possibility, though.

[onenote]

16. the short answer to your question: No.

I have a standing offer of a wager: you donate $10 to DU if elections are held, I donate $100 if they're not.

[qdemn7]

17. Absolutely!!

Events are on just that track!

In other news, everyone in America is also is scheduled to receive their barcode "Mark" on their right hand. This will replace all other forms of ID. This begins January 1,2009. :sarcasm:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. They'll make a deal under the table to leave quietly

[conspirator]

19. The elite doesn't need to cancel any elections. The elections are a good distraction for the masses

why cancel elections when you can just buy whoever is elected, rep or dem?
They own the banks, they print the money, they own us.

[GOTV]

20. Let me get my prediction in now...... I think the answer is 'no' n/t

[HamdenRice]

21. For those who think this outlandish, some recent history: 2004

For those of you who cannot believe the Bush administration would cancel the 2008 election, you might think back to 2004.

The Bush administration initiated internal discussions about cancelling or postponing the 2004 election in the event of a "terrorism" event back in the late spring/early summer of 2004. DeForest Soaries Jr., the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, wrote to the Department of Homeland Security complaining that there was no planning in place for the president to be able to cancel or postpone the 2004 election in the event of a terrorist attack.

Meanwhile, one or more congressional Republicans, tasked the Congressional Research Service to write a report on "Executive Branch Power to Postpone Elections," which was completed in mid July 2004, and suggested that Congress, with its Republican majority, could give the president the power to cancel or postpone the 2004 elections in the wake of a terrorist attack.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32471.pdf

Many CRS reports are kept secret, but oddly this CRS report appears to have first been "leaked" to the public through a State Department website.

http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/34782.htm

Both actions set off a firestorm of criticism and debate in the blogosphere. Eventually the mainstream media addressed the issue, and the New York Times editorial page officially pronounced the cancellation of the 2004 election "a bad idea, rejected."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/17/opinion/17SAT1.html?ex=1247803200&en=63a96642eef51094&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

If you believe that these discussions could not possibly be taking place again -- despite the fact that the stakes are much higher, that much more of the criminality of the Bush administration has been revealed since 2004, leaving them more prone to prosecution after they leave office, and that the administration has articulated since 2004 a much more radical interpretation of its own powers -- then you are being naive to say the least.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Thank you

[Karenina]

23. HALLO!!!

:hi::loveya::hi:

[theboss]

24. Remember when Bill Clinton was going to do this in 2000?

Jim Quinn told me all about it.

Those were good times.

Let's not be idiots please.