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December 19, 2009 - 8:47 pm - by Roger Kimball
Subotai Bahadur
2009-12-20 15:13:15

Mr. Kimball:
The United States is still a democracy, which means that its leaders still, despite everything, depend on the consent of the governed. and

# 39 CWA
There is an assumption that payback will come with the next election. How can we be sure that there will be an election. Rules apply only when all parties agree to abide by them. When the party in charge decides to change or ignore the rules, the game changes. The Constitution only applies if Obama allows it. If he doesn’t he just suspends it. Yes he can.

With all due respect to Mr. Kimball, the level of arrogance, the anomalous behavior since January [when is the last time that you have seen an entire party of politicians deliberately insult their constituents, and then continue to do it repeatedly?], and the abandonment of the rule of law [Thugs in the service of the Democrats beating people on the streets and threatening them at the polling places and getting a legal pass from Democrat officials. Add to this the dog that did not bark. When constituents are being beaten outside Town Halls, not one Democrat Congressman says a word decrying political violence against "his" people. Dead silence = approval.]; it means that they do not fear facing their voters any longer. It may be pure hubris, but not everyone is that bloody stupid. Out of hundreds of Democrats in Congress, some of which are in shaky districts; absent some real strong proof that they are immune, some will try to save their own skins.

No, I don’t fear a military coup by the administration. The military people I know or am related to, if they are thinking about politics, are reflecting on the Oath. I do not totally rule out an election cancellation, if and only if, a sufficient “national emergency” can be presented to cause a “temporary” postponement. There are two scenarios that do cause me concern. We have decades of voter and voter registration fraud by groups in service to the Democrats. They may believe that they have the election already stolen. Keep in mind that there will be no major media inquisition about election results, because outside of the few outlets like PJM; the media take their orders from the White House. The other option is the Zelayo option. If you remember, he had the vote totals already stored on his computers for release for the election to make him dictator. Same response by the media.

In short, the legitimacy and existence of future elections in this country are now reasonably subject to skepticism. And the concept of “consent of the governed” in the United States may be as applicable now as the Asian concept of the Mandate of Heaven. When we are governed by unconfirmed Czars operating at will, when laws ranging from commercial law to the US Civil Rights Act are ignored at will, and when our society is being reshaped by a small cabal of Democrats who write bills that no one has read before voting for them, and they are voted though on party line votes in the middle of the night; how much consent is involved?

Subotai Bahadur