one major reason why Gingrich could get worse is to wage war with Iran over a scheme to retrieve the downed predator drone, as cheney suggested.

Obama ended the war in Iraq only to start a new one in the US.

hope and change will have new meaning:
thanks for changing our fundamental rights. i hope i get out of prison some day.

at this point i would actually consider voting for a republican, in the hope that things would become bad enough that in 4 years we might actually get a real progressive in office.

once again the"middle" has been pushed to the far right, and the far right is now just fucking insane.
and leaves the american people with the typical - pick-the-lesser-evil type of decision.

>> ^criticalthud:

hope and change will have new meaning:
thanks for changing our fundamental rights. i hope i get out of prison some day.
at this point i would actually consider voting for a republican, in the hope that things would become bad enough that in 4 years we might actually get a real progressive in office.
once again the"middle" has been pushed to the far right, and the far right is now just fucking insane.
and leaves the american people with the typical - pick-the-lesser-evil type of decision.


I think this has shown us right, left distinctions are meaningless; mere distractions created by our "betters" to create a impetus of infighting and faction. Eisenhower warned of this decades ago, and is now being fully realized. The republic stands on the brink, I am doubtful of a peaceful resolution and fully expect an American line of Cesar's to come about.

@GeeSussFreeK

yeah you're right - basically unlimited executive power.

and the language is kept purposefully unclear. In law (and speaking as an ex-lawyer) - where there is an ambiguity in language, those ambiguities are almost always construed in favor of powerful interests.

what is even harder is when the entire area of law is framed by an ambiguity - such as - a War on "Terror" - or "corporations are semi-people". Once there is an ambiguous foundation, it opens the door to all sorts of rampant and radical interpretations of that language that are inevitably against the interests of the people.