DEA: Buying what you're not selling

[Ryan in Maine]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/11/dea-thinks-youre-drug-dealer-and-theyre-listening-in/?intcmp=trending

Among interesting tidbits in that opinion piece, and to tie it into current events, we could pay the interest on our debt with the Warondrugs budget.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html

[Tallpine]

Ain't ya proud to live in Uhmurrica where at least you know you're free?   

[Sergeant Bob]

I wonder when we'll just crown a king and do away with all this "Constitution" nonsense?

[Ryan in Maine]

We're watching it happen right now. Aren't we? 

[Gowen]

I wonder when we'll just crown a king and do away with all this "Constitution" nonsense?

You think Berry is going to go away peaceably and do you think the DNC will have a problem with it?

[Bigjake]

You think Berry is going to go away peaceably and do you think the DNC will have a problem with it?

They can't possibly be THAT stupid.

[lupinus]

They can't possibly be THAT stupid.

You really willing to bet on that?

[cordex]

You really willing to bet on that?

Yes. Obama has done and will do many terrible things but he isn't going to try to become king/emperor/Cesar.

[Tallpine]

Yes. Obama has done and will do many terrible things but he isn't going to try to become king/emperor/Cesar.

I'm not so sure ... I think his narcissistic ego is bigger than his ears 

[Ryan in Maine]

Yes. Obama has done and will do many terrible things but he isn't going to try to become king/emperor/Cesar.

Hasn't he already expressed interest in serving beyond two terms? Hasn't he already gathered a dedicated group of followers who support it? Sounds familiar to me.

[AJ Dual]

He's too lazy.

He's wanted the gig of ex-President more badly than any man to hold the office to date. Much more time for golf.

[Bigjake]

Yes. Obama has done and will do many terrible things but he isn't going to try to become king/emperor/Cesar.

What he said. 

Even if Obama were that deluded,  the Dems aren't suicidal.

[cordex]

Hasn't he already expressed interest in serving beyond two terms? Hasn't he already gathered a dedicated group of followers who support it? Sounds familiar to me.

People said the same sort if thing about G. W. Bush.

Obama won't do it - not out of the goodness of his heart but because he could never swing that kind of thing. He won't get the Constitution changed with the current legislative makeup, and because he just doesn't have the popular support he'd need to do it either legally or illegally.

My concern is that the Annointed One status will pass on to someone trying to ride his coattails.

[Tallpine]

Someone noted that the recent firings of top level military brass might be some sort of a purge ...   

 

[AZRedhawk44]

There's no need to rock the boat that hard (Obama 3rd term).  The powers that put Obama in place are just as well served with another anointed Keynesian statist, doesn't really matter if it's a D or an R.

If a 3rd party starts to truly rise (that is not just another head of the current hydra), or secession becomes a common element of dinner table and water cooler conversation, then TPTB will start implementing more incumbent protectionism, up to and including the POTUS.

[Balog]

Obama is going to try to become Emperor in the same way that gun forum loudmouths are going to start a violent secessionist revolution ie not at all.

[Tallpine]

There's no need to rock the boat that hard (Obama 3rd term).  The powers that put Obama in place are just as well served with another anointed Keynesian statist, doesn't really matter if it's a D or an R.

You could be right.  Of course, each new president is worse than the last one 

[Balog]

I shudder to think what the GOP drone who replaces Obama will be able to push through with the support of R's voting "Yes!" because they're the same party. At least with Obama and the Congress at odds the R's pretend to fight instead of rolling over on every bit of police state / "compassionate conservative" crap that Dubya pushed through.

[Tallpine]

I shudder to think what the GOP drone who replaces Obama will be able to push through with the support of R's voting "Yes!" because they're the same party. At least with Obama and the Congress at odds the R's pretend to fight instead of rolling over on every bit of police state / "compassionate conservative" crap that Dubya pushed through.

You're assuming a lot 

 

[Balog]

You know, since Obama got re-elected I've lost any faith in my ability to predict the political future. He was so corrupt and incompetent I just couldn't believe people would vote for him again, no matter how big a tool Romney was.

Maybe Hillary really will win 2016. Maybe the D's will find some other "clean articulate black man" (to quote suspected pederast Harry Reid) with no experience and close ties to domestic terrorists they can run. Maybe the GOP will put forward someone else so abhorrent to their base it'll kill voter participation again. There was a time I wouldn't have believed that possible. That time ended with the Second Coming Term of the progressives' lord and savior.

[HankB]

. . . Maybe Hillary really will win 2016 . . .

BHO is the only POTUS I could imagine who would make Hillary look like an IMPROVEMENT. (At least she's merely an amoral opportunist with whom I have little or no common ground, unlike BHO whose governance every day looks to be more overtly motivated by malicious intent towards this country, it's traditions, and its people.)

[Gowen]

I don't think she will get the dnc nod, she isn't socialist enough.  She and Billy are corrupt and like to use businesses for money, the current dnc leadership wants to destroy businesses.  Well, small businesses in favor of large corps.