I caught myself thinking about this for the umpteenth time today as I rode home from work. What's the worst that could happen before the election?...
I keep coming up with the same answer; There is no election.
Wait, don't be crazy! you say. There is no way that the election does not take place, you say. Well, I hope you're right, but I have some concerns.
They all center around the whole situation going on right now between Iran and Israel. Unfortunately, Syria is involved in a bit of a mess, so people are distracted and not paying as much attention to what is going on in the area as they should be.
Israel is in a bit of a pickle. If President Obama is reelected in November, chances are he will down grade US relations and support of Israel. Recent events in the US have shown that this is a very real possibility. The POTUS has not been very cordial toward our number one ally in the region since he took office. He has called on Israel to tone down their rhetoric, called for them to rename their capital, called for them to move their borders back to 1967 lines, and he has made no move to block or condemn Iran's military movements into the Mediterranean Sea. He has also made no effort to contradict or condemn the statements made by by Iran's two most powerful leaders when they threatened to destroy Israel. He has also done little to use US influence and leverage to limit the ability of Iran to access powerful international bodies such as the UN. Add to that the obvious efforts of the DNC to erase an unpopular decision by the party of the POTUS to eliminate our recognition of Jerusalem as the true capital of the tiny democracy and you have a rather bleak picture painted for Israel should "four more years" actually happens.
Thus Israel knows if it wants to remove the nuclear threat of Iran from their future they have to act before the first week of November. Taking unilateral action against Iran between now and then affords at least the possibility that the US will honor standing agreements to assist them in the event of conflict with an Arab-State neighbor. Wait till after the election, and there will be no guarantee that Obama will not use an executive order to circumvent the enforcement of any treaties the US has with Israel for the protection of this long time ally. I know that is a stretch, but just consider, would it really be out of character for him to do so?
Part three involves what happens then... after Israel strikes Iran and the whole blooming area erupts in a blaze of gunfire and high altitude gas dispersion bombs. The whole house of cards starts coming apart. Fuel supplies from the Middle East (you don't really think the Arab Emirates and the Saudis will side with the US and Israel or stay neutral, do you?) get jammed up. An emergency ramp up of US military forces occurs (you thought the Gulf War call up was big). International and interstate travel becomes more difficult, expensive and less available (due to restrictions implemented by way of the Dept. of Homeland Security; you do still remember the first couple of weeks after 9/11, don't you?That was before the DofHS & the TSA). Free access to the internet communications is eliminated or restricted by the Feds through the implementation of Executive order 13618 (signed just over 60 days ago, in 30 more it becomes law unless the Congress acts to block it) which gives the Feds the ability to use a national emergency to restrict our 1st amendment rights. (See it Here.) You get the picture yet?
Suddenly out of nowhere the hammer falls... a state of emergency is declared by the POTUS and the use of one of the Insurrection Acts, a National Emergencies Act (Scroll to the United States), or the good old Homeland Security Act ( read this for a couple of paragraphs, then click on the Critical Infrastructure Protection provision) is leveraged to basically put us in a state of Martial Law. Dependence on the government is now heightened and the TSA and local authorities have everything pretty well locked down. Basic supplies (food, fuel, information) are at a high-cost low-availability level.
We are then graced by his POTUS-ness with a dramatic, important, and historic speech; all the available news services are locked into carrying the news of change that is about to take place. We hear that in the situation we find ourselves, any change in the executive branch would be seen as a sign of weakness to those who would seek to do us harm. We are told that in the best interests of our grand and glorious republic, there comes a time when, for the common good of the people, we must put aside some of our normal privileges. He goes on to announce that for the foreseeable future, (according to the Insurrection Act, the executive branch need only report to the congress every 16 days, until the threat to national security is, as determined by said executive branch, gone) he is implementing a series of executive orders to get us safely through this period. All elections will of course be postponed as holding them would have a detrimental draining effect on available fiscal resources. (The news services all trumpet what a brave and unselfish leader he is; the ones who say otherwise are locked down by the TSA and DeptofHS.)
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but there it is. What's the ONE way the POTUS can guarantee he stays in power? If there is no election. He is not a native born American ( forget the forged birth certificate, his own college history shows that he was classified as a foreign student), therefore every act and law he has signed is by definition null and void. Every decision by every judge he has appointed is void. The purpose of his presidency has been and will always be to disrupt and destroy the power and influence of this sovereign nation. So if he has been willing to play the game as such this far, would my senario be out of the realm of possibilities? (Any armed or outward public outcry would be considered acts of civil unrest and be quickly and quietly put down under the previously mentioned executive orders.)
