re: #265 bolivar

You mean the messiah’s mentor and guy to emulate?

Yes, there’s more, too:

It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.

But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

So the question arises: Is Obama talking down the market, and kicking down the economy with his disastrous stimulus bill, so that a national emergency of sufficient proportions shall emerge which will “obligate” him to asking Congress for “broad Executive power”? And will the Democratic controlled Congress will give to him?