re: #94 EPR-radar

My hope is that Obama and the Democrats take a hard line in negotiations. (e.g., blowing off any future debt ceiling vote nonsense with a 1 line executive order referring to the 16th amendment)

Previous O/Dem proposals have often been grossly tilted in favor of the Republicans, but were rejected anyway. Such proposals should not happen again, because they might be accepted.

Giving the president the power to borrow as much he wants just by executive order? No, thanks. I’d sooner send the government over the fiscal cliff than do that. Better Congress vote to disband brigades and mothball ships than to yield its power in such a fashion. Yea, better a crippled government than an executive so permanently empowered.