Reply #53: It absolutely will not happen. [View All]

Just like the Bush ponzi scheme on Social Security will not happen. With that single mention of amending Posse Comitatus, legions of opposition from the entire political spectrum immediately jumped foursquare in his shit. No one wants it amended. Not Congress. Not the voters. Hell, not even the military.

Check this out in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3377358

In the Toledo Blade, Marilou Johanek noted: "But someone with even half a brain in the Bush circle of cherished cronies needs to nix a slippery suggestion by the commander in chief that the military should take a greater role in responding to homeland disasters. The very idea that the Pentagon would expand its job description from fighting wars to resolving any homeland crises from natural disasters to man-made ones should make the skin crawl on every freedom-loving American."

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/COLUMNIST13/510140318/-1/NEWS11

A Google Search reveals no actual changes being proposed in Congress.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Posse+Comitatus+Act&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=0

I don't think he'll even manage to snag making his tax giveaways permanent, much less something as controversial as this.

:D