The Unitary King George - Homeland Security Presidential Directive: an Unconstitutional Bombshell...

'As the nation focused on whether Congress would exercise its constitutional duty to cut funding for the war, Bush quietly issued an unconstitutional bombshell that went virtually unnoticed by the corporate media.

The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007, would place all governmental power in the hands of the President and effectively abolish the checks and balances in the Constitution.

If a "catastrophic emergency" - which could include a terrorist attack or a natural disaster - occurs, Bush's new directive says: "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government."

What about the other two co-equal branches of government? The directive throws them a bone by speaking of a "cooperative effort" among the three branches, "coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers." The Vice-President would help to implement the plans.

"Comity," however, means courtesy, and the President would decide what kind of respect for the other two branches of government would be "proper." This Presidential Directive is a blatant power grab by Bush to institutionalize "the unitary executive."

A seemingly innocuous phrase, the unitary executive theory actually represents a radical, ultra rightwing interpretation of the powers of the presidency. Championed by the conservative Federalist Society, the unitary executive doctrine gathers all power in the hands of the President and insulates him from any oversight by the congressional or judicial branches.

In a November 2000 speech to the Federalist Society, then Judge Samuel Alito said the Constitution "makes the president the head of the executive branch, but it does more than that. The president has not just some executive powers, but the executive power -- the whole thing."

These "unitarians" claim that all federal agencies, even those constitutionally created by Congress, are beholden to the Chief Executive, that is, the President. This means that Bush could disband agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Reserve Board, etc., if they weren't to his liking.'

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5853

For what length of time can the Prez "rule" after declaring this?
I would hope that would be written somewhere and would be a maximum of 1 year.
This way the prez couldn't just restructure our system.

stone, but into our sad little hemp constitution

Happy lurking

'puke president, be damned our Republic and Constitution, but would shrilly scream to high heaven incessantly were a Dem president to pull this shit.

while having their heads stuck firmly up their ass in the course of performing all-matters-unitarily-wrong is a fashion statement to be praised & emulated

in '81 and continued by Bush I and Bush II pushing the national debt upward from about $1T to almost $9T, come to full fruition (25%-35% loss in value of dollar under Bush II alone), maybe the tens of millions of dumb-ass yokels who still support the 'puke policies and wars but are being irreparably harmed will then see their folly. If couldn't happen to a more well-deserving bunch of dumb-ass yokels, but the rest of us will have beeen irreparably harmed too.

"But we were only being good Americans, Your Honor!!" said from within crocodile tears to be sure but you are correct, sadly, "the rest of us will have been irreparably harmed too" in the process of our learning that not every nazi wears jack boots in public any longer