Anticipating future, as I tried to do in my post, requires to develop tentative scenarios. Worst case scenarios are among them, and an important guide-line for action: they recommend caution, mainly.

As I wrote, I do not consider this worst case scenario as the likely one.

When you read my worst case scenario, and then compare the two answers to them, you see: it’s only smearing. Is that all what right wing-nuts are capable of?

Why did your Foundation Fathers put so much stress on Checks & Balances? Why were they so suspicious of the negative effect of war on the constition?

Governments are necessary - and I also hold, different to Libertarians, that strong government is necessary.
But strong government always harbours a danger, too. Power aims at more power. Power corrupts …
That is a general rule, true in politics, economy, private life. Right wing-nuts do not take this rule into account - why?

Why do people even listen to these nutcases?

We’ll have Rahm Emmanuel as Secretary of Defense and we’ll have Patrick Leahy as Secretary of State.

And only then, will I be able to put my feet up, heave a heavy sigh and and relish in the fact that me and my family are truly safe and sound.

(1) Possible, maybe even likely that the USA will start to air-raid Iran soon.

(2) Possible, maybe even likely then that Iran will retaliate with some success: f.e. stop oil transport through the Persian Gulf for quite some time.

(3) Very likely, then, the oil price will surge to heights that will desastrously affect global economy. The Dollar might collapse. The credit culture on which US economy builds might collapse, ensuing a very deep economical crisis in the USA. Millions of jobs lost, etc…

(4) Then, possibly, a state of emergency might be called in the USA. The “unitary executive” might claim dictatorial powers to uphold the security of the people and to meet the evil enemy abroad with radical escalation of the conflict domestically and internationally. Maybe Iran will be nuked.

(5) The whole world - mired in global crisis now, political and economical - may spiral out of control, and that might justify longterm dictatorial suppression of all dissent in the USA.

Rick Moran, that is only kind of worst case scenario. Unfortunately it is one that we have to take into account nowadays.

I do not think that it is the most likely scenario, though.

In one important respect I agree with your critique of the Kos diary:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (FDR)
This diary is fear-mongering. But any real danger demands coolness from us. Never act from fear!
The President’s fear-mongering concerning terrorism finds its equivalent in some liberal fear-mongering.

There are real dangers, and terrorism is one of them. But government’s fear-mongering to acquire dictatorial power is also a real danger. That is something you conveniently forget.

California Republican Duncan Hunter is leading a cash and organization-starved campaign that’s looking for a lucky break in New Hampshire. But any candidate that hasn’t captured the all-important media spotlight is going to have a difficult time brea…

At that time my wife pillow talked me how she thought is was such a crock of sh**.

With the next two perps she eliminated the doubt factor.

My wife said to me she didn’t want to have to look over her shoulder each day going to the store to shop for food to worry if the perp was drawing a bead on her or his son , wife , cousin or mother in law.

If she had to draw from all those potential shooters she said well the least I can do is take them down without malice because the other shooters will still be there.

She said the best I can hope for is that if I take them down, those around them will know from their past it was just a matter of time until someone did.

“Why Bush Will Be A Winner”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301709.html

Yup, it sure seemed hotter when I was a kid, too. I’d spend half an hour getting the big, clunky, noisy metal fan (with the grated cover any kid’s fingers could fit through — man, didn’t you just WANT to stick ‘em in there and see if it would hurt?) adjusted just so for maximum sleep coverage. You’d lay there and feel the sweat giving way to gravity on every inch of your skin. Yes, sir, it was HOT back in the day here in the Midwest. I mean does anyone even burn holes in fallen leaves with magnifying glasses and the sun anymore?

On the Kos whack-a-doodle:

What can one say? They don’t call it Bush Derangement Syndrome for nothing. What will they do with all that pent up lunacy when ‘08 comes and goes? What/who will be the next object of their delusions? I suppose with that kind of rabid insanity gnawing holes in their brains, they’ll have to start eating their own. Whatever, it’s going to be fun to watch.