In all its incandescent lunacy and glory.

This is sedition (not to mention a profound misunderstanding of the Constitution and the basis of this country's government). But then, how would an idiotic Brit visiting here be expected to know? No need to arrest him. Just deport him.

Better yet, ridicule him, as he so richly deserves. I just wish that it would have any effect on such a moron.

He was a loud grade Z pundit back in the Lewinsky days; so he fits in perfectly at the Huffington Post; along with the Olbermann-like Jim Lampley; self indulgent screenwriters Nora Ephron & Pete
(the name escapes me right now).

Well, I do call it the 'Glue Huffers Post' for a reason.

Apparently for an outstandingly excellent reason at that. They seem hell bent on vindicating me.

...uh...where do you even start to dis-assemble crazy ideas like that...

A military coup? These people are scarier than I thought.

And the commenters over there go the extra mile. For example, a Sam Thorton says:

The extra-Constitutional powers granted to President Bush by Congress since 9/11, coupled with the even more sweeping powers the President has granted to himself through Executive Order, have effectively made the President an absolute dictator who operates without reference to either the Federal courts or the Congress.

It's amazing that Bush still allows us to have elections and stuff, or to say what we think. Must be part of the diabolical plan to confuse into thinking we aren't under an absolute dictatorship.

The amazing part is:

Ok, so (hypothetically) we have a coup.

What are the chances that a _military_ coup is going to, um, lead to people that the leftists support? Do they expect Private Beauchamp to carry this out successfully? Are they expecting extensive and competent support from our neighbors Canada and Mexico?

And these people are the Brainy Class.

Whenever something like this comes along I always think of two things:

1) The late opera-comedienne Anna Russell intoning her catch phrase, "I'm not making this up, you know!"

2) Paul Krassner's observation that reality has gotten so surrealistic that he always stops and flaps his arms when he sees or hears something that seems too weird to be real and then accepts it as reality if he doesn't rise into the air.

If Lewis was actually in the service, I guess you could call this worthy of a Nobel Prize for barracks lawyering.

As others have noted elsewhere, this is a great example of how facist the left really is. Couple this with Kos's purges and Dean's threat to disenfranchise Florida voters; and the "progressives" are showing why they will never control a free and open society. They are the antithesis to a liberal democrarcy.

Paul Krassner's observation that reality has gotten so surrealistic...

And he certainly did his share to make it so.

BTW - Is it you I once referred to as Alan Alda?

Hmmm. Anybody notice that Anonymous hasn't commented once on this thread?

Hmmm... a military coup to pull out GWB? Deep as
my skepticism of his leadership runs, wouldn't
that be a step in exactly the wrong direction?
Talk about "out of the frying pan into the fire"
scenarios...

-dave w

And he certainly did his share to make it so.

Yes, he did. He may have been regretting that just a bit in his later years.

BTW - Is it you I once referred to as Alan Alda?

Not that I can recall. Personally, I think I more resemble Sir Derek Jacobi. We're both bearded and beefier than Mr. Alda.

Hmmm, glancing through the comments, I see that Martin Lewis often replies. Most of the replies are of the form, "I'm not advocating X because that would be stupid and illegal, but General Pace should do X in an impossibly non-stupid and legal manner in order to 'save his nation'." He does this over and over again. Smacks of insincerity to me. I guess he thinks this sort of trolling will help his pageviews or something.

Must be part of the diabolical plan to confuse into thinking we aren't under an absolute dictatorship.