If the president hadn't already invaded a country, selectively suspended due process, underhandedly engaged in torture, and generally pushed at the edges of the constitution in an attempt to expand executive power, then this would seem like normal document.

Actually, its existence answers the question raised by the author - who would coordinate the reinstitution of the electoral process in the event of catastrophe? The answer, regrettable only by the merit of the administration currently in power, is the President.

On paper this does make sense. The executive branch should be the branch to coordinate such a recovery, because constitutionally, the executive branch is the only branch that can actively "coordinate" anything. If you imagine such an emergency unfolding under say, Eisenhower, Clinton, or maybe even Reagan, it doesn't sound so gloomy. It sounds like a plan - the only force in the country capable of stepping up does so. Who else?

The picture is only scary because of who el presidente is currently.

Very good point. This administration has a pattern of proposing something that sounds reasonable or innocuous on the surface, if the president were a normal person, but turns out to be a tool for criminality and subversion in the hands of a criminal administration. They're very sneaky.

Actually, it's who the VICE President is that makes this document especially spooky.

Did you happen to catch the latest Frontline episode? The whole thing gave me shivers down my spine. And I am not typically a conspiracy theorist.

Gosh,what part of we want to kill all the people that don't believe like us,and then get our 72 virgins don't you undestand ?????????? We can't torture those poor people we would be almost like them...... so let them kill as many of " US" real Americans as they want ?? I guess all the other attacks on Americans and other people around the world were set up by Bush, just like 9-11 ????

I still pray for "you" kind of people and hope that some day you will see the light !!!!!!!!