Obama dismantles Bush/Cheney shadow government plan… just kidding
Remember when many Bush/Cheney critics went apoplectic when they learned about Bush/Cheney’s dark, mysterious, slithering-under-the-floorboards “shadow government” plans? Remember when liberals expelled their latte in a fine mist at the fact that all this power was being concentrated in the White House? Here’s how that’s being addressed with Obama in charge:
The White House has taken on a wider role in forming a backup government in case a crisis forces officials to leave Washington.
(One man’s crisis is another man’s nirvana, but I digress…)
Government officials familiar with the plans tell The New York Times that the initiative began during the final months of the Bush administration, and the Obama administration decided to leave it in place.
The White House Military Office will now lead the way in installing a “shadow government” should officials have to leave the capital because of a terrorist strike or some other catastrophe. The contingency plans include moving those officials to Mount Weather, Va. and running backup computer systems.
I don’t know what the exact future holds if Washington is attacked with nukes or incapacitated due to a natural disaster — such as a tsunami or a floor collapse at a strip club — but I do know that it’ll probably involve some kick-butt 747 fly-by photo-ops over the damage.
What promised to be the “most transparent administration in history” is already operating in the shadows, so I don’t even want to know how shadowy the shadow version might be.
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Michelle you crack me up…
Only the shadow knows.
and Odopey hasn’t a clue.
#1 doug is guesting……
That’s Doug. We have a guest today.
Never has, never will.
Off topic, but could this be the same property group that stopped the Tea Party in Atlanta?
I shall make it my patriotic duty to visit all of DC’s strip clubs to make sure they are uh….up to code.
No no. You don’t have to thank me. We all have a role to play in our nation’s security. I do, however, take donations. A few folded up ones or maybe a fiver would be nice.
Those shadow government plans and secret sites have been around for at least a couple of decades. The ironic thing is, as a junior Senator from Illinois, Obama wouldn’t have been able to get the security clearance neccessary to know the details.
Deposited in the usual place along your G-string?
Yes, it is. Freedom of speech is being destroyed as we speak.
Umm….
Security is not my area of expertise…but, why would the area to which officials will be moved, in the event of a terrorist strike, be made public?
Is it a good idea to tell terrorists where you’ll be going?
Is it being done as a feint?
Would terrorists actually go for the “fake”; i.e., be fooled into attacking the publicized, phony place?
Are terrorists that predictably stupid?
Obviously never been to a DC strip club. They are all nude. The girls wear garters.
This is the other secret undisclosed location?
How did I know that you would know that, Chap???
I knew you were a member of the Garter Administration.
Is that still a “strip” club?
You ain’t getting none of my hard earned money until I see your pole dancing routine! Here I picked a song for you.
“Shades of night are falling and I’m lonely
Standing on the corner feeling blue
Sweethearts out for fun
Pass me one by one
Guess I’ll wind up like I always do
With only
Me and my shadow
Strolling down the avenue
Me and my shadow
Not a soul to tell our troubles to
But when it’s twelve a clock
We climb the stair
We never knock
‘Cause nobody’s there
Just me and my shadow
All alone and feeling blue
And when it’s twelve a clock
We climb the stair
We never knock
‘Cause nobody’s there
Just me and my shadow
All alone and feeling blue”
I didn’t know you were a girl. Sorry. In that case I suppose you could just stuff them where the sun doesn’t shine….
Was Michelle Obama and her Mother on that plane during the fly-by?
Multiple sites, multiple contingencies.
It’s a shell game.
“The contingency plans”
Obama is more then welcome at my house. I have a computer and will glad to tell him regularly that while it may not look like it he is in fact running a shadow government. Its so shadowy it appears he is doing nothing but even that is for his protection.
Shhhh, its a “shadow” government Mr. Obama.
Just the term ‘shadow government’ makes my skin crawl/itch/twitch/or break out in hives. Knowing ‘Bambi’s way with words I’m sure he/Rahm/Gibbs/or Chris Matthews can come up with something way more appropriate.
Jeesh, didn’t take you guys long to resort to nekked girls and climbing stairs cause you’re all alone and feeling blue.
I fail to see why people are getting chuckles over these kinds of developments: e.g. “isn’t it ironic that just a few months ago … etc.” and that kind of smug rubbish.
* America is the source of all the world’s evils.
* National security is not an Obama/Democrat Party concept.
* All of these measures therefore will be maintained and directed solely against the American people.
Golly gee, I wonder how this apparatus will be used and what future events might necessitate its use. Hmmmmmm . . .
I mean this is , like, different cuz Bush was all icky and evil and stuff and Obama is really cool and is for hope and change making a difference and stuff like that. Oops,I just fell in a manhole while texting. Peace out.
“I fail to see why people are getting chuckles over these kinds of developments.”
Only the Shadow knows…..
Yes, but now they are planning for the threat to be from those Evil Vast Right Wing Conspiricy folks…
You know, those evil minions who cling bitterly to their Founding documents?
“I wonder how this apparatus will be used”
Pretty sure if he loses a re-election bid it’ll be a crisis invoking a shadow government.
Did VP Biden the source of the information in the article??
I see that the new administration managed to retain the treason times inside source.
BARACK OBAMA: …When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them.
RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the
Patriot ActPorkulus. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after9/11inauguration that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.Obama, you speak of thyself.
This is the return to the way things were during the Cold War. The Military Office also had an extensive succession list if the nuclear war that never came arrived and killed most Federal officials. Perhaps they’ll re-start the SAC under Cheyenne Mountain, re-start the Congressional shelter at the Greenbrier Resort and the POTUS one under Camp David.
FEMA could be replaced with a new civil defense command and no one would complain.
chsw
I think this administration is much more mundane. A 55 gallon drum of botox submerged off a pier in San Fran, a bicycle and a Google Map of an escape route from St. Louis to East St. Louis for the Pizza Guy, and an abandoned shopping cart full of Momjeans under an overpass in Virginia will get these guys through…
This has always been the case. During the State of the Union Address all but one Cabinebt Sec is in attendance. Why? Should the unthinkable happen, there is someone in charge.
Moreover, there are safe rooms, bunkers if you will, in the WH and at the VP residence. Yep, there are safe places to conduct the business of Government.
Much ado about nothing.
Wait a minute. Isn’t “shadow government” usually used in a negative way? I mean like for some nefarious purpose? Like “Manchurian Candidate” … oh, nevermind.
Agreed.
Understood.
But why the need to mention even the one?
Why not just shut up and let the enemy guess about every possibility, instead of every possibility minus one?
But, I understand your (good) point.
Lord, I HATE THOSE PEOPLE.
*PSRK spouting her racist remark for the afternoon and getting some ice cream with which to get the vile taste out her mouth from the “O”s passing her lips*
Mt Weather, VA is not the place I would want to be during the next terrorist attack. Even if they were only misdirecting the enemy, I wouldn’t want to be there.
Hopefully, only Joe Biden will be there because they don’t want him participating in any government when its under attack. Shadow or otherwise.
In the military we have rally points in case things fall apart on movements.One would hope the Govt had back up plans.With this Woodstock bunch in charge you wonder if they have any clue about this stuff.
“most transparent administration in history”… “most ethical congress ever”…
Perhaps “most” has some heretofore unknown definition. What do the Democrats know that I don’t?
“Garter Administration”… groan… :-]
You keep forgetting. It’s ok only when Liberals do it.
Hey, all you pikers!
We’re doing a marathon on the thread for “Don’t Taze Me Bro’” on previous entry page.
Trying to hit 3,000 messages in a thread.
You have nothing better to do, right? LOL