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What all this comes down to is that for the congressional dream of “Arroyo Forever” to become a reality, (1) three-fourths of all the combined majority of House and Senate must vote for it, (2) the Senate must supinely do nothing, (3) the Supreme Court must come in as an indispensable accomplice, and (4) should hell break loose in the streets, the military must be willing to mow down the sovereign people.
I may be thoroughly naïve, but in my view it is very difficult for all of these elements to converge. (1) The House may not be able to muster the desired majority. There still are honorable men and women among them. (2) The senators as one, we are told, will fight back. (3) I think better of the Supreme Court justices than to see them as complicit in treason. (4) The military showed in 1986 that it knows which direction to take when the chips are down.
