As distressed as I am to hear that you have become this upset at the prospect of a President exceeding his authority as defined by the Constitution, I feel it incumbent on me to remind you of two small points:
1) This is not the first time this has happened, nor (probably) will it be the last. Every President since Washington has fought for this kind of authority, and only in the rarest and most benign forms has it remained a prerogative of the Executive Branch as we know it today. Lincoln's policy during the Civil War was very similar, as was FDR's during WWII and Bush's during the post-911 crisis. It was my understanding that you approved of this sort of temporary measure to expand the authority of the Chief Executive in times of crisis and/or war... is this not the case anymore? As long as the final determination to end the authority rests with Congress (as it always does, and does again in this case) and as long as the Judicial Branch retains the authority to supersede this extension of Executive power... how is this different?
Frankly, it isn't YOU that I expected to have kittens over this... it was the radical Obamaniacs that elected him in the first place that are REALLY going to freak out. He ran (as you pointed out) 100% against this sort of executive authority even being granted, let alone exercised so they should find themselves sleepless and anxiety-ridden until it is repealed or another, more "liberal" President is sworn in.
2) In regards to your hyperbole, "it only takes one man to cross the Rubicon and your Republic is GONE, forever" I can't let this slip by...
It wasn't ONE man crossing that muddy little creek that ended the Republic... it was the 18,000 battle-hardened Legionaries he had following him, and the 20,000 more that were still on the way from Gaul. THAT was what ended the Republic... that and four years of bloody and destructive warfare that raged across the entire face of Europe and the Mediterranean once the river was waded.
We aren't there yet, my friend... we still have time.
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By the way, the title to this post (Iacta alea est) is Latin for "the die is cast", meaning the thing is done, and cannot be undone.
For those that are very savvy, some might think the quote is actually "Alea iacta est" and that would be equally accurate, but Suetonious, who made the original quote in the Second Century, used "vulgate" grammar and mine is the correct phrasing.
So there.
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