Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Michael Kurland, The Last President, 1980: alternate Watergate, "Deep Throat" found out and murdered, reporter driven to suicide, and finally the president or one of his top aides gets too fed up with Congress and it's tac-nuke time....
Yeah, well, I did include a similar implication in my original text (a purge of hostile Congressfolk during that sixty days), but I took it out for being just a hair too paranoid and snarky.
Quote:Then again, I'm sure it won't be anyone who could conceiveably retaliate, or anyone that could conceiveably have a friend retaliate in their favour, that gets nuked. That's how bullies work.Which is why I asked who ordnance thought was going to nuke D.C.-----
I finally quit drinking for good. Now I drink for EVIL!
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.