NYBob, your posts are almost always power-packed with information. I agree that this is a likely scenario....
A few small incidents may occur just to rattle Congress’
cage and chase a few wavering Republicans back into
the neocon fold.
The main event will most likely come a little over a year
from now, between August and October–some kind of
gas attack on the New York subways or something even worse,
terrible enough and close enough to November to give Bush
and the neocons an excuse to invoke his multitude of
new emergency powers, cancel the elections or postpone
them indefinitely, and then find some excuse -
to stay in power permanently.