Be very afraid!

Newsweek has this story that sheds light on plans that Homeland Security is drafting to enact legislation to permit the postponement of national elections in the event of a terrorist attack.

Talk about your slippery slope! Conspiracy theories aside, this is something that simply should not be permitted to pass under any circumstance.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution reads:

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

Thus, it seems that only Congress (U.S. House and Senate) can establish the date of the election.

Congress mistakenly ceded its authority to declare war against Iraq to an administration that was predisposed to wage an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation based on faulty (if not deliberately cooked) intelligence. It is imperative that Congress not make a similar mistake in ceding its authority to choose the date of elections. We may never see another.

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.