posted on Mar, 6 2012 @ 01:17 PM
I started a thread on this some time ago, but there was a striking pattern of members of the House and the Senate in the US either "retiring",
choosing "not to run for re-election" or being "forced out" of their seats. Many of these individuals were either fairly young and/or fairly well
positioned and powerful in certain committees. Now, my first thought is that they knew of something being up, and like the dude in Deep Impact
packing his boat up with Ensure and bugging his family out, they were heading for the hills. But another thought occurred to me as well... it's
fairly common-knowledge (or at least to those of us on this site) that the US has a very organized plan in place for a "shadow government" to step
in and take control in times of national emergency or national disaster. I guess if you know the disaster is coming, and inevitable, it would make a
certain level of sense to fully staff up and get things moving now. If so, the shadow Legislative Branch is probably fully operational at this point
and staffing up with a good chunk of these folks who know that the next government year in the US is probably a sham. Probably why no one really
blinked an eye allowing all these new freshmen Tea Party folks in the door, nor did anyone stop the flame fanning of "vote out the incumbants" that
ran through the 2010 election year... in fact, it was probably encouraged.