Republicans need 60 votes in the Senate to overturn ObamaCare -- ain't gonna happen. Control of the Senate may switch to the Republicans after the Nov elections, but no way in hell will that amount to 60 votes to overturn.

Because the US Constitution has no "recall" provision. The closest you can get is impeachment, then removal from office.

Big-time dreaming. No assumptions on my part -- however, one BIG assumption on your part -- that being an actual customer in the domestic "drone" surveillance business. There is no customer in that business, therefore no profit incentive, therefore no develpment and production, therefore a huge pipedream. Must have watched 24 one too many times.

In addition, in order for the FAA to change air corridor routes from unrestricted airspace to Class-C or Class-D airspace, Congressional approval is required, as well as pre-coordination by every Int'l Airport Authority and every municpal airport board in the US that is affected. Lastly, changing the FAA NOTAMs requires state-by-state approval. It ain't beanbag.

Oh, I think about this stuff quite often, since I make my living in the "drone" industry. The Army and Navy operate the Hunter and Shadow systems for battlefield management -- not much of an operating radius for either airframe. And the sensor and optics packages are low-grade for each. And they only operate line-of-sight. In addition to MQ-1 and MQ-9, the AF also operates the RQ-4 Global Hawk (Block 40 version); the Block 30 will be retired in FY13. They also operate the -120 Sentinel, same one that went down in Iran. Bottomline is there isn't enough SATCOM bandwidth globally to operate even the 200 airframes in the inventory at one time. It would take many satellite launches to come even close to providing the KU-band or K-band...

The Judge is overstating the case. There are only 200 or so drones (actually MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers) in the inventory. General Atomics is the manufacturer and each unit costs 5-9 million, depending on the airframe and sensor package. The supply line only provides 100 airframes per year, on a good year. So, the math tells us it will take 300 years to get to his magical 30K number. MQ-1s and MQ-9s cannot fly over private property (and most public property) because the FAA will not allow routes over unrestricted airspace due to the fact that the airframes are unmanned. I usually nod my head in agreement with The Judge on most of his columns, but this one is truly a whopper.

I should have said: "There's three ways to crack that nut, if in fact Chile is borrowing "billions" to make current payments, which I highly doubt from the research I've conducted since that research shows that the entire Chile retirement system is PRIVATIZED. In other words, the government of Chile makes no current payments".

There's three ways to crack that nut, if in fact Chile is borrowing "billions" to make current payments, which I highly doubt from the research I've conducted. But, let's just say (Ron White's favorite lead-in)...... 1. Peg SS increases to the CPI or to the wage index, whichever is lower. 2. Raise the retirement age to 72 for males and 74 for females. 3. Allow opt-outs for those less than age 55. Problem solved -- for both Chile and the U.S.

America is already copying Chile, to a certain extent. You've only been paying 4.2% in SS taxes for the past couple years, instead of the normal 6.2%. What have you been doing with the other 2%? Personally, I've been socking it away in a Roth IRA. A third of my SS "contributions" is currently privatized.

Re: loadstar -- Congress routinely votes down Presidential budgets. Since the time I started voting in National Elections (1984), every President has had his budget proposal shot down. It seems to be an annual tradition.