What, it can’t happen here?

Links updated 14:45

A posting in yesterday’s “Newsmax”, the on-line daily version of what is  self-described as “an independent monthly with a conservative perspective” and an integral part of what Forbes calls “A Great Right Hope” of the Republican Party by weekly “Right Angles” columnist, John L. Perry [a cache of the original article, later scrubbed from the site] asks:

Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars [… ] the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what [the president]’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but [the president]’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

In the original, the title, “[President]”, is specified:  Barack Obama.  While the non-conservative side of the blogosphere in the United States is reacting to this article as one would expect, writing that such suggestions were “beyond the pale“, although at least one of the better-read of those non-conservatives  (John Aravosis of Americablog.com) used the same logic as Newsmax’s Perry in initially supporting the coup in Honduras. As did Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration.

As I’ve said before, the fate, or the politics, of Manuel Zelaya is rather beside the point. A “constitutional coup” (usually right-wing, though everyone tends to forget that even in Cuba, constitutional norms were followed after the 1959 Revolution that eventually installed the present political system) is still a coup.