National State of Emergency

[unixronin]

Never mind the politics of the site containing the link, for now.  That's not the issue.  I refer you to this post on DailyKOS, primarily for its inclusion of the text of President Bush's declaration extending the state of national emergency declared on 9/23/2001 in Presidential Executive Order 13224.

Reading that declaration, you will find that Dubya twice uses the phrase "unusual and extraordinary" referring to the threat of terrorism.

In the context of that usage, I pose this question:  For how long can a condition, situation or danger persist before it is no longer honest to refer to it as "unusual" or "extraordinary", and, in fact, before it de facto becomes usual and ordinary?

The corollary to this question is:  For how long can the President -- or, possibly, his successor[s] -- continue to simply extend this "state of national emergency"?

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(Crossposted to neph_politics)