I find it amazing how much these people are willing to grasp at any straw to retain power, and execute any illegal action based on that desperately grasped straw.
Obama cannot hold on to power after Jan. 20th. All powers of the President vacate him. Laws, regs, executive orders, command of the military, SS protection...all of it. He can't even screw with the Electoral College vote legally.
Any attempt to retain power would be a coup. Under the Constitution, Obama and anyone who followed his orders would become enemy combatants against the US, guilty of sedition and treason, and any acts committed under that color of authority would be acts of terrorism.
And under the Patriot act, all of them could be thrown into a dark hole without trial and left there and subject to enhanced interrogation, if that's the game they want to play.
They'll find themselves on the wrong side of things, very quickly.