It can be done. Call their bluff.
Mark Levin has been suggesting — and it’s a fair and quite frightening surmise — that Obama’s almost casual tempo leading up to the supposed drop dead date of August 2 can be explained by the President’s having made up his mind that, should a deal not be reached, he’s going to form shop for legal opinions that argue his authority, under the 14th Amendment, to bypass Congress and raise the debt ceiling himself.
This is unconstitutional — as even some liberal legal scholars have noted — and would be an impeachable offense. But the problem is, the Senate under Harry Reid would never bring an impeachment vote; and therefore, the Executive, with cover from Senate Democrats and a compliant media, will “fundamentally transform” the separation of powers, creating in effect an imperial presidency in which the Executive supposedly has the legal authority to spend whatever it wants if it first spends us into crisis, the idea being that by spending us into crisis, it has to borrow more to keep us from defaulting.
Which, I’m pretty sure that’s not exactly what the framers had in mind.
But what did they know? Stupid dead whiteys.
not even the most retarded chinaman would buy fake made-up unconstitutional ghetto trash obamabonds
dear santa – please go on a diet
Our crazy years are different from the ones Heinlein proposed, but they are still crazy.
A government that operates by the consent of Harry Reid is going to have a lot more problems than a government that operates by the consent of the people.
Bitter, clingy problems.
If Obama were to take an entirely unconstitutional turn and yet remain unopposed by the proper check, the debt-ceiling can’t possibly be the locus of the problem, hence not the place to seek a solution.
At that point it seems the prior question would arise again: Can a whole people govern themselves? And the answer would be in grave doubt once again.
Old Slick Willie is on board for that plan. And he’s a man who knows how to beat an impeachment.
[…] should he try to use the 14th amendment to get around the separation of powers — and that trial balloon has […]
[…] the President’s having made up his mind that, should a deal not be reached, he’s going to form shop for legal opinions that argue his authority, under the 14th Amendment, to bypass Congress and raise the debt ceiling himself.
That’ll be great. The R’s get to say “no, you can’t spend any more money or raise taxes,” demonstrating their Firm Resolve to their base. Obama gets to do what he wants anyhow, and gains Exciting New Powers in the process — which just makes the D’s downright tingly in their little fascist naughty-bits.
It’s a win-win. Well, for both sides of the ruling class at least; not so much for the rest of us.
Starting with the “Stimulus” bill and then the Obamacare passage Obama has managed to bend one curve. He has so inflated the cost of paying off the various diverse and divergent groups that comprise the Democratic Party that he has no choice but to continually work to spend more and more.
The slope of the curve graphing the cost of the payoffs used to appear to be linear, rising in step with the economy. Now with Obama we can see it is curving so that the rate of increase is itself increasing. This cannot go on and so it won’t, one way or another.
It’s the return of the “gang of X“. The mush will win again, the country lose.
http://tinyurl.com/4xmgqe7
If CCB is a waste of time, what the hell was Obama’s Budget Plan, defeated 97-0, and why isn’t Schieffer focused on that even now? Where is the Democrat Budget Plan in the Senate, now over 800 days past due by law?
The real kabuki dance is Schieffer and the rest pretending the media is disinterested and objective.
The fact that the votes aren’t there means what, exactly? That you don’t get people on the record opposing fiscal sanity and economic responsibility?
The public wants this. But that doesn’t matter to Mr Schieffer, I guess. All that matters to him is that the Dems don’t.