Mark Levin: Obama is preparing to destroy the role of Congress by unilaterally ignoring debt ceiling

Jen Kuznicki (Conservative Writer) ^ | October 4, 2013 | Jen Kuznicki

[Virginia-American]

The obvious thing to do, at least IMO, is for the House to simply pass a debt-limit-increase bill and send it to the Senate. Similar to the way they’re restoring funding. No riders, no cutesy sequestration gimmicks, just an increase to last, I dunno, six months or so.

[Nuc 1.1]

Concur completely. And Marks ideas just scratch the surface. We must recognize that a majority of our citizens and the vast majority of our government are not virtuous, as Mark says. To paraphrase one of our founders, whose name I don't recall, the constitution is meant for a vitriol people it is wholly inadequate for any other. We need significant amendments to this document to protect our freedom against our mendacious citizens and government. Which brings up two fundamental questions: how can the amendments ever get ratified? If the amendments are ratified will the government follow them? IMHO the elected government will never, of their own volition , follow the constitution again. That is the fundamental state of affairs.

[thouworm]

Correct Marker Ticker link: The Debt Limit, The 14th Amendment, and the GOP

[Jacquerie]

Obama will have to commit another outrage to get the states going toward an Article V amendment convention.

Raising the debt limit on his own might do it.

Mark's amendments: a summary. I like them. It would make the government more federal than the framers' design of 1787.

[Secret Agent Man]

he cannot use the constitution to nullify another part of it.

the purse strings are in the House. Not the Executive.

just let cwii/rwii begin and let’s get it over with.

[Nuc 1.1]

I like them. It would make the government more federal than the framers' design of 1787. They are certainly better than noting but they are weak sauce compared to what we have found ourselves in.

[Texas Fossil]

Not anxious to, but whatever it takes.

[TurboZamboni]

Democrats complain about presence of debt clock on Capitol Hill
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/26/democrats-complain-about-presence-of-debt-clock-on-capitol-hill/#ixzz2M3fq0vz3

Quotes of El Presidente on the Budget, Deficit, Debt and Deficit Ceiling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3076002/posts
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.” — 3/16/2006 Floor speech in the Senate

First, we learned that the federal budget deficit could reach nearly half a trillion dollars next year. Eight years after we had a record surplus, we’re now faced with record deficits. This mortgaging of our children’s future is a direct result of the Bush Administration’s dangerously failed fiscal policies. — 8/9/08 Democratic Radio Address

And, you know, frankly, the last eight years what we’ve seen is moving in reverse. We’ve been moving in reverse. When Bill Clinton was president, the average family income went up $7,500; $7,500. Since George Bush has been president, you know what it’s done? It’s gone down $2,000. Think about that. That’s a $9,500 swing; $9,500. That’s money out of your pocket. That’s money going out of this country because we’re borrowing it from China to send to Saudi Arabia to buy oil. That’s what’s added $4 trillion to our deficit. I mean, think about that. You know, so we’ve created a mountain of debt for the next generation that they’re going to have to pay off. This little guy, he’s not too worried about it right now, but, you know, we’ve created $30,000 worth of debt for every man, woman and child in America. That’s going to have to be paid back. — 9/3/08 New Philadelphia, Ohio

We can’t mortgage our children’s future on a mountain of debt. I look at all these young people here today, and I say to myself, the notion that we are loading up more and more debt on a war in Iraq that I believe should have never been authorized and should never been waged — (cheers, applause) — on tax cuts for multi-billion dollar corporations and some of the wealthiest Americans, that is not a good investment in the future. We can’t run up a credit card, have a party and leave our children to pay the bill. It is time — it is time to put an end to the runaway spending and the record deficits. It’s not how you would run your family budget, and it must not be how Washington handles your tax dollars. It’s time to return to fiscal responsibility and pay-as-you-go budgeting, the kind of budgeting we had in the 1990s. You’ll remember Bill Clinton left a surplus — (cheers, applause) — to George W. Bush. — 10/1/08 La Crosse, Wisconsin

We can’t afford another four years of the kind of deficits we’ve been seeing over the last eight. Young people, you are going to have to pay for this debt we’re piling up. We can’t afford to mortgage our children’s future on another mountain of debt. — 10/2/08 East Lansing, Michigan

The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic. — Independence Day, 2008, Fargo, North Dakota