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Pelosi: Give Obama Power to Personally Lift Debt Limit to Infinity
CNSNews ^ | November 30, 2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 11/30/2012 1:19:29 PM PST by jazusamo

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(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that Congress should hand over to President Barack Obama personal, unilateral authority to increase the limit on the U.S. government's debt.

At a Friday press conference, a reporter asked Pelosi if she agreed with a proposal made by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Congress give Obama the power to unilaterally increase the debt limit.

"Yes," she said.

When he met with members of Congress on Thursday to discuss a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that is set to occur at the end of this year, Secretary Geithner suggested that Congress give Obama the personal power as president to lift the legal limit on the federal government's debt.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debtlimit; obama; pelosi
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To: Bullish

George Washington would have been appalled at the suggestion but obama is sending minions out now suggesting it. How long before they demand it?


141 posted on 12/01/2012 7:36:36 AM PST by pgkdan (We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)
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To: ecomcon

But, you repeat yourself.

:>)


142 posted on 12/01/2012 7:37:45 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: jazusamo

I guess we should just dissolve congress and give him the full total power they want him to have. They can all retire on their free government pensions they gave themselves.


143 posted on 12/01/2012 7:49:16 AM PST by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: jazusamo
Congress's ultimate power is the power of the purse, meant to check and balance power grabs by the executive branch. Why would it give it up? And why in the world would this screeching traitorous b!tch, presumably a member of congress in good standing, who should be concerned about preserving congressional control over spending, propose it? Obviously, she doesn't have a clue about what her constitutional duties are, or doesn't care, or both.
144 posted on 12/01/2012 8:40:45 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I’ll go with both, she doesn’t have the sense God gave a turnip.


145 posted on 12/01/2012 10:35:59 AM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Sure. It worked for Weimar Germany. It worked for Argentina. What’s the worst that can happen?/s


146 posted on 12/01/2012 11:35:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: jazusamo

Rock solid proof that Nancy Pelosi is Insane.


147 posted on 12/01/2012 1:37:23 PM PST by LtKerst
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To: jazusamo

Rock solid proof that Nancy Pelosi is Insane.


148 posted on 12/01/2012 1:38:00 PM PST by LtKerst
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To: LtKerst

How can you tell a Democrat is Lying?...

when their hand is raised and the other one is on a Bible.


149 posted on 12/01/2012 1:40:58 PM PST by LtKerst
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To: LtKerst

How can you tell a Democrat is Lying?...

when their hand is raised and the other one is on a Bible.


150 posted on 12/01/2012 1:40:58 PM PST by LtKerst
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To: jazusamo

These people want a dictatorship, no doubt


151 posted on 12/01/2012 1:57:33 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: jazusamo

Nancy you ignorant slut!
If you turn the power of the purse to Obama, you will lose your job because Obama will no longer need the House of Representatives?


152 posted on 12/01/2012 2:02:19 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (we are so screwed - ^_^)
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To: jazusamo

It’s Sickening what these Commies have convinced themselves and some Americans is “Fair”. To give Barry the power to raise the debt limit whenever he likes would be like giving a group of alcoholics the keys to a liquor store and saying “Have at it”!


154 posted on 12/01/2012 2:48:47 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: Candor7

Ha ha, good one!

I plan to use ridicule incessantly to reek havoc on the Obots, pouring it over their heads like hot tar. Challenge them to acknowledge each phrase in the song parody, providing evidence and examples for each item/subject they ignore or are ignorant of. Ridicule and laughs can drive the mentally ill to violence of course, it’s always the next step after the rage and anger...tender beings unable to deal with truth or reality over feelings. Poor libbies should have 12 step program for their mental disorder. Let the narcissistic scum at the top overreach as well.

That’s what purchasing about eight grand over 4 years in weapons and ammo is for.


155 posted on 12/01/2012 3:14:02 PM PST by TheBigJ
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To: jazusamo

Further proof that the Democrats only care about their political power and not the country.


156 posted on 12/01/2012 4:20:18 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: TheBigJ

Let the narcissistic scum at the top overreach as well.

That’s what purchasing about eight grand over 4 years in weapons and ammo is for.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thats exactly it. As you probably know, it is the ridicule
of fascists that gave Britain hope at the hands of Winston Churchill during the 1930s and 1940s.And so hitory has generated yet another fascist movement, as soon as our WWII veterens age and disappear.We must fight them as Churchill did.( And this is why Churchills bust was removed from the oval office and summarily dumped back at the British Embassey during POSHITUS”s first day in office in 2008.
The fascist Obama saw Churchill as a progenitor of colonial power that racially discriminated against his “people” doanchaknow,no class at all, Obama is still struggling with the concept of nigger while White and Black America embraces his falsehood, and where fascist payback, historiocal justice justifies ALL of Obamas criminal, anticonstitutional behaviours.)

And when the Obama fascists go dingbat violent as they always do, patriots should give them all the lead they want.
The ballot box is defunct with electoral fraud.Yes, I too have collected the same resources as you have, and in fact millions of us have.


157 posted on 12/02/2012 3:07:32 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: jazusamo

Are you kidding? More stimulus spending? Isn’t this like the bank increasing the credit limit on some guy’s credit card after he files bankruptcy, or am I missing something?


158 posted on 12/02/2012 4:44:33 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: jazusamo

How in the Hell does spending MORE money prevent the country’s economy from going off the cliff? This makes no sense. If my personal finances were taking a nose dive, my spending would be limited to bare necessities (no vacation, no impulse spending, no extravagant dinners, etc.). I don’t get it - maybe I’m stupid, but someone please explain how this proposal makes sense.


159 posted on 12/02/2012 4:53:55 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: kearnyirish2
Madrid in June 1936; a month later the civil war started between the Christian countryside and the Bolshevik cities. It took a couple of years, but city people can’t feed themselves.

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How about Germany in the late teens of last century. By 1923 the exchange rate between the mark and the dollar was 5.72 Billion marks per dollar.
160 posted on 12/02/2012 6:46:02 AM PST by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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