Posted on 10/05/2013 8:12:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
(Mark Levin has laid out last night what Obama’s plans are should the Republicans hold the line and refuse to increase the debt ceiling. We have been here before, as I found it important to write about two years ago when Obama and the media were considering the unconstitutional and impeachable option of using the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress on the debt ceiling.
I felt compelled to partially transcribe Mark’s commentary from last night’s show, because it is very important that we get this information to our Republican members of Congress. I have linked to the relevant articles and podcast beneath the transcription. THANK ME! heh..)
LEVIN: This is what I want you to focus on, the word Default. He’s repeatedly using it, he’s repeatedly saying it, that we face
Default…Default.
His billionaire friends from Wall Street who visited with him and then went out on the White House driveway and were saying the same things, “We cannot have a Default.” Which means he was pumping it into them there as well.
So, he’s using it in his interviews, he’s using it in his rabble-rousing speeches, he’s using it in private with these groups that he meets with, Default, Default, Default.
Why is he saying that? Just to scare people? Well, that’s part of it, obviously, but it’s more than that, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Barack Obama is plotting that if he can’t get what he wants, out of the House Republicans, that he can’t get his Plan A, and get Boehner and the Republicans to buckle, not just on the Continuing Resolution, but the Debt Ceiling, then he’s got his Plan B.
His Plan B is the most egregious attack on our Constitution by a President, not just in modern history, but in all of our history, if in fact he unleashes it.
And he’s being urged to do so by Nancy Pelosi, by Bill Clinton, he has in the past, by Dick Durbin, by a long list of phony law professors from liberal institutions, by liberal think-tanks, and what is he being urged to do? He’s being urged to bypass Congress, to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally as President of the United States, using the 14th Amendment as a fig leaf, to seize from Congress, the power of the purse.
That’s what he’s preparing to do, if the Republicans don’t ultimately buckle on the debt ceiling.
So, it is he who is prepared to extort and blackmail in ways that most of you, and most of my colleagues in this business, can’t even imagine or don’t even understand.
And if the President of the United States unilaterally raises the debt ceiling, you can kiss the core functions of Congress goodbye, you can kiss this Republic goodbye, once and for all. And then, I think, the focus can be on the Liberty Amendments, but that is what Obama, his Plan B, is going to do.
Obama keeps talking about Default. Isn’t it interesting? No other President has driven us into Default, because all the other Presidents understand their Constitutions, and understand they have an obligation to work with the other branches of the government. He can’t just say, “I want this,” and that’s the end of that. You try and work it out.
Obama does not want to cut spending, Ladies and Gentlemen, Obama does not want Congress to address all these problems with Obamacare, now I think Congress ought to get rid of it, but he won’t even allow them to make proposals related to it, only he can waive and extend and do whatever he chooses to do with the statute.
So, you see his mindset, his mindset is that of an Imperial President. And he takes things very personally too, “Well, you can’t do that to me, I’m the President, I was elected.”
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, the President has to comply with the Constitution too, as I say all the time, the Constitution is not up for election. Everyone of these people in Washington are obligated to live within their roles under the Constitution.
So he keeps bringing up Default, he’s doing this purposefully. And he keeps bringing up all these programs that aren’t going to be funded, but what does he do about it? Nothing.
Here’s a perfect example, he’s at a construction company in Maryland today:
OBAMA: “An economic shutdown, that results from Default, would be dramatically worse.”
LEVIN: You get it? You get it, folks? He’s laying the foundation for exactly what I’m saying.
He is going to break the debt ceiling. He is going to spend more than Congress has authorized. He’s preparing to do it, as Plan B, if he doesn’t get all that he wants in “negotiations” with Republicans over the debt ceiling which is coming up in mid-October.
If he can’t get what he wants, he is going to circumvent the United States Constitution, and he will be applauded for it, because he will have, “saved the economy”, “saved Social Security”, “saved the world’s financial system” because we have to pay our bills, you see?
And I smell this a mile away.
And he’s being encouraged repeatedly by pseudo-intellectuals, by Marxists dressed up as Constitutionalists, by people in his own party, he’s being encouraged to conduct himself as a dictator, and to bypass Congress and to bypass the Constitution, why work with him?
They want a full-blown Constitutional crisis. Please, listen to me, this is what they want! So they can continue to shred it! This is why Obama won’t budge, like Clinton did and Carter did and Reagan did and Ford did and Nixon did. He’s the only one who won’t negotiate. This is why. This is his fundamental transformation. And I’m going to keep hollaring this as loudly as I can because more and more people need to see it!
We have in Congress Authorization Laws, and Appropriations Laws. They are different.
The Authorization is authorizing the existence of a program, authorizing the existence of an agency of a Federal department and so on. It doesn’t fund it. It authorizes it.
They have different committees set up for the Authorization part and different committees set up for the Appropriations part. They are separate bills, this writer is telling us what Obama is planning…
READ: Our Outlaw President? Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling Mark spends a lot of time going through this phony’s opinion, and is convinced Obama will in fact, ignore the ceiling if the Republicans hold the line.
LISTEN: The Mark Levin Show Podcast for 10/3/13 pertinent discussion begins at about 33:00 in.
READ: The Debt Limit, The 14th Amendment, and the GOP –takeaway:
“No, the 14th Amendment requires him to pay the interest and principal on Treasury Notes, Bills and Bonds before anything else should there be insufficient funds to cover it all.
John Boehner, it’s time you and the rest of the Republicans shove this fact right up Obama, Pelosi’s and Reid’s ass, making clear that (1) you will not raise the debt ceiling and (2) you will impeach that rat bastard if he fails to cover interest and principal as is required by The Constitution.”
Is this IT?
It is interesting how the two living former Republican Presidents remain silent as the republic is destroyed.
The media will defend him.
And Harry Reid will defend him.
The Supreme court has already defended him on Obamacare.
So, unless the house of representatives has the power to impeach the president on it’s own, this will continue.
Here’s the link for the takeaway
The Debt Limit, The 14th Amendment, And The GOP
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=224834
An article inspired by Mark Levin Radio Oct 3
Mark Levin: this is about the transformation of the Constitution, which is why Obama won’t negotiate.
Obama: “I Won’t Violate The Constitution, Unless You Make Me…” (usurp power from congress)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075326/posts
Also posted today:
Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Using 14th Amendment To Raise The Debt Limit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075420/posts
Obama says expects Congress will raise debt ceiling before deadline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075354/posts
question to be asked...what can be done to stop this?
Ain’t it tho? And with Condie Rice’s chilling comment about ‘birthing pangs’ in the Middle East?
I think OBama will do it and raise the debt limit. He was prepared to go to war in Libya without Congress if Russia didn’t give him an out. He will do the same here, as long as the GOP don’t give him an out
It is interesting how the two living former Republican Presidents remain silent as the republic is destroyed.
They are part and parcel involved.
If we have had good republican support and representation, how come every one of the 1964 Communist goals (in the Congressional record) have been realized?
That's the question every American needs to be asked and asking.
They are part of the problem, not the solution.
Both men, the father who broke his pledge not to raise taxes and the other who spent billions on Medicare Part D and the 2008 bailout are supporters of the status quo of spending and debt that is leading to a train wreck.
There are a lot of melodramatic actors in Washington right now with R’s next to their name, Congressman and Senators pretending to be behind Ted Cruz but when he needed some of them for the cloture vote we saw them run.
Boehner wants to cave as soon as he can and the business as usual D and R politicians already pushed through back pay for the government workers who will literally be paid for not working.
Its a joke and as I’ve said before over 90 percent of the Republican folks we elect are business as usual politicians and fake conservatives who get on Fox and talk to Hannity on the radio saying things that they do not mean.
CLEAN THEM OUT IN THE PRIMARIES AND IF THAT FAILS DON’T VOTE FOR RINO’S IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. GET A CONSERVATIVE FOR THE PRIMARY AND A THIRD PARTY CONSERVATIVE FOR THE GENERAL IF THE RINO WINS THE PRIMARY.
Yes, indeed.
Imho restoration of constitutional republic enforced by 1st civ div
“All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives” - it’s Impeachment time.....
Yeah I heard Hannity the other day saying that it's the right thing to do. Who in the private sector gets paid for not working?
If we believe obama and those who support him want this country destroyed, it’s obvious this is it. Either we default or he writes checks the world won’t cash. Either way we tank. Can the destruction be stopped?
Boehner wants to make sure the parasites in the bureacracy, the same parasites who make our lives miserable with sadistic rules and regulations, are paid quite well.
For Boehner and the other GOPe it is government by the political class for the political class. The Marxist left is laughing at Boehner, McCain, Ms Lindsey and all other panty wearing pukes that make up the GOPe.
The evil RATs are likely surprised at how easy our Republic is being dismantled right before our eyes.
There are no checks and balances in our government. Our pathetic urban citizens have voted marxists into our government for years. Marxists in congress, the judiciary, and the executive. While they destroy the nation they protect each other from any constitutional remedy. And our citizens cheer for them. They destroy our education system, corrupt our children, destroy our families, enslave inner city dwellers, destroy our industries, abrogate our rights, and ignore the Constitution. And the feral government has allowed one of our greatest states to be overrun and concurred by illegal aliens from Mexico. And no one in either party will even admit it has happened, much less do anything about it. There is only one way to deal with tyrants. History has shown us over and over again.
Even if the liberals, media,etc. buy off on a very twisted interpretaion of the 14th amendment, the part about the public debt not being questjoned, there is a very clear clause in the 14th amendment, And that clause reads that Congress will enforce the amendment with appropriate legislation.
So as I see it, even if somehow national debt ceilings don’t matter under the 14th amendment, there will still be a need for acts of Congress to enforce same.
Agree. It is time for an Article V amendment convention of the states.
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