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.”
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.
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.
Not anxious to, but whatever it takes.
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
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