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Bill Clinton advocates constitutional option on debt ceiling
Yahoo! News ^ | 07/19/11 | Rachel Rose Hartman

Posted on 07/20/2011 2:40:16 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Bill Clinton advocates constitutional option on debt ceiling

Former President Bill Clinton said Monday he wouldn't hesitate to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval--a fraught political course that President Obama has been reluctant to follow as he seeks to broker a deal on spending with Republican leaders.

Clinton told The National Memo he would invoke the constitutional option "without hesitation, and force the courts to stop [him]" if Congress and the White House fail to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline when the U.S. Treasury says the government will begin to default on its debts.

That's much stronger language than anything we've heard from the sitting president during the grinding debate over whether and how the debt ceiling can be raised. Some legal thinkers--including, quite clearly, Clinton himself--take the view that the Constitution grants the president the authority to raise the limit by executive order without Congress's approval. The Fourteenth Amendment states: "the validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bentone; clinton; debtceiling; slickwillie
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1 posted on 07/20/2011 2:40:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Constitutional Option”?

WTF?

So disregarding the Constitution and doing what you want is the “Contitutional Option”?

Sounds more like dictatorship.


2 posted on 07/20/2011 2:42:20 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Actually it is the unconstitutional option. The very words in section 5:

>Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.<

Kind of gives a clue to who has the power to enforce amendment 14. Don’t think the executive branch is mentioned in section 5. Maybe I’m just not a constitutional scholar.

DK


3 posted on 07/20/2011 2:48:49 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
he wouldn't hesitate to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval

4 posted on 07/20/2011 3:07:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
What else t expect from an ethicsless,low down cheap jack white trash pile like Billy Blythe.

Let's remember that hge abd his harridan of a wife who stole the American people's property from the White House and had to be chased down to give it back.

5 posted on 07/20/2011 3:13:55 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

There is no way and no how the Dems will test this during the current sitting court. It is too great a chance that the Supremes will strike this down.

They’ll suck it up and wait until they get a favourable court and then get the court to strike a precedence so they can use that forever more.


6 posted on 07/20/2011 3:22:53 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We are talking about a guy who used the phrase, “it depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is”. He would not be above misreading the constitution.


7 posted on 07/20/2011 3:23:01 AM PDT by libertarian neocon
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To: Jimmy Valentine
What else t expect from an ethicsless,low down cheap jack white trash pile like Billy Blythe.

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Shut up, go away and take that Alinskyite wife with you.

CLINTON-99sm

8 posted on 07/20/2011 3:24:30 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Trial Balloon, and who better to launch it.


9 posted on 07/20/2011 3:29:05 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

PLEASE DONATE


10 posted on 07/20/2011 3:29:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: libertarian neocon
Hilliary makes good money as Sec. of St. Can't she buy him an old PU with an AstroTurf upholstered bed out of her salary?
11 posted on 07/20/2011 3:29:37 AM PDT by tdscpa
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ponzinomic Policy must continue. No matter what.


12 posted on 07/20/2011 3:30:49 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Who cares what this low life thinks.
Same for JIMMAH & soon to be ZERO.
Gums flapping, lies coming out. . . . . . .
13 posted on 07/20/2011 3:53:04 AM PDT by DeaconRed (ZERO & Casey Both are good Liars and good at absolutely nothing else. . . . Nothing.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; mickie
Shadow-President Clinton and Faux-President Obama are holding hands while doing the "Good Cop, Bad Cop" shuffle.

Leni

14 posted on 07/20/2011 3:56:12 AM PDT by MinuteGal (We need ObamaCare Like Nancy Pelosi Needs a Halloween Mask)
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To: MinuteGal
And Soros controls both from behind.
15 posted on 07/20/2011 3:57:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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It is everything that I would expect from someone trying to get his wife into the white house by suggesting Obama should violate the laws of the constitution.

Obama does that and he will never see the democrat convention.


16 posted on 07/20/2011 4:01:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
14th Amendment is about confederate states paying civil war debts.
17 posted on 07/20/2011 4:09:37 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: TigerLikesRooster

He could do that but it still doesn’t give him the power to raise taxes and that is what he is after.


18 posted on 07/20/2011 4:19:23 AM PDT by RetSignman (It's Summertime...the "Goebbles Warmers" are back from hibernation.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Coming from a past president that is a member of the RARE CLUB OF THE IMPEACHED PRESIDENTS!

LLS


19 posted on 07/20/2011 4:45:12 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
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Hey, that’s right! Billy Blyth the Sink Emperor is the ONLY Presidente to actually be impeached. The attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson failed by a single vote IIRC.

When is some politician going to finally say publically to Klinton, “Shut up, you lying dirtbag! We don’t want to hear from you! Who cares what you think!!?”


20 posted on 07/20/2011 5:24:41 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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