Posted on 07/25/2011 7:59:12 AM PDT by shield
Bill Clinton recently revealed that if he were in office now that he would “without hesitation” use the 14th Amendment to justify ignoring the congressional debt limit. He was less clear about whether he thought it was constitutional, claiming that he would force the courts to rule on the issue. Here’s how the former president framed his argument:
“I think the Constitution is clear and I think this idea that the Congress gets to vote twice on whether to pay for [expenditures] it has appropriated is crazy… [Lifting the debt ceiling] is necessary to pay for appropriations already made.”
This idea is the latest mutation of the outbreak of Presidential Gigantism that has afflicted the American left. The vaccine is found in Article 1 of the Constitution.
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow money on the credit of the United States…”
If the decision to add something to the budget in order to “provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States” automatically includes borrowing money to do it, then why are they separate in the text of the constitution? Why is spending in section 7, but borrowing and taxing in section 8? For that matter why is borrowing separated from taxing power if it’s all automatically included? Why does the text of the Constitution explicitly distinguish between taxes imposed “to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare”?
Mr. Former President, does it depend on what your definition of “and” is?
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Are you sure Republicans are even legal under the constitution? Let’s ask Kagan.
HA HA HA .... you are joking, aren’t you? zero has ALWAYS been way over his head. He is a crack smoking mule...
That’s why zero takes no advise from bubba boy...
The DNC is in a lockdown mess of biblical proportion.
It would go to the SCOTUS quickly, which is happily in on the treason along with the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. So go figure the out come.
Since, 2006 when the commie pelosi became speaker...everything was laid out so we are looking at a longer period of time...
I guess that means Clinton would have been impeached twice.
I know he’s always been in over his head. I meant he needs Clinton every now and then when media attempts to cover for him don’t work.
There are many kinds of marks. The branding and marking of cattle shows ownership and in that sense the mark is here used. The right hand represents all manual labor (Job 40:14) while the forehead is emblematical of mental and intellectual work. (Ezek. 3:8-9) Whether rich or poor, men must labor with brawn or brain in order to acquire money, the possession of which in some one of its many forms is necessary in order to BUY AND SELL.
When the entire desire and energy of a man, either in his mental or physical labors, is to acquire money and with that as the goal of his life such a one has received the mark of the beast. Such men have a price and are subject to bribery. If the inducement is sufficient they would sell their own souls to acquire the wealth that this beast can give, for they are his, having received the mark. Men and Women throughout the ages have received the MARK OF THE BEAST.
>>He is a crack smoking mule...
I always thought of him as a Judas goat...
A “Judas Goat” is a goat that has been trained to mingle with livestock animals, and act as a herd leader, including leading the livestock to slaughter.
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