Posted on 01/05/2013 5:50:18 AM PST by Moseley
The debt ceiling is the last leverage that Republicans have to prevent out-of-control Federal spending and on various policy issues. Liberals know this: even as Senate Democrats talk of ending the right of Republicans to filibuster, liberals are seeking to defang the Republican House of Representatives as well. They are also now peddling a new theme that the debt ceiling itself is unconstitutional under Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. Therefore, President Obama may simply ignore the debt ceiling.
The looming debt ceiling fight could allow Republicans to soundly defeat Obama's overspending. In the "fiscal cliff" deal, Republicans succeeded by making most of the temporary Bush tax cuts permanent, but failed to get spending cuts. Yet now, Republicans could use the debt ceiling vote to slash spending. The overall result could be serious deficit reduction at lower permanent tax rates. But this requires Republicans to stand united and refuse to raise the debt ceiling.
Section 4 of the 14th Amendment requires: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law... shall not be questioned." Liberals argue that if Congress has authorized spending, this automatically gives the president the power and even the obligation to borrow whatever it takes to spend all the money for which Congress voted. When Congress votes to spend money, this includes the obligation of the chief executive to take whatever actions are necessary to pay the debts of the United States Government. That is because "the validity of the public debt" ... "shall not be questioned." Thus, any debt ceiling law violates Section 4, they argue.
Suddenly the appeal for Washington to abandon the U.S. Constitution from Georgetown Law Professor Louis Michael Seidman in the New York Times makes sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The great and mighty Barack Obama seems like a bubble that’s about to burst.
For the first time in his presidency, the vast majority of Americans are about to actually EXPERIENCE the pain of Obama’s policies. There will be increased taxes for every worker, increasingly higher medical-insurance rates, increasingly fewer full-time jobs as employers try to save their companies from ObamaCare fees, etc.
And everyone thought Obama only hated the RICH and wanted to raise THEIR taxes and make life more difficult for THEM. Poor Joe Blow and Mrs. Blow; they’ve been cheated, they’ve been lied to, and they won’t be happy with the president who did this to them.
The first shots were fired by the rebels, not the union
Declare war, open hostilities, and you get what you get,,,,,
The robbers ruling is 196 pages long,,,,,
Here is a novel idea......
Try reading it, and after you realize that this ruling restored more constitutional rights than a y other ruling in the past 80 years, get back to me....
In the meantime, stop letting the Limbaugh, hannity, levin wing of the republican party {not the conservative wing,as they would receive you into believing, but the republican party mainstream} do your thinking for you....
Try thinking for yourself...
It is difficult at first, but refreshing once you do
Try thinking for yourself...
It is difficult at first, but refreshing once you do
Maybe you should turn off the TV. Any ruling that say the Federal government can do anything it wants as long as it uses taxes as the enforcement mechanism is a complete gutting of the Constitution. Get back to me when you can understand this simple concept.
When the constitution is suspended, every single act by the federal government is an unauthorized action by criminals.
Declare war, open hostilities, and you get what you get,,,,,
You mean the unnecessary marching of troops acrossed land no longer under the authority of the Federal government doesn’t qualify as an act of hostility?
If Lil Barry is dumb enough to suspend his own authority as CIC, the military will not support him. Who is going to enforce all his silly edicts. Military, no, States, no. He’s got too many landmines and guns owners to navigate. The guy is an ass and no one likes him except the press and his inner circle of Chi-town thugs. His ego like all wannabe tyrants will be his downfall. I see a Khadafi-esc end to the dirtbag.
I think none of it will mater once ObamaCare is in force. I also think you are stirring a pot that does not need stirring.
Wow. I feel like that is me on that bench in the first photo. Maybe its the three layoffs in the last year?
Bet you will support the communist piece of crap Obama in its war of aggression when we in the Southern states secede to seek independence and demand our freedom. This time us southern good ole boys will have a different outcome for you.
where, oh where, did I even give a hint that I would support fubo, or that I would not support the south if it rose again?????
I just stated a fact....
a shot and a beer will clear your head a little... :)
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