Democratic Rep: Debt-ceiling blank check is like Emancipation Proclamation

daily callr ^ | 1-5-13 | Nicholas Ballasy

[TurboZamboni]

Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny K. Davis told The Daily Caller that President Obama should have the power to raise the nation’s debt ceiling without congressional approval, citing the example of President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation as a good use of presidential authority.

“Sometimes when we’ve gotten great answers is when presidents have had enough authority to take some actions,” Davis told TheDC on Capitol Hill Friday. “I mean, remember that we just celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and if Abraham Lincoln had not had the power, authority and the will to make that decision, we may have gone on with the war that was going to last several additional years and much longer, and thousands and thousands of people could have and would have, in all probability, lost their lives.”

[TurboZamboni]

free at last, free at last, thank God I have someone else's credit card!

[doc1019]

Why have a debt ceiling if anyone can raise it on a whim?

[SkyDancer]

The EP didn’t do a thing.

[tomkat]

The nation positively can NOT survive idiocy of this breathtaking magnitude.

[BenLurkin]

“Sometimes when we’ve gotten great answers is when presidents have had enough authority to take some actions,”

What kind of moron yearns to live under a dictator?

[2banana]

A fool who would trade his freedom for some government cheese...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny K. Davis told The Daily Caller that President Obama should have the power to raise the nation’s debt ceiling without congressional approval, citing the example of President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation as a good use of presidential authority.

Anybody think this buffoon would say BS like this if there was a Republican in the White House? This clown is sick.

[Usagi_yo]

Would be fine and dandy except that those powers are enumerated in the constitution to the US House of Representatives.

[tumblindice]

http://www.davis.house.gov/

Yep, member of the `Lord & Savior’ club.

[Dallas59]

The idiot......

[tomkat]

In the interest of full disclosure:

             

[RightWingConspirator]

"Why have a debt ceiling if anyone a fool can raise it on a whim?

[A_Former_Democrat]

It’s just incredible, isn’t it? Just when you think they can’t get any worse, here comes Danny Boy

[Constitutional Patriot]

Shocker.

[Vendome]

Feel free to amend The Constitution. Then your Boy King can use his Caesar powers and declare himself a savior.

Keep using your 1st amendment to blow people away with your fallow intellect.

[morphing libertarian]

Joining the hall of fame

“Raising the flag on mars.” And

“The island would sink.”

[livius]

free at last, free at last, thank God I have someone else's credit card!

LOL!

[alpo]

EP freed the slaves only in the Confederate States that had seceded from the union. No controlling legal authority to enforce it other than the war in progress.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s like running out the door with your mama’a pocketbook.

You may have fun spending it now, but your butt is going to be sore before too long writing checks your a$$ can’t cash.

Add this to the America 2013 STUCK ON STUPID ping list.

[Michael.SF.]

The EP didn’t do a thing.

It effectively kept England from entering the War on the side of the south, which may have been the main reason for its issuance.