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Democratic Rep: Debt-ceiling blank check is like Emancipation Proclamation
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| Nicholas Ballasy
Posted on 01/05/2013 5:21:10 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny K. Davis told The Daily Caller that President Obama should have the power to raise the nations 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 weve 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bankrupt; broke; ceiling; davis; debt; democrats; trillions
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free at last, free at last, thank God I have someone else's credit card!
To: TurboZamboni
Why have a debt ceiling if anyone can raise it on a whim?
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:24:22 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: TurboZamboni
The EP didn’t do a thing.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:26:09 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: TurboZamboni
The nation positively can NOT survive idiocy of this breathtaking magnitude.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:26:27 PM PST
by
tomkat
(-/\/\/\-)
To: TurboZamboni
Sometimes when weve gotten great answers is when presidents have had enough authority to take some actions, What kind of moron yearns to live under a dictator?
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:26:42 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: TurboZamboni
A fool who would trade his freedom for some government cheese...
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:27:56 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: TurboZamboni
Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny K. Davis told The Daily Caller that President Obama should have the power to raise the nations 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.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:28:01 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
To: TurboZamboni
Would be fine and dandy except that those powers are enumerated in the constitution to the US House of Representatives.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:30:23 PM PST
by
Usagi_yo
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:31:29 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: TurboZamboni
The idiot......
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:32:45 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
To: TurboZamboni
In the interest of full disclosure:
![](http://i.imgur.com/7vcVa.jpg)
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:34:00 PM PST
by
tomkat
(-/\/\/\-)
To: doc1019
"Why have a debt ceiling if anyone a fool can raise it on a whim?
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:34:32 PM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
To: tomkat
It’s just incredible, isn’t it? Just when you think they can’t get any worse, here comes Danny Boy
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:35:08 PM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Elections do have consequences, young people of America)
To: Dallas59
To: TurboZamboni
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.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:35:54 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Dallas59
Joining the hall of fame
“Raising the flag on mars.” And
“The island would sink.”
To: TurboZamboni
free at last, free at last, thank God I have someone else's credit card! LOL!
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:36:28 PM PST
by
livius
To: FlingWingFlyer
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.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:36:37 PM PST
by
alpo
(What would Selco do?)
To: TurboZamboni; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
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.
To: SkyDancer
The EP didnt 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.
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posted on
01/05/2013 5:41:06 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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